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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 381 500
Rank change year-on-year -75 +119 -71
Contract jobs citing Redis 125 141 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.44% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 2.43% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 97 79
10th Percentile £362 £400 £382
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.32% -31.67%
75th Percentile £645 £688 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £409 £488
% change year-on-year +10.02% -16.10% -2.50%
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 6,261 5,810 7,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.78% 18.26% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,321 3,825 5,052
10th Percentile £331 £350 £350
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.45% -3.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 79 157
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.78 £15.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.50 £64.61 £64.40
90th Percentile £84.50 £67.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £28.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year +70.05% -32.59% -22.73%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -71 111 £475 -17.39% 237
UK excluding London -26 65 £450 +10.02% 219
London -47 48 £513 -16.33% 39
Work from Home -19 35 £400 -27.27% 95
North of England -32 32 £450 -2.70% 41
North West -3 23 £463 -5.61% 19
Midlands -26 15 £650 +18.18% 26
South East -22 12 £433 +5.75% 71
West Midlands -30 9 £650 +18.18% 8
South West -14 7 £650 - 25
Yorkshire - 7 £390 - 16
East Midlands - 6 £397 - 17
North East -10 3 - - 6
East of England -25 3 £475 +26.67% 38
Scotland - 3 £537 - 7

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 8 (6.40%) Confluence
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.80%) Camunda
3 1 (0.80%) CMS
3 1 (0.80%) Drupal
3 1 (0.80%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.80%) Mattermost
3 1 (0.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Magento
2 1 (0.80%) Finacle
2 1 (0.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (55.20%) AWS
2 46 (36.80%) Azure
2 46 (36.80%) GitHub
3 35 (28.00%) Serverless
4 33 (26.40%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (18.40%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (12.80%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (12.80%) GCP
7 15 (12.00%) OpenShift
8 13 (10.40%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (8.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (8.80%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (7.20%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.20%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (7.20%) Route 53
10 9 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (6.40%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (6.40%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) DNS
2 4 (3.20%) Firewall
3 3 (2.40%) SSL
3 3 (2.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.80%) BGP
4 1 (0.80%) DMZ
4 1 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.80%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.80%) Network Security
4 1 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.80%) STUN
4 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) VSAN
4 1 (0.80%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (52.00%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (28.80%) NoSQL
3 19 (15.20%) MySQL
4 17 (13.60%) DynamoDB
5 16 (12.80%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (12.00%) Relational Database
7 14 (11.20%) DocumentDB
7 14 (11.20%) MongoDB
7 14 (11.20%) SQL Server
8 8 (6.40%) BigQuery
9 7 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.80%) Aerospike
10 6 (4.80%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.20%) Power BI
12 3 (2.40%) Couchbase
12 3 (2.40%) Hazelcast
12 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
12 3 (2.40%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.60%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (24.00%) Git
1 30 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (20.00%) GitLab
3 15 (12.00%) SonarQube
4 10 (8.00%) JIRA
5 8 (6.40%) Mocha
6 7 (5.60%) Maven
7 6 (4.80%) JUnit
8 5 (4.00%) Gradle
8 5 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (4.00%) SonarLint
9 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
9 4 (3.20%) MLflow
10 3 (2.40%) Postman
10 3 (2.40%) webpack
11 2 (1.60%) Gatling
11 2 (1.60%) Mockito
11 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.60%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.60%) XCTest
General
1 46 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.60%) Finance
3 22 (17.60%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.80%) Banking
5 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Retail
8 3 (2.40%) Games
9 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.80%) Front Office
10 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.80%) Military
10 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.80%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (42.40%) Developer
2 26 (20.80%) Architect
3 16 (12.80%) Senior
4 13 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) Technical Architect
6 11 (8.80%) Backend Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.20%) Java Architect
8 9 (7.20%) Python Developer
9 8 (6.40%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) AWS Architect
10 6 (4.80%) AWS Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.80%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Java Technical Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Data Architect
12 4 (3.20%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (36.00%) Kafka
2 36 (28.80%) Node.js
3 28 (22.40%) REST
4 24 (19.20%) React
5 23 (18.40%) RESTful
6 19 (15.20%) Spring Boot
7 16 (12.80%) HTML
7 16 (12.80%) Keycloak
8 15 (12.00%) CSS
8 15 (12.00%) FastAPI
8 15 (12.00%) Jest
9 14 (11.20%) GraphQL
9 14 (11.20%) OAuth
10 13 (10.40%) OAuth2
10 13 (10.40%) Spring
11 12 (9.60%) gRPC
12 11 (8.80%) OpenID
12 11 (8.80%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (8.00%) Flask
13 10 (8.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.40%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.40%) Derivative
4 6 (4.80%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.80%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.00%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.00%) Replication
6 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.40%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.60%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.20%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 2 (1.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (58.40%) CI/CD
2 71 (56.80%) Microservices
3 51 (40.80%) DevOps
4 50 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 39 (31.20%) Agile
6 38 (30.40%) Observability
7 31 (24.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.40%) Design Patterns
10 17 (13.60%) Roadmaps
10 17 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 16 (12.80%) AI
11 16 (12.80%) Event-Driven
12 15 (12.00%) Clean Code
12 15 (12.00%) Open Source
12 15 (12.00%) SDLC
13 14 (11.20%) Code Quality
13 14 (11.20%) Front End Development
13 14 (11.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (11.20%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (42.40%) Python
2 41 (32.80%) SQL
3 26 (20.80%) Java
4 22 (17.60%) Bash
4 22 (17.60%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 12 (9.60%) C#
7 8 (6.40%) Go
7 8 (6.40%) PHP
8 6 (4.80%) Groovy
9 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.40%) Rust
11 2 (1.60%) Ruby
11 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.80%) Bicep
12 1 (0.80%) Delphi
12 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.40%) Degree
5 4 (3.20%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.40%) MCP
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CCNP
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CISSP
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) QA
2 13 (10.40%) Accessibility
3 10 (8.00%) WCAG
4 6 (4.80%) NCSC
5 5 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.00%) NIST
6 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.60%) GDPR
7 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.60%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.60%) PSD2
7 2 (1.60%) SEPA
8 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (47.20%) Docker
2 6 (4.80%) Varnish
3 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (50.40%) Kubernetes
2 37 (29.60%) Grafana
2 37 (29.60%) Terraform
3 36 (28.80%) Prometheus
4 18 (14.40%) Ansible
5 11 (8.80%) Argo
6 8 (6.40%) Istio
7 6 (4.80%) linkerd
8 5 (4.00%) Rancher
9 2 (1.60%) Knative
9 2 (1.60%) Packer
10 1 (0.80%) Consul
10 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.80%) Puppet
10 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) Splunk
2 14 (11.20%) Dynatrace
3 11 (8.80%) Oracle
4 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.20%) Google
6 8 (6.40%) Databricks
6 8 (6.40%) VMware
7 7 (5.60%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.00%) Adobe
8 5 (4.00%) Gigya
9 4 (3.20%) Informatica
9 4 (3.20%) New Relic
9 4 (3.20%) Pega
9 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
10 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.60%) Apple
11 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.60%) Rollbar
11 2 (1.60%) SAP