Redis Contract Job Trends

Redis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Redis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 433 472
Rank change year-on-year -98 +39 +70
Contract jobs citing Redis 131 122 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 2.04% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 97 65
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £462 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £515 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% +4.04% -23.85%
75th Percentile £639 £750 £625
90th Percentile £769 - £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +7.25% -4.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Redis falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,141 5,989 7,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.42% 18.17% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,408 4,057 5,137
10th Percentile £355 £348 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 92 106
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.28 £14.63
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.06 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.10 £78.58 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% +5.47% -41.46%

Redis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Redis job vacancy trend in the UK

Redis
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Redis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Redis

Redis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Redis over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Redis in the UK

Redis
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Redis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Redis

Redis
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Redis within the UK over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -115 105 £525 +1.94% 96
London -75 70 £575 -4.17% 61
Work from Home -72 34 £513 -0.49% 37
UK excluding London -90 32 £488 +7.25% 43
North of England -65 14 £425 +6.25% 13
Yorkshire -41 8 £500 +28.21% 2
South East -76 7 £513 +17.82% 12
North East -36 5 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands - 5 £700 - 4
East of England - 4 £850 - 4
South West -39 3 £700 +35.92% 8
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 4
Scotland -10 2 £525 +2.44% 1
East Midlands - 2 £407 -
North West -49 1 £476 +15.39% 9

Redis
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 6 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.29%) Apache
4 2 (1.53%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.15%) AWS
2 58 (44.27%) Azure
3 57 (43.51%) GitHub
4 48 (36.64%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (19.08%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (19.08%) GCP
6 15 (11.45%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (11.45%) Serverless
7 12 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (8.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (6.87%) Azure AKS
9 9 (6.87%) Datadog
10 7 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (5.34%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.58%) Akamai
11 6 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.58%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.58%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (56.49%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (35.11%) MongoDB
3 18 (13.74%) Relational Database
3 18 (13.74%) SQL Server
4 16 (12.21%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.40%) MySQL
6 7 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (5.34%) InterSystems Cache
7 6 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.82%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.82%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.82%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.05%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.53%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.53%) Flink
10 2 (1.53%) Metadata
10 2 (1.53%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (29.01%) Jenkins
2 36 (27.48%) Git
3 22 (16.79%) JIRA
4 19 (14.50%) GitLab
5 10 (7.63%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.11%) TeamCity
7 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.05%) Gradle
7 4 (3.05%) Maven
7 4 (3.05%) Snyk
7 4 (3.05%) Vite
8 3 (2.29%) Claude Code
8 3 (2.29%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.53%) JUnit
10 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.76%) Moq
10 1 (0.76%) NUnit
10 1 (0.76%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (24.43%) Finance
2 27 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.45%) Banking
3 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.63%) Front Office
5 8 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.34%) Retail
7 6 (4.58%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.29%) Law
8 3 (2.29%) Legal
8 3 (2.29%) Marketing
9 2 (1.53%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.76%) Games
10 1 (0.76%) International Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (52.67%) Developer
2 23 (17.56%) Senior
3 19 (14.50%) Java Developer
4 18 (13.74%) Backend Developer
5 13 (9.92%) Node.js Developer
6 12 (9.16%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Lead
9 9 (6.87%) Software Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.58%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Site Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (38.17%) REST
2 44 (33.59%) Kafka
3 31 (23.66%) Node.js
4 30 (22.90%) React
5 29 (22.14%) Spring
6 23 (17.56%) RESTful
6 23 (17.56%) Spring Boot
7 20 (15.27%) Jest
8 18 (13.74%) OAuth
9 17 (12.98%) OpenAPI
9 17 (12.98%) Swagger
10 15 (11.45%) JWT
11 14 (10.69%) AngularJS
12 13 (9.92%) .NET
12 13 (9.92%) hapi
12 13 (9.92%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (9.16%) Celery
13 12 (9.16%) FastAPI
13 12 (9.16%) OAuth2
14 11 (8.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.24%) Cloud Native
2 26 (19.85%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.92%) Derivative
4 9 (6.87%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.58%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.82%) Replication
7 4 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.05%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.53%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (1.53%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.76%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (64.12%) CI/CD
2 68 (51.91%) DevOps
3 60 (45.80%) Microservices
4 40 (30.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (29.77%) AI
5 39 (29.77%) Observability
6 38 (29.01%) Containerisation
7 35 (26.72%) Agile
8 26 (19.85%) Test Automation
9 25 (19.08%) Clean Code
9 25 (19.08%) Software Engineering
10 23 (17.56%) Event-Driven
11 22 (16.79%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (13.74%) OWASP
13 17 (12.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (12.98%) Machine Learning
14 16 (12.21%) Refactoring
14 16 (12.21%) Technical Debt
15 15 (11.45%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.85%) Python
2 39 (29.77%) Java
3 36 (27.48%) SQL
4 22 (16.79%) TypeScript
5 20 (15.27%) C#
6 14 (10.69%) Bash
7 13 (9.92%) JavaScript
8 9 (6.87%) Go
9 5 (3.82%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.05%) Bicep
10 4 (3.05%) PHP
10 4 (3.05%) Ruby
11 3 (2.29%) Delphi
11 3 (2.29%) Elixir
11 3 (2.29%) Groovy
11 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.29%) Rust
12 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.76%) R
12 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 25 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) Degree
3 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.58%) QA
3 4 (3.05%) WCAG
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.76%) HL7
System Software
1 74 (56.49%) Docker
2 3 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.53%) Varnish
3 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (61.07%) Kubernetes
2 40 (30.53%) Terraform
3 29 (22.14%) Prometheus
4 27 (20.61%) Grafana
5 13 (9.92%) Ansible
6 10 (7.63%) Argo
7 5 (3.82%) Rancher
8 3 (2.29%) Bosun
8 3 (2.29%) Istio
9 2 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.53%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.76%) Kibana
10 1 (0.76%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (8.40%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.11%) Google
3 7 (5.34%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.34%) TikTok
4 6 (4.58%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.05%) Foundry
5 4 (3.05%) Okta
6 3 (2.29%) Databricks
6 3 (2.29%) New Relic
6 3 (2.29%) Oracle
6 3 (2.29%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.29%) Splunk
7 2 (1.53%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.53%) Confluent
7 2 (1.53%) MKS
7 2 (1.53%) VMware
8 1 (0.76%) Adobe
8 1 (0.76%) Apple
8 1 (0.76%) NVIDIA