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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 426 439
Rank change year-on-year -94 +13 +82
Contract jobs citing Redis 142 127 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.39% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.74% 2.13% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 98 76
10th Percentile £408 £391 £350
25th Percentile £469 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.52% -25.66%
75th Percentile £638 £747 £625
90th Percentile £763 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £465 £463
% change year-on-year +8.87% +0.54% -2.63%
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 8,172 5,949 7,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.31% 18.07% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,449 4,002 4,969
10th Percentile £358 £344 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £653
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 253 93 101
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £27.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -39.74%

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 14 August 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 14 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 14 August 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 -105 116 £550 +8.37% 152
London -83 75 £550 -8.33% 111
Work from Home -67 36 £550 +15.42% 74
UK excluding London -99 35 £506 +8.87% 52
North of England -61 16 £425 -3.90% 16
Yorkshire -31 11 £575 +47.44% 1
East of England -13 7 £425 -10.53% 5
South East -75 6 £513 +17.82% 13
North East -39 5 £425 -7.61% 3
Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
South West -46 3 £700 +35.92% 10
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 2
Scotland -13 2 £525 +2.44% 2
East Midlands - 1 £447 -

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 7 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.11%) Apache
4 2 (1.41%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.41%) nginx
4 2 (1.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Magento
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (54.23%) AWS
2 62 (43.66%) GitHub
3 58 (40.85%) Azure
4 54 (38.03%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (20.42%) GCP
6 25 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (14.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (10.56%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (9.15%) Serverless
11 9 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (6.34%) AWS KMS
11 9 (6.34%) Azure AKS
11 9 (6.34%) Datadog
12 8 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.63%) Snowflake
12 8 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 6 (4.23%) Fastly
13 6 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) DNS
2 3 (2.11%) 5G
2 3 (2.11%) HTTP
2 3 (2.11%) SSH
2 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.41%) 4G
3 2 (1.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (62.68%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (39.44%) MongoDB
3 24 (16.90%) SQL Server
4 23 (16.20%) MySQL
5 19 (13.38%) NoSQL
6 18 (12.68%) Relational Database
7 15 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (8.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.93%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (4.23%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.52%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.52%) Delta Lake
11 5 (3.52%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.82%) DynamoDB
13 3 (2.11%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.11%) Power BI
14 2 (1.41%) Metadata
14 2 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (31.69%) Jenkins
2 40 (28.17%) Git
3 28 (19.72%) GitLab
4 24 (16.90%) JIRA
5 10 (7.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (5.63%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.52%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.52%) Gradle
7 5 (3.52%) Maven
8 4 (2.82%) Snyk
9 3 (2.11%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.11%) Spinnaker
9 3 (2.11%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.11%) Vite
10 2 (1.41%) git-flow
10 2 (1.41%) Selenium
11 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.70%) JUnit
11 1 (0.70%) RhodeCode
General
1 37 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.13%) Finance
3 24 (16.90%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.86%) Banking
5 10 (7.04%) Front Office
6 8 (5.63%) Retail
7 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.23%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.11%) Law
9 3 (2.11%) Legal
9 3 (2.11%) Marketing
9 3 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.41%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Games
11 1 (0.70%) International Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Local Government
11 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (54.23%) Developer
2 28 (19.72%) Senior
3 22 (15.49%) Java Developer
4 19 (13.38%) Backend Developer
5 14 (9.86%) Node.js Developer
6 12 (8.45%) C# Developer
6 12 (8.45%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.75%) Lead
7 11 (7.75%) Python Developer
8 10 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.63%) DBA
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Administrator
12 6 (4.23%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (38.73%) REST
2 47 (33.10%) Kafka
3 33 (23.24%) Spring
4 29 (20.42%) Node.js
5 27 (19.01%) React
6 26 (18.31%) RESTful
6 26 (18.31%) Spring Boot
7 20 (14.08%) Jest
8 17 (11.97%) OAuth
8 17 (11.97%) OpenAPI
8 17 (11.97%) Swagger
9 16 (11.27%) JWT
9 16 (11.27%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (10.56%) FastAPI
11 14 (9.86%) hapi
12 13 (9.15%) AngularJS
13 12 (8.45%) .NET
13 12 (8.45%) CSS
14 11 (7.75%) Celery
14 11 (7.75%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.06%) Cloud Native
2 26 (18.31%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.15%) Derivative
3 13 (9.15%) Replication
4 10 (7.04%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.82%) Autonomous Agent
7 4 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (67.61%) CI/CD
2 71 (50.00%) DevOps
3 61 (42.96%) Microservices
4 51 (35.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (29.58%) AI
5 42 (29.58%) Observability
6 41 (28.87%) Containerisation
7 40 (28.17%) Agile
8 28 (19.72%) Test Automation
9 27 (19.01%) Event-Driven
9 27 (19.01%) Software Engineering
9 27 (19.01%) Validation
10 25 (17.61%) Clean Code
11 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (14.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (14.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 19 (13.38%) OWASP
15 17 (11.97%) Scrum
16 16 (11.27%) Data Modelling
16 16 (11.27%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.07%) Python
2 49 (34.51%) SQL
3 43 (30.28%) Java
4 19 (13.38%) TypeScript
5 18 (12.68%) Bash
5 18 (12.68%) C#
6 12 (8.45%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.63%) Go
8 6 (4.23%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.52%) Ruby
10 4 (2.82%) PHP
10 4 (2.82%) Rust
10 4 (2.82%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.11%) Delphi
11 3 (2.11%) Elixir
11 3 (2.11%) Groovy
11 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.41%) Bicep
13 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.34%) AWS Certification
3 9 (6.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (6.34%) Degree
4 8 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.34%) QA
2 8 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.93%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.82%) WCAG
5 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.70%) HL7
System Software
1 80 (56.34%) Docker
2 3 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.41%) Varnish
3 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (59.86%) Kubernetes
2 51 (35.92%) Terraform
3 32 (22.54%) Prometheus
4 29 (20.42%) Grafana
5 12 (8.45%) Ansible
6 10 (7.04%) Argo
7 5 (3.52%) Rancher
8 4 (2.82%) Kustomize
9 3 (2.11%) Bosun
9 3 (2.11%) Istio
10 2 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.70%) Kibana
11 1 (0.70%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (5.63%) Google
1 8 (5.63%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.93%) TikTok
3 6 (4.23%) Dynatrace
3 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.52%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.82%) Databricks
5 4 (2.82%) Okta
6 3 (2.11%) Foundry
6 3 (2.11%) New Relic
6 3 (2.11%) Oracle
6 3 (2.11%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.11%) Splunk
7 2 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.41%) Confluent
7 2 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.41%) MKS
7 2 (1.41%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.70%) NVIDIA