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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 434 448
Rank change year-on-year -81 +14 +67
Contract jobs citing Redis 159 125 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.94% 2.09% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 97 82
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% -7.32% -21.15%
75th Percentile £605 £650 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -8.49% +3.33% -10.00%
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 8,189 5,967 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.12% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,468 3,995 4,734
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 93 86
10th Percentile £16.35 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.88 £29.33 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.50 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -45.21%

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 16 September 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 13 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 16 September 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 -125 127 £525 +10.24% 368
London -88 80 £550 +7.32% 263
Work from Home -59 43 £550 +22.22% 164
UK excluding London -105 38 £426 -8.49% 146
North of England -77 16 £426 -6.48% 38
Yorkshire -37 12 £575 +47.44% 6
East of England -15 8 £425 -10.53% 22
Midlands -40 7 £350 -46.15% 11
South East -73 5 £569 +30.75% 26
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
North East -36 4 £425 -7.61% 10
Scotland -27 2 £525 +5.00% 21
West Midlands -53 2 £575 -11.54% 10

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 7 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.14%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.89%) Apache
5 2 (1.26%) Confluence
5 2 (1.26%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Magento
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (58.49%) AWS
2 68 (42.77%) GitHub
3 65 (40.88%) Azure
4 59 (37.11%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (21.38%) GCP
6 21 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (10.06%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.81%) Serverless
10 12 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.66%) AWS KMS
12 9 (5.66%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.66%) Datadog
12 9 (5.66%) Snowflake
13 8 (5.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 8 (5.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (5.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.40%) DNS
2 6 (3.77%) 5G
2 6 (3.77%) HTTP
2 6 (3.77%) SSH
2 6 (3.77%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (65.41%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (43.40%) MongoDB
3 34 (21.38%) MySQL
4 27 (16.98%) NoSQL
5 24 (15.09%) SQL Server
6 17 (10.69%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (10.06%) Relational Database
8 13 (8.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.40%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.40%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.77%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.77%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.14%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.14%) Power BI
11 5 (3.14%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.89%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.26%) Metadata
14 1 (0.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 51 (32.08%) Git
2 49 (30.82%) Jenkins
3 34 (21.38%) GitLab
4 27 (16.98%) JIRA
5 8 (5.03%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.40%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.14%) Gradle
7 5 (3.14%) Maven
7 5 (3.14%) Mocha
7 5 (3.14%) Selenium
7 5 (3.14%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.52%) Snyk
8 4 (2.52%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.89%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.26%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.26%) git-flow
10 2 (1.26%) Sinon.JS
11 1 (0.63%) RhodeCode
11 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.61%) Finance
3 24 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.55%) Banking
5 11 (6.92%) Retail
6 9 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.40%) Front Office
7 7 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.89%) Law
9 3 (1.89%) Legal
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
9 3 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Local Government
10 2 (1.26%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) International Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (50.31%) Developer
2 27 (16.98%) Senior
3 25 (15.72%) Java Developer
4 16 (10.06%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.43%) Lead
6 14 (8.81%) Node.js Developer
6 14 (8.81%) Python Developer
7 13 (8.18%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.55%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.66%) C# Developer
10 9 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (5.03%) DBA
12 7 (4.40%) Administrator
12 7 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (42.14%) REST
2 57 (35.85%) Kafka
3 56 (35.22%) Terraform
4 38 (23.90%) Spring
5 36 (22.64%) RESTful
6 31 (19.50%) Spring Boot
7 28 (17.61%) Node.js
7 28 (17.61%) React
8 21 (13.21%) FastAPI
8 21 (13.21%) Jest
9 20 (12.58%) CSS
9 20 (12.58%) OAuth
10 19 (11.95%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (10.69%) HTML
11 17 (10.69%) JWT
11 17 (10.69%) OpenAPI
11 17 (10.69%) Swagger
12 15 (9.43%) Django
13 14 (8.81%) hapi
14 13 (8.18%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.64%) Cloud Native
2 26 (16.35%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.81%) Replication
4 10 (6.29%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.66%) Derivative
6 6 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.14%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.14%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.26%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.32%) Linux
2 5 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.52%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (68.55%) CI/CD
2 83 (52.20%) DevOps
3 61 (38.36%) Microservices
4 60 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (31.45%) Agile
5 50 (31.45%) Observability
6 47 (29.56%) AI
7 42 (26.42%) Containerisation
8 37 (23.27%) Event-Driven
9 32 (20.13%) Software Engineering
9 32 (20.13%) Test Automation
10 31 (19.50%) Validation
11 25 (15.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 23 (14.47%) Clean Code
12 23 (14.47%) Scrum
13 22 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (13.21%) OWASP
14 21 (13.21%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (11.32%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 72 (45.28%) Python
2 51 (32.08%) Java
3 50 (31.45%) SQL
4 27 (16.98%) Bash
5 21 (13.21%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.43%) C#
6 15 (9.43%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.03%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.40%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.40%) Ruby
9 5 (3.14%) Go
9 5 (3.14%) Rust
10 4 (2.52%) Groovy
10 4 (2.52%) PHP
11 3 (1.89%) Delphi
11 3 (1.89%) Elixir
12 2 (1.26%) C
12 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.63%) Bicep
13 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (6.29%) Degree
4 9 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.81%) QA
2 9 (5.66%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.52%) WCAG
4 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.63%) HL7
System Software
1 92 (57.86%) Docker
2 3 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.26%) Varnish
4 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (57.23%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.38%) Grafana
3 32 (20.13%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.55%) Ansible
5 9 (5.66%) Argo
6 5 (3.14%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.14%) Rancher
7 4 (2.52%) Bosun
7 4 (2.52%) Kibana
8 3 (1.89%) Istio
9 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.63%) logstash
10 1 (0.63%) Packer
10 1 (0.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (5.03%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.40%) Google
2 7 (4.40%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.40%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.40%) TikTok
3 5 (3.14%) Databricks
3 5 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.14%) Oracle
3 5 (3.14%) Splunk
4 4 (2.52%) New Relic
4 4 (2.52%) Okta
5 3 (1.89%) Confluent
5 3 (1.89%) Foundry
5 3 (1.89%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (1.89%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.26%) IBM
6 2 (1.26%) MKS
7 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.63%) VMware