Redfish Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Redfish
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Redfish skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 340 399
Rank change year-on-year -75 +59 +69
Contract jobs citing Redfish 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.007% 0.014%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.040% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £358 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% - -
75th Percentile £373 £625 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £365 £625 -
% change year-on-year -41.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £22.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Redfish falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,751 2,517 3,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.14% 18.83% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,525 1,633 2,247
10th Percentile £351 £350 £325
25th Percentile £412 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.68%
75th Percentile £580 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.10% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 62 177
10th Percentile £41.32 £26.28 £21.54
25th Percentile £54.06 £61.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.76 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

Redfish
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Redfish job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Redfish
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Redfish.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Redfish

Redfish
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Redfish within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Yorkshire - 1 £365 - 1
North of England - 1 £365 - 1
Redfish
UK

Redfish
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC