RedGate Job Trends

RedGate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of RedGate products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RedGate over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Gate Software.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 700 702
Rank change year-on-year +58 +2 +308
Permanent jobs citing RedGate 7 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.021% 0.020%
As % of the Vendors category 0.037% 0.055% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £49,250 £58,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £66,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +36.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £69,875 - £61,875
90th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £63,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.44% +22.73% +29.41%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,917 19,991 21,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.38% 37.30% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,706 10,124 16,690
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £57,471 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +4.49% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,055 £47,565
% change year-on-year -14.59% +5.23% -4.87%

RedGate
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RedGate relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

RedGate job vacancy trend in the UK

RedGate
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RedGate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RedGate

RedGate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RedGate over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for RedGate in the UK

RedGate
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RedGate within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 6 £52,500 -30.00%
UK excluding London +36 4 £51,000 -24.44%
London +60 3 £73,500 -2.00%
North East - 3 £51,000 -
North of England - 3 £51,000 -
Work from Home +63 1 £52,500 -30.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 -

RedGate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
3 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
3 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Law
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) DBA
1 6 (85.71%) SQL DBA
2 4 (57.14%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) VMS
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
5 1 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
5 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Informatica
1 3 (42.86%) Talend
2 2 (28.57%) Aderant
2 2 (28.57%) iManage
2 2 (28.57%) Intapp
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks