Creating a Simple .htaccess redirect
RedirectMatch uses a regular expression that is matched against the URL path. And your regular expression /contact.php just means any URL path that contains /contact.php but not just any URL path that is exactly /contact.php. So use the anchors for the start and end of the string (^ and $):
RedirectMatch 301 ^/contact\.php$ /contact-us.php
redirect 301 /contact.php /contact-us.php
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