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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 426 489
Rank change year-on-year -17 +63 -31
Contract jobs citing Redis 139 140 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.21% 2.19% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 97 93
10th Percentile £360 £375 £406
25th Percentile £402 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -26.67%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £760 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £409 £475
% change year-on-year +10.02% -13.89% -5.00%
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 and Business Intelligence 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 6,292 6,399 7,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.49% 17.93% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 4,223 5,369
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 86 144
10th Percentile £23.10 £18.25 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.92 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.72 £33.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.36% -26.92% -7.44%
75th Percentile £69.25 £55.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.30 £65.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -40.45% +13.38%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -30 124 £475 -13.64% 129
UK excluding London -28 66 £450 +10.02% 129
London -1 65 £513 -16.33% 27
Work from Home -9 39 £435 -20.91% 112
North of England -23 33 £438 -5.41% 32
North West -5 23 £450 -5.26% 22
South East -6 12 £435 +6.36% 40
Midlands -22 10 £650 +36.84% 19
West Midlands -23 9 £650 +36.84% 11
Yorkshire - 8 £390 - 8
Scotland - 8 £537 - 4
South West -1 7 £650 - 10
North East -6 3 - - 3
East of England -20 3 £475 +26.67% 20
East Midlands - 1 £402 - 7

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 (5.04%) Confluence
2 5 (3.60%) CMS
3 4 (2.88%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.72%) Camunda
5 1 (0.72%) CICS
5 1 (0.72%) Drupal
5 1 (0.72%) Gunicorn
5 1 (0.72%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Finacle
1 1 (0.72%) Magento
1 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (46.04%) AWS
2 54 (38.85%) Azure
3 42 (30.22%) GitHub
4 33 (23.74%) Serverless
5 23 (16.55%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (15.11%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (13.67%) OpenShift
8 18 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (12.23%) GCP
10 13 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (6.47%) AWS Fargate
11 9 (6.47%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (5.04%) Datadog
14 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
15 5 (3.60%) PaaS
15 5 (3.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.60%) Firewall
2 3 (2.16%) DNS
2 3 (2.16%) SSL
2 3 (2.16%) VPN
3 1 (0.72%) BGP
3 1 (0.72%) DMZ
3 1 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.72%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.72%) STUN
3 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.72%) VSAN
3 1 (0.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (56.83%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (22.30%) NoSQL
3 19 (13.67%) MongoDB
3 19 (13.67%) SQL Server
4 14 (10.07%) Relational Database
5 13 (9.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (9.35%) MySQL
6 12 (8.63%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (7.91%) DocumentDB
8 8 (5.76%) DynamoDB
9 7 (5.04%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.32%) Big Data
10 6 (4.32%) Oracle Database
10 6 (4.32%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.88%) Power BI
12 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.16%) Couchbase
12 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.16%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (23.02%) Git
2 30 (21.58%) Jenkins
3 19 (13.67%) SonarQube
4 14 (10.07%) GitLab
5 13 (9.35%) JIRA
6 10 (7.19%) Maven
7 8 (5.76%) Mocha
8 7 (5.04%) webpack
9 6 (4.32%) JUnit
9 6 (4.32%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (4.32%) Postman
10 5 (3.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (3.60%) Gradle
10 5 (3.60%) Mockito
10 5 (3.60%) REST Assured
10 5 (3.60%) SoapUI
10 5 (3.60%) SonarLint
10 5 (3.60%) Subversion
10 5 (3.60%) Xcode
10 5 (3.60%) XCTest
General
1 62 (44.60%) Social Skills
2 35 (25.18%) Finance
3 24 (17.27%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.23%) Banking
5 13 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.19%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.88%) Back Office
8 4 (2.88%) Retail
9 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Games
10 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.72%) Front Office
10 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Military
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (42.45%) Developer
2 20 (14.39%) Senior
3 17 (12.23%) Architect
3 17 (12.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.79%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.63%) Backend Developer
6 10 (7.19%) Python Developer
7 8 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (5.76%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.76%) Lead
7 8 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) Technical Architect
8 7 (5.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) C# Developer
8 7 (5.04%) Node.js Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.32%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (37.41%) Kafka
2 40 (28.78%) Node.js
3 30 (21.58%) React
4 27 (19.42%) REST
5 24 (17.27%) HTML
6 22 (15.83%) CSS
7 21 (15.11%) RESTful
8 20 (14.39%) FastAPI
9 17 (12.23%) Keycloak
10 16 (11.51%) Spring Boot
11 15 (10.79%) Flask
12 14 (10.07%) Bootstrap
12 14 (10.07%) GraphQL
13 13 (9.35%) HTML5
13 13 (9.35%) YAML
14 12 (8.63%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (8.63%) Jest
14 12 (8.63%) OAuth
15 11 (7.91%) OAuth2
16 10 (7.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.47%) Replication
4 8 (5.76%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.04%) Reinsurance
6 6 (4.32%) Derivative
7 5 (3.60%) N-Tier
7 5 (3.60%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.44%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.72%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.11%) Linux
2 6 (4.32%) Unix
3 2 (1.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (49.64%) CI/CD
2 65 (46.76%) Microservices
3 61 (43.88%) Agile
3 61 (43.88%) DevOps
4 50 (35.97%) Containerisation
5 40 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (23.02%) Observability
7 25 (17.99%) Front End Development
7 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (16.55%) SDLC
9 21 (15.11%) Mentoring
9 21 (15.11%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (15.11%) TDD
10 19 (13.67%) AI
11 18 (12.95%) BDD
11 18 (12.95%) Roadmaps
12 17 (12.23%) Computer Science
12 17 (12.23%) Scrum
12 17 (12.23%) Software Engineering
13 16 (11.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.69%) Python
2 46 (33.09%) SQL
3 28 (20.14%) Java
4 25 (17.99%) Bash
4 25 (17.99%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.95%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.63%) C#
7 9 (6.47%) Go
7 9 (6.47%) Groovy
8 5 (3.60%) PHP
8 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.88%) Ruby
10 1 (0.72%) COBOL
10 1 (0.72%) Delphi
10 1 (0.72%) JCL
10 1 (0.72%) Korn
10 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.72%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.79%) Degree
4 11 (7.91%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (5.04%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.60%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CISSP
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.23%) Accessibility
2 12 (8.63%) QA
3 11 (7.91%) WCAG
4 3 (2.16%) NCSC
5 2 (1.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.72%) NIST 800
System Software
1 61 (43.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) Varnish
2 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (50.36%) Kubernetes
2 40 (28.78%) Grafana
3 36 (25.90%) Prometheus
4 33 (23.74%) Terraform
5 17 (12.23%) Ansible
6 6 (4.32%) Argo
6 6 (4.32%) Packer
7 5 (3.60%) Kustomize
7 5 (3.60%) Rancher
8 2 (1.44%) Istio
8 2 (1.44%) Knative
8 2 (1.44%) linkerd
9 1 (0.72%) Consul
9 1 (0.72%) Control-M
9 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.72%) Puppet
9 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (14.39%) Splunk
2 19 (13.67%) Oracle
3 14 (10.07%) Dynatrace
4 10 (7.19%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.76%) Google
5 8 (5.76%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.60%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (3.60%) Gigya
6 5 (3.60%) Informatica
7 4 (2.88%) Confluent
7 4 (2.88%) New Relic
7 4 (2.88%) Pega
7 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.88%) VMware
8 3 (2.16%) Databricks
8 3 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.44%) Rollbar
9 2 (1.44%) SAP