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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 433 437
Rank change year-on-year -89 +4 +81
Contract jobs citing Redis 157 120 114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% 2.04% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 93 75
10th Percentile £400 £385 £355
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -4.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -3.87% -2.11% -5.00%
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 8,182 5,873 6,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.07% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,455 3,930 4,835
10th Percentile £358 £339 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 96 98
10th Percentile £15.91 £21.23 £15.69
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.05 £19.87
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.10 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -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 3 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 14 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 3 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 -103 129 £525 +9.89% 270
London -70 79 £543 -1.36% 201
UK excluding London -94 42 £447 -3.87% 111
Work from Home -58 39 £555 +23.33% 124
North of England -55 17 £425 -7.55% 28
Yorkshire -31 12 £575 +47.44% 4
Midlands -42 9 £400 -38.46% 9
East of England -14 8 £425 -10.53% 12
South East -70 6 £513 +17.82% 21
East Midlands - 6 £350 - 3
North East -38 5 £425 -7.61% 14
West Midlands -48 3 £638 -1.92% 6
Scotland -28 2 £525 +5.00% 15
South West -39 1 £700 +7.69% 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 7 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.55%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.91%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Magento
1 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (56.05%) AWS
2 69 (43.95%) GitHub
3 64 (40.76%) Azure
4 60 (38.22%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (20.38%) GCP
6 23 (14.65%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (12.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (10.19%) Serverless
9 15 (9.55%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (7.01%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.73%) AWS KMS
11 9 (5.73%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.73%) Datadog
12 8 (5.10%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.10%) Snowflake
12 8 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) DNS
2 5 (3.18%) 5G
2 5 (3.18%) HTTP
2 5 (3.18%) SSH
2 5 (3.18%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.55%) 4G
4 2 (1.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (64.97%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (40.76%) MongoDB
3 33 (21.02%) MySQL
4 24 (15.29%) NoSQL
4 24 (15.29%) SQL Server
5 16 (10.19%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (10.19%) Relational Database
6 13 (8.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (4.46%) InterSystems Cache
8 6 (3.82%) Delta Lake
8 6 (3.82%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.82%) Hazelcast
9 5 (3.18%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.18%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.55%) Power BI
11 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.27%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (31.85%) Jenkins
2 48 (30.57%) Git
3 31 (19.75%) GitLab
4 26 (16.56%) JIRA
5 8 (5.10%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.18%) Gradle
7 5 (3.18%) Maven
7 5 (3.18%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.55%) Mocha
8 4 (2.55%) Selenium
8 4 (2.55%) Snyk
9 3 (1.91%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.91%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.27%) git-flow
10 2 (1.27%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (1.27%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.27%) Vite
11 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.47%) Finance
3 23 (14.65%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.64%) Banking
5 10 (6.37%) Retail
6 8 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.46%) Front Office
8 6 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.55%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.91%) Law
10 3 (1.91%) Legal
10 3 (1.91%) Marketing
11 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Local Government
11 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.64%) Games
12 1 (0.64%) International Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (50.96%) Developer
2 26 (16.56%) Senior
3 22 (14.01%) Java Developer
4 17 (10.83%) Backend Developer
5 14 (8.92%) Node.js Developer
5 14 (8.92%) Python Developer
6 13 (8.28%) Lead
7 12 (7.64%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (7.01%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) C# Developer
10 8 (5.10%) DBA
10 8 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.46%) Administrator
11 7 (4.46%) Java Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) GCP Developer
12 6 (3.82%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (39.49%) REST
2 55 (35.03%) Kafka
3 52 (33.12%) Terraform
4 37 (23.57%) Spring
5 32 (20.38%) RESTful
6 30 (19.11%) Node.js
6 30 (19.11%) React
6 30 (19.11%) Spring Boot
7 21 (13.38%) CSS
7 21 (13.38%) FastAPI
7 21 (13.38%) Jest
8 20 (12.74%) OAuth
9 18 (11.46%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (10.83%) JWT
10 17 (10.83%) OpenAPI
10 17 (10.83%) Swagger
11 16 (10.19%) HTML
12 15 (9.55%) Celery
12 15 (9.55%) Django
13 14 (8.92%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 26 (16.56%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.92%) Replication
4 12 (7.64%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.73%) Derivative
6 6 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.18%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (3.18%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.18%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.46%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (66.88%) CI/CD
2 80 (50.96%) DevOps
3 61 (38.85%) Microservices
4 55 (35.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (30.57%) AI
5 48 (30.57%) Observability
6 46 (29.30%) Agile
7 39 (24.84%) Containerisation
8 32 (20.38%) Event-Driven
9 30 (19.11%) Validation
10 29 (18.47%) Software Engineering
10 29 (18.47%) Test Automation
11 24 (15.29%) Clean Code
11 24 (15.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (14.65%) Scrum
13 22 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (13.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 21 (13.38%) OWASP
15 19 (12.10%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (11.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 74 (47.13%) Python
2 49 (31.21%) Java
3 48 (30.57%) SQL
4 24 (15.29%) Bash
5 23 (14.65%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.55%) C#
6 15 (9.55%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.46%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.46%) Ruby
7 7 (4.46%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.82%) Go
9 5 (3.18%) Rust
10 4 (2.55%) Groovy
10 4 (2.55%) PHP
11 3 (1.91%) Delphi
11 3 (1.91%) Elixir
11 3 (1.91%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.27%) C
13 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (5.73%) Degree
4 8 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) QA
2 8 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.46%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.55%) WCAG
5 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.64%) HL7
System Software
1 90 (57.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.27%) Varnish
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (57.32%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.66%) Grafana
3 32 (20.38%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.64%) Ansible
5 10 (6.37%) Argo
6 6 (3.82%) Rancher
7 5 (3.18%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.91%) Bosun
8 3 (1.91%) Kibana
9 2 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.27%) Istio
9 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.64%) logstash
10 1 (0.64%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (5.73%) OpenAI
2 8 (5.10%) Dynatrace
3 7 (4.46%) Google
3 7 (4.46%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.46%) TikTok
4 6 (3.82%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.82%) Splunk
5 5 (3.18%) Databricks
6 4 (2.55%) Okta
7 3 (1.91%) Confluent
7 3 (1.91%) Foundry
7 3 (1.91%) New Relic
7 3 (1.91%) Oracle
7 3 (1.91%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.27%) IBM
8 2 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.27%) MKS
8 2 (1.27%) VMware
9 1 (0.64%) NVIDIA