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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 402 519
Rank change year-on-year -88 +117 -55
Contract jobs citing Redis 120 127 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.43% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.75% 2.26% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 92 62
10th Percentile £390 £402 £351
25th Percentile £402 £449 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £622
90th Percentile £764 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £441 £411 £450
% change year-on-year +7.36% -8.72% -5.26%
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 6,844 5,612 7,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.03% 19.07% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,706 3,866 5,144
10th Percentile £350 £351 £341
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £499 £488
% change year-on-year -4.71% +2.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 96 177
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £27.88 £24.06 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.08%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -100 107 £500 -16.67% 153
UK excluding London -66 55 £441 +7.36% 139
London -80 53 £575 -14.81% 37
Work from Home -33 35 £433 -17.62% 93
North of England -45 21 £425 -5.56% 35
Midlands -43 18 £549 +37.13% 20
North West - 14 £420 - 18
South East -52 12 £434 +6.05% 37
West Midlands -52 10 £700 +75.00% 13
South West -20 9 £700 +20.17% 17
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 6
North East -12 4 £425 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire - 4 £625 - 11
Scotland +6 2 £537 +2.29% 7
East of England - 2 - - 17

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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Camunda
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (55.00%) AWS
2 49 (40.83%) Azure
3 44 (36.67%) GitHub
4 36 (30.00%) Serverless
5 35 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (14.17%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (10.83%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (9.17%) Amazon S3
11 11 (9.17%) OpenShift
12 9 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (7.50%) GCP
12 9 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (6.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 6 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.83%) DNS
2 4 (3.33%) Firewall
3 3 (2.50%) SSL
3 3 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) BGP
4 1 (0.83%) DMZ
4 1 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
4 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.83%) VSAN
4 1 (0.83%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (45.00%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (21.67%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.67%) MongoDB
3 14 (11.67%) SQL Server
4 13 (10.83%) DynamoDB
5 12 (10.00%) DocumentDB
5 12 (10.00%) MySQL
6 10 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (6.67%) Aerospike
8 8 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (4.17%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.33%) Delta Lake
10 4 (3.33%) Pinecone
10 4 (3.33%) Weaviate
11 3 (2.50%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.50%) Couchbase
12 2 (1.67%) Hazelcast
12 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (22.50%) GitLab
1 27 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 26 (21.67%) Git
3 7 (5.83%) JIRA
3 7 (5.83%) JUnit
3 7 (5.83%) Octopus Deploy
3 7 (5.83%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.00%) Mocha
4 6 (5.00%) Vite
5 4 (3.33%) MLflow
5 4 (3.33%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.50%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.67%) Gatling
7 2 (1.67%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.83%) Mockito
8 1 (0.83%) Moq
8 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.33%) Finance
3 19 (15.83%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.17%) Banking
5 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.33%) Front Office
7 4 (3.33%) Retail
8 3 (2.50%) Games
9 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 53 (44.17%) Developer
2 18 (15.00%) Architect
3 17 (14.17%) Senior
4 15 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.17%) Backend Developer
6 9 (7.50%) C# Developer
6 9 (7.50%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) AWS Architect
9 6 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Gen AI Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (35.00%) Kafka
2 37 (30.83%) Node.js
3 32 (26.67%) REST
4 30 (25.00%) React
5 18 (15.00%) RESTful
6 16 (13.33%) FastAPI
7 15 (12.50%) gRPC
7 15 (12.50%) Jest
7 15 (12.50%) OAuth
8 14 (11.67%) Keycloak
8 14 (11.67%) Spring Boot
9 13 (10.83%) Spring
10 12 (10.00%) CSS
10 12 (10.00%) GraphQL
10 12 (10.00%) OAuth2
10 12 (10.00%) WebSockets
11 11 (9.17%) Flask
11 11 (9.17%) OpenID
12 10 (8.33%) .NET
12 10 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.33%) Derivative
4 9 (7.50%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.00%) Client/Server
6 5 (4.17%) Replication
7 3 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.50%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.50%) Windows
3 2 (1.67%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 69 (57.50%) Microservices
3 58 (48.33%) DevOps
4 43 (35.83%) Observability
5 40 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 38 (31.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (23.33%) Agile
8 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 18 (15.00%) AI
11 16 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (13.33%) Machine Learning
12 14 (11.67%) Code Quality
12 14 (11.67%) Design Patterns
12 14 (11.67%) Migration
12 14 (11.67%) Secrets Management
13 13 (10.83%) Clean Code
13 13 (10.83%) Open Source
14 12 (10.00%) Data Modelling
14 12 (10.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 56 (46.67%) Python
2 41 (34.17%) SQL
3 22 (18.33%) Java
4 20 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.83%) Bash
5 19 (15.83%) TypeScript
6 14 (11.67%) Go
7 13 (10.83%) C#
8 7 (5.83%) PHP
9 5 (4.17%) Bicep
9 5 (4.17%) Groovy
9 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.33%) Rust
11 1 (0.83%) Delphi
11 1 (0.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (9.17%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.50%) Degree
5 4 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) CCNP
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) QA
2 9 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.83%) WCAG
4 6 (5.00%) NCSC
5 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.17%) NIST
6 4 (3.33%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.67%) GDPR
7 2 (1.67%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.67%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.67%) PSD2
7 2 (1.67%) SEPA
8 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 57 (47.50%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) Varnish
3 3 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 36 (30.00%) Grafana
2 36 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 35 (29.17%) Terraform
4 17 (14.17%) Ansible
5 12 (10.00%) Argo
6 9 (7.50%) Istio
7 7 (5.83%) linkerd
8 6 (5.00%) Rancher
9 2 (1.67%) Knative
9 2 (1.67%) Packer
10 1 (0.83%) Consul
10 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (10.00%) Splunk
2 11 (9.17%) Dynatrace
2 11 (9.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.33%) Databricks
3 10 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 9 (7.50%) VMware
5 8 (6.67%) Google
6 7 (5.83%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.17%) Adobe
8 4 (3.33%) New Relic
8 4 (3.33%) Oracle
8 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.50%) Apple
10 2 (1.67%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.67%) Confluent
10 2 (1.67%) Foundry
10 2 (1.67%) Informatica
10 2 (1.67%) Pega
10 2 (1.67%) Rollbar
10 2 (1.67%) Salesforce