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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 405 494
Rank change year-on-year -45 +89 -16
Contract jobs citing Redis 127 142 132
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.39% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% 2.21% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 95 106
10th Percentile £362 £375 £418
25th Percentile £418 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +14.91% -18.20% -3.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,282 6,439 7,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 17.60% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,271 4,295 5,496
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 86 155
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.44 £24.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -36.00% -4.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.56 £69.38
90th Percentile £83.60 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +39.17% -35.95% +4.83%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 -20 117 £476 -9.29% 317
London +1 70 £513 -17.17% 155
UK excluding London -23 55 £470 +14.91% 223
Work from Home -3 39 £435 -20.91% 181
North of England -10 26 £450 -2.70% 59
North West -5 16 £475 - 49
South East -5 10 £435 +6.36% 122
Midlands -25 8 £650 +36.84% 6
West Midlands -26 8 £650 +36.84% 5
Yorkshire - 8 £390 - 6
South West 0 7 £650 - 4
Scotland - 7 £500 - 7
North East -7 3 - - 6
East of England -17 3 £475 +26.67% 21
Wales - 1 £455 - 2

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 (4.72%) CMS
2 4 (3.15%) Confluence
2 4 (3.15%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.57%) nginx
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) Camunda
4 1 (0.79%) CICS
4 1 (0.79%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.79%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 60 (47.24%) Azure
2 49 (38.58%) AWS
3 34 (26.77%) GitHub
4 26 (20.47%) Serverless
5 25 (19.69%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (15.75%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (13.39%) GCP
7 17 (13.39%) OpenShift
8 16 (12.60%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (7.09%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (7.09%) AWS Fargate
9 9 (7.09%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.51%) Datadog
12 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.72%) Firebase
13 5 (3.94%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (3.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) Firewall
2 3 (2.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) BGP
3 1 (0.79%) DMZ
3 1 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.79%) STUN
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) VSAN
3 1 (0.79%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (57.48%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (20.47%) NoSQL
3 20 (15.75%) SQL Server
4 15 (11.81%) MongoDB
5 13 (10.24%) Relational Database
6 12 (9.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (9.45%) MySQL
7 11 (8.66%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (5.51%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.51%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.72%) Big Data
9 6 (4.72%) Oracle Database
9 6 (4.72%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.15%) DocumentDB
10 4 (3.15%) Power BI
11 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.36%) Couchbase
11 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 29 (22.83%) Jenkins
2 25 (19.69%) Git
3 16 (12.60%) SonarQube
4 11 (8.66%) Maven
5 10 (7.87%) JIRA
6 8 (6.30%) GitLab
6 8 (6.30%) Mocha
7 7 (5.51%) JUnit
7 7 (5.51%) Mockito
7 7 (5.51%) Postman
7 7 (5.51%) webpack
8 6 (4.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (4.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (4.72%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.72%) SoapUI
8 6 (4.72%) Subversion
8 6 (4.72%) Xcode
8 6 (4.72%) XCTest
9 5 (3.94%) Gradle
9 5 (3.94%) SonarLint
General
1 59 (46.46%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.98%) Finance
3 20 (15.75%) Banking
4 19 (14.96%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.24%) Investment Banking
7 8 (6.30%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.72%) Back Office
9 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Front Office
10 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.79%) Military
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (46.46%) Developer
2 22 (17.32%) Senior
3 17 (13.39%) Senior Developer
4 15 (11.81%) Backend Developer
5 14 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (10.24%) Architect
6 13 (10.24%) Lead
7 12 (9.45%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.66%) Lead Developer
8 11 (8.66%) Python Developer
9 9 (7.09%) C# Developer
10 8 (6.30%) Lead Java Developer
10 8 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.51%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (5.51%) Technical Architect
12 6 (4.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (4.72%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 5 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (3.94%) Data Architect
13 5 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (37.01%) Kafka
2 32 (25.20%) Node.js
3 28 (22.05%) React
4 25 (19.69%) CSS
4 25 (19.69%) HTML
5 23 (18.11%) REST
6 18 (14.17%) FastAPI
7 17 (13.39%) RESTful
8 15 (11.81%) Bootstrap
8 15 (11.81%) Flask
8 15 (11.81%) Spring Boot
9 14 (11.02%) YAML
10 13 (10.24%) GraphQL
10 13 (10.24%) HTML5
10 13 (10.24%) Keycloak
10 13 (10.24%) Web Services
11 11 (8.66%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (8.66%) J2EE
11 11 (8.66%) Jest
12 10 (7.87%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.30%) Replication
4 7 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.51%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.72%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.72%) Derivative
6 5 (3.94%) N-Tier
6 5 (3.94%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.57%) IoT
9 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.79%) PKI
10 1 (0.79%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.39%) Linux
2 7 (5.51%) Unix
3 3 (2.36%) Android
3 3 (2.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.39%) Agile
1 64 (50.39%) DevOps
2 62 (48.82%) CI/CD
3 57 (44.88%) Microservices
4 43 (33.86%) Containerisation
5 42 (33.07%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (22.05%) Front End Development
7 25 (19.69%) TDD
8 23 (18.11%) SDLC
9 22 (17.32%) BDD
9 22 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (17.32%) Mentoring
10 21 (16.54%) Observability
11 20 (15.75%) Scrum
12 19 (14.96%) Architectural Design
13 18 (14.17%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (13.39%) Roadmaps
15 16 (12.60%) Computer Science
15 16 (12.60%) Unit Testing
16 15 (11.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (35.43%) Python
2 44 (34.65%) SQL
3 33 (25.98%) Java
4 24 (18.90%) JavaScript
5 21 (16.54%) Bash
6 20 (15.75%) TypeScript
7 13 (10.24%) C#
8 9 (7.09%) Go
8 9 (7.09%) Groovy
9 6 (4.72%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.94%) Bicep
11 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.36%) PHP
12 3 (2.36%) Ruby
13 1 (0.79%) COBOL
13 1 (0.79%) JCL
13 1 (0.79%) Korn
13 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.79%) Scala
13 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.60%) Degree
4 11 (8.66%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.30%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.94%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.60%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.45%) QA
3 11 (8.66%) WCAG
4 2 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) NCSC
5 1 (0.79%) NIST
5 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (41.73%) Docker
2 4 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Varnish
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (47.24%) Kubernetes
2 37 (29.13%) Grafana
3 32 (25.20%) Prometheus
4 30 (23.62%) Terraform
5 14 (11.02%) Ansible
6 6 (4.72%) Packer
7 5 (3.94%) Kustomize
8 3 (2.36%) Argo
8 3 (2.36%) Rancher
9 1 (0.79%) Consul
9 1 (0.79%) Control-M
9 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.79%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (14.96%) Oracle
1 19 (14.96%) Splunk
2 14 (11.02%) Dynatrace
3 13 (10.24%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.72%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (4.72%) Google
4 6 (4.72%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.94%) Gigya
5 5 (3.94%) Informatica
6 4 (3.15%) Confluent
6 4 (3.15%) New Relic
6 4 (3.15%) Pega
7 3 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.57%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.79%) Dell
9 1 (0.79%) Murex
9 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.79%) SAP
9 1 (0.79%) VMware