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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 422 446
Rank change year-on-year -97 +24 +74
Contract jobs citing Redis 162 130 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.97% 2.15% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 100 81
10th Percentile £400 £384 £363
25th Percentile £441 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -3.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £605 £659 £638
90th Percentile £704 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +2.15% +3.33% -12.20%
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 8,237 6,053 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.01% 18.30% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,500 4,058 4,671
10th Percentile £355 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 86 90
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.96 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £74.68 £83.75 £71.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.39% +24.93% -44.95%

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 26 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 26 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 -100 131 £534 +10.62% 313
London -80 83 £550 - 218
Work from Home -57 41 £550 +22.22% 136
UK excluding London -106 39 £475 +2.15% 128
North of England -75 15 £500 +9.89% 30
Yorkshire -34 11 £575 +47.44% 4
East of England -27 8 £425 -10.53% 18
Midlands -43 7 £350 -46.15% 12
South East -74 7 £613 +40.80% 26
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
North East -36 4 £425 -7.55% 4
Scotland -28 2 £525 +5.00% 15
West Midlands -48 2 £575 -11.54% 11

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 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.09%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.47%) Apache
3 4 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.85%) Confluence
5 2 (1.23%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Trello
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Magento
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (59.26%) AWS
2 70 (43.21%) GitHub
3 68 (41.98%) Azure
4 60 (37.04%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (21.60%) GCP
6 22 (13.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (9.26%) Serverless
10 13 (8.02%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 10 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.56%) AWS KMS
12 9 (5.56%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.56%) Datadog
12 9 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (5.56%) Snowflake
13 8 (4.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.32%) DNS
2 6 (3.70%) 5G
2 6 (3.70%) HTTP
2 6 (3.70%) SSH
2 6 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.09%) 4G
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (66.05%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (44.44%) MongoDB
3 35 (21.60%) MySQL
4 29 (17.90%) NoSQL
5 22 (13.58%) SQL Server
6 19 (11.73%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (9.26%) Relational Database
8 13 (8.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.32%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.32%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.70%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.70%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.09%) Power BI
11 5 (3.09%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.85%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (31.48%) Git
2 49 (30.25%) Jenkins
3 37 (22.84%) GitLab
4 28 (17.28%) JIRA
5 8 (4.94%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.70%) Mocha
6 6 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.09%) Gradle
7 5 (3.09%) Maven
7 5 (3.09%) Selenium
8 4 (2.47%) Snyk
8 4 (2.47%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.47%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.85%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.85%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.23%) JMeter
10 2 (1.23%) JUnit
10 2 (1.23%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.23%) Sinon.JS
General
1 39 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.05%) Finance
3 24 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.02%) Banking
5 11 (6.79%) Retail
6 10 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.32%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.70%) Front Office
10 4 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.85%) Law
11 3 (1.85%) Legal
11 3 (1.85%) Marketing
11 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Local Government
12 2 (1.23%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.62%) Games
13 1 (0.62%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (48.15%) Developer
2 29 (17.90%) Senior
3 24 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.88%) Backend Developer
5 14 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.64%) Lead
5 14 (8.64%) Node.js Developer
5 14 (8.64%) Python Developer
6 13 (8.02%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) C# Developer
10 8 (4.94%) DBA
10 8 (4.94%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (41.98%) REST
2 60 (37.04%) Kafka
2 60 (37.04%) Terraform
3 38 (23.46%) Spring
4 35 (21.60%) RESTful
5 31 (19.14%) Spring Boot
6 28 (17.28%) Node.js
7 26 (16.05%) React
8 22 (13.58%) Jest
9 21 (12.96%) FastAPI
9 21 (12.96%) OAuth
10 20 (12.35%) CSS
11 19 (11.73%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (10.49%) HTML
12 17 (10.49%) JWT
12 17 (10.49%) OpenAPI
12 17 (10.49%) Swagger
13 16 (9.88%) Django
14 15 (9.26%) Celery
15 14 (8.64%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.84%) Cloud Native
2 27 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.64%) Replication
4 10 (6.17%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.94%) Derivative
6 5 (3.09%) Autonomous Agent
6 5 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.09%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.73%) Linux
2 6 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.47%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.23%) CentOS
4 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (69.75%) CI/CD
2 85 (52.47%) DevOps
3 62 (38.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (38.27%) Microservices
4 51 (31.48%) Observability
5 50 (30.86%) Agile
6 47 (29.01%) AI
7 44 (27.16%) Containerisation
8 40 (24.69%) Event-Driven
9 33 (20.37%) Software Engineering
9 33 (20.37%) Test Automation
10 32 (19.75%) Validation
11 27 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 23 (14.20%) Clean Code
12 23 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (14.20%) Scrum
13 22 (13.58%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (12.96%) OWASP
15 19 (11.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 74 (45.68%) Python
2 51 (31.48%) Java
3 50 (30.86%) SQL
4 28 (17.28%) Bash
5 21 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.26%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.64%) C#
8 8 (4.94%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.32%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.70%) Go
10 6 (3.70%) Ruby
11 5 (3.09%) PHP
11 5 (3.09%) Rust
12 4 (2.47%) Groovy
13 3 (1.85%) Delphi
14 2 (1.23%) C
14 2 (1.23%) Elixir
14 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.62%) Bicep
15 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 37 (22.84%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.79%) Degree
4 10 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.64%) QA
2 9 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.47%) WCAG
4 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.62%) HL7
4 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 96 (59.26%) Docker
2 3 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.23%) Varnish
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (58.64%) Kubernetes
2 36 (22.22%) Grafana
3 34 (20.99%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.02%) Ansible
5 10 (6.17%) Argo
6 5 (3.09%) Kibana
6 5 (3.09%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.09%) Rancher
7 4 (2.47%) Bosun
7 4 (2.47%) Istio
8 2 (1.23%) Packer
8 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.62%) logstash
9 1 (0.62%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (4.94%) Dynatrace
1 8 (4.94%) Google
2 7 (4.32%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.32%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.32%) TikTok
3 6 (3.70%) Oracle
3 6 (3.70%) Splunk
4 5 (3.09%) Databricks
4 5 (3.09%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.47%) New Relic
5 4 (2.47%) Okta
6 3 (1.85%) Confluent
6 3 (1.85%) Foundry
6 3 (1.85%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.85%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.23%) IBM
7 2 (1.23%) MKS
8 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.62%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.62%) VMware