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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 420 424
Rank change year-on-year -86 +4 +93
Contract jobs citing Redis 161 132 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 2.20% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 99 80
10th Percentile £400 £373 £363
25th Percentile £425 £418 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £478 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -6.83% -21.15%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £641
90th Percentile £690 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -14.29%
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 8,053 5,991 6,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.81% 18.15% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,357 4,002 4,614
10th Percentile £351 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 87 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.91 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.71 £38.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +10.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £34.43 £30.00
% change year-on-year +21.14% +14.77% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -114 129 £525 +9.95% 355
London -85 82 £533 +0.24% 220
Work from Home -78 43 £550 +22.22% 246
UK excluding London -110 38 £475 +1.06% 240
North of England -74 15 £500 +14.29% 39
Yorkshire -27 11 £575 +47.44% 8
East of England -18 7 £425 -10.53% 29
Midlands -41 7 £350 -46.15% 21
South East -62 6 £613 +40.80% 31
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 7
North East - 4 £425 - 8
Scotland -18 3 £525 +5.00% 49
West Midlands -52 2 £575 -11.54% 14

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 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.11%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.86%) Apache
3 3 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.86%) Confluence
4 2 (1.24%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.62%) Traefik
5 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Trello
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (60.87%) AWS
2 69 (42.86%) Azure
3 68 (42.24%) GitHub
4 58 (36.02%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (22.98%) GCP
6 24 (14.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (10.56%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (9.32%) Serverless
10 14 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (8.07%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (6.83%) AWS KMS
14 10 (6.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 10 (6.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (5.59%) Azure AKS
15 9 (5.59%) Datadog
15 9 (5.59%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (5.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) DNS
2 6 (3.73%) 5G
2 6 (3.73%) HTTP
2 6 (3.73%) SSH
2 6 (3.73%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.11%) 4G
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (65.84%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (46.58%) MongoDB
3 35 (21.74%) MySQL
4 30 (18.63%) NoSQL
5 23 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 20 (12.42%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (9.32%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (8.07%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.35%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.35%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.73%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.73%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.73%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.11%) Power BI
11 5 (3.11%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.86%) Data Vault
14 2 (1.24%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.24%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (32.30%) Git
2 51 (31.68%) Jenkins
3 35 (21.74%) GitLab
4 30 (18.63%) JIRA
5 10 (6.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.73%) Mocha
6 6 (3.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.11%) Gradle
7 5 (3.11%) Maven
7 5 (3.11%) Selenium
8 4 (2.48%) Snyk
8 4 (2.48%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.48%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.86%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.24%) JMeter
10 2 (1.24%) JUnit
10 2 (1.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.24%) Sinon.JS
General
1 41 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.39%) Finance
3 26 (16.15%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.70%) Banking
5 11 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.83%) Retail
6 9 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.73%) Front Office
9 5 (3.11%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.86%) Law
10 3 (1.86%) Legal
10 3 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Local Government
11 2 (1.24%) Marketing
11 2 (1.24%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.62%) Games
12 1 (0.62%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (48.45%) Developer
2 28 (17.39%) Senior
3 24 (14.91%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.94%) Backend Developer
4 16 (9.94%) Python Developer
5 14 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.70%) Lead
5 14 (8.70%) Node.js Developer
6 13 (8.07%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.07%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.21%) DBA
9 9 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (4.97%) Administrator
10 8 (4.97%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.97%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (42.86%) REST
2 62 (38.51%) Terraform
3 61 (37.89%) Kafka
4 36 (22.36%) RESTful
4 36 (22.36%) Spring
5 29 (18.01%) Spring Boot
6 28 (17.39%) Node.js
6 28 (17.39%) React
7 22 (13.66%) Jest
8 21 (13.04%) CSS
9 20 (12.42%) OAuth
10 19 (11.80%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (11.18%) FastAPI
11 18 (11.18%) HTML
12 16 (9.94%) Django
12 16 (9.94%) JWT
12 16 (9.94%) OpenAPI
12 16 (9.94%) Swagger
13 14 (8.70%) hapi
14 13 (8.07%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.36%) Cloud Native
2 26 (16.15%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (10.56%) Replication
4 10 (6.21%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.97%) Derivative
6 6 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.11%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.11%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.11%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.04%) Linux
2 6 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.48%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.48%) Unix
4 2 (1.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (68.94%) CI/CD
2 84 (52.17%) DevOps
3 63 (39.13%) Microservices
4 62 (38.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (32.30%) Agile
6 51 (31.68%) Observability
7 47 (29.19%) AI
8 42 (26.09%) Containerisation
9 41 (25.47%) Event-Driven
10 35 (21.74%) Validation
11 32 (19.88%) Software Engineering
11 32 (19.88%) Test Automation
12 27 (16.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 25 (15.53%) Scrum
14 23 (14.29%) Clean Code
14 23 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (13.66%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (13.04%) OWASP
17 20 (12.42%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (45.96%) Python
2 50 (31.06%) Java
2 50 (31.06%) SQL
3 30 (18.63%) Bash
4 20 (12.42%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.07%) C#
7 10 (6.21%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.35%) Ruby
9 6 (3.73%) Go
9 6 (3.73%) Rust
10 4 (2.48%) Groovy
10 4 (2.48%) PHP
11 3 (1.86%) Delphi
12 2 (1.24%) C
12 2 (1.24%) Elixir
12 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 39 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.45%) Degree
4 11 (6.83%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (6.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.32%) QA
2 11 (6.83%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.59%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.62%) HL7
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 94 (58.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.62%) Varnish
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (59.63%) Kubernetes
2 39 (24.22%) Grafana
3 35 (21.74%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.07%) Ansible
5 9 (5.59%) Argo
6 5 (3.11%) Kibana
6 5 (3.11%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.11%) Rancher
7 4 (2.48%) Bosun
7 4 (2.48%) Istio
8 2 (1.24%) Packer
8 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.62%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.62%) logstash
9 1 (0.62%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (4.97%) Google
1 8 (4.97%) Splunk
2 7 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.35%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.35%) TikTok
3 6 (3.73%) Oracle
4 5 (3.11%) Databricks
4 5 (3.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.11%) Okta
5 4 (2.48%) New Relic
6 3 (1.86%) Confluent
6 3 (1.86%) Foundry
6 3 (1.86%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.86%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.24%) IBM
7 2 (1.24%) MKS
8 1 (0.62%) F5
8 1 (0.62%) SAP
8 1 (0.62%) VMware