RedGate Contract Job Trends in London

RedGate
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 404 354 395
Rank change year-on-year -50 +41 +102
Contract jobs citing RedGate 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.006% 0.008% 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.013% 0.017% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £160 £575
Median % change year-on-year +290.63% -72.17% -17.86%
75th Percentile £638 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £439 £243 £575
% change year-on-year +80.82% -57.83% +4.55%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,580 5,758 7,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.52% 45.30% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,000 3,783 4,951
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £770 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 89 144
10th Percentile £18.24 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.50 £16.97
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +16.62% -4.13%
75th Percentile £46.13 £51.25 £39.41
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.75 £69.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -41.56%

RedGate
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RedGate job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RedGate

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RedGate

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RedGate within the London region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
Central London - 1 £625 - 1
RedGate
England

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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:

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