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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 429 438
Rank change year-on-year -90 +9 +78
Contract jobs citing Redis 164 131 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% 2.20% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 98 80
10th Percentile £400 £371 £363
25th Percentile £426 £418 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £476 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.08% -7.07% -21.15%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £641
90th Percentile £688 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +1.72% +3.33% -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 8,104 5,956 6,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.83% 18.15% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,392 3,978 4,565
10th Percentile £352 £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 £484
% change year-on-year - -1.76% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 85 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £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 £58.44 £64.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £33.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.11% +12.93% -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 6 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 6 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 -110 131 £533 +11.81% 360
London -90 84 £535 +0.71% 215
Work from Home -72 45 £550 +22.22% 195
UK excluding London -110 39 £473 +1.72% 191
North of England -76 15 £500 +14.29% 42
Yorkshire -29 11 £575 +47.44% 10
East of England -20 7 £425 -10.53% 30
Midlands -40 7 £350 -46.15% 25
South East -60 6 £613 +40.80% 32
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 9
Scotland -26 4 £475 -5.00% 19
North East - 4 £425 - 8
West Midlands -50 2 £575 -11.54% 16

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 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.05%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.83%) Apache
3 3 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.83%) Confluence
3 3 (1.83%) nginx
4 2 (1.22%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.22%) Traefik
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (59.76%) AWS
2 71 (43.29%) Azure
3 70 (42.68%) GitHub
4 58 (35.37%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (22.56%) GCP
6 24 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (10.37%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (10.37%) Serverless
9 14 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (7.93%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.71%) AWS KMS
13 10 (6.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 10 (6.10%) Azure AKS
13 10 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (5.49%) Datadog
14 9 (5.49%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (5.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.27%) DNS
2 6 (3.66%) 5G
2 6 (3.66%) HTTP
2 6 (3.66%) SSH
2 6 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.05%) 4G
4 2 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.61%) Internet
5 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (65.85%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (45.73%) MongoDB
3 35 (21.34%) MySQL
4 30 (18.29%) NoSQL
5 25 (15.24%) SQL Server
6 20 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (9.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 15 (9.15%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.27%) Delta Lake
8 7 (4.27%) DynamoDB
8 7 (4.27%) InterSystems Cache
9 6 (3.66%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.66%) Hazelcast
9 6 (3.66%) Power BI
10 5 (3.05%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.83%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (31.71%) Git
2 51 (31.10%) Jenkins
3 35 (21.34%) GitLab
4 30 (18.29%) JIRA
5 10 (6.10%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.66%) Mocha
6 6 (3.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.05%) Gradle
7 5 (3.05%) Maven
7 5 (3.05%) Selenium
8 4 (2.44%) Snyk
8 4 (2.44%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.44%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.83%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.83%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.22%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.22%) JMeter
10 2 (1.22%) JUnit
10 2 (1.22%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.22%) Sinon.JS
General
1 43 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.07%) Finance
2 28 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.15%) Banking
4 12 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.71%) Retail
6 9 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.27%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.66%) Front Office
9 5 (3.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.83%) Law
10 3 (1.83%) Legal
10 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Local Government
11 2 (1.22%) Marketing
11 2 (1.22%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.61%) Games
12 1 (0.61%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (47.56%) Developer
2 30 (18.29%) Senior
3 24 (14.63%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.76%) Backend Developer
4 16 (9.76%) Python Developer
5 14 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.54%) Lead
5 14 (8.54%) Node.js Developer
6 13 (7.93%) Senior Developer
6 13 (7.93%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.10%) DBA
9 9 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (4.88%) Administrator
10 8 (4.88%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Architect
11 7 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) C# Developer
11 7 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (43.29%) REST
2 64 (39.02%) Terraform
3 62 (37.80%) Kafka
4 37 (22.56%) Spring
5 36 (21.95%) RESTful
6 30 (18.29%) Spring Boot
7 29 (17.68%) Node.js
8 28 (17.07%) React
9 22 (13.41%) Jest
9 22 (13.41%) OAuth
10 21 (12.80%) CSS
11 19 (11.59%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (10.98%) FastAPI
12 18 (10.98%) HTML
12 18 (10.98%) JWT
13 17 (10.37%) OpenAPI
13 17 (10.37%) Swagger
14 16 (9.76%) Django
15 14 (8.54%) hapi
16 13 (7.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.56%) Cloud Native
2 28 (17.07%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (11.59%) Replication
4 10 (6.10%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.88%) Derivative
6 6 (3.66%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.05%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.44%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.80%) Linux
2 6 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.44%) Unix
4 2 (1.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (68.90%) CI/CD
2 86 (52.44%) DevOps
3 64 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (39.02%) Microservices
4 53 (32.32%) Observability
5 52 (31.71%) Agile
6 47 (28.66%) AI
7 43 (26.22%) Containerisation
7 43 (26.22%) Event-Driven
8 37 (22.56%) Validation
9 34 (20.73%) Software Engineering
9 34 (20.73%) Test Automation
10 29 (17.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 25 (15.24%) Scrum
12 23 (14.02%) Clean Code
12 23 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (13.41%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (12.80%) Data Modelling
14 21 (12.80%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 74 (45.12%) Python
2 52 (31.71%) SQL
3 51 (31.10%) Java
4 30 (18.29%) Bash
5 21 (12.80%) TypeScript
6 17 (10.37%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.93%) C#
8 10 (6.10%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.27%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.27%) Ruby
10 6 (3.66%) Go
10 6 (3.66%) Rust
11 4 (2.44%) Groovy
11 4 (2.44%) PHP
12 3 (1.83%) Bicep
12 3 (1.83%) Delphi
13 2 (1.22%) C
13 2 (1.22%) Elixir
13 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.32%) Degree
4 11 (6.71%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (6.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.15%) QA
2 13 (7.93%) Data Quality
3 10 (6.10%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 95 (57.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.61%) Varnish
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (59.76%) Kubernetes
2 42 (25.61%) Grafana
3 36 (21.95%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.93%) Ansible
5 9 (5.49%) Argo
6 5 (3.05%) Kibana
6 5 (3.05%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.05%) Rancher
7 4 (2.44%) Bosun
7 4 (2.44%) Istio
8 2 (1.22%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.22%) Packer
8 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) logstash
9 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (5.49%) Dynatrace
2 8 (4.88%) Google
2 8 (4.88%) Oracle
2 8 (4.88%) Splunk
3 7 (4.27%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.27%) OpenAI
3 7 (4.27%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.27%) TikTok
4 6 (3.66%) Okta
5 5 (3.05%) Databricks
6 4 (2.44%) New Relic
7 3 (1.83%) Confluent
7 3 (1.83%) Foundry
7 3 (1.83%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (1.83%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.22%) F5
8 2 (1.22%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.22%) IBM
8 2 (1.22%) MKS
9 1 (0.61%) Atlassian