RedGate Contract Job Trends in the City of London

RedGate
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 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 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RedGate 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.045% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 - -

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 945 783 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.40% 44.36% 42.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 495 697
10th Percentile £363 £314 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.22%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £683
90th Percentile £760 £763 £787
Central London median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile - £29.56 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.81 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £42.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -54.12% +115.19% -5.95%
75th Percentile £33.76 £81.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £135.00 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.83 £18.93
% change year-on-year -22.41% +73.40% -11.95%

RedGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

RedGate job vacancy trend in the City of London

RedGate
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

RedGate
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%) 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