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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 396 496
Rank change year-on-year -67 +100 -73
Contract jobs citing Redis 125 141 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.44% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.99% 2.43% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 98 75
10th Percentile £362 £400 £370
25th Percentile £400 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +12.20% -31.67%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +16.14% -18.20% +2.56%
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 6,295 5,810 7,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.65% 18.33% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,340 3,827 5,000
10th Percentile £336 £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 £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 84 166
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.26 £16.06
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.56% -28.47% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.56 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.43 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.86 £27.50 £41.38
% change year-on-year +70.40% -33.53% -24.77%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -58 111 £475 -17.39% 196
UK excluding London -48 65 £475 +16.14% 176
London -56 48 £513 -21.15% 39
Work from Home -18 35 £400 -27.27% 89
North of England -32 31 £463 +2.78% 32
North West - 23 £463 - 14
Midlands -34 16 £650 +36.84% 19
South East -39 12 £433 +5.75% 62
West Midlands -35 10 £650 +36.84% 7
South West -11 8 £675 +3.85% 18
Yorkshire - 6 £501 - 12
East Midlands - 6 £397 - 11
North East -12 3 - - 6
East of England -24 3 £475 +26.67% 32
Scotland - 3 £537 - 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 8 (6.40%) Confluence
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.80%) Camunda
3 1 (0.80%) CMS
3 1 (0.80%) Drupal
3 1 (0.80%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.80%) Mattermost
3 1 (0.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Magento
2 1 (0.80%) Finacle
2 1 (0.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (54.40%) AWS
2 48 (38.40%) Azure
3 46 (36.80%) GitHub
4 35 (28.00%) Serverless
5 33 (26.40%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (17.60%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (12.80%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (12.80%) GCP
8 15 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (12.00%) OpenShift
9 13 (10.40%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (9.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (9.60%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (8.80%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
13 9 (7.20%) Route 53
13 9 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (6.40%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 7 (5.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) DNS
2 5 (4.00%) Firewall
3 3 (2.40%) SSL
3 3 (2.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.80%) BGP
4 1 (0.80%) DMZ
4 1 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.80%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.80%) Network Security
4 1 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.80%) STUN
4 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) VSAN
4 1 (0.80%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (52.00%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (28.80%) NoSQL
3 19 (15.20%) MySQL
4 17 (13.60%) DynamoDB
5 16 (12.80%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (11.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (11.20%) MongoDB
6 14 (11.20%) Relational Database
7 13 (10.40%) DocumentDB
7 13 (10.40%) SQL Server
8 8 (6.40%) BigQuery
9 7 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.80%) Aerospike
10 6 (4.80%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.20%) Power BI
12 3 (2.40%) Couchbase
12 3 (2.40%) Hazelcast
12 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
12 3 (2.40%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.60%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (24.00%) Git
1 30 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (20.00%) GitLab
3 14 (11.20%) SonarQube
4 10 (8.00%) JIRA
5 8 (6.40%) Mocha
6 7 (5.60%) Maven
7 6 (4.80%) JUnit
8 5 (4.00%) Gradle
8 5 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (4.00%) SonarLint
9 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
9 4 (3.20%) MLflow
10 3 (2.40%) Postman
11 2 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.60%) Mockito
11 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.60%) Subversion
11 2 (1.60%) Xcode
11 2 (1.60%) XCTest
General
1 45 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (24.00%) Finance
3 21 (16.80%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.80%) Banking
5 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.20%) Retail
8 3 (2.40%) Games
8 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.80%) Front Office
10 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.80%) Military
10 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.80%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (44.00%) Developer
2 26 (20.80%) Architect
3 16 (12.80%) Senior
4 14 (11.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) Backend Developer
5 12 (9.60%) Technical Architect
6 10 (8.00%) Python Developer
6 10 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Java Architect
8 8 (6.40%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) AWS Architect
9 6 (4.80%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Java Technical Architect
11 4 (3.20%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.20%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.20%) Kafka
2 35 (28.00%) Node.js
3 29 (23.20%) REST
4 24 (19.20%) RESTful
5 22 (17.60%) React
6 19 (15.20%) Spring Boot
7 16 (12.80%) FastAPI
7 16 (12.80%) Keycloak
8 15 (12.00%) GraphQL
8 15 (12.00%) HTML
8 15 (12.00%) Jest
8 15 (12.00%) OAuth
9 14 (11.20%) CSS
10 13 (10.40%) gRPC
10 13 (10.40%) OAuth2
10 13 (10.40%) Spring
11 11 (8.80%) Flask
11 11 (8.80%) OpenID
11 11 (8.80%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (8.80%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.40%) Derivative
4 6 (4.80%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.80%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.00%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.00%) Replication
6 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.60%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.20%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 2 (1.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (60.80%) CI/CD
2 72 (57.60%) Microservices
3 52 (41.60%) DevOps
4 51 (40.80%) Containerisation
5 39 (31.20%) Observability
6 37 (29.60%) Agile
7 33 (26.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.40%) Design Patterns
10 17 (13.60%) AI
10 17 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 16 (12.80%) Event-Driven
11 16 (12.80%) Roadmaps
12 15 (12.00%) Clean Code
12 15 (12.00%) Open Source
13 14 (11.20%) Code Quality
13 14 (11.20%) SDLC
13 14 (11.20%) Secrets Management
14 13 (10.40%) Front End Development
14 13 (10.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.00%) Python
2 42 (33.60%) SQL
3 26 (20.80%) Java
4 23 (18.40%) JavaScript
5 22 (17.60%) Bash
6 14 (11.20%) TypeScript
7 12 (9.60%) C#
8 10 (8.00%) Go
9 8 (6.40%) PHP
10 6 (4.80%) Groovy
11 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.40%) Rust
13 2 (1.60%) Bicep
13 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.80%) Delphi
14 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (8.80%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.20%) Degree
5 5 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.40%) MCP
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CCNP
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CISSP
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.60%) Accessibility
1 12 (9.60%) QA
2 9 (7.20%) WCAG
3 6 (4.80%) NCSC
4 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.00%) NIST
5 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.60%) GDPR
6 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.60%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.60%) PSD2
6 2 (1.60%) SEPA
7 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
System Software
1 61 (48.80%) Docker
2 6 (4.80%) Varnish
3 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (51.20%) Kubernetes
2 38 (30.40%) Grafana
3 37 (29.60%) Prometheus
3 37 (29.60%) Terraform
4 18 (14.40%) Ansible
5 11 (8.80%) Argo
6 8 (6.40%) Istio
7 6 (4.80%) linkerd
8 5 (4.00%) Rancher
9 2 (1.60%) Knative
9 2 (1.60%) Packer
10 1 (0.80%) Consul
10 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.80%) Puppet
10 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) Splunk
2 14 (11.20%) Dynatrace
3 11 (8.80%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.00%) Oracle
5 9 (7.20%) Google
6 8 (6.40%) Databricks
6 8 (6.40%) VMware
7 7 (5.60%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.00%) Adobe
8 5 (4.00%) Gigya
9 4 (3.20%) Informatica
9 4 (3.20%) New Relic
9 4 (3.20%) OpenAI
9 4 (3.20%) Pega
9 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.60%) Apple
11 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (1.60%) SAP