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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 426 444
Rank change year-on-year -97 +18 +76
Contract jobs citing Redis 161 125 121
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.95% 2.09% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 96 78
10th Percentile £400 £385 £359
25th Percentile £441 £418 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% -5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £636
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +1.72% +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 8,241 5,969 6,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.02% 18.26% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,502 3,997 4,627
10th Percentile £356 £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 £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 86 89
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.23 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.21 £29.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.75 £71.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.89% +20.00% -45.45%

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 23 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 23 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 -94 131 £534 +12.37% 320
London -81 83 £550 +12.82% 223
Work from Home -70 42 £550 +22.22% 140
UK excluding London -109 39 £473 +1.72% 127
North of England -79 16 £500 +9.89% 31
Yorkshire -37 12 £575 +47.44% 5
East of England -22 8 £425 -10.53% 20
Midlands -46 7 £350 -46.15% 14
South East -67 6 £625 +43.68% 25
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 2
North East -35 4 £425 -7.55% 5
Scotland -26 2 £525 +5.00% 13
West Midlands -42 2 £575 -11.54% 12

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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.11%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.48%) Apache
3 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.24%) Confluence
4 2 (1.24%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Magento
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 94 (58.39%) AWS
2 69 (42.86%) GitHub
3 67 (41.61%) Azure
4 59 (36.65%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (21.12%) GCP
6 21 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (10.56%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.70%) Serverless
10 12 (7.45%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (5.59%) AWS KMS
12 9 (5.59%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.59%) Datadog
12 9 (5.59%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (5.59%) Snowflake
13 8 (4.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) DNS
2 6 (3.73%) 5G
2 6 (3.73%) HTTP
2 6 (3.73%) SSH
2 6 (3.73%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.11%) 4G
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (65.84%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (43.48%) MongoDB
3 34 (21.12%) MySQL
4 28 (17.39%) NoSQL
5 24 (14.91%) SQL Server
6 18 (11.18%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (9.32%) Relational Database
8 13 (8.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.35%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.35%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.73%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.73%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.11%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.11%) Power BI
11 5 (3.11%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.86%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.24%) Flink
13 2 (1.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (31.68%) Git
2 49 (30.43%) Jenkins
3 36 (22.36%) GitLab
4 27 (16.77%) JIRA
5 8 (4.97%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.11%) Gradle
7 5 (3.11%) Maven
7 5 (3.11%) Mocha
7 5 (3.11%) Selenium
7 5 (3.11%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.48%) Snyk
8 4 (2.48%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.86%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.24%) git-flow
10 2 (1.24%) Sinon.JS
11 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.62%) PHPUnit
General
1 39 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.77%) Finance
3 24 (14.91%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.07%) Banking
5 11 (6.83%) Retail
6 9 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.35%) Front Office
7 7 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.11%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.86%) Law
9 3 (1.86%) Legal
9 3 (1.86%) Marketing
9 3 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Local Government
10 2 (1.24%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.62%) Games
11 1 (0.62%) International Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 79 (49.07%) Developer
2 29 (18.01%) Senior
3 25 (15.53%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.94%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.32%) Lead
6 14 (8.70%) Node.js Developer
7 13 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.07%) Python Developer
7 13 (8.07%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.45%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.59%) C# Developer
10 9 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (4.97%) DBA
11 8 (4.97%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Administrator
12 7 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (42.24%) REST
2 59 (36.65%) Kafka
3 58 (36.02%) Terraform
4 39 (24.22%) Spring
5 35 (21.74%) RESTful
6 32 (19.88%) Spring Boot
7 28 (17.39%) Node.js
8 27 (16.77%) React
9 21 (13.04%) Jest
10 20 (12.42%) CSS
10 20 (12.42%) FastAPI
10 20 (12.42%) OAuth
11 19 (11.80%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (10.56%) HTML
12 17 (10.56%) OpenAPI
12 17 (10.56%) Swagger
13 16 (9.94%) Django
13 16 (9.94%) JWT
14 14 (8.70%) Celery
14 14 (8.70%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.98%) Cloud Native
2 27 (16.77%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.70%) Replication
4 10 (6.21%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.59%) Derivative
6 6 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.11%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (3.11%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.11%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.24%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.80%) Linux
2 6 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.48%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.24%) CentOS
4 2 (1.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (68.94%) CI/CD
2 83 (51.55%) DevOps
3 63 (39.13%) Microservices
4 61 (37.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (31.68%) Observability
6 49 (30.43%) Agile
7 48 (29.81%) AI
8 42 (26.09%) Containerisation
9 39 (24.22%) Event-Driven
10 32 (19.88%) Software Engineering
10 32 (19.88%) Test Automation
11 31 (19.25%) Validation
12 26 (16.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 23 (14.29%) Clean Code
13 23 (14.29%) Scrum
14 22 (13.66%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (13.04%) OWASP
15 21 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (11.18%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (45.34%) Python
2 52 (32.30%) Java
3 51 (31.68%) SQL
4 28 (17.39%) Bash
5 21 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.32%) C#
6 15 (9.32%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.97%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.35%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.73%) Ruby
10 5 (3.11%) Go
10 5 (3.11%) Rust
11 4 (2.48%) Groovy
11 4 (2.48%) PHP
12 3 (1.86%) Delphi
13 2 (1.24%) C
13 2 (1.24%) Elixir
13 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.36%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.83%) Degree
4 10 (6.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (5.59%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.70%) QA
2 9 (5.59%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.48%) WCAG
4 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.62%) HL7
System Software
1 94 (58.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.24%) Varnish
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (57.76%) Kubernetes
2 35 (21.74%) Grafana
3 33 (20.50%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.45%) Ansible
5 10 (6.21%) Argo
6 5 (3.11%) Kibana
6 5 (3.11%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.11%) Rancher
7 4 (2.48%) Bosun
7 4 (2.48%) Istio
8 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.62%) logstash
9 1 (0.62%) Packer
9 1 (0.62%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (4.97%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.35%) Google
2 7 (4.35%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.35%) TikTok
3 6 (3.73%) Oracle
4 5 (3.11%) Databricks
4 5 (3.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.11%) Splunk
5 4 (2.48%) New Relic
5 4 (2.48%) Okta
6 3 (1.86%) Confluent
6 3 (1.86%) Foundry
6 3 (1.86%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.86%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.24%) IBM
7 2 (1.24%) MKS
8 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.62%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.62%) VMware