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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 396 498
Rank change year-on-year -102 +102 -27
Contract jobs citing Redis 121 123 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.42% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 2.22% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 64
10th Percentile £393 £401 £359
25th Percentile £402 £447 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £612
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £434 £409 £463
% change year-on-year +6.05% -11.57% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,993 5,539 7,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 18.88% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,813 3,821 5,141
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 100 173
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.72 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.86 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -21.39% -26.82%
75th Percentile £74.84 £64.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% -30.07%

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 21 March 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 15 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 21 March 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 -114 105 £500 -16.67% 57
UK excluding London -64 55 £434 +6.05% 40
London -86 51 £575 -14.81% 29
Work from Home -31 37 £433 -17.62% 42
North of England -50 22 £425 - 13
Midlands -46 17 £447 +11.75% 3
North West -15 14 £420 +5.00% 11
South East -57 12 £434 +6.05% 16
West Midlands -54 9 £700 +75.00% 3
South West -26 8 £700 +20.17% 2
East Midlands - 8 £397 -
North East -13 5 £425 -5.56%
Yorkshire - 4 £625 - 2
Scotland +8 2 £537 +2.29% 1
East of England - 2 - - 3

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 (4.96%) Confluence
2 5 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (56.20%) AWS
2 48 (39.67%) Azure
3 44 (36.36%) GitHub
4 36 (29.75%) Serverless
5 34 (28.10%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (14.88%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (12.40%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
9 12 (9.92%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (9.92%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (9.09%) OpenShift
11 10 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (7.44%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (7.44%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (7.44%) GCP
12 9 (7.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) DNS
2 4 (3.31%) Firewall
3 3 (2.48%) SSL
3 3 (2.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) BGP
4 1 (0.83%) DMZ
4 1 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.83%) Internet
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
4 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.83%) VSAN
4 1 (0.83%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (44.63%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (21.49%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.57%) MongoDB
4 13 (10.74%) DynamoDB
4 13 (10.74%) SQL Server
5 12 (9.92%) DocumentDB
5 12 (9.92%) MySQL
6 11 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (9.09%) Relational Database
7 10 (8.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (6.61%) Aerospike
9 7 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (4.13%) Data Lake
11 4 (3.31%) Delta Lake
11 4 (3.31%) Pinecone
11 4 (3.31%) Weaviate
12 3 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.48%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.48%) Couchbase
13 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (22.31%) Git
1 27 (22.31%) GitLab
1 27 (22.31%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.61%) JIRA
3 7 (5.79%) JUnit
3 7 (5.79%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.96%) Mocha
4 6 (4.96%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (4.96%) Vite
5 4 (3.31%) MLflow
5 4 (3.31%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.48%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.65%) Gatling
7 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.83%) Mockito
8 1 (0.83%) Moq
8 1 (0.83%) Xcode
General
1 33 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.31%) Finance
3 19 (15.70%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.26%) Banking
5 6 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Front Office
7 4 (3.31%) Retail
8 3 (2.48%) Games
9 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 53 (43.80%) Developer
2 18 (14.88%) Architect
3 16 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (13.22%) Senior
4 10 (8.26%) Backend Developer
5 9 (7.44%) Python Developer
6 8 (6.61%) C# Developer
6 8 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.79%) Technical Architect
8 6 (4.96%) .NET Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) AWS Architect
8 6 (4.96%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Gen AI Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (34.71%) Kafka
2 37 (30.58%) Node.js
3 31 (25.62%) REST
4 30 (24.79%) React
5 19 (15.70%) RESTful
6 16 (13.22%) FastAPI
6 16 (13.22%) OAuth
7 15 (12.40%) Jest
7 15 (12.40%) Keycloak
8 14 (11.57%) gRPC
9 13 (10.74%) OAuth2
9 13 (10.74%) Spring Boot
10 12 (9.92%) CSS
10 12 (9.92%) Spring
11 11 (9.09%) Flask
11 11 (9.09%) GraphQL
11 11 (9.09%) OpenID
11 11 (9.09%) WebSockets
12 10 (8.26%) .NET
12 10 (8.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.31%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.44%) AI Agents
3 9 (7.44%) Derivative
4 6 (4.96%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.96%) Replication
5 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.48%) Energy Derivatives
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.83%) PKI
7 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Windows
3 2 (1.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (61.98%) CI/CD
2 67 (55.37%) Microservices
3 58 (47.93%) DevOps
4 44 (36.36%) Observability
5 40 (33.06%) Containerisation
5 40 (33.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (23.97%) Agile
7 22 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (15.70%) AI
10 17 (14.05%) Machine Learning
11 16 (13.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (12.40%) Secrets Management
13 14 (11.57%) Code Quality
13 14 (11.57%) Design Patterns
13 14 (11.57%) Migration
14 13 (10.74%) Clean Code
14 13 (10.74%) Data Modelling
14 13 (10.74%) Open Source
15 12 (9.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (47.93%) Python
2 40 (33.06%) SQL
3 21 (17.36%) Java
4 20 (16.53%) Bash
4 20 (16.53%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.70%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.74%) Go
7 12 (9.92%) C#
8 7 (5.79%) PHP
9 6 (4.96%) Groovy
10 5 (4.13%) Bicep
10 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.31%) Rust
12 2 (1.65%) Ruby
13 1 (0.83%) Delphi
13 1 (0.83%) Elixir
13 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.44%) Degree
5 4 (3.31%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) CCNP
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) QA
2 9 (7.44%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.79%) WCAG
4 6 (4.96%) NCSC
5 5 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.13%) NIST
6 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.65%) GDPR
7 2 (1.65%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.65%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.65%) PSD2
7 2 (1.65%) SEPA
8 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 58 (47.93%) Docker
2 6 (4.96%) Varnish
3 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (46.28%) Kubernetes
2 37 (30.58%) Terraform
3 35 (28.93%) Grafana
3 35 (28.93%) Prometheus
4 17 (14.05%) Ansible
5 12 (9.92%) Argo
6 9 (7.44%) Istio
7 7 (5.79%) linkerd
7 7 (5.79%) Rancher
8 2 (1.65%) Knative
8 2 (1.65%) Packer
9 1 (0.83%) Consul
9 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (9.92%) Dynatrace
1 12 (9.92%) Splunk
2 10 (8.26%) Databricks
2 10 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.26%) OpenAI
3 9 (7.44%) VMware
4 8 (6.61%) Google
5 7 (5.79%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.13%) Adobe
6 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.31%) New Relic
7 4 (3.31%) Oracle
8 3 (2.48%) Apple
8 3 (2.48%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.65%) Confluent
9 2 (1.65%) Foundry
9 2 (1.65%) Informatica
9 2 (1.65%) Pega
9 2 (1.65%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.65%) Salesforce