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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 392 490
Rank change year-on-year -61 +98 -59
Contract jobs citing Redis 136 140 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.44% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.19% 2.41% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 97 82
10th Percentile £363 £400 £405
25th Percentile £400 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +6.02% -30.83%
75th Percentile £622 £688 £669
90th Percentile £750 £724 £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 6,219 5,802 7,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.99% 18.19% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,285 3,823 5,013
10th Percentile £328 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 76 147
10th Percentile £19.60 £19.71 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.61
Median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £64.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.74% -7.69%

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 10 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 10 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 -48 121 £475 -13.64% 238
UK excluding London -34 69 £450 +10.02% 230
London -37 56 £488 -20.41% 37
Work from Home -16 37 £400 -27.27% 111
North of England -11 34 £450 -2.70% 41
North West -5 24 £450 -8.16% 15
Midlands -31 15 £650 +36.84% 25
South East -31 12 £434 +6.05% 71
West Midlands -31 9 £650 +36.84% 9
Yorkshire - 8 £390 - 16
South West -17 7 £650 - 27
East Midlands - 6 £397 - 16
Scotland - 5 £537 - 8
North East -6 3 - - 10
East of England -28 3 £475 +26.67% 45

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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) Camunda
3 1 (0.74%) CICS
3 1 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Drupal
3 1 (0.74%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.74%) Mattermost
3 1 (0.74%) nginx
3 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Magento
2 1 (0.74%) Finacle
2 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (53.68%) AWS
2 51 (37.50%) GitHub
3 48 (35.29%) Azure
4 37 (27.21%) Serverless
5 36 (26.47%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (18.38%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (13.24%) OpenShift
8 17 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (12.50%) GCP
9 13 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
13 9 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (6.62%) AWS Fargate
13 9 (6.62%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (6.62%) Route 53
13 9 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) DNS
2 4 (2.94%) Firewall
3 3 (2.21%) SSL
3 3 (2.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.74%) BGP
4 1 (0.74%) DMZ
4 1 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.74%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.74%) Network Security
4 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.74%) STUN
4 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.74%) VSAN
4 1 (0.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (53.68%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (27.21%) NoSQL
3 19 (13.97%) MySQL
4 17 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 17 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 16 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (11.76%) MongoDB
5 16 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 15 (11.03%) DocumentDB
7 8 (5.88%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.41%) Aerospike
9 6 (4.41%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.94%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.94%) Power BI
11 3 (2.21%) Couchbase
11 3 (2.21%) Hazelcast
11 3 (2.21%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.47%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 34 (25.00%) Git
2 33 (24.26%) Jenkins
3 25 (18.38%) GitLab
4 17 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 11 (8.09%) JIRA
6 8 (5.88%) Maven
6 8 (5.88%) Mocha
7 7 (5.15%) JUnit
8 6 (4.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (4.41%) webpack
9 5 (3.68%) Gradle
9 5 (3.68%) SonarLint
10 4 (2.94%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.94%) MLflow
10 4 (2.94%) Postman
11 3 (2.21%) Mockito
11 3 (2.21%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.21%) SoapUI
11 3 (2.21%) Xcode
11 3 (2.21%) XCTest
General
1 52 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.21%) Finance
3 24 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.82%) Banking
5 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.94%) Retail
9 3 (2.21%) Games
10 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.74%) Front Office
11 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.74%) Military
11 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.74%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (39.71%) Developer
2 25 (18.38%) Architect
3 18 (13.24%) Senior
4 14 (10.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.82%) Backend Developer
6 11 (8.09%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.09%) Technical Architect
7 9 (6.62%) Java Architect
7 9 (6.62%) Python Developer
8 8 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.15%) AWS Developer
9 7 (5.15%) C# Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) AWS Architect
10 6 (4.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 5 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (36.76%) Kafka
2 40 (29.41%) Node.js
3 31 (22.79%) REST
4 30 (22.06%) React
5 24 (17.65%) RESTful
6 21 (15.44%) HTML
7 20 (14.71%) Spring Boot
8 19 (13.97%) CSS
9 17 (12.50%) FastAPI
9 17 (12.50%) Keycloak
10 16 (11.76%) OAuth
11 15 (11.03%) Jest
11 15 (11.03%) OAuth2
12 14 (10.29%) GraphQL
12 14 (10.29%) Spring
13 12 (8.82%) Flask
13 12 (8.82%) gRPC
14 11 (8.09%) Bootstrap
14 11 (8.09%) OpenID
14 11 (8.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.32%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.88%) Derivative
4 7 (5.15%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.41%) Reinsurance
6 5 (3.68%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.68%) N-Tier
6 5 (3.68%) Replication
7 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.47%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.74%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.76%) Linux
2 4 (2.94%) Unix
3 2 (1.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (56.62%) CI/CD
2 75 (55.15%) Microservices
3 56 (41.18%) DevOps
4 52 (38.24%) Containerisation
5 50 (36.76%) Agile
6 42 (30.88%) Observability
7 32 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.44%) Roadmaps
10 20 (14.71%) SDLC
10 20 (14.71%) Test Automation
11 18 (13.24%) AI
11 18 (13.24%) Front End Development
12 17 (12.50%) Design Patterns
12 17 (12.50%) Event-Driven
13 16 (11.76%) Code Quality
13 16 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (11.03%) Clean Code
14 15 (11.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (39.71%) Python
2 45 (33.09%) SQL
3 27 (19.85%) Java
4 24 (17.65%) Bash
5 23 (16.91%) JavaScript
6 17 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 12 (8.82%) C#
8 9 (6.62%) Go
9 8 (5.88%) PHP
10 7 (5.15%) Groovy
11 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.94%) Ruby
12 3 (2.21%) Rust
12 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.74%) Bicep
13 1 (0.74%) COBOL
13 1 (0.74%) Delphi
13 1 (0.74%) JCL
13 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (7.35%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.62%) Degree
5 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.21%) MCP
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CCNP
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CISSP
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.97%) QA
2 16 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 11 (8.09%) WCAG
4 6 (4.41%) NCSC
5 5 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.68%) NIST
6 4 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.47%) GDPR
7 2 (1.47%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.47%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.47%) PSD2
7 2 (1.47%) SEPA
8 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
System Software
1 61 (44.85%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) Varnish
3 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 40 (29.41%) Grafana
2 40 (29.41%) Terraform
3 39 (28.68%) Prometheus
4 19 (13.97%) Ansible
5 11 (8.09%) Argo
6 8 (5.88%) Istio
7 6 (4.41%) linkerd
8 5 (3.68%) Rancher
9 2 (1.47%) Knative
9 2 (1.47%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.47%) Packer
10 1 (0.74%) Consul
10 1 (0.74%) Control-M
10 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.74%) Puppet
10 1 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (13.24%) Splunk
2 15 (11.03%) Dynatrace
2 15 (11.03%) Oracle
3 10 (7.35%) Google
3 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.88%) Databricks
4 8 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.88%) VMware
5 5 (3.68%) Gigya
6 4 (2.94%) Adobe
6 4 (2.94%) Informatica
6 4 (2.94%) New Relic
6 4 (2.94%) Pega
6 4 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.21%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.21%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.47%) Confluent
8 2 (1.47%) Rollbar