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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 428 467
Rank change year-on-year -100 +39 +54
Contract jobs citing Redis 136 127 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.66% 2.12% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 97 69
10th Percentile £400 £398 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% - -23.08%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £625
90th Percentile £763 - £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.37% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £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 8,174 6,000 7,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.30% 18.26% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,438 4,054 4,984
10th Percentile £356 £341 £350
25th Percentile £417 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £655
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 92 101
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.71 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% - -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.75 £62.44 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.30 £78.58 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -102 110 £525 +1.94% 157
London -86 73 £550 -8.33% 113
Work from Home -75 35 £527 +10.25% 74
UK excluding London -103 33 £476 +2.37% 54
North of England -72 14 £425 -3.95% 16
Yorkshire -34 8 £500 +28.21% 3
East of England -15 7 £425 -10.53% 4
South East -73 6 £513 +17.82% 13
North East -38 5 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
South West -33 3 £700 +35.92% 12
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 3
Scotland -16 2 £525 +2.44% 1
North West -48 1 £476 +0.21% 11
East Midlands - 1 £447 -

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%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.21%) Apache
4 2 (1.47%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.47%) nginx
4 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Magento
1 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (51.47%) AWS
2 58 (42.65%) GitHub
3 57 (41.91%) Azure
4 50 (36.76%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (19.12%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (19.12%) GCP
6 16 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (11.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (10.29%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (10.29%) Serverless
9 9 (6.62%) Azure AKS
9 9 (6.62%) Datadog
10 8 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.88%) Snowflake
11 7 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (4.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 6 (4.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) DNS
2 3 (2.21%) 5G
2 3 (2.21%) HTTP
2 3 (2.21%) SSH
2 3 (2.21%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.47%) 4G
3 2 (1.47%) Internet
4 1 (0.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (58.82%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 19 (13.97%) NoSQL
3 19 (13.97%) SQL Server
4 17 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 16 (11.76%) MySQL
6 9 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (5.15%) InterSystems Cache
8 6 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (4.41%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.68%) Delta Lake
9 5 (3.68%) Hazelcast
10 4 (2.94%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.94%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.21%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.47%) Flink
12 2 (1.47%) Metadata
12 2 (1.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (30.88%) Jenkins
2 40 (29.41%) Git
3 25 (18.38%) GitLab
4 23 (16.91%) JIRA
5 10 (7.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (5.88%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.41%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.94%) Gradle
8 4 (2.94%) Maven
8 4 (2.94%) Snyk
8 4 (2.94%) Vite
9 3 (2.21%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.21%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.47%) git-flow
10 2 (1.47%) Selenium
10 2 (1.47%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.74%) Moq
11 1 (0.74%) PHPUnit
General
1 31 (22.79%) Finance
1 31 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.03%) Banking
4 10 (7.35%) Front Office
5 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.88%) Retail
7 7 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.41%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.21%) Law
9 3 (2.21%) Legal
9 3 (2.21%) Marketing
9 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.47%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) International Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 75 (55.15%) Developer
2 24 (17.65%) Senior
3 20 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 19 (13.97%) Backend Developer
5 13 (9.56%) Node.js Developer
6 12 (8.82%) C# Developer
6 12 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Lead
8 10 (7.35%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.41%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (4.41%) Site Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (37.50%) REST
2 45 (33.09%) Kafka
3 30 (22.06%) Spring
4 29 (21.32%) Node.js
5 27 (19.85%) React
6 26 (19.12%) RESTful
7 23 (16.91%) Spring Boot
8 20 (14.71%) Jest
9 18 (13.24%) OAuth
10 16 (11.76%) JWT
10 16 (11.76%) OpenAPI
10 16 (11.76%) Swagger
11 15 (11.03%) RabbitMQ
12 14 (10.29%) FastAPI
13 13 (9.56%) .NET
13 13 (9.56%) AngularJS
13 13 (9.56%) hapi
14 12 (8.82%) CSS
15 11 (8.09%) Celery
15 11 (8.09%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 37 (27.21%) Cloud Native
2 26 (19.12%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.56%) Derivative
4 8 (5.88%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.15%) Replication
6 6 (4.41%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.94%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.47%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (66.18%) CI/CD
2 71 (52.21%) DevOps
3 59 (43.38%) Microservices
4 45 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (29.41%) AI
5 40 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 39 (28.68%) Agile
7 38 (27.94%) Observability
8 28 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 25 (18.38%) Event-Driven
10 24 (17.65%) Clean Code
10 24 (17.65%) Software Engineering
11 23 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (14.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 18 (13.24%) OWASP
14 18 (13.24%) Validation
15 17 (12.50%) Scrum
16 16 (11.76%) Refactoring
16 16 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (48.53%) Python
2 43 (31.62%) SQL
3 39 (28.68%) Java
4 20 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.97%) C#
6 18 (13.24%) Bash
7 13 (9.56%) JavaScript
8 9 (6.62%) Go
9 6 (4.41%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.94%) Bicep
10 4 (2.94%) PHP
10 4 (2.94%) Ruby
10 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.21%) Delphi
11 3 (2.21%) Elixir
11 3 (2.21%) Groovy
11 3 (2.21%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.21%) Rust
12 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) Degree
4 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.62%) QA
2 7 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.74%) HL7
System Software
1 79 (58.09%) Docker
2 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.47%) Varnish
3 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (60.29%) Kubernetes
2 43 (31.62%) Terraform
3 31 (22.79%) Prometheus
4 28 (20.59%) Grafana
5 13 (9.56%) Ansible
6 9 (6.62%) Argo
7 5 (3.68%) Rancher
8 3 (2.21%) Bosun
8 3 (2.21%) Istio
9 2 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.47%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.74%) Kibana
10 1 (0.74%) linkerd
Vendors
1 9 (6.62%) OpenAI
2 8 (5.88%) Google
3 7 (5.15%) TikTok
4 6 (4.41%) Dynatrace
4 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.68%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.94%) Foundry
6 4 (2.94%) Okta
7 3 (2.21%) Databricks
7 3 (2.21%) New Relic
7 3 (2.21%) Oracle
7 3 (2.21%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.21%) Splunk
8 2 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.47%) Confluent
8 2 (1.47%) MKS
8 2 (1.47%) VMware
9 1 (0.74%) Adobe
9 1 (0.74%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA