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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 405 516
Rank change year-on-year -99 +111 -31
Contract jobs citing Redis 114 126 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.43% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.57% 2.27% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 94 64
10th Percentile £395 £402 £359
25th Percentile £413 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £613
90th Percentile £771 £750 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £413 £463
% change year-on-year +5.45% -10.81% -2.63%
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 & 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 7,260 5,550 7,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.92% 18.97% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,004 3,852 5,139
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £488
% change year-on-year -2.81% +0.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 105 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.77 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -29.76%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.85 £77.00 £71.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% -36.36%

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 April 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 April 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 -121 97 £513 -14.58% 55
UK excluding London -90 50 £435 +5.45% 38
London -99 48 £613 -9.26% 30
Work from Home -42 33 £433 -9.23% 38
North of England -58 18 £425 -5.56% 12
Midlands - 15 £402 - 4
South East -62 13 £458 +11.86% 14
North West -26 9 £400 - 10
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £700 - 3
South West -30 6 £700 +20.17% 2
North East -14 5 £425 -6.59%
Yorkshire - 5 £625 - 2
Scotland +7 2 £537 +2.29% 2
East of England - 2 - - 1

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 4 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.51%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) CMS
2 1 (0.88%) Drupal
2 1 (0.88%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (59.65%) AWS
2 43 (37.72%) Azure
3 39 (34.21%) GitHub
4 31 (27.19%) Serverless
5 29 (25.44%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (14.91%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (14.91%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (9.65%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (9.65%) OpenShift
9 10 (8.77%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.77%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (7.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (6.14%) GCP
13 6 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) SSL
2 3 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (22.81%) NoSQL
3 15 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
4 14 (12.28%) MySQL
4 14 (12.28%) Relational Database
5 12 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (10.53%) DynamoDB
6 11 (9.65%) DocumentDB
7 9 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (7.02%) Aerospike
9 7 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (3.51%) Pinecone
11 3 (2.63%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.63%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.75%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 25 (21.93%) GitLab
2 24 (21.05%) Git
2 24 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (5.26%) JUnit
4 6 (5.26%) Mocha
4 6 (5.26%) Vite
5 5 (4.39%) JIRA
5 5 (4.39%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.39%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.63%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.75%) Gatling
7 2 (1.75%) MLflow
8 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.88%) Moq
8 1 (0.88%) NUnit
8 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.88%) Serilog
General
1 28 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.68%) Finance
3 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.65%) Banking
5 7 (6.14%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.39%) Front Office
7 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Games
8 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (42.11%) Developer
2 17 (14.91%) Architect
2 17 (14.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (14.04%) Senior
4 10 (8.77%) C# Developer
5 8 (7.02%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.14%) .NET Developer
6 7 (6.14%) Python Developer
7 6 (5.26%) AWS Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Backend Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (4.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (4.39%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (38.60%) Kafka
2 33 (28.95%) Node.js
3 29 (25.44%) React
4 25 (21.93%) REST
5 22 (19.30%) RESTful
6 17 (14.91%) OAuth
7 16 (14.04%) Keycloak
8 15 (13.16%) Spring Boot
9 14 (12.28%) FastAPI
9 14 (12.28%) OAuth2
9 14 (12.28%) Spring
10 13 (11.40%) Jest
11 12 (10.53%) GraphQL
11 12 (10.53%) gRPC
12 11 (9.65%) .NET
12 11 (9.65%) CSS
13 10 (8.77%) Flask
13 10 (8.77%) HTML
13 10 (8.77%) OpenID
14 9 (7.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.77%) Derivative
4 8 (7.02%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.26%) Client/Server
6 5 (4.39%) Replication
7 3 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.63%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.88%) Life Science
9 1 (0.88%) LIMS
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (64.91%) CI/CD
2 65 (57.02%) Microservices
3 52 (45.61%) DevOps
4 42 (36.84%) Observability
5 38 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (31.58%) Containerisation
7 26 (22.81%) Agile
8 22 (19.30%) Test Automation
9 18 (15.79%) AI
10 17 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.04%) Code Quality
12 15 (13.16%) Machine Learning
13 14 (12.28%) Clean Code
13 14 (12.28%) Design Patterns
13 14 (12.28%) Migration
13 14 (12.28%) Secrets Management
14 13 (11.40%) Data Modelling
14 13 (11.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (10.53%) GitOps
15 12 (10.53%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 52 (45.61%) Python
2 34 (29.82%) SQL
3 21 (18.42%) Java
4 20 (17.54%) JavaScript
5 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 17 (14.91%) Bash
7 14 (12.28%) C#
8 10 (8.77%) Go
9 7 (6.14%) PHP
10 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.39%) Groovy
12 4 (3.51%) Bicep
13 3 (2.63%) Rust
14 2 (1.75%) Ruby
15 1 (0.88%) Delphi
15 1 (0.88%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 30 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 8 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.39%) NCSC
3 5 (4.39%) WCAG
4 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.51%) NIST
4 4 (3.51%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.75%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.75%) PSD2
5 2 (1.75%) SEPA
6 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (46.49%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Varnish
3 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (46.49%) Kubernetes
2 34 (29.82%) Terraform
3 32 (28.07%) Prometheus
4 30 (26.32%) Grafana
5 16 (14.04%) Ansible
6 15 (13.16%) Argo
7 9 (7.89%) Istio
8 8 (7.02%) Rancher
9 7 (6.14%) linkerd
10 2 (1.75%) Knative
10 2 (1.75%) Packer
11 1 (0.88%) Consul
11 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Splunk
2 10 (8.77%) Databricks
2 10 (8.77%) Dynatrace
3 9 (7.89%) OpenAI
3 9 (7.89%) VMware
4 8 (7.02%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.14%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.26%) Adobe
6 6 (5.26%) Google
7 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.63%) Apple
9 2 (1.75%) Confluent
9 2 (1.75%) Foundry
9 2 (1.75%) Oracle
9 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.88%) SAP
10 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.88%) Solace