RedGate Contract Job Trends in the North West

RedGate
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 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
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RedGate 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.038% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.078% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £600 £160 £500
% change year-on-year +275.00% -68.00% +11.11%

All Vendors
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,277 1,055 1,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 47.99% 50.50% 43.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 624 791
10th Percentile £213 £291 £263
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £585
90th Percentile £688 £674 £683
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 47 114
10th Percentile £15.54 £16.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.09 £14.50
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £19.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +66.33% -30.71%
75th Percentile £56.69 £53.09 £41.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.41 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.89% +1.35% -6.25%

RedGate
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

RedGate job vacancy trend in the North West

RedGate
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing RedGate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing RedGate

RedGate
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RedGate within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
RedGate
England

RedGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds