RedGate Contracts

RedGate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 576 710
Rank change year-on-year +61 +134 +137
Contract jobs citing RedGate 5 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.014% 0.013%
As % of the Vendors category 0.036% 0.032% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £162 £568 -
25th Percentile £165 £576 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £246 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -58.65% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £338 £608 £700
90th Percentile - £612 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £167 £615 -
% change year-on-year -72.83% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

RedGate
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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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RedGate over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 2025. 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
England +58 2 £243 -57.83% 2
Work from Home +39 2 £167 -70.94% 2
UK excluding London +59 1 £167 -72.83% 1
London +38 1 £160 -72.17% 1
Wales -3 1 £167 -72.83%

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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 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (40.00%) tSQLt
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Flyway
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Liquibase
2 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) Toad
General
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Senior SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) NHS DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FHIR
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Replication
2 2 (40.00%) Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Database Security
2 2 (40.00%) Database Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (40.00%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle