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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 425 512
Rank change year-on-year -109 +87 +27
Contract jobs citing Redis 124 115 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.36% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.54% 1.95% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 90 58
10th Percentile £413 £418 £350
25th Percentile £477 £451 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £656 £750 £625
90th Percentile £788 - £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +9.29% -3.68% -
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 8,037 5,897 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.31% 18.26% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,315 3,998 5,449
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 103 149
10th Percentile £15.98 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -35.39%
75th Percentile £63.94 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.50 £71.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -45.45%

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 9 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 9 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 -122 100 £525 -12.50% 78
London -91 63 £575 -14.81% 44
UK excluding London -98 34 £500 +9.29% 45
Work from Home -79 26 £561 +4.86% 30
North of England -67 14 £425 -1.16% 12
South East -57 8 £513 +17.82% 10
Yorkshire - 8 £500 - 3
Midlands - 6 £700 - 5
North East -28 5 £425 -7.61% 3
South West -32 4 £700 +35.92% 7
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
East of England - 4 £850 - 4
Scotland -10 2 £525 +2.44% 5
East Midlands - 2 £407 - 2
North West -41 1 £476 +19.00% 6

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 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (48.39%) AWS
2 53 (42.74%) Azure
3 50 (40.32%) GitHub
4 43 (34.68%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (20.97%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (16.13%) GCP
7 19 (15.32%) Serverless
8 17 (13.71%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (8.06%) Amazon S3
11 9 (7.26%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (5.65%) Azure AKS
13 7 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (5.65%) Datadog
14 6 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (4.84%) Fastly
14 6 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) DNS
1 2 (1.61%) Firewall
1 2 (1.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (54.03%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (32.26%) MongoDB
3 21 (16.94%) Relational Database
4 18 (14.52%) NoSQL
4 18 (14.52%) SQL Server
5 13 (10.48%) MySQL
6 8 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.84%) InterSystems Cache
8 5 (4.03%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (4.03%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.03%) DynamoDB
8 5 (4.03%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.23%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.42%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.61%) Aerospike
11 2 (1.61%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.61%) Flink
11 2 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 40 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 32 (25.81%) Git
3 17 (13.71%) GitLab
4 15 (12.10%) JIRA
5 10 (8.06%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.45%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.84%) Vite
8 4 (3.23%) Gradle
8 4 (3.23%) Maven
8 4 (3.23%) Snyk
9 3 (2.42%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.61%) JUnit
11 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.81%) git-flow
11 1 (0.81%) Moq
11 1 (0.81%) NUnit
11 1 (0.81%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.81%) Serilog
11 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (20.16%) Finance
2 24 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.06%) Banking
4 10 (8.06%) Front Office
5 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.23%) Retail
9 3 (2.42%) Marketing
10 2 (1.61%) Law
10 2 (1.61%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Games
11 1 (0.81%) International Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (51.61%) Developer
2 20 (16.13%) Senior
3 17 (13.71%) Backend Developer
4 15 (12.10%) Java Developer
5 14 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.68%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.68%) Node.js Developer
7 11 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.45%) Lead
8 8 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.65%) Architect
9 7 (5.65%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.84%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Senior Backend Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (33.87%) REST
2 41 (33.06%) Kafka
3 31 (25.00%) Node.js
3 31 (25.00%) React
4 23 (18.55%) RESTful
4 23 (18.55%) Spring
5 21 (16.94%) OAuth
6 20 (16.13%) Spring Boot
7 18 (14.52%) Jest
8 17 (13.71%) JWT
9 15 (12.10%) OpenAPI
9 15 (12.10%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (12.10%) Swagger
10 14 (11.29%) AngularJS
11 13 (10.48%) .NET
11 13 (10.48%) OAuth2
12 12 (9.68%) Celery
13 11 (8.87%) FastAPI
13 11 (8.87%) hapi
13 11 (8.87%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 23 (18.55%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.48%) Derivative
4 8 (6.45%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.03%) Replication
6 4 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.61%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.61%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.68%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (62.10%) CI/CD
2 67 (54.03%) DevOps
3 63 (50.81%) Microservices
4 39 (31.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (29.84%) Containerisation
6 36 (29.03%) Observability
7 32 (25.81%) AI
8 28 (22.58%) Agile
9 25 (20.16%) Test Automation
10 23 (18.55%) Software Engineering
11 21 (16.94%) Clean Code
12 20 (16.13%) Event-Driven
12 20 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.71%) OWASP
15 16 (12.90%) Refactoring
15 16 (12.90%) Technical Debt
16 15 (12.10%) API Design
16 15 (12.10%) Code Quality
16 15 (12.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (51.61%) Python
2 36 (29.03%) SQL
3 33 (26.61%) Java
4 22 (17.74%) TypeScript
5 20 (16.13%) C#
6 15 (12.10%) Bash
7 14 (11.29%) JavaScript
8 12 (9.68%) Go
9 5 (4.03%) Bicep
9 5 (4.03%) PHP
10 3 (2.42%) Elixir
10 3 (2.42%) Groovy
10 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.42%) Ruby
10 3 (2.42%) Rust
11 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.81%) Delphi
12 1 (0.81%) R
12 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) Degree
3 7 (5.65%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) Accessibility
1 7 (5.65%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) WCAG
3 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) HL7
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (56.45%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Varnish
3 2 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 76 (61.29%) Kubernetes
2 38 (30.65%) Terraform
3 27 (21.77%) Grafana
4 26 (20.97%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.29%) Ansible
6 10 (8.06%) Argo
7 5 (4.03%) Rancher
8 3 (2.42%) Istio
9 2 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.61%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.81%) Kibana
10 1 (0.81%) linkerd
10 1 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.06%) OpenAI
2 7 (5.65%) Dynatrace
2 7 (5.65%) Google
2 7 (5.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.84%) TikTok
4 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.23%) Splunk
5 3 (2.42%) Adobe
5 3 (2.42%) Foundry
5 3 (2.42%) Oracle
6 2 (1.61%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.61%) Confluent
6 2 (1.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.61%) MKS
6 2 (1.61%) Okta
6 2 (1.61%) VMware
7 1 (0.81%) Apple
7 1 (0.81%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.81%) PagerDuty