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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 403 504
Rank change year-on-year -59 +101 -70
Contract jobs citing Redis 131 140 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 2.30% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 96 81
10th Percentile £359 £388 £405
25th Percentile £400 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -30.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £683
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £409 £475
% change year-on-year +13.69% -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 6,379 6,088 7,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 18.03% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,400 4,016 5,149
10th Percentile £325 £341 £350
25th Percentile £409 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £701 £769 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 84 139
10th Percentile £20.75 £18.74 £16.51
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.43 £24.21
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.40 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% -36.00% -8.21%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £66.00 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +120.28% -41.02% -5.76%

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 23 December 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 23 December 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 -37 118 £475 -13.64% 234
UK excluding London -28 67 £465 +13.69% 200
London -24 56 £476 -21.44% 54
Work from Home -19 36 £433 -21.36% 158
North of England -17 34 £450 -2.70% 46
North West -6 24 £450 -5.26% 24
South East -19 13 £435 +6.36% 48
Midlands -32 11 £650 +36.84% 34
West Midlands -23 9 £650 +36.84% 17
Yorkshire - 8 £390 - 18
South West -2 7 £650 - 21
Scotland - 6 £537 - 10
North East -9 3 - - 4
East of England -29 3 £475 +26.67% 35
East Midlands - 2 £401 - 15

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 (5.34%) Confluence
2 3 (2.29%) CMS
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Camunda
4 1 (0.76%) CICS
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.76%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Finacle
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (49.62%) AWS
2 52 (39.69%) Azure
3 44 (33.59%) GitHub
4 33 (25.19%) Serverless
5 28 (21.37%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (16.03%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (13.74%) OpenShift
8 16 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (12.21%) GCP
9 13 (9.92%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (6.87%) AWS Fargate
10 9 (6.87%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (5.34%) Datadog
13 6 (4.58%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.82%) PaaS
14 5 (3.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) Firewall
2 3 (2.29%) DNS
2 3 (2.29%) SSL
2 3 (2.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.76%) BGP
3 1 (0.76%) DMZ
3 1 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
3 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.76%) STUN
3 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) VSAN
3 1 (0.76%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (56.49%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (22.90%) NoSQL
3 18 (13.74%) SQL Server
4 17 (12.98%) MongoDB
5 14 (10.69%) Relational Database
6 12 (9.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (9.16%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (9.16%) MySQL
7 11 (8.40%) DocumentDB
8 9 (6.87%) DynamoDB
9 7 (5.34%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.58%) Oracle Database
10 6 (4.58%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (3.05%) Power BI
12 3 (2.29%) Big Data
12 3 (2.29%) Couchbase
12 3 (2.29%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.53%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 32 (24.43%) Git
2 28 (21.37%) Jenkins
3 19 (14.50%) SonarQube
4 18 (13.74%) GitLab
5 13 (9.92%) JIRA
6 10 (7.63%) Maven
7 8 (6.11%) Mocha
8 7 (5.34%) webpack
9 6 (4.58%) JUnit
9 6 (4.58%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (4.58%) Postman
10 5 (3.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (3.82%) Gradle
10 5 (3.82%) Mockito
10 5 (3.82%) REST Assured
10 5 (3.82%) SoapUI
10 5 (3.82%) SonarLint
10 5 (3.82%) Subversion
10 5 (3.82%) Xcode
10 5 (3.82%) XCTest
General
1 54 (41.22%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.72%) Finance
3 24 (18.32%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.45%) Banking
5 11 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.11%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Retail
8 3 (2.29%) Games
9 2 (1.53%) Back Office
9 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.76%) Front Office
10 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Military
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.76%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (41.98%) Developer
2 18 (13.74%) Senior
3 16 (12.21%) Architect
4 15 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.16%) Backend Developer
7 10 (7.63%) Python Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Technical Architect
9 7 (5.34%) C# Developer
9 7 (5.34%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.58%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Lead
10 6 (4.58%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 5 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.35%) Kafka
2 39 (29.77%) Node.js
3 30 (22.90%) React
4 28 (21.37%) REST
5 24 (18.32%) HTML
6 22 (16.79%) CSS
7 19 (14.50%) RESTful
8 18 (13.74%) FastAPI
8 18 (13.74%) Keycloak
9 16 (12.21%) Spring Boot
10 14 (10.69%) Bootstrap
10 14 (10.69%) GraphQL
11 13 (9.92%) Flask
11 13 (9.92%) HTML5
12 12 (9.16%) Jest
13 11 (8.40%) OAuth
14 10 (7.63%) J2EE
14 10 (7.63%) OAuth2
14 10 (7.63%) Spring
14 10 (7.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.34%) Reinsurance
4 6 (4.58%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.58%) Derivative
4 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.82%) N-Tier
5 5 (3.82%) Replication
6 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.29%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Linux
2 6 (4.58%) Unix
3 2 (1.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (52.67%) CI/CD
2 63 (48.09%) Microservices
3 55 (41.98%) DevOps
4 54 (41.22%) Agile
5 49 (37.40%) Containerisation
6 35 (26.72%) Observability
7 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (17.56%) Front End Development
9 23 (17.56%) SDLC
10 19 (14.50%) Mentoring
10 19 (14.50%) TDD
11 18 (13.74%) AI
11 18 (13.74%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (13.74%) Roadmaps
12 16 (12.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (12.21%) Software Engineering
12 16 (12.21%) Test Automation
13 14 (10.69%) BDD
13 14 (10.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (39.69%) Python
2 43 (32.82%) SQL
3 25 (19.08%) Bash
4 24 (18.32%) JavaScript
5 22 (16.79%) Java
6 17 (12.98%) TypeScript
7 12 (9.16%) C#
8 9 (6.87%) Go
8 9 (6.87%) Groovy
9 5 (3.82%) PHP
9 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.05%) Ruby
11 1 (0.76%) Bicep
11 1 (0.76%) COBOL
11 1 (0.76%) JCL
11 1 (0.76%) Korn
11 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Rust
11 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.40%) Degree
4 10 (7.63%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.29%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CCNP
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CISSP
8 1 (0.76%) MCP
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.98%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.16%) QA
3 11 (8.40%) WCAG
4 6 (4.58%) NCSC
5 2 (1.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.76%) NIST
6 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (42.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Varnish
2 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (48.85%) Kubernetes
2 39 (29.77%) Grafana
3 35 (26.72%) Prometheus
4 34 (25.95%) Terraform
5 18 (13.74%) Ansible
6 9 (6.87%) Argo
7 6 (4.58%) Istio
7 6 (4.58%) linkerd
8 5 (3.82%) Rancher
9 3 (2.29%) Kustomize
9 3 (2.29%) Packer
10 2 (1.53%) Knative
11 1 (0.76%) Consul
11 1 (0.76%) Control-M
11 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.76%) Puppet
11 1 (0.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (16.03%) Splunk
2 18 (13.74%) Oracle
3 15 (11.45%) Dynatrace
4 10 (7.63%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.87%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.11%) Google
6 8 (6.11%) VMware
7 5 (3.82%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (3.82%) Gigya
8 4 (3.05%) Databricks
8 4 (3.05%) Informatica
8 4 (3.05%) New Relic
8 4 (3.05%) Pega
8 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.29%) OpenAI
9 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.53%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.53%) Rollbar
10 2 (1.53%) SAP
11 1 (0.76%) Sitecore