Red Box Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Red Box
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of Red Box products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Box over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 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 Box Recorders.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Box 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.043% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
City of London

Red Box 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 997 875 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.97% 48.50% 44.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 694 567 621
10th Percentile £352 £318 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £538 £538 £545
% change year-on-year - -1.33% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 11
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £28.57 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -25.52%

Red Box
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Box relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Red Box job vacancy trend in the City of London

Red Box
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Box.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Red Box

Red Box
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft