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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 441 438
Rank change year-on-year -74 -3 +75
Contract jobs citing Redis 154 124 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.86% 2.08% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 96 82
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £425 £423 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% -5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £625 £659 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -7.50%
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 8,288 5,957 6,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.04% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,520 3,985 4,800
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £743 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £477
% change year-on-year - -0.42% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 93 86
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.48 £30.96 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +16.06% -35.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -42.86%

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 11 September 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 13 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 11 September 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 -106 125 £525 +10.53% 146
London -75 79 £550 +7.32% 99
Work from Home -85 39 £555 +23.33% 141
UK excluding London -100 38 £426 -8.00% 73
North of England -70 16 £426 -6.48% 18
Yorkshire -30 12 £575 +47.44% 3
East of England -25 8 £425 -10.53% 10
Midlands -44 7 £350 -46.15% 5
South East -63 5 £569 +30.75% 15
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
North East -43 4 £425 -7.61% 8
Scotland -20 2 £525 +5.00% 12
West Midlands -48 2 £575 -11.54% 4

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 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.60%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
4 2 (1.30%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Magento
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (57.14%) AWS
2 68 (44.16%) GitHub
3 62 (40.26%) Azure
4 59 (38.31%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (20.78%) GCP
6 21 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (10.39%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (9.09%) Serverless
9 12 (7.79%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (5.84%) AWS KMS
10 9 (5.84%) Azure AKS
10 9 (5.84%) Datadog
10 9 (5.84%) Snowflake
11 8 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (5.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.90%) DNS
2 5 (3.25%) 5G
2 5 (3.25%) HTTP
2 5 (3.25%) SSH
2 5 (3.25%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.60%) 4G
4 2 (1.30%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (64.29%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (42.21%) MongoDB
3 33 (21.43%) MySQL
4 24 (15.58%) NoSQL
4 24 (15.58%) SQL Server
5 17 (11.04%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (10.39%) Relational Database
7 13 (8.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (4.55%) Delta Lake
8 7 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.55%) InterSystems Cache
9 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.90%) Hazelcast
10 5 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.25%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.25%) Power BI
10 5 (3.25%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.95%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 49 (31.82%) Git
2 48 (31.17%) Jenkins
3 31 (20.13%) GitLab
4 27 (17.53%) JIRA
5 8 (5.19%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.25%) Gradle
7 5 (3.25%) Maven
7 5 (3.25%) Mocha
7 5 (3.25%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.60%) Selenium
8 4 (2.60%) Snyk
8 4 (2.60%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.95%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.30%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.30%) git-flow
10 2 (1.30%) Sinon.JS
11 1 (0.65%) JMeter
11 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
General
1 38 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.18%) Finance
3 22 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.79%) Banking
5 10 (6.49%) Retail
6 9 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.55%) Front Office
9 6 (3.90%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.60%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.95%) Law
11 3 (1.95%) Legal
11 3 (1.95%) Marketing
11 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.30%) Local Government
12 2 (1.30%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.65%) Games
13 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (50.00%) Developer
2 26 (16.88%) Senior
3 22 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 16 (10.39%) Backend Developer
5 14 (9.09%) Lead
5 14 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
6 13 (8.44%) Python Developer
7 12 (7.79%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) C# Developer
10 8 (5.19%) DBA
10 8 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.55%) Administrator
11 7 (4.55%) Java Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.90%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (39.61%) REST
2 53 (34.42%) Kafka
3 52 (33.77%) Terraform
4 37 (24.03%) Spring
5 32 (20.78%) RESTful
6 30 (19.48%) Spring Boot
7 28 (18.18%) React
8 27 (17.53%) Node.js
9 21 (13.64%) Jest
10 20 (12.99%) FastAPI
10 20 (12.99%) OAuth
11 19 (12.34%) CSS
12 18 (11.69%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (11.04%) JWT
13 17 (11.04%) OpenAPI
13 17 (11.04%) Swagger
14 16 (10.39%) HTML
15 15 (9.74%) Django
16 14 (9.09%) hapi
17 13 (8.44%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 25 (16.23%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.09%) Replication
4 10 (6.49%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.84%) Derivative
6 6 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.25%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.25%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.30%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.04%) Linux
2 4 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.60%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (66.88%) CI/CD
2 78 (50.65%) DevOps
3 57 (37.01%) Microservices
4 55 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (31.17%) Observability
6 47 (30.52%) AI
7 45 (29.22%) Agile
8 39 (25.32%) Containerisation
9 32 (20.78%) Event-Driven
10 30 (19.48%) Validation
11 29 (18.83%) Software Engineering
11 29 (18.83%) Test Automation
12 23 (14.94%) Clean Code
13 22 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 21 (13.64%) OWASP
14 21 (13.64%) Scrum
15 20 (12.99%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (11.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 71 (46.10%) Python
2 48 (31.17%) Java
2 48 (31.17%) SQL
3 25 (16.23%) Bash
4 21 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.74%) C#
5 15 (9.74%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.55%) Kotlin
6 7 (4.55%) Ruby
6 7 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.25%) Go
7 5 (3.25%) Rust
8 4 (2.60%) Groovy
8 4 (2.60%) PHP
9 3 (1.95%) Delphi
9 3 (1.95%) Elixir
10 2 (1.30%) C
10 2 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.84%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (5.84%) Degree
4 8 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.44%) QA
2 9 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.60%) WCAG
5 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.65%) HL7
System Software
1 88 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.30%) Varnish
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 88 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 32 (20.78%) Grafana
3 30 (19.48%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.79%) Ansible
5 9 (5.84%) Argo
6 5 (3.25%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.25%) Rancher
7 3 (1.95%) Bosun
7 3 (1.95%) Kibana
8 2 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.30%) Istio
8 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.65%) logstash
9 1 (0.65%) Packer
9 1 (0.65%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (5.19%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.55%) Google
2 7 (4.55%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.55%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.55%) TikTok
3 5 (3.25%) Databricks
3 5 (3.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.25%) Splunk
4 4 (2.60%) Okta
4 4 (2.60%) Oracle
5 3 (1.95%) Confluent
5 3 (1.95%) Foundry
5 3 (1.95%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (1.95%) New Relic
5 3 (1.95%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.30%) IBM
6 2 (1.30%) MKS
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe
7 1 (0.65%) VMware