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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 431 434
Rank change year-on-year -80 +3 +83
Contract jobs citing Redis 161 128 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.99% 2.13% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 99 81
10th Percentile £400 £383 £363
25th Percentile £428 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% -2.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £602 £669 £638
90th Percentile £704 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -14.29%
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 8,109 6,002 6,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.91% 18.29% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,415 4,021 4,648
10th Percentile £355 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £711 £738 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 85 88
10th Percentile £16.56 £21.09 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.82 £29.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.50 £72.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.53% +18.30% -44.95%

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 28 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 28 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 -106 130 £529 +8.46% 259
London -78 83 £535 -2.73% 172
Work from Home -63 41 £550 +22.22% 112
UK excluding London -98 38 £475 +1.06% 113
North of England -71 15 £500 +11.11% 28
Yorkshire -33 11 £575 +47.44% 4
East of England -14 8 £425 -10.53% 18
Midlands -41 7 £350 -46.15% 12
South East -64 6 £613 +40.80% 22
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 2
North East - 4 £425 - 4
Scotland -31 2 £525 +5.00% 11
West Midlands -48 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.11%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.48%) Apache
3 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.86%) Confluence
5 2 (1.24%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Trello
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Magento
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 97 (60.25%) AWS
2 69 (42.86%) GitHub
3 68 (42.24%) Azure
4 59 (36.65%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (22.36%) GCP
6 22 (13.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (11.18%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (9.32%) Serverless
10 13 (8.07%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 10 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.59%) AWS KMS
12 9 (5.59%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.59%) Datadog
12 9 (5.59%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (5.59%) Snowflake
13 8 (4.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) DNS
2 6 (3.73%) 5G
2 6 (3.73%) HTTP
2 6 (3.73%) SSH
2 6 (3.73%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.11%) 4G
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (65.84%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (44.72%) MongoDB
3 34 (21.12%) MySQL
4 29 (18.01%) NoSQL
5 21 (13.04%) SQL Server
6 19 (11.80%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (8.70%) Relational Database
8 13 (8.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.35%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.35%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.73%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.73%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.11%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.11%) Power BI
11 5 (3.11%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.86%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.24%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.24%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (32.30%) Git
2 50 (31.06%) Jenkins
3 36 (22.36%) GitLab
4 29 (18.01%) JIRA
5 9 (5.59%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.73%) Mocha
6 6 (3.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.11%) Gradle
7 5 (3.11%) Maven
7 5 (3.11%) Selenium
8 4 (2.48%) Snyk
8 4 (2.48%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.48%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.86%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.24%) git-flow
10 2 (1.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.24%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.77%) Finance
3 24 (14.91%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.70%) Banking
5 11 (6.83%) Retail
6 10 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.35%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.73%) Front Office
10 5 (3.11%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.86%) Law
11 3 (1.86%) Legal
11 3 (1.86%) Marketing
11 3 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.24%) Local Government
12 2 (1.24%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.62%) Games
13 1 (0.62%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (49.07%) Developer
2 29 (18.01%) Senior
3 24 (14.91%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.94%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.32%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (8.70%) Lead
6 14 (8.70%) Node.js Developer
7 13 (8.07%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.45%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) C# Developer
11 8 (4.97%) DBA
11 8 (4.97%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Administrator
12 7 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (42.86%) REST
2 61 (37.89%) Kafka
3 60 (37.27%) Terraform
4 37 (22.98%) Spring
5 35 (21.74%) RESTful
6 30 (18.63%) Spring Boot
7 28 (17.39%) Node.js
8 26 (16.15%) React
9 22 (13.66%) Jest
10 21 (13.04%) CSS
11 20 (12.42%) FastAPI
11 20 (12.42%) OAuth
12 19 (11.80%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (11.18%) HTML
14 17 (10.56%) OpenAPI
14 17 (10.56%) Swagger
15 16 (9.94%) Django
15 16 (9.94%) JWT
16 14 (8.70%) Celery
16 14 (8.70%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.36%) Cloud Native
2 27 (16.77%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.70%) Replication
4 10 (6.21%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.97%) Derivative
6 5 (3.11%) Autonomous Agent
6 5 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.11%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.24%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.42%) Linux
2 6 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.48%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.86%) Unix
5 2 (1.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 84 (52.17%) DevOps
3 62 (38.51%) Microservices
4 61 (37.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (31.68%) Agile
6 50 (31.06%) Observability
7 47 (29.19%) AI
8 44 (27.33%) Containerisation
9 40 (24.84%) Event-Driven
10 32 (19.88%) Software Engineering
10 32 (19.88%) Test Automation
10 32 (19.88%) Validation
11 27 (16.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (14.91%) Scrum
13 23 (14.29%) Clean Code
14 22 (13.66%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (13.66%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (13.04%) OWASP
16 19 (11.80%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (45.96%) Python
2 50 (31.06%) Java
2 50 (31.06%) SQL
3 29 (18.01%) Bash
4 20 (12.42%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.32%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.70%) C#
7 9 (5.59%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.35%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.73%) Go
9 6 (3.73%) Ruby
10 5 (3.11%) PHP
10 5 (3.11%) Rust
11 4 (2.48%) Groovy
12 3 (1.86%) Delphi
13 2 (1.24%) C
13 2 (1.24%) Elixir
13 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.62%) Bicep
14 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 37 (22.98%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.83%) Degree
4 10 (6.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (5.59%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.32%) QA
2 9 (5.59%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.48%) WCAG
4 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.62%) HL7
4 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 96 (59.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.24%) Varnish
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (59.01%) Kubernetes
2 37 (22.98%) Grafana
3 34 (21.12%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.07%) Ansible
5 10 (6.21%) Argo
6 5 (3.11%) Kibana
6 5 (3.11%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.11%) Rancher
7 4 (2.48%) Bosun
7 4 (2.48%) Istio
8 2 (1.24%) Packer
8 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.62%) logstash
9 1 (0.62%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (4.97%) Google
2 7 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.35%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.35%) Splunk
2 7 (4.35%) TikTok
3 6 (3.73%) Oracle
4 5 (3.11%) Databricks
4 5 (3.11%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.48%) New Relic
5 4 (2.48%) Okta
6 3 (1.86%) Confluent
6 3 (1.86%) Foundry
6 3 (1.86%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.86%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.24%) IBM
7 2 (1.24%) MKS
8 1 (0.62%) Adobe
8 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.62%) VMware