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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 425 487
Rank change year-on-year -111 +62 +58
Contract jobs citing Redis 125 125 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.54% 2.09% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 98 66
10th Percentile £413 £409 £350
25th Percentile £469 £426 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £523 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +5.03% -26.30%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £625
90th Percentile £775 - £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +9.89% -4.21% -
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 8,111 5,986 7,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.25% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,361 4,057 5,307
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 100 124
10th Percentile £16.49 £19.56 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.10 £25.94 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £36.25 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -7.64% -28.64%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.63 £54.06
90th Percentile £77.15 £77.62 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £32.50
% change year-on-year +24.84% -2.65% -35.00%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -113 100 £525 -3.67% 69
London -94 64 £575 -7.63% 41
UK excluding London -107 33 £500 +9.89% 37
Work from Home -74 30 £529 +2.72% 26
North of England -66 14 £425 +3.03% 7
Yorkshire -45 8 £500 +28.21% 1
South East -73 7 £513 +17.82% 10
Midlands - 6 £700 - 4
North East -32 5 £425 -7.61% 1
South West -34 4 £700 +35.92% 9
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
East of England - 4 £850 - 4
Scotland -22 2 £525 +2.44%
East Midlands - 2 £407 - 1
North West -50 1 £476 +15.39% 5

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 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.60%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Magento
1 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.80%) AWS
2 58 (46.40%) Azure
3 53 (42.40%) GitHub
4 47 (37.60%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (20.80%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (18.40%) GCP
7 17 (13.60%) Serverless
8 15 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (8.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.20%) Azure AKS
10 9 (7.20%) Datadog
11 8 (6.40%) Amazon S3
11 8 (6.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (5.60%) Snowflake
13 6 (4.80%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Firewall
1 2 (1.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.80%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (56.00%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (32.80%) MongoDB
3 18 (14.40%) Relational Database
3 18 (14.40%) SQL Server
4 16 (12.80%) NoSQL
5 10 (8.00%) MySQL
6 7 (5.60%) InterSystems Cache
7 6 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.00%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.20%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.60%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.60%) Flink
11 2 (1.60%) Metadata
11 2 (1.60%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (30.40%) Jenkins
2 34 (27.20%) Git
3 20 (16.00%) JIRA
4 18 (14.40%) GitLab
5 10 (8.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.40%) TeamCity
7 5 (4.00%) Vite
8 4 (3.20%) Gradle
8 4 (3.20%) Maven
8 4 (3.20%) Snyk
9 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.40%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.40%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.60%) JUnit
11 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.80%) Moq
11 1 (0.80%) NUnit
11 1 (0.80%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (22.40%) Finance
2 25 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.40%) Banking
5 10 (8.00%) Front Office
6 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.20%) Retail
10 3 (2.40%) Legal
10 3 (2.40%) Marketing
11 2 (1.60%) Law
11 2 (1.60%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.80%) Games
12 1 (0.80%) International Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (52.00%) Developer
2 21 (16.80%) Senior
3 18 (14.40%) Backend Developer
4 16 (12.80%) Java Developer
5 13 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Node.js Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.20%) Lead
8 9 (7.20%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.80%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Site Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Front Office Developer
12 5 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (36.00%) REST
2 40 (32.00%) Kafka
3 31 (24.80%) Node.js
4 30 (24.00%) React
5 25 (20.00%) Spring
6 20 (16.00%) RESTful
6 20 (16.00%) Spring Boot
7 19 (15.20%) Jest
7 19 (15.20%) OAuth
8 16 (12.80%) JWT
8 16 (12.80%) OpenAPI
8 16 (12.80%) Swagger
9 14 (11.20%) AngularJS
10 13 (10.40%) .NET
11 12 (9.60%) Celery
11 12 (9.60%) hapi
11 12 (9.60%) OAuth2
11 12 (9.60%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (8.80%) FastAPI
12 11 (8.80%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.20%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.60%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.40%) Derivative
4 8 (6.40%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.00%) Replication
6 4 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (62.40%) CI/CD
2 66 (52.80%) DevOps
3 59 (47.20%) Microservices
4 38 (30.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (28.80%) AI
5 36 (28.80%) Observability
6 35 (28.00%) Containerisation
7 31 (24.80%) Agile
8 26 (20.80%) Test Automation
9 24 (19.20%) Software Engineering
10 23 (18.40%) Clean Code
11 21 (16.80%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (16.00%) Event-Driven
13 17 (13.60%) OWASP
14 16 (12.80%) Refactoring
14 16 (12.80%) Technical Debt
15 15 (12.00%) API Design
15 15 (12.00%) Machine Learning
15 15 (12.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.40%) Python
2 36 (28.80%) SQL
3 35 (28.00%) Java
4 22 (17.60%) TypeScript
5 20 (16.00%) C#
6 14 (11.20%) Bash
7 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.80%) Go
9 5 (4.00%) Bicep
10 4 (3.20%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.40%) Delphi
11 3 (2.40%) Elixir
11 3 (2.40%) Groovy
11 3 (2.40%) PHP
11 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.40%) Ruby
11 3 (2.40%) Rust
12 1 (0.80%) C
12 1 (0.80%) R
12 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.80%) Degree
5 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.80%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) WCAG
4 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.80%) HL7
System Software
1 71 (56.80%) Docker
2 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.80%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 77 (61.60%) Kubernetes
2 37 (29.60%) Terraform
3 29 (23.20%) Prometheus
4 28 (22.40%) Grafana
5 13 (10.40%) Ansible
6 10 (8.00%) Argo
7 5 (4.00%) Rancher
8 3 (2.40%) Istio
9 2 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.60%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.80%) Kibana
10 1 (0.80%) linkerd
Vendors
1 12 (9.60%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.40%) Google
3 7 (5.60%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.60%) TikTok
4 6 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.00%) Foundry
6 4 (3.20%) Okta
7 3 (2.40%) Oracle
7 3 (2.40%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.40%) Splunk
8 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.60%) Confluent
8 2 (1.60%) Databricks
8 2 (1.60%) MKS
8 2 (1.60%) VMware
9 1 (0.80%) Adobe
9 1 (0.80%) Apple
9 1 (0.80%) Checkmarx