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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 412 506
Rank change year-on-year -100 +94 +13
Contract jobs citing Redis 113 107 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.56% 1.94% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 81 53
10th Percentile £399 £425 £378
25th Percentile £413 £460 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +21.21% -31.72%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £588
90th Percentile £765 - £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £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 7,232 5,525 7,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.16% 19.01% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,873 3,790 5,194
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £475
% change year-on-year -1.86% +1.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 97 144
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -32.54%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.75 £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -27.27%

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 15 May 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 14 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 15 May 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 -114 99 £500 -21.57% 51
London -91 52 £575 -15.60% 31
UK excluding London -70 43 £433 -9.52% 24
Work from Home -41 32 £433 -24.29% 28
North of England -50 17 £425 -1.16% 5
Midlands - 13 £400 - 3
South East -53 12 £480 +0.42% 9
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 1
North West -27 7 £476 +19.00% 1
North East -17 5 £425 -7.61% 1
Yorkshire - 5 - - 3
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 2
South West -28 4 £700 +35.92% 3
East of England - 1 - - 1

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 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.77%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (55.75%) AWS
2 46 (40.71%) GitHub
3 37 (32.74%) Azure
4 35 (30.97%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (23.89%) Serverless
6 17 (15.04%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (13.27%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (12.39%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (11.50%) GCP
11 11 (9.73%) Amazon S3
12 10 (8.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (7.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 9 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (7.96%) OpenShift
14 8 (7.08%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (6.19%) Kong
15 7 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (5.31%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) SSL
2 3 (2.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.77%) Firewall
3 2 (1.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (45.13%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (23.01%) NoSQL
3 23 (20.35%) MongoDB
4 18 (15.93%) Relational Database
5 15 (13.27%) SQL Server
6 12 (10.62%) DynamoDB
6 12 (10.62%) MySQL
7 11 (9.73%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (8.85%) DocumentDB
9 8 (7.08%) Aerospike
9 8 (7.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (5.31%) Hazelcast
12 4 (3.54%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.54%) Pinecone
12 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.65%) Weaviate
14 2 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 31 (27.43%) Jenkins
2 30 (26.55%) Git
3 28 (24.78%) GitLab
4 8 (7.08%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (6.19%) TeamCity
6 6 (5.31%) JUnit
6 6 (5.31%) Vite
7 5 (4.42%) JIRA
8 4 (3.54%) Gradle
8 4 (3.54%) Maven
8 4 (3.54%) Snyk
8 4 (3.54%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.65%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.77%) Gatling
10 2 (1.77%) MLflow
11 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.88%) git-flow
11 1 (0.88%) NUnit
11 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.88%) Serilog
General
1 25 (22.12%) Finance
1 25 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.96%) Banking
4 8 (7.08%) Front Office
5 6 (5.31%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Games
6 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.77%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Military
8 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (44.25%) Developer
2 16 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (13.27%) Senior
4 14 (12.39%) Architect
5 11 (9.73%) Backend Developer
6 10 (8.85%) C# Developer
7 9 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.96%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.08%) AWS Architect
9 7 (6.19%) AWS Developer
9 7 (6.19%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) .NET Developer
10 6 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) JavaScript Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (45.13%) Kafka
2 29 (25.66%) Node.js
3 26 (23.01%) React
4 24 (21.24%) REST
5 23 (20.35%) RESTful
6 22 (19.47%) OAuth
7 21 (18.58%) Spring
8 19 (16.81%) OAuth2
9 18 (15.93%) Spring Boot
10 14 (12.39%) Keycloak
11 13 (11.50%) FastAPI
11 13 (11.50%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (9.73%) AngularJS
12 11 (9.73%) JWT
12 11 (9.73%) OpenID
13 10 (8.85%) .NET
13 10 (8.85%) Jest
13 10 (8.85%) JPA
13 10 (8.85%) OpenTelemetry
14 9 (7.96%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.01%) Cloud Native
2 18 (15.93%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (10.62%) Derivative
4 7 (6.19%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.31%) Replication
6 4 (3.54%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.65%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) FMCG
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.88%) Life Science
9 1 (0.88%) LIMS
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (66.37%) CI/CD
2 65 (57.52%) Microservices
3 55 (48.67%) DevOps
4 47 (41.59%) Observability
5 40 (35.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (33.63%) Containerisation
7 25 (22.12%) Test Automation
8 24 (21.24%) Agile
9 21 (18.58%) AI
10 16 (14.16%) Clean Code
10 16 (14.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (14.16%) Migration
10 16 (14.16%) Secrets Management
10 16 (14.16%) Software Engineering
11 15 (13.27%) Code Quality
11 15 (13.27%) Machine Learning
12 14 (12.39%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (12.39%) Event-Driven
12 14 (12.39%) LLM
12 14 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (47.79%) Python
2 36 (31.86%) SQL
3 28 (24.78%) Java
4 18 (15.93%) TypeScript
5 17 (15.04%) JavaScript
6 16 (14.16%) Bash
7 13 (11.50%) C#
8 8 (7.08%) Go
9 6 (5.31%) PHP
10 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.54%) Bicep
11 4 (3.54%) Groovy
12 3 (2.65%) Rust
13 1 (0.88%) C
13 1 (0.88%) Elixir
13 1 (0.88%) R
13 1 (0.88%) Ruby
13 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.19%) Degree
4 7 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.50%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.54%) NCSC
2 4 (3.54%) NIST
2 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.54%) WCAG
3 2 (1.77%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.77%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.77%) PSD2
3 2 (1.77%) SEPA
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (53.10%) Docker
2 5 (4.42%) Varnish
3 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (53.10%) Kubernetes
2 37 (32.74%) Terraform
3 33 (29.20%) Prometheus
4 31 (27.43%) Grafana
5 17 (15.04%) Argo
6 14 (12.39%) Ansible
7 10 (8.85%) Istio
8 7 (6.19%) Rancher
9 6 (5.31%) linkerd
10 2 (1.77%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.77%) Knative
11 1 (0.88%) Kibana
11 1 (0.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.85%) Databricks
1 10 (8.85%) Dynatrace
2 9 (7.96%) OpenAI
2 9 (7.96%) Splunk
3 8 (7.08%) VMware
4 7 (6.19%) Google
5 5 (4.42%) Adobe
5 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.54%) Confluent
6 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.65%) Apple
8 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.77%) Foundry
8 2 (1.77%) MKS
8 2 (1.77%) Oracle
9 1 (0.88%) TikTok