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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 418 504
Rank change year-on-year -27 +86 -50
Contract jobs citing Redis 139 143 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.19% 2.20% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 98 95
10th Percentile £362 £375 £405
25th Percentile £405 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -3.51% -24.00%
75th Percentile £640 £684 £706
90th Percentile £750 £758 £765
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 6,342 6,500 7,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 17.83% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 4,278 5,401
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -0.66% -3.09%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 88 147
10th Percentile £22.84 £18.35 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.88 £23.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -5.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.30 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.18% -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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -18 124 £475 -11.63% 56
UK excluding London -12 67 £450 +10.02% 50
London +6 65 £513 -16.33% 25
Work from Home -6 40 £435 -20.91% 27
North of England -16 33 £438 -5.41% 9
North West -6 23 £450 -5.26% 9
South East -2 13 £435 +6.36% 26
Midlands -26 10 £650 +36.84% 5
West Midlands -19 9 £650 +36.84% 4
Scotland - 8 £537 - 1
Yorkshire - 8 £390 -
South West +8 7 £650 - 3
North East -6 3 - -
East of England -22 3 £475 +26.67% 6
East Midlands - 1 £402 - 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 (4.32%) Confluence
2 5 (3.60%) CMS
3 4 (2.88%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.44%) nginx
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%) 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 63 (45.32%) AWS
2 55 (39.57%) Azure
3 40 (28.78%) GitHub
4 32 (23.02%) Serverless
5 23 (16.55%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (15.11%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (13.67%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (13.67%) OpenShift
8 17 (12.23%) GCP
9 13 (9.35%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (6.47%) AWS Fargate
10 9 (6.47%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (5.04%) Datadog
13 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.60%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (3.60%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.60%) Firewall
2 3 (2.16%) DNS
3 2 (1.44%) SSL
3 2 (1.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) BGP
4 1 (0.72%) DMZ
4 1 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.72%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.72%) STUN
4 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.72%) VSAN
4 1 (0.72%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (58.27%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (20.86%) NoSQL
3 19 (13.67%) SQL Server
4 18 (12.95%) MongoDB
5 14 (10.07%) Relational Database
6 13 (9.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (9.35%) MySQL
7 12 (8.63%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (7.19%) DocumentDB
9 8 (5.76%) DynamoDB
10 7 (5.04%) BigQuery
11 6 (4.32%) Big Data
11 6 (4.32%) Oracle Database
11 6 (4.32%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.88%) Power BI
13 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (2.16%) Couchbase
13 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
14 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (22.30%) Git
2 30 (21.58%) Jenkins
3 19 (13.67%) SonarQube
4 14 (10.07%) GitLab
5 12 (8.63%) 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 23 (16.55%) Public Sector
4 18 (12.95%) Banking
5 14 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.91%) 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 60 (43.17%) 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 11 (7.91%) Python Developer
7 9 (6.47%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.47%) Lead
8 8 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) Technical Architect
9 7 (5.04%) C# Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Lead Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Node.js Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.32%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (37.41%) Kafka
2 39 (28.06%) Node.js
3 31 (22.30%) React
4 27 (19.42%) REST
5 23 (16.55%) HTML
6 22 (15.83%) CSS
7 20 (14.39%) RESTful
8 19 (13.67%) FastAPI
9 17 (12.23%) Keycloak
10 15 (10.79%) Flask
10 15 (10.79%) Spring Boot
11 14 (10.07%) Bootstrap
11 14 (10.07%) GraphQL
12 13 (9.35%) HTML5
12 13 (9.35%) YAML
13 12 (8.63%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (8.63%) Jest
13 12 (8.63%) OAuth
14 11 (7.91%) OAuth2
15 10 (7.19%) Web Services
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%) IoT
10 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.39%) 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 63 (45.32%) DevOps
2 63 (45.32%) Microservices
3 62 (44.60%) Agile
4 49 (35.25%) Containerisation
5 41 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (21.58%) Observability
7 25 (17.99%) Front End Development
7 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (16.55%) SDLC
9 22 (15.83%) TDD
10 21 (15.11%) Mentoring
10 21 (15.11%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (13.67%) BDD
12 18 (12.95%) AI
12 18 (12.95%) Roadmaps
12 18 (12.95%) Software Engineering
13 17 (12.23%) Computer Science
13 17 (12.23%) Scrum
14 16 (11.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.69%) Python
2 45 (32.37%) SQL
3 29 (20.86%) Java
4 25 (17.99%) JavaScript
5 24 (17.27%) Bash
6 18 (12.95%) TypeScript
7 12 (8.63%) C#
8 9 (6.47%) Go
8 9 (6.47%) Groovy
9 5 (3.60%) PHP
9 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.88%) Ruby
11 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.72%) COBOL
12 1 (0.72%) Delphi
12 1 (0.72%) JCL
12 1 (0.72%) Korn
12 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.72%) Scala
12 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.51%) 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 6 (4.32%) 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 16 (11.51%) 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 59 (42.45%) 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 69 (49.64%) 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%) linkerd
9 1 (0.72%) Consul
9 1 (0.72%) Control-M
9 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.72%) Knative
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 11 (7.91%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.76%) Red Hat
6 7 (5.04%) Google
7 5 (3.60%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (3.60%) Gigya
7 5 (3.60%) Informatica
8 4 (2.88%) Confluent
8 4 (2.88%) New Relic
8 4 (2.88%) Pega
8 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.88%) VMware
9 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.44%) Databricks
10 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.44%) Rollbar
10 2 (1.44%) SAP