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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 435 444
Rank change year-on-year -86 +9 +91
Contract jobs citing Redis 160 119 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.36% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.96% 2.02% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 92 79
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £434 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £478 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.73% -2.50% -24.62%
75th Percentile £638 £741 £623
90th Percentile £751 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.76% +2.78% -10.00%
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 8,183 5,877 7,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 17.97% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,453 3,943 4,930
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
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 92 100
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.21 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.00 £54.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £69.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £33.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.90% +12.93% -44.19%

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 28 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 14 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 28 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 -79 132 £525 +9.83% 240
London -85 83 £550 -4.35% 171
UK excluding London -94 42 £459 -0.76% 107
Work from Home -70 41 £555 +23.33% 117
North of England -63 16 £425 -7.55% 29
Yorkshire -36 11 £575 +47.44% 5
Midlands -39 10 £400 -38.46% 8
East of England -12 8 £425 -10.53% 12
South East -63 6 £513 +17.82% 19
East Midlands - 6 £350 - 3
North East -35 5 £425 -7.61% 9
West Midlands -51 4 £700 +7.69% 5
Scotland -16 2 £525 +5.00% 14
South West - 2 £700 - 16

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 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.88%) Apache
4 2 (1.25%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.25%) nginx
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Magento
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (55.00%) AWS
2 70 (43.75%) GitHub
3 66 (41.25%) Azure
4 61 (38.13%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (20.00%) GCP
6 25 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (11.25%) Serverless
9 15 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (5.63%) AWS KMS
13 9 (5.63%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.63%) Datadog
14 8 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (5.00%) Snowflake
14 8 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.75%) DNS
2 5 (3.13%) 5G
2 5 (3.13%) HTTP
2 5 (3.13%) SSH
2 5 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.50%) 4G
4 2 (1.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (63.13%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (40.63%) MongoDB
3 32 (20.00%) MySQL
4 28 (17.50%) SQL Server
5 25 (15.63%) NoSQL
6 17 (10.63%) Relational Database
7 15 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.38%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.75%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.75%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.75%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.13%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.13%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.50%) Power BI
13 2 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.25%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 47 (29.38%) Git
3 31 (19.38%) GitLab
4 26 (16.25%) JIRA
5 10 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.00%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.13%) Gradle
7 5 (3.13%) Maven
8 4 (2.50%) Mocha
8 4 (2.50%) Selenium
8 4 (2.50%) Snyk
9 3 (1.88%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.88%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.88%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.88%) Vite
10 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.25%) git-flow
10 2 (1.25%) Sinon.JS
11 1 (0.63%) PHPUnit
General
1 41 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.38%) Finance
3 24 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.75%) Banking
5 10 (6.25%) Front Office
5 10 (6.25%) Retail
6 8 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.88%) Law
9 3 (1.88%) Legal
9 3 (1.88%) Marketing
10 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Local Government
10 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) International Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 84 (52.50%) Developer
2 27 (16.88%) Senior
3 22 (13.75%) Java Developer
4 18 (11.25%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.38%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.75%) Node.js Developer
7 13 (8.13%) Lead
8 12 (7.50%) C# Developer
8 12 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (6.88%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) DBA
11 8 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.38%) Administrator
12 7 (4.38%) Architect
12 7 (4.38%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
13 6 (3.75%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.75%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (39.38%) REST
2 53 (33.13%) Kafka
3 51 (31.88%) Terraform
4 36 (22.50%) Spring
5 32 (20.00%) Node.js
6 31 (19.38%) React
6 31 (19.38%) RESTful
7 29 (18.13%) Spring Boot
8 22 (13.75%) CSS
8 22 (13.75%) FastAPI
9 21 (13.13%) Jest
10 20 (12.50%) OAuth
11 18 (11.25%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (10.63%) JWT
12 17 (10.63%) OpenAPI
12 17 (10.63%) Swagger
13 16 (10.00%) AngularJS
13 16 (10.00%) Celery
13 16 (10.00%) HTML
14 14 (8.75%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.75%) Cloud Native
2 27 (16.88%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.13%) Replication
4 12 (7.50%) AI Agents
4 12 (7.50%) Derivative
5 6 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.50%) Autonomous Agent
7 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.88%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.25%) Linux
2 4 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.50%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (66.25%) CI/CD
2 81 (50.63%) DevOps
3 66 (41.25%) Microservices
4 54 (33.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (29.38%) AI
6 46 (28.75%) Agile
6 46 (28.75%) Observability
7 41 (25.63%) Containerisation
8 31 (19.38%) Event-Driven
9 30 (18.75%) Validation
10 29 (18.13%) Test Automation
11 28 (17.50%) Software Engineering
12 26 (16.25%) Clean Code
13 24 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (15.00%) Scrum
14 23 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (13.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 21 (13.13%) OWASP
16 18 (11.25%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 74 (46.25%) Python
2 53 (33.13%) SQL
3 48 (30.00%) Java
4 24 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 23 (14.38%) Bash
6 18 (11.25%) C#
7 15 (9.38%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.00%) Go
9 7 (4.38%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.38%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.75%) Ruby
11 4 (2.50%) PHP
11 4 (2.50%) Rust
12 3 (1.88%) Delphi
12 3 (1.88%) Elixir
12 3 (1.88%) Groovy
12 3 (1.88%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.25%) Bicep
13 2 (1.25%) C
14 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 35 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.25%) Degree
4 9 (5.63%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.13%) QA
2 8 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.50%) WCAG
5 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.63%) HL7
System Software
1 92 (57.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.25%) Varnish
3 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (56.88%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.25%) Grafana
3 32 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.50%) Ansible
5 10 (6.25%) Argo
6 5 (3.13%) Rancher
7 4 (2.50%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.88%) Bosun
8 3 (1.88%) Istio
8 3 (1.88%) Kibana
9 2 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.63%) linkerd
10 1 (0.63%) logstash
10 1 (0.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (6.25%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.38%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.38%) Google
2 7 (4.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.38%) TikTok
3 6 (3.75%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.75%) Splunk
4 5 (3.13%) Databricks
5 4 (2.50%) Okta
6 3 (1.88%) Confluent
6 3 (1.88%) Foundry
6 3 (1.88%) New Relic
6 3 (1.88%) Oracle
6 3 (1.88%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.25%) IBM
7 2 (1.25%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.25%) MKS
7 2 (1.25%) VMware
8 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA