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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 417 503
Rank change year-on-year -120 +86 +18
Contract jobs citing Redis 108 105 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.47% 1.92% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 81 53
10th Percentile £400 £418 £375
25th Percentile £444 £455 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £709 £750 £613
90th Percentile £771 - £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £469 £490
% change year-on-year -7.78% -4.29% +3.16%
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 7,365 5,467 7,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.05% 18.96% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,930 3,732 5,208
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 101 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.44% -15.30% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.62 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -112 95 £525 -16.00% 100
London -91 58 £594 -13.64% 52
UK excluding London -86 33 £433 -7.78% 57
Work from Home -63 28 £500 -6.54% 114
North of England -64 11 £425 -1.16% 18
Midlands - 11 £400 - 2
South East -59 10 £480 +5.49% 25
East Midlands - 7 £393 -
North East -24 5 £425 -7.61% 3
Yorkshire - 5 - - 4
South West -30 4 £700 +35.92% 6
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
North West -29 1 £476 +19.00% 11
East of England - 1 - - 5

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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.85%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Magento
2 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (52.78%) AWS
2 43 (39.81%) GitHub
3 38 (35.19%) Azure
4 37 (34.26%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (19.44%) Serverless
6 18 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (13.89%) GCP
8 13 (12.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (10.19%) Amazon S3
10 11 (10.19%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (7.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (7.41%) OpenShift
13 6 (5.56%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (4.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) DNS
2 2 (1.85%) Firewall
2 2 (1.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (42.59%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 22 (20.37%) NoSQL
4 18 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 18 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 12 (11.11%) MySQL
6 11 (10.19%) DynamoDB
7 10 (9.26%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (6.48%) Aerospike
8 7 (6.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (5.56%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.70%) BigQuery
10 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.70%) DocumentDB
10 4 (3.70%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.78%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.85%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.15%) Git
2 25 (23.15%) GitLab
3 10 (9.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (7.41%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.56%) Vite
6 5 (4.63%) JUnit
7 4 (3.70%) Gradle
7 4 (3.70%) Maven
7 4 (3.70%) Snyk
8 3 (2.78%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.85%) Gatling
9 2 (1.85%) JIRA
10 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.93%) git-flow
10 1 (0.93%) NUnit
10 1 (0.93%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.93%) Serilog
10 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (25.00%) Finance
2 25 (23.15%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.26%) Front Office
4 9 (8.33%) Banking
4 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (44.44%) Developer
2 15 (13.89%) Senior
3 14 (12.96%) Architect
4 13 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) Backend Developer
5 12 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 10 (9.26%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.41%) AWS Architect
7 8 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.56%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.56%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.56%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.63%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.63%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.63%) C# Developer - Commodities
9 5 (4.63%) Front Office Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (45.37%) Kafka
2 25 (23.15%) React
3 22 (20.37%) REST
4 20 (18.52%) Node.js
4 20 (18.52%) RESTful
4 20 (18.52%) Spring
5 19 (17.59%) OAuth
6 17 (15.74%) Spring Boot
7 16 (14.81%) OAuth2
8 14 (12.96%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 11 (10.19%) .NET
10 11 (10.19%) FastAPI
10 11 (10.19%) JWT
10 11 (10.19%) Keycloak
11 10 (9.26%) gRPC
11 10 (9.26%) JPA
11 10 (9.26%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (8.33%) Next.js
12 9 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 21 (19.44%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (13.89%) Derivative
4 8 (7.41%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.63%) Replication
6 4 (3.70%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.78%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.93%) FMCG
9 1 (0.93%) Life Science
9 1 (0.93%) LIMS
9 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (67.59%) CI/CD
2 61 (56.48%) Microservices
3 58 (53.70%) DevOps
4 42 (38.89%) Observability
5 41 (37.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (29.63%) Containerisation
7 24 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 22 (20.37%) Agile
9 20 (18.52%) AI
10 16 (14.81%) Migration
11 15 (13.89%) Clean Code
11 15 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.96%) Code Quality
12 14 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (12.96%) Machine Learning
12 14 (12.96%) Software Engineering
13 13 (12.04%) Event-Driven
13 13 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (11.11%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (51.85%) Python
2 37 (34.26%) SQL
3 30 (27.78%) Java
4 17 (15.74%) TypeScript
5 16 (14.81%) Bash
5 16 (14.81%) C#
6 12 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.33%) Go
8 6 (5.56%) PHP
9 4 (3.70%) Bicep
10 3 (2.78%) Groovy
10 3 (2.78%) Rust
11 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.93%) C
12 1 (0.93%) Elixir
12 1 (0.93%) R
12 1 (0.93%) Ruby
12 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.41%) Degree
4 7 (6.48%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.04%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.70%) NIST
2 4 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.70%) WCAG
3 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.78%) NCSC
4 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.85%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.85%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.85%) PSD2
4 2 (1.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (50.93%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) Varnish
3 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (54.63%) Kubernetes
2 38 (35.19%) Terraform
3 33 (30.56%) Prometheus
4 31 (28.70%) Grafana
5 15 (13.89%) Ansible
5 15 (13.89%) Argo
6 9 (8.33%) Istio
7 5 (4.63%) linkerd
7 5 (4.63%) Rancher
8 2 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.93%) Kibana
9 1 (0.93%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (9.26%) Dynatrace
2 8 (7.41%) Splunk
3 7 (6.48%) Databricks
3 7 (6.48%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.56%) Google
4 6 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.56%) VMware
5 5 (4.63%) Adobe
6 4 (3.70%) Confluent
6 4 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.78%) Apple
7 3 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.85%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.85%) Foundry
8 2 (1.85%) MKS
8 2 (1.85%) Oracle
8 2 (1.85%) TikTok