RedGate Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

RedGate
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 302 341 472
Rank change year-on-year +39 +131 +158
Contract jobs citing RedGate 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.026% 0.019%
As % of the Vendors category 0.044% 0.061% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £167 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -70.94% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £588 £700
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £246 £595 £550
% change year-on-year -58.65% +8.18% -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

RedGate
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RedGate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RedGate trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RedGate
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RedGate.

RedGate daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RedGate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Flyway
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Liquibase
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) Toad
1 1 (50.00%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle