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 5 February 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
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 486 557
Rank change year-on-year -63 +71 +147
Contract jobs citing RedGate 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% 0.004% 0.008%
As % of the Vendors category 0.033% 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 15,286 12,159 16,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.76% 46.27% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,031 7,351 10,618
10th Percentile £300 £281 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 744 351 844
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.47 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +1.37% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52.87 £63.93 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.05 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +4.53%

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 5 February 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
North of England - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 - -
London -36 1 £600 +275.00%
North West - 1 - - 1
South East - 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 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
1 3 (60.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Database Security
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle