RedGate Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

RedGate
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 8 May 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
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RedGate 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.28% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 - -

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 290 277 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.00% 44.53% 39.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 143 188
10th Percentile £265 £188 £204
25th Percentile £405 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £494 £478
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +3.46% +0.53%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £575
90th Percentile £686 £638 £725
Scotland median daily rate £475 £466 £450
% change year-on-year +1.93% +3.56% -4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 26
10th Percentile £16.01 - £14.30
25th Percentile £53.13 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £64.00 £22.44 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year +185.24% +26.41% -17.31%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.30 £45.94
90th Percentile - £31.54 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -21.09% +25.71% -69.57%

RedGate
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

RedGate job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

RedGate
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing RedGate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing RedGate

RedGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds