RedGate Contract Job Trends in Central London

RedGate
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of RedGate products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RedGate over the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Red Gate Software.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RedGate 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.042% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.098% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £625 £160 £575
% change year-on-year +290.63% -72.17% -17.86%

All Vendors
Central London

RedGate falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,017 904 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.55% 45.06% 42.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 588 767
10th Percentile £356 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -
75th Percentile £650 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 7
10th Percentile £18.65 £27.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £29.07 £14.38
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.83 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +73.40% -11.95%
75th Percentile £27.00 £58.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 £108.75 £25.05
London median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.93
% change year-on-year +11.80% +16.62% -4.13%

RedGate
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RedGate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

RedGate job vacancy trend in Central London

RedGate
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing RedGate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing RedGate

RedGate
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RedGate within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 1 £625 - 1
RedGate
London

RedGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Server Migrations
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL