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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 437 494
Rank change year-on-year -101 +57 +43
Contract jobs citing Redis 122 116 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.36% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.51% 1.97% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 90 60
10th Percentile £413 £418 £350
25th Percentile £477 £451 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £588 £498
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +18.09% -26.30%
75th Percentile £656 £750 £625
90th Percentile £788 - £726
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 8,081 5,895 7,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.22% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,353 4,000 5,433
10th Percentile £350 £350 £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 £627 £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 259 103 147
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £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 £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £76.50 £71.90
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 10 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 10 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 -111 99 £525 -12.50% 71
London -89 62 £575 -13.21% 39
UK excluding London -107 34 £500 +9.29% 41
Work from Home -84 26 £561 +2.94% 27
North of England -69 14 £425 -1.16% 11
South East -61 8 £513 +17.82% 11
Yorkshire - 8 £500 - 2
Midlands - 6 £700 - 5
North East -33 5 £425 -7.61% 4
South West -29 4 £700 +35.92% 7
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
East of England - 4 £850 - 4
Scotland -17 2 £525 +2.44% 2
East Midlands - 2 £407 - 2
North West -42 1 £476 +19.00% 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 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.46%) Apache
3 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.64%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.64%) nginx
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Magento
2 1 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (48.36%) AWS
2 53 (43.44%) Azure
3 49 (40.16%) GitHub
4 42 (34.43%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (21.31%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (16.39%) GCP
7 18 (14.75%) Serverless
8 16 (13.11%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.38%) Amazon S3
11 8 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (5.74%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (5.74%) Datadog
13 6 (4.92%) Akamai
13 6 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) Firewall
1 2 (1.64%) Internet
2 1 (0.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (54.10%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (32.79%) MongoDB
3 20 (16.39%) Relational Database
4 18 (14.75%) SQL Server
5 17 (13.93%) NoSQL
6 11 (9.02%) MySQL
7 7 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.92%) InterSystems Cache
9 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (4.10%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.28%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.46%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.64%) Aerospike
12 2 (1.64%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.64%) Flink
12 2 (1.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 39 (31.97%) Jenkins
2 32 (26.23%) Git
3 16 (13.11%) GitLab
4 15 (12.30%) JIRA
5 10 (8.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.56%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.92%) Vite
8 4 (3.28%) Gradle
8 4 (3.28%) Maven
8 4 (3.28%) Snyk
9 3 (2.46%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.64%) JUnit
11 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.82%) git-flow
11 1 (0.82%) Moq
11 1 (0.82%) NUnit
11 1 (0.82%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.82%) Serilog
11 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (20.49%) Finance
2 23 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.20%) Banking
4 10 (8.20%) Front Office
5 8 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.28%) Retail
9 3 (2.46%) Marketing
10 2 (1.64%) Law
10 2 (1.64%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.82%) Games
11 1 (0.82%) International Banking
11 1 (0.82%) Legal
11 1 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (52.46%) Developer
2 20 (16.39%) Senior
3 17 (13.93%) Backend Developer
4 15 (12.30%) Java Developer
5 14 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.84%) Node.js Developer
7 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.56%) Lead
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.74%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.92%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Senior Backend Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (4.10%) C# Developer - Commodities
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (33.61%) REST
2 40 (32.79%) Kafka
3 31 (25.41%) Node.js
3 31 (25.41%) React
4 22 (18.03%) RESTful
4 22 (18.03%) Spring
5 20 (16.39%) OAuth
6 19 (15.57%) Spring Boot
7 18 (14.75%) Jest
8 17 (13.93%) JWT
9 15 (12.30%) OpenAPI
9 15 (12.30%) Swagger
10 14 (11.48%) AngularJS
10 14 (11.48%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (10.66%) .NET
12 12 (9.84%) Celery
12 12 (9.84%) OAuth2
13 11 (9.02%) FastAPI
13 11 (9.02%) hapi
13 11 (9.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 22 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.66%) Derivative
4 8 (6.56%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.10%) Replication
6 4 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.64%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.84%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (62.30%) CI/CD
2 66 (54.10%) DevOps
3 61 (50.00%) Microservices
4 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (30.33%) Containerisation
6 35 (28.69%) Observability
7 32 (26.23%) AI
8 28 (22.95%) Agile
9 25 (20.49%) Test Automation
10 23 (18.85%) Software Engineering
11 21 (17.21%) Clean Code
12 20 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (15.57%) Event-Driven
13 19 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (13.11%) OWASP
14 16 (13.11%) Refactoring
14 16 (13.11%) Technical Debt
15 15 (12.30%) API Design
15 15 (12.30%) Machine Learning
16 14 (11.48%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 64 (52.46%) Python
2 35 (28.69%) SQL
3 32 (26.23%) Java
4 22 (18.03%) TypeScript
5 20 (16.39%) C#
6 15 (12.30%) Bash
7 14 (11.48%) JavaScript
8 12 (9.84%) Go
9 5 (4.10%) Bicep
10 4 (3.28%) PHP
11 3 (2.46%) Elixir
11 3 (2.46%) Groovy
11 3 (2.46%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.46%) Ruby
11 3 (2.46%) Rust
12 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.82%) Delphi
13 1 (0.82%) R
13 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) Degree
3 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.92%) QA
3 4 (3.28%) WCAG
4 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.82%) HL7
System Software
1 69 (56.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (1.64%) Varnish
2 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (61.48%) Kubernetes
2 37 (30.33%) Terraform
3 27 (22.13%) Grafana
4 26 (21.31%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.48%) Ansible
6 10 (8.20%) Argo
7 5 (4.10%) Rancher
8 3 (2.46%) Istio
9 2 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.64%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.82%) Kibana
10 1 (0.82%) linkerd
10 1 (0.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.20%) OpenAI
2 7 (5.74%) Dynatrace
2 7 (5.74%) Google
2 7 (5.74%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.92%) TikTok
4 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.28%) Splunk
5 3 (2.46%) Foundry
5 3 (2.46%) Oracle
6 2 (1.64%) Adobe
6 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.64%) Confluent
6 2 (1.64%) Databricks
6 2 (1.64%) MKS
6 2 (1.64%) Okta
6 2 (1.64%) VMware
7 1 (0.82%) Apple
7 1 (0.82%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.82%) PagerDuty