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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 417 498
Rank change year-on-year -96 +81 +2
Contract jobs citing Redis 114 110 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.57% 1.96% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 62
10th Percentile £398 £408 £375
25th Percentile £405 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £648 £738 £584
90th Percentile £766 £750 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -5.98% -3.16% -
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 7,239 5,604 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.53% 18.99% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,938 3,866 5,183
10th Percentile £349 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £480
% change year-on-year -3.06% +2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 108 144
10th Percentile £16.81 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.72 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -101 95 £500 -16.67% 49
London -96 50 £613 -9.26% 27
UK excluding London -65 44 £433 -5.98% 26
Work from Home -33 34 £466 -11.19% 87
North of England -58 15 £425 -1.16% 7
South East -62 13 £476 +10.07% 9
Midlands - 13 £400 - 6
North West -31 9 £400 - 5
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 4
North East -17 4 £425 -7.61% 1
South West -40 4 £700 +35.92% 2
Scotland +7 2 £537 +2.29%
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
East of England - 1 - - 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 5 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.51%) Confluence
3 2 (1.75%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Drupal
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (58.77%) AWS
2 40 (35.09%) Azure
2 40 (35.09%) GitHub
3 30 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
4 28 (24.56%) Serverless
5 16 (14.04%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (9.65%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.77%) OpenShift
10 9 (7.89%) GCP
11 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (7.02%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (7.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (5.26%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) SSL
2 3 (2.63%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (46.49%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.93%) NoSQL
3 17 (14.91%) MongoDB
4 16 (14.04%) SQL Server
5 14 (12.28%) Relational Database
6 13 (11.40%) MySQL
7 12 (10.53%) DynamoDB
8 11 (9.65%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (9.65%) DocumentDB
9 8 (7.02%) Aerospike
9 8 (7.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (3.51%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.51%) Pinecone
12 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.63%) Hazelcast
12 3 (2.63%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (24.56%) GitLab
2 26 (22.81%) Git
2 26 (22.81%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.02%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (6.14%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.26%) JIRA
5 6 (5.26%) JUnit
5 6 (5.26%) Vite
6 5 (4.39%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.63%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.75%) Gatling
8 2 (1.75%) MLflow
9 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.88%) Gradle
9 1 (0.88%) Maven
9 1 (0.88%) Moq
9 1 (0.88%) NUnit
9 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.88%) Serilog
9 1 (0.88%) Snyk
General
1 30 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.44%) Finance
3 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.53%) Banking
5 8 (7.02%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.14%) Front Office
7 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Games
7 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (42.11%) Developer
2 17 (14.91%) Architect
2 17 (14.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (9.65%) Senior
4 10 (8.77%) C# Developer
4 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (7.02%) .NET Developer
5 8 (7.02%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.14%) AWS Developer
6 7 (6.14%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Backend Developer
7 6 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (4.39%) Python Developer
8 5 (4.39%) React Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (40.35%) Kafka
2 32 (28.07%) Node.js
3 29 (25.44%) React
4 24 (21.05%) REST
5 22 (19.30%) RESTful
6 18 (15.79%) OAuth
7 16 (14.04%) Spring
8 15 (13.16%) OAuth2
8 15 (13.16%) Spring Boot
9 14 (12.28%) Keycloak
10 13 (11.40%) .NET
11 12 (10.53%) FastAPI
12 11 (9.65%) AngularJS
13 10 (8.77%) gRPC
13 10 (8.77%) Jest
13 10 (8.77%) OpenID
13 10 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (7.89%) GraphQL
15 8 (7.02%) pytest
15 8 (7.02%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (10.53%) Derivative
4 8 (7.02%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.26%) Replication
6 5 (4.39%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.63%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Life Science
9 1 (0.88%) LIMS
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.65%) Linux
2 2 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (64.04%) CI/CD
2 62 (54.39%) Microservices
3 49 (42.98%) DevOps
4 42 (36.84%) Observability
5 39 (34.21%) Containerisation
6 37 (32.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (21.05%) Agile
7 24 (21.05%) Test Automation
8 20 (17.54%) AI
9 17 (14.91%) Clean Code
9 17 (14.91%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (14.91%) Machine Learning
10 16 (14.04%) Code Quality
10 16 (14.04%) Migration
10 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (12.28%) Design Patterns
11 14 (12.28%) LLM
11 14 (12.28%) Secrets Management
11 14 (12.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (46.49%) Python
2 35 (30.70%) SQL
3 24 (21.05%) Java
4 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 18 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 15 (13.16%) Bash
6 15 (13.16%) C#
7 8 (7.02%) Go
8 7 (6.14%) PHP
9 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.51%) Bicep
10 4 (3.51%) Groovy
11 3 (2.63%) Rust
12 2 (1.75%) Ruby
13 1 (0.88%) Delphi
13 1 (0.88%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 32 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.89%) Degree
4 7 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) NCSC
3 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.51%) NIST
3 4 (3.51%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.51%) WCAG
4 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.75%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.75%) PSD2
4 2 (1.75%) SEPA
5 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Varnish
3 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (50.88%) Kubernetes
2 33 (28.95%) Terraform
3 30 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 27 (23.68%) Grafana
5 16 (14.04%) Argo
6 15 (13.16%) Ansible
7 10 (8.77%) Istio
8 7 (6.14%) linkerd
8 7 (6.14%) Rancher
9 2 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.75%) Knative
10 1 (0.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.77%) Databricks
1 10 (8.77%) Dynatrace
1 10 (8.77%) Splunk
2 9 (7.89%) OpenAI
2 9 (7.89%) VMware
3 6 (5.26%) Adobe
3 6 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.51%) Confluent
4 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.63%) Apple
6 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.75%) Foundry
6 2 (1.75%) MKS
6 2 (1.75%) Oracle
6 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) SAP
7 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.88%) Solace