RedGate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of RedGate products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RedGate over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 711 840
Rank change year-on-year +119 +129 -168
Contract jobs citing RedGate 6 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.033% 0.031% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £568 - £261
25th Percentile £576 £450 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £644
90th Percentile £612 - £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 - £180
% change year-on-year - - -44.62%

All Vendors
UK

RedGate is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RedGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RedGate in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RedGate.

Daily rate trend for RedGate in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RedGate.

Hourly rate trend for RedGate in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RedGate within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London - 5 £615 - 1
Wales - 5 £615 -
Work from Home +130 4 £575 +27.78% 1
England +121 1 £575 +4.55% 3
London +98 1 £575 -17.86% 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (16.67%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Software Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
4 1 (16.67%) DBA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FHIR
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Agile
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) High Availability
1 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Scrum
1 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft