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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 393 499
Rank change year-on-year -90 +106 -46
Contract jobs citing Redis 118 138 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% 2.42% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 95 66
10th Percentile £363 £404 £359
25th Percentile £400 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £645 £700 £634
90th Percentile £750 £733 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £409 £488
% change year-on-year +8.19% -16.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,653 5,702 7,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 18.51% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,563 3,816 5,100
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 90 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.97% -9.87% -24.01%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.10 £70.38 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +82.83% -25.47% -28.04%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -89 105 £475 -20.83% 67
UK excluding London -37 55 £443 +8.19% 46
London -85 51 £513 -21.15% 35
Work from Home -37 33 £416 -24.32% 53
North of England -52 23 £450 - 14
Midlands -49 17 £650 +62.50% 5
North West - 16 £435 - 11
South East -38 11 £433 +5.75% 16
West Midlands -49 10 £650 +62.50% 5
South West -17 8 £675 +3.85% 2
East Midlands - 7 £393 -
Yorkshire - 5 £613 - 1
North East -14 3 - - 2
East of England -27 2 - - 2
Scotland - 2 £537 - 3

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 8 (6.78%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Camunda
3 1 (0.85%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (53.39%) AWS
2 48 (40.68%) Azure
3 43 (36.44%) GitHub
4 34 (28.81%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (26.27%) Serverless
6 20 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (13.56%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (11.86%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (10.17%) OpenShift
10 11 (9.32%) Amazon S3
11 10 (8.47%) GCP
12 9 (7.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (7.63%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.93%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 6 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) DNS
2 4 (3.39%) Firewall
3 3 (2.54%) SSL
3 3 (2.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) BGP
4 1 (0.85%) DMZ
4 1 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.85%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.85%) VSAN
4 1 (0.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (47.46%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (24.58%) NoSQL
3 15 (12.71%) MongoDB
4 13 (11.02%) DynamoDB
4 13 (11.02%) SQL Server
5 12 (10.17%) DocumentDB
5 12 (10.17%) MySQL
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (7.63%) Relational Database
8 8 (6.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (5.93%) Aerospike
10 5 (4.24%) Data Lake
11 4 (3.39%) Delta Lake
11 4 (3.39%) Power BI
11 4 (3.39%) Weaviate
12 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.54%) Couchbase
12 3 (2.54%) Pinecone
13 2 (1.69%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 25 (21.19%) Git
2 24 (20.34%) GitLab
3 23 (19.49%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.78%) JIRA
4 8 (6.78%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.08%) JUnit
5 6 (5.08%) Mocha
6 5 (4.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (3.39%) MLflow
8 3 (2.54%) Vite
9 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.69%) Gatling
9 2 (1.69%) Postman
9 2 (1.69%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.85%) Mockito
10 1 (0.85%) Moq
10 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.85%) Xcode
General
1 37 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.88%) Finance
3 20 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.47%) Banking
5 5 (4.24%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.39%) Retail
7 3 (2.54%) Games
8 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Front Office
9 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (44.07%) Developer
2 20 (16.95%) Architect
3 15 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.71%) Senior
4 11 (9.32%) Backend Developer
5 10 (8.47%) Python Developer
6 9 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.78%) C# Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) AWS Architect
9 6 (5.08%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.24%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.24%) Gen AI Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.39%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (35.59%) Kafka
2 33 (27.97%) Node.js
3 29 (24.58%) REST
4 24 (20.34%) React
5 20 (16.95%) RESTful
6 17 (14.41%) FastAPI
7 16 (13.56%) OAuth
8 15 (12.71%) Keycloak
9 14 (11.86%) Jest
9 14 (11.86%) Spring Boot
10 13 (11.02%) gRPC
10 13 (11.02%) Spring
11 12 (10.17%) OAuth2
12 11 (9.32%) Flask
12 11 (9.32%) GraphQL
12 11 (9.32%) OpenID
12 11 (9.32%) WebSockets
13 10 (8.47%) .NET
13 10 (8.47%) HTML
13 10 (8.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.78%) Derivative
4 6 (5.08%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.08%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.39%) Replication
6 2 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.69%) Energy Derivatives
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.85%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Windows
3 2 (1.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (61.86%) CI/CD
2 65 (55.08%) Microservices
3 55 (46.61%) DevOps
4 43 (36.44%) Containerisation
5 42 (35.59%) Observability
6 37 (31.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (22.03%) Agile
8 21 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (14.41%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.71%) AI
10 15 (12.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (11.86%) Migration
12 13 (11.02%) Code Quality
12 13 (11.02%) Design Patterns
12 13 (11.02%) Machine Learning
12 13 (11.02%) Open Source
12 13 (11.02%) Secrets Management
13 12 (10.17%) Data Modelling
13 12 (10.17%) Event-Driven
13 12 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (45.76%) Python
2 39 (33.05%) SQL
3 21 (17.80%) Java
4 20 (16.95%) Bash
4 20 (16.95%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.56%) TypeScript
6 14 (11.86%) C#
7 12 (10.17%) Go
8 7 (5.93%) PHP
9 4 (3.39%) Bicep
9 4 (3.39%) Groovy
9 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.54%) Rust
11 1 (0.85%) Delphi
11 1 (0.85%) Ruby
11 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (8.47%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.78%) Degree
6 5 (4.24%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CCNP
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.47%) QA
2 9 (7.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.93%) WCAG
4 6 (5.08%) NCSC
5 5 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.24%) NIST
6 4 (3.39%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.69%) GDPR
7 2 (1.69%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.69%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.69%) PSD2
7 2 (1.69%) SEPA
8 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 55 (46.61%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) Varnish
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (45.76%) Kubernetes
2 35 (29.66%) Grafana
2 35 (29.66%) Prometheus
2 35 (29.66%) Terraform
3 18 (15.25%) Ansible
4 11 (9.32%) Argo
5 8 (6.78%) Istio
6 6 (5.08%) linkerd
7 4 (3.39%) Rancher
8 2 (1.69%) Knative
8 2 (1.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.85%) Consul
9 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) Splunk
2 12 (10.17%) Dynatrace
2 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.63%) Databricks
4 8 (6.78%) Google
4 8 (6.78%) VMware
5 7 (5.93%) OpenAI
5 7 (5.93%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.08%) Oracle
7 5 (4.24%) Adobe
8 4 (3.39%) Informatica
8 4 (3.39%) New Relic
8 4 (3.39%) Pega
9 3 (2.54%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.69%) Apple
10 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.69%) Confluent
10 2 (1.69%) Rollbar
10 2 (1.69%) SAP