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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 391 501
Rank change year-on-year -80 +110 -81
Contract jobs citing Redis 124 144 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.46% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.94% 2.48% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 100 70
10th Percentile £362 £400 £359
25th Percentile £400 £436 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £647
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £409 £488
% change year-on-year +13.08% -16.10% +5.41%
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 6,380 5,806 7,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.58% 18.44% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,385 3,816 5,079
10th Percentile £333 £355 £350
25th Percentile £411 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 86 180
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.86
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.56 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -17.35% -29.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £28.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +91.97% -28.38% -28.48%

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 29 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 29 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 -86 110 £475 -17.39% 157
UK excluding London -42 64 £463 +13.08% 140
London -61 47 £513 -21.15% 36
Work from Home -20 35 £400 -27.27% 101
North of England -32 31 £463 +2.78% 24
North West - 23 £463 - 10
Midlands -41 16 £650 +36.84% 13
South East -38 11 £433 +5.75% 50
West Midlands -26 10 £650 +36.84% 7
South West -14 8 £675 +3.85% 9
Yorkshire - 6 £501 - 8
East Midlands - 6 £397 - 6
North East -14 3 - - 6
East of England -19 3 £475 +26.67% 30
Scotland - 3 £537 - 6

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 8 (6.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.81%) Camunda
3 1 (0.81%) CMS
3 1 (0.81%) Drupal
3 1 (0.81%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.81%) Mattermost
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Magento
2 1 (0.81%) Finacle
2 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (55.65%) AWS
2 48 (38.71%) Azure
3 45 (36.29%) GitHub
4 36 (29.03%) Serverless
5 33 (26.61%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (18.55%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (13.71%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (12.10%) GCP
8 15 (12.10%) OpenShift
9 13 (10.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (10.48%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (8.87%) Amazon S3
10 11 (8.87%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (7.26%) Route 53
11 9 (7.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (6.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 7 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) DNS
2 5 (4.03%) Firewall
3 3 (2.42%) SSL
3 3 (2.42%) VPN
4 1 (0.81%) BGP
4 1 (0.81%) DMZ
4 1 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.81%) Network Security
4 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.81%) STUN
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) VSAN
4 1 (0.81%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (51.61%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (28.23%) NoSQL
3 18 (14.52%) MySQL
4 17 (13.71%) DynamoDB
5 16 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (11.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (10.48%) DocumentDB
7 13 (10.48%) MongoDB
7 13 (10.48%) Relational Database
8 12 (9.68%) SQL Server
9 8 (6.45%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (4.84%) Aerospike
11 6 (4.84%) RDBMS
12 4 (3.23%) Power BI
13 3 (2.42%) Couchbase
13 3 (2.42%) Hazelcast
13 3 (2.42%) Oracle Database
13 3 (2.42%) Weaviate
14 2 (1.61%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 31 (25.00%) Git
2 30 (24.19%) Jenkins
3 24 (19.35%) GitLab
4 14 (11.29%) SonarQube
5 10 (8.06%) JIRA
6 7 (5.65%) Maven
6 7 (5.65%) Mocha
7 6 (4.84%) JUnit
8 5 (4.03%) Gradle
8 5 (4.03%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (4.03%) SonarLint
9 4 (3.23%) MLflow
10 3 (2.42%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.42%) Postman
11 2 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.61%) Gatling
11 2 (1.61%) Mockito
11 2 (1.61%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.61%) Subversion
11 2 (1.61%) Xcode
General
1 44 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.39%) Finance
3 21 (16.94%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.87%) Banking
5 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.23%) Retail
8 3 (2.42%) Games
9 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Front Office
10 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (45.16%) Developer
2 26 (20.97%) Architect
3 16 (12.90%) Senior
4 14 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) Backend Developer
5 12 (9.68%) Technical Architect
6 10 (8.06%) Python Developer
6 10 (8.06%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Java Architect
8 8 (6.45%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) AWS Architect
9 6 (4.84%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Java Technical Architect
11 4 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.23%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.48%) Kafka
2 35 (28.23%) Node.js
3 29 (23.39%) REST
4 24 (19.35%) RESTful
5 22 (17.74%) React
6 19 (15.32%) Spring Boot
7 16 (12.90%) FastAPI
7 16 (12.90%) Keycloak
8 15 (12.10%) OAuth
9 14 (11.29%) GraphQL
9 14 (11.29%) HTML
9 14 (11.29%) Jest
10 13 (10.48%) CSS
10 13 (10.48%) gRPC
10 13 (10.48%) Spring
11 12 (9.68%) OAuth2
12 11 (8.87%) Flask
12 11 (8.87%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (8.87%) WebSockets
13 10 (8.06%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.45%) Derivative
4 6 (4.84%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.84%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.03%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.03%) Replication
6 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.61%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.81%) PKI
9 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.29%) Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Unix
3 2 (1.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 72 (58.06%) Microservices
3 52 (41.94%) DevOps
4 50 (40.32%) Containerisation
5 39 (31.45%) Observability
6 35 (28.23%) Agile
7 34 (27.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.52%) Design Patterns
10 17 (13.71%) AI
10 17 (13.71%) Test Automation
11 16 (12.90%) Event-Driven
12 15 (12.10%) Clean Code
12 15 (12.10%) Code Quality
12 15 (12.10%) Open Source
12 15 (12.10%) Roadmaps
13 14 (11.29%) Secrets Management
14 13 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (10.48%) Mentoring
14 13 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.35%) Python
2 41 (33.06%) SQL
3 26 (20.97%) Java
4 23 (18.55%) JavaScript
5 22 (17.74%) Bash
6 14 (11.29%) TypeScript
7 12 (9.68%) C#
8 11 (8.87%) Go
9 8 (6.45%) PHP
10 6 (4.84%) Groovy
11 4 (3.23%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.42%) Rust
13 2 (1.61%) Bicep
13 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.81%) Delphi
14 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (8.87%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.06%) Degree
5 6 (4.84%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.42%) MCP
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CCNP
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) Accessibility
1 11 (8.87%) QA
2 9 (7.26%) WCAG
3 6 (4.84%) NCSC
4 5 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.03%) NIST
5 4 (3.23%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.61%) GDPR
6 2 (1.61%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.61%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.61%) PSD2
6 2 (1.61%) SEPA
7 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 61 (49.19%) Docker
2 6 (4.84%) Varnish
3 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (50.81%) Kubernetes
2 37 (29.84%) Grafana
2 37 (29.84%) Prometheus
2 37 (29.84%) Terraform
3 17 (13.71%) Ansible
4 11 (8.87%) Argo
5 8 (6.45%) Istio
6 6 (4.84%) linkerd
7 5 (4.03%) Rancher
8 2 (1.61%) Knative
8 2 (1.61%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) Consul
9 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.81%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (12.10%) Splunk
2 14 (11.29%) Dynatrace
3 11 (8.87%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.26%) Oracle
5 8 (6.45%) Databricks
5 8 (6.45%) Google
5 8 (6.45%) VMware
6 7 (5.65%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.03%) Adobe
7 5 (4.03%) Gigya
8 4 (3.23%) Informatica
8 4 (3.23%) New Relic
8 4 (3.23%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.23%) Pega
8 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.61%) Apple
10 2 (1.61%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.61%) Rollbar
10 2 (1.61%) SAP