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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 428 468
Rank change year-on-year -100 +40 +55
Contract jobs citing Redis 147 127 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.39% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.80% 2.14% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 98 75
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £469 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -0.25% -23.85%
75th Percentile £638 £747 £625
90th Percentile £763 £750 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £470 £463
% change year-on-year +9.04% +1.62% -2.63%
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 8,180 5,941 7,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,466 3,998 4,956
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £606 £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 93 100
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £27.11 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -40.00%

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 19 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 19 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 -109 121 £550 +11.39% 130
London -80 78 £550 -4.35% 92
UK excluding London -84 37 £513 +9.04% 50
Work from Home -86 36 £550 +16.09% 59
North of England -76 16 £425 -7.55% 11
Yorkshire -35 11 £575 +47.44% 1
East of England -21 7 £425 -10.53% 10
South East -76 6 £513 +17.82% 11
Midlands - 6 £700 - 2
North East -34 5 £425 -7.61% 4
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 2
South West -42 3 £700 +35.92% 8
Scotland -20 2 £525 +2.44% 6
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 6 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.04%) Apache
4 2 (1.36%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.36%) nginx
4 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
1 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (53.74%) AWS
2 64 (43.54%) GitHub
3 63 (42.86%) Azure
4 55 (37.41%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (21.09%) GCP
6 25 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (13.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (9.52%) Serverless
10 9 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (6.12%) AWS KMS
10 9 (6.12%) Azure AKS
10 9 (6.12%) Datadog
11 8 (5.44%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (5.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (5.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.76%) Snowflake
13 6 (4.08%) Akamai
13 6 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) DNS
2 3 (2.04%) 5G
2 3 (2.04%) HTTP
2 3 (2.04%) SSH
2 3 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.36%) 4G
3 2 (1.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (61.90%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (41.50%) MongoDB
3 27 (18.37%) SQL Server
4 23 (15.65%) MySQL
5 22 (14.97%) NoSQL
6 17 (11.56%) Relational Database
7 15 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (8.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.76%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (4.08%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.40%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.72%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.72%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
12 4 (2.72%) Power BI
13 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.36%) Data Vault
14 2 (1.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 48 (32.65%) Jenkins
2 43 (29.25%) Git
3 29 (19.73%) GitLab
4 26 (17.69%) JIRA
5 10 (6.80%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (5.44%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.44%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.40%) Gradle
7 5 (3.40%) Maven
8 4 (2.72%) Snyk
9 3 (2.04%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.04%) Spinnaker
9 3 (2.04%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.04%) Vite
10 2 (1.36%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.36%) git-flow
10 2 (1.36%) Mocha
10 2 (1.36%) Selenium
11 1 (0.68%) JUnit
11 1 (0.68%) PHPUnit
General
1 38 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.77%) Finance
3 24 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.52%) Banking
5 10 (6.80%) Front Office
6 9 (6.12%) Retail
7 8 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.08%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.04%) Law
10 3 (2.04%) Legal
10 3 (2.04%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.36%) Local Government
11 2 (1.36%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.68%) Games
12 1 (0.68%) International Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (54.42%) Developer
2 28 (19.05%) Senior
3 22 (14.97%) Java Developer
4 19 (12.93%) Backend Developer
5 14 (9.52%) Node.js Developer
6 13 (8.84%) Python Developer
7 12 (8.16%) C# Developer
7 12 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (7.48%) Lead
9 10 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) DBA
10 8 (5.44%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Administrator
12 6 (4.08%) Architect
12 6 (4.08%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (40.14%) REST
2 50 (34.01%) Kafka
3 34 (23.13%) Spring
4 31 (21.09%) React
5 30 (20.41%) Node.js
6 29 (19.73%) RESTful
7 27 (18.37%) Spring Boot
8 21 (14.29%) Jest
9 20 (13.61%) OAuth
10 17 (11.56%) JWT
10 17 (11.56%) OpenAPI
10 17 (11.56%) Swagger
11 16 (10.88%) AngularJS
11 16 (10.88%) CSS
11 16 (10.88%) RabbitMQ
12 14 (9.52%) FastAPI
12 14 (9.52%) hapi
13 12 (8.16%) Flask
13 12 (8.16%) GraphQL
13 12 (8.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 26 (17.69%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.84%) Derivative
3 13 (8.84%) Replication
4 12 (8.16%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.72%) Autonomous Agent
7 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.72%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.20%) Linux
2 4 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.72%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (69.39%) CI/CD
2 75 (51.02%) DevOps
3 65 (44.22%) Microservices
4 52 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (30.61%) AI
6 42 (28.57%) Agile
6 42 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 42 (28.57%) Observability
7 29 (19.73%) Event-Driven
8 28 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 27 (18.37%) Software Engineering
9 27 (18.37%) Validation
10 25 (17.01%) Clean Code
11 24 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (14.29%) OWASP
14 20 (13.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 20 (13.61%) Scrum
15 17 (11.56%) LLM
15 17 (11.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 65 (44.22%) Python
2 49 (33.33%) SQL
3 44 (29.93%) Java
4 23 (15.65%) TypeScript
5 19 (12.93%) Bash
6 18 (12.24%) C#
7 15 (10.20%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.44%) Go
9 6 (4.08%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.40%) Ruby
10 5 (3.40%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.72%) PHP
11 4 (2.72%) Rust
12 3 (2.04%) Delphi
12 3 (2.04%) Elixir
12 3 (2.04%) Groovy
12 3 (2.04%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.36%) Bicep
14 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (29.25%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) AWS Certification
3 9 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (6.12%) Degree
4 8 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.16%) QA
2 8 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.72%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.68%) HL7
System Software
1 84 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.36%) Varnish
3 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (61.22%) Kubernetes
2 50 (34.01%) Terraform
3 32 (21.77%) Prometheus
4 31 (21.09%) Grafana
5 12 (8.16%) Ansible
6 10 (6.80%) Argo
7 5 (3.40%) Rancher
8 4 (2.72%) Kustomize
9 3 (2.04%) Bosun
9 3 (2.04%) Istio
10 2 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.68%) Kibana
11 1 (0.68%) linkerd
Vendors
1 10 (6.80%) OpenAI
2 8 (5.44%) Google
3 7 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.76%) TikTok
4 6 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.40%) Splunk
6 4 (2.72%) Databricks
6 4 (2.72%) Okta
7 3 (2.04%) Foundry
7 3 (2.04%) New Relic
7 3 (2.04%) Oracle
7 3 (2.04%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.36%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.36%) Confluent
8 2 (1.36%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.36%) MKS
8 2 (1.36%) VMware
9 1 (0.68%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.68%) NVIDIA