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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 397 516
Rank change year-on-year -114 +119 -37
Contract jobs citing Redis 114 124 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.43% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.60% 2.26% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 91 63
10th Percentile £394 £400 £362
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £619
90th Percentile £763 £750 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £434 £409 £463
% change year-on-year +6.05% -11.57% -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 7,115 5,488 7,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.93% 18.90% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,895 3,814 5,164
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £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 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -2.06% -0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 100 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.72 £14.04
25th Percentile £32.19 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.63 £55.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £29.80 £39.25
% change year-on-year +67.79% -24.08% -28.64%

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 1 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 1 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 98 £500 -16.67% 55
UK excluding London -78 50 £434 +6.05% 38
London -100 49 £594 -12.04% 30
Work from Home -52 34 £433 -8.95% 38
North of England -54 20 £425 -5.56% 12
Midlands -57 15 £402 +0.50% 4
South East -58 12 £435 +6.36% 14
North West -31 11 £420 +5.00% 10
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 1
West Midlands -52 7 £700 +75.00% 3
South West -28 6 £700 +20.17% 2
North East -11 5 £425 -6.59%
Yorkshire - 5 £625 - 2
Scotland +8 2 £537 +2.29% 2
East of England - 1 - - 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 6 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Drupal
3 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 67 (58.77%) AWS
2 45 (39.47%) Azure
3 40 (35.09%) GitHub
4 33 (28.95%) Serverless
5 30 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (14.91%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (12.28%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (9.65%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (9.65%) OpenShift
10 10 (8.77%) Amazon S3
10 10 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (8.77%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (7.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (6.14%) GCP
14 5 (4.39%) Amazon SageMaker
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 51 (44.74%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (22.81%) NoSQL
3 15 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
4 13 (11.40%) MySQL
4 13 (11.40%) Relational Database
5 12 (10.53%) DynamoDB
6 11 (9.65%) DocumentDB
7 10 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (7.02%) Aerospike
10 7 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (4.39%) Data Lake
12 4 (3.51%) Delta Lake
12 4 (3.51%) Pinecone
13 3 (2.63%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.63%) Weaviate
14 2 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.75%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 24 (21.05%) Git
1 24 (21.05%) GitLab
1 24 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (5.26%) JUnit
3 6 (5.26%) Mocha
3 6 (5.26%) Vite
4 5 (4.39%) JIRA
4 5 (4.39%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.39%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.51%) MLflow
6 3 (2.63%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.75%) Gatling
8 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
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 30 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.68%) Finance
3 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.65%) Banking
5 7 (6.14%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.39%) Front Office
7 4 (3.51%) Retail
8 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Games
9 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (42.98%) Developer
2 16 (14.04%) Architect
2 16 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (14.04%) Senior
3 10 (8.77%) C# Developer
4 7 (6.14%) .NET Developer
4 7 (6.14%) Backend Developer
4 7 (6.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (6.14%) Python Developer
5 6 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (5.26%) AWS Architect
5 6 (5.26%) AWS Developer
5 6 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.26%) Technical Architect
6 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (4.39%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (4.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (4.39%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (35.96%) Kafka
2 34 (29.82%) Node.js
3 29 (25.44%) React
4 26 (22.81%) REST
5 21 (18.42%) RESTful
6 16 (14.04%) OAuth
7 15 (13.16%) FastAPI
7 15 (13.16%) Keycloak
8 14 (12.28%) Jest
8 14 (12.28%) Spring Boot
9 13 (11.40%) OAuth2
9 13 (11.40%) Spring
10 12 (10.53%) gRPC
11 11 (9.65%) .NET
11 11 (9.65%) CSS
11 11 (9.65%) GraphQL
12 10 (8.77%) HTML
12 10 (8.77%) OpenID
13 9 (7.89%) Flask
13 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%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.65%) Linux
2 2 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (64.04%) CI/CD
2 65 (57.02%) Microservices
3 53 (46.49%) DevOps
4 43 (37.72%) Observability
5 39 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (32.46%) Containerisation
7 25 (21.93%) Agile
8 22 (19.30%) Test Automation
9 20 (17.54%) AI
10 17 (14.91%) Machine Learning
10 17 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.04%) Code Quality
12 14 (12.28%) Clean Code
12 14 (12.28%) Design Patterns
12 14 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (12.28%) Migration
12 14 (12.28%) Secrets Management
13 13 (11.40%) Data Modelling
14 12 (10.53%) LLM
14 12 (10.53%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 53 (46.49%) Python
2 36 (31.58%) SQL
3 21 (18.42%) Java
4 20 (17.54%) JavaScript
5 19 (16.67%) Bash
5 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 14 (12.28%) C#
7 10 (8.77%) Go
8 7 (6.14%) PHP
9 5 (4.39%) Groovy
9 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.51%) Bicep
11 3 (2.63%) Rust
12 2 (1.75%) Ruby
13 1 (0.88%) Delphi
13 1 (0.88%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 31 (27.19%) 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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.26%) WCAG
4 5 (4.39%) NCSC
5 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.51%) NIST
5 4 (3.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.75%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.75%) PSD2
6 2 (1.75%) SEPA
7 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 54 (47.37%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Varnish
3 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (45.61%) Kubernetes
2 35 (30.70%) Terraform
3 31 (27.19%) Grafana
3 31 (27.19%) Prometheus
4 15 (13.16%) Ansible
5 12 (10.53%) Argo
6 9 (7.89%) Istio
7 7 (6.14%) linkerd
7 7 (6.14%) Rancher
8 2 (1.75%) Knative
8 2 (1.75%) Packer
9 1 (0.88%) Consul
9 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.77%) Databricks
2 10 (8.77%) Splunk
3 9 (7.89%) OpenAI
4 8 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.02%) VMware
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
8 3 (2.63%) Oracle
9 2 (1.75%) Confluent
9 2 (1.75%) Foundry
9 2 (1.75%) New Relic
9 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.88%) Informatica
10 1 (0.88%) SAP
10 1 (0.88%) Solace