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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 421 435
Rank change year-on-year -85 +14 +83
Contract jobs citing Redis 167 132 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 2.20% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 99 80
10th Percentile £400 £373 £363
25th Percentile £425 £418 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% -7.32% -21.15%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £641
90th Percentile £688 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +2.83% +2.22% -14.29%
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 8,143 6,000 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.83% 18.17% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,419 4,004 4,561
10th Percentile £352 £339 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 85 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.58 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £38.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +10.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £33.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.11% +12.93% -42.86%

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 October 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 13 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 October 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 -103 133 £533 +12.11% 318
London -77 85 £534 +0.47% 223
Work from Home -70 46 £550 +22.22% 127
UK excluding London -114 39 £473 +2.83% 116
North of England -73 15 £500 +11.11% 21
Yorkshire -27 11 £575 +47.44% 2
East of England -19 7 £425 -10.53% 23
Midlands -44 7 £350 -46.15% 13
South East -68 6 £613 +40.80% 27
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 3
Scotland -25 4 £475 -5.00% 9
North East - 4 £425 - 2
West Midlands -52 2 £575 -11.54% 10

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 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.40%) Confluence
4 3 (1.80%) Apache
4 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.80%) nginx
5 2 (1.20%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.20%) Traefik
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Trello
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (59.28%) AWS
2 71 (42.51%) Azure
3 70 (41.92%) GitHub
4 58 (34.73%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (22.16%) GCP
6 24 (14.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (13.77%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (10.18%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (10.18%) Serverless
9 14 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (7.78%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.59%) AWS KMS
13 10 (5.99%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 10 (5.99%) Azure AKS
13 10 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (5.39%) Datadog
14 9 (5.39%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (5.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) DNS
2 6 (3.59%) 5G
2 6 (3.59%) HTTP
2 6 (3.59%) SSH
2 6 (3.59%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.99%) 4G
4 2 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.60%) Internet
5 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (65.27%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (45.51%) MongoDB
3 36 (21.56%) MySQL
4 30 (17.96%) NoSQL
5 25 (14.97%) SQL Server
6 20 (11.98%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (8.98%) Amazon Aurora
7 15 (8.98%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.19%) Delta Lake
8 7 (4.19%) DynamoDB
8 7 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.19%) InterSystems Cache
9 6 (3.59%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.59%) Hazelcast
9 6 (3.59%) Power BI
10 5 (2.99%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.80%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 52 (31.14%) Git
2 51 (30.54%) Jenkins
3 36 (21.56%) GitLab
4 32 (19.16%) JIRA
5 10 (5.99%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.59%) Mocha
6 6 (3.59%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (2.99%) Gradle
7 5 (2.99%) Maven
7 5 (2.99%) Selenium
8 4 (2.40%) Snyk
8 4 (2.40%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.40%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.80%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.20%) JMeter
10 2 (1.20%) JUnit
10 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.20%) Sinon.JS
General
1 43 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Finance
2 28 (16.77%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.98%) Banking
4 12 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.59%) Retail
6 9 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.19%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.59%) Front Office
9 5 (2.99%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.80%) Law
10 3 (1.80%) Legal
10 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Local Government
11 2 (1.20%) Marketing
11 2 (1.20%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.60%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (47.90%) Developer
2 30 (17.96%) Senior
3 24 (14.37%) Java Developer
4 17 (10.18%) Python Developer
5 16 (9.58%) Backend Developer
6 14 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (8.38%) Lead
6 14 (8.38%) Node.js Developer
6 14 (8.38%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.99%) DBA
10 9 (5.39%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (4.79%) Administrator
11 8 (4.79%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Architect
12 7 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) C# Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (42.51%) REST
2 64 (38.32%) Terraform
3 63 (37.72%) Kafka
4 37 (22.16%) Spring
5 36 (21.56%) RESTful
6 30 (17.96%) Node.js
6 30 (17.96%) Spring Boot
7 29 (17.37%) React
8 22 (13.17%) Jest
8 22 (13.17%) OAuth
9 21 (12.57%) CSS
10 19 (11.38%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (10.78%) FastAPI
11 18 (10.78%) HTML
11 18 (10.78%) JWT
12 17 (10.18%) OpenAPI
12 17 (10.18%) Swagger
13 16 (9.58%) Django
14 14 (8.38%) hapi
15 13 (7.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.16%) Cloud Native
2 28 (16.77%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (11.38%) Replication
4 10 (5.99%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.79%) Derivative
6 6 (3.59%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.99%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.57%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.40%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.40%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (67.66%) CI/CD
2 86 (51.50%) DevOps
3 65 (38.92%) Microservices
4 64 (38.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (32.34%) Observability
6 53 (31.74%) Agile
7 47 (28.14%) AI
8 44 (26.35%) Containerisation
9 43 (25.75%) Event-Driven
10 37 (22.16%) Validation
11 35 (20.96%) Software Engineering
12 34 (20.36%) Test Automation
13 29 (17.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 25 (14.97%) Scrum
15 23 (13.77%) Clean Code
15 23 (13.77%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (13.17%) Performance Optimisation
17 21 (12.57%) Data Modelling
17 21 (12.57%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 76 (45.51%) Python
2 53 (31.74%) SQL
3 52 (31.14%) Java
4 30 (17.96%) Bash
5 21 (12.57%) TypeScript
6 17 (10.18%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.38%) C#
8 10 (5.99%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.79%) Ruby
10 7 (4.19%) Kotlin
10 7 (4.19%) Rust
11 6 (3.59%) Go
12 4 (2.40%) Groovy
12 4 (2.40%) PHP
13 3 (1.80%) Bicep
13 3 (1.80%) Delphi
14 2 (1.20%) C
14 2 (1.20%) Elixir
14 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (31.14%) Security Cleared
2 41 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.19%) Degree
4 11 (6.59%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.98%) QA
2 13 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.99%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.40%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) HL7
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 96 (57.49%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.60%) Varnish
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 99 (59.28%) Kubernetes
2 42 (25.15%) Grafana
3 36 (21.56%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.78%) Ansible
5 9 (5.39%) Argo
6 5 (2.99%) Kibana
6 5 (2.99%) Kustomize
6 5 (2.99%) Rancher
7 4 (2.40%) Bosun
7 4 (2.40%) Istio
8 2 (1.20%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.20%) Packer
8 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.60%) logstash
9 1 (0.60%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (5.39%) Dynatrace
2 8 (4.79%) Google
2 8 (4.79%) Oracle
2 8 (4.79%) Splunk
3 7 (4.19%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.19%) OpenAI
3 7 (4.19%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.19%) TikTok
4 6 (3.59%) Okta
5 5 (2.99%) Databricks
6 4 (2.40%) New Relic
7 3 (1.80%) Confluent
7 3 (1.80%) Foundry
7 3 (1.80%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (1.80%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.20%) F5
8 2 (1.20%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.20%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) MKS
9 1 (0.60%) Atlassian