Red Box Contract Job Trends in London

Red Box
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 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 Box Recorders.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Red Box 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.006% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.013% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
England median daily rate £300 - -

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,607 5,705 7,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.73% 45.39% 40.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,025 3,750 4,947
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 93 138
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.97 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +22.62% -17.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.69
90th Percentile £76.67 £67.00 £58.63
England median hourly rate £31.18 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.93% +20.56% -43.75%

Red Box
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Red Box job vacancy trend in London

Red Box
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Red Box
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WebEx
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft