RedGate Contract Job Trends in England

RedGate
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 January 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
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 484 556
Rank change year-on-year -73 +72 +151
Contract jobs citing RedGate 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.004% 0.008%
As % of the Vendors category 0.020% 0.008% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £160 £500
Median % change year-on-year +275.00% -68.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £161 £500
% change year-on-year +273.83% -67.90% +11.11%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,138 12,214 16,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.15% 46.16% 43.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,943 7,341 10,572
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% -0.21% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 717 352 796
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £16.22
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -7.18% -0.55%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.84 £59.61
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.06
% change year-on-year -13.36% -14.22% +6.86%

RedGate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RedGate job vacancy trend in England

RedGate
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RedGate

RedGate
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RedGate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RedGate

RedGate
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RedGate within the England region over the 6 months to 28 January 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
London -29 1 £600 +275.00%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
RedGate
UK

RedGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds