Redis Contract Job Trends

Redis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Redis skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 436 519
Rank change year-on-year -2 +83 -32
Contract jobs citing Redis 124 122 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.07% 1.76% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 80 101
10th Percentile £385 £361 £450
25th Percentile £425 £438 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -21.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £633 £725
90th Percentile £750 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
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 6,001 6,913 8,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.24% 17.94% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 4,751 5,858
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.75% -1.36%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 89 156
10th Percentile £21.24 £17.50 £20.94
25th Percentile £29.07 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.95 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.50 £71.95 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.93% -45.45% +57.14%

Redis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Redis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Redis 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +26 111 £476 -4.75% 84
London +23 79 £500 -9.09% 38
Work from Home +33 48 £450 -20.00% 59
UK excluding London +14 39 £470 +4.44% 53
North of England -20 16 £460 -7.07% 23
North West -6 11 £506 +4.92% 17
South East +19 10 £435 -3.33% 13
Scotland - 7 £500 - 1
West Midlands -5 4 £650 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire -10 4 £390 -35.00% 2
Midlands -15 4 £650 +18.18% 7
South West +28 3 £650 +30.00% 4
East of England -8 1 £475 +26.67% 6
North East - 1 £460 - 4
Wales - 1 £455 -

Redis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.45%) CMS
2 4 (3.23%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.61%) Apache
3 2 (1.61%) Camunda
3 2 (1.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.61%) Gunicorn
3 2 (1.61%) nginx
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.81%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.81%) CICS
4 1 (0.81%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.81%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.55%) Azure
2 51 (41.13%) AWS
3 26 (20.97%) GitHub
4 24 (19.35%) Serverless
5 23 (18.55%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.32%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (13.71%) OpenShift
8 16 (12.90%) GCP
9 15 (12.10%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.65%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (5.65%) Firebase
12 6 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.84%) Datadog
13 5 (4.03%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (4.03%) Apigee
13 5 (4.03%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) Firewall
2 2 (1.61%) MQTT
3 1 (0.81%) STUN
3 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (57.26%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (17.74%) SQL Server
3 18 (14.52%) MongoDB
3 18 (14.52%) NoSQL
4 13 (10.48%) Relational Database
5 12 (9.68%) MySQL
6 10 (8.06%) DocumentDB
7 9 (7.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (5.65%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.84%) DynamoDB
10 6 (4.84%) Oracle Database
11 5 (4.03%) Big Data
11 5 (4.03%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (2.42%) Hazelcast
13 2 (1.61%) Pinecone
13 2 (1.61%) Power BI
13 2 (1.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (21.77%) Git
1 27 (21.77%) Jenkins
2 23 (18.55%) SonarQube
3 11 (8.87%) Maven
4 8 (6.45%) JIRA
4 8 (6.45%) JUnit
4 8 (6.45%) Mockito
4 8 (6.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (6.45%) Postman
5 7 (5.65%) webpack
6 6 (4.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.84%) Gradle
6 6 (4.84%) REST Assured
6 6 (4.84%) SoapUI
6 6 (4.84%) Subversion
6 6 (4.84%) Xcode
6 6 (4.84%) XCTest
7 5 (4.03%) SonarLint
8 4 (3.23%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.42%) GitLab
General
1 60 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.03%) Finance
3 27 (21.77%) Banking
4 20 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 19 (15.32%) Investment Banking
6 16 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.65%) Back Office
9 2 (1.61%) Games
9 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Billing
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.81%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (50.00%) Developer
2 19 (15.32%) Java Developer
3 17 (13.71%) Senior
4 16 (12.90%) Lead
5 15 (12.10%) Senior Developer
6 14 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.29%) Lead Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Lead Java Developer
8 11 (8.87%) C# Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Architect
9 10 (8.06%) Backend Developer
10 9 (7.26%) Python Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.84%) JavaScript Engineer
12 6 (4.84%) Technical Architect
13 5 (4.03%) Java Architect
13 5 (4.03%) Java Technical Architect
13 5 (4.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (40.32%) Kafka
2 32 (25.81%) Node.js
2 32 (25.81%) React
3 22 (17.74%) HTML
4 20 (16.13%) CSS
5 18 (14.52%) REST
6 17 (13.71%) RESTful
7 16 (12.90%) Bootstrap
8 14 (11.29%) HTML5
8 14 (11.29%) Spring Boot
8 14 (11.29%) Web Services
9 12 (9.68%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (9.68%) Keycloak
10 11 (8.87%) FastAPI
10 11 (8.87%) Flask
10 11 (8.87%) J2EE
11 10 (8.06%) Swagger
11 10 (8.06%) YAML
12 9 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (7.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.45%) Derivative
4 7 (5.65%) AI Agents
4 7 (5.65%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.65%) Reinsurance
5 5 (4.03%) N-Tier
5 5 (4.03%) Replication
6 4 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.23%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.61%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.61%) IoT
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.29%) Linux
2 7 (5.65%) Unix
3 4 (3.23%) Android
3 4 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (49.19%) Agile
2 56 (45.16%) DevOps
2 56 (45.16%) Microservices
3 47 (37.90%) CI/CD
4 45 (36.29%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (27.42%) Containerisation
6 27 (21.77%) TDD
7 24 (19.35%) Front End Development
8 23 (18.55%) Architectural Design
8 23 (18.55%) BDD
8 23 (18.55%) Mentoring
8 23 (18.55%) SDLC
9 20 (16.13%) Scrum
10 19 (15.32%) Computer Science
11 18 (14.52%) Software Engineering
12 16 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (12.10%) Artificial Intelligence
13 15 (12.10%) Observability
14 14 (11.29%) Unit Testing
14 14 (11.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 40 (32.26%) Java
2 36 (29.03%) Python
3 34 (27.42%) SQL
4 29 (23.39%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.90%) C#
7 15 (12.10%) Bash
8 7 (5.65%) Groovy
9 6 (4.84%) Go
9 6 (4.84%) Shell Script
10 5 (4.03%) Bicep
10 5 (4.03%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.23%) Ruby
12 2 (1.61%) COBOL
12 2 (1.61%) JCL
12 2 (1.61%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) Korn
13 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.81%) Scala
13 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.77%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.32%) Degree
4 12 (9.68%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) QA
2 9 (7.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.03%) WCAG
4 2 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 37 (29.84%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.81%) Varnish
3 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 26 (20.97%) Grafana
3 24 (19.35%) Prometheus
4 23 (18.55%) Terraform
5 10 (8.06%) Ansible
6 5 (4.03%) Kustomize
6 5 (4.03%) Packer
7 3 (2.42%) Argo
8 1 (0.81%) Control-M
8 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.81%) Puppet
8 1 (0.81%) Rancher
8 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (13.71%) Oracle
1 17 (13.71%) Splunk
2 10 (8.06%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.45%) Google
4 6 (4.84%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (4.03%) Gigya
5 5 (4.03%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.23%) Confluent
7 3 (2.42%) Informatica
8 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.61%) Pega
9 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco
9 1 (0.81%) Murex
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.81%) SAP
9 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.81%) Talend
9 1 (0.81%) VMware