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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 416 502
Rank change year-on-year -91 +86 +32
Contract jobs citing Redis 129 113 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.38% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.66% 2.02% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 88 58
10th Percentile £400 £418 £375
25th Percentile £462 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £706 £750 £624
90th Percentile £775 - £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £460 £490
% change year-on-year +2.39% -6.12% +3.16%
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 7,769 5,587 7,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.55% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,172 3,795 5,394
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 96 153
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.57 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -12.53% -30.43%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.52% -4.12% -40.00%

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 25 June 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 14 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 25 June 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 -114 106 £525 -12.50% 37
London -87 66 £575 -14.81% 14
UK excluding London -97 35 £471 +2.39% 26
Work from Home -71 30 £527 -1.50% 19
North of England -63 13 £425 -1.16% 4
Midlands - 10 £424 - 2
South East -64 8 £513 +15.17% 13
Yorkshire - 7 £500 - 1
East Midlands - 6 £393 - 1
North East -31 5 £425 -7.61% 1
South West -42 4 £700 +35.92% 2
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
East of England - 4 £850 - 5
North West -39 1 £476 +19.00% 2

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 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.55%) Apache
2 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.55%) MQSeries
2 2 (1.55%) nginx
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Magento
2 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.94%) AWS
2 53 (41.09%) GitHub
3 52 (40.31%) Azure
4 46 (35.66%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (19.38%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (17.05%) Serverless
7 19 (14.73%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (14.73%) GCP
8 14 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (10.08%) Amazon S3
10 12 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.20%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (4.65%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (4.65%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) DNS
2 2 (1.55%) Firewall
2 2 (1.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (51.16%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (28.68%) MongoDB
3 23 (17.83%) NoSQL
3 23 (17.83%) Relational Database
4 18 (13.95%) SQL Server
5 17 (13.18%) MySQL
6 12 (9.30%) DynamoDB
7 11 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (6.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.65%) Aerospike
10 6 (4.65%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (3.88%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.88%) Hazelcast
12 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.10%) DocumentDB
12 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.33%) Delta Lake
14 2 (1.55%) Metadata
14 2 (1.55%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 44 (34.11%) Jenkins
2 34 (26.36%) Git
3 22 (17.05%) GitLab
4 13 (10.08%) JIRA
5 10 (7.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.20%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.65%) Vite
8 5 (3.88%) JUnit
9 4 (3.10%) Gradle
9 4 (3.10%) Maven
9 4 (3.10%) Snyk
10 3 (2.33%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.78%) Gatling
11 1 (0.78%) git-flow
11 1 (0.78%) Moq
11 1 (0.78%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.78%) Serilog
11 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (23.26%) Finance
2 28 (21.71%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.75%) Banking
4 10 (7.75%) Front Office
5 8 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.10%) Retail
9 3 (2.33%) Marketing
10 2 (1.55%) Law
10 2 (1.55%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (51.16%) Developer
2 22 (17.05%) Senior
3 17 (13.18%) Backend Developer
4 16 (12.40%) Java Developer
5 14 (10.85%) Architect
6 13 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) C# Developer
8 11 (8.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.53%) Node.js Developer
9 8 (6.20%) AWS Architect
9 8 (6.20%) Lead
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.65%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Site Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (37.21%) Kafka
2 43 (33.33%) REST
3 32 (24.81%) React
4 31 (24.03%) Node.js
5 25 (19.38%) RESTful
5 25 (19.38%) Spring
6 24 (18.60%) OAuth
7 22 (17.05%) Spring Boot
8 20 (15.50%) Jest
9 17 (13.18%) JWT
10 16 (12.40%) OAuth2
10 16 (12.40%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (10.85%) OpenAPI
11 14 (10.85%) Swagger
12 13 (10.08%) .NET
12 13 (10.08%) AngularJS
13 12 (9.30%) Celery
14 11 (8.53%) FastAPI
14 11 (8.53%) Next.js
15 10 (7.75%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 40 (31.01%) Cloud Native
2 25 (19.38%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (11.63%) Derivative
4 8 (6.20%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.88%) Replication
6 4 (3.10%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.10%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.33%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.33%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Linux
2 4 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.10%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (62.79%) CI/CD
2 73 (56.59%) Microservices
3 69 (53.49%) DevOps
4 42 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (30.23%) Observability
6 36 (27.91%) Containerisation
7 30 (23.26%) Agile
7 30 (23.26%) Test Automation
8 27 (20.93%) AI
9 24 (18.60%) Clean Code
10 21 (16.28%) Event-Driven
10 21 (16.28%) Software Engineering
11 20 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (14.73%) Code Quality
12 19 (14.73%) Migration
12 19 (14.73%) OWASP
13 18 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (12.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 15 (11.63%) Machine Learning
15 15 (11.63%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (48.84%) Python
2 39 (30.23%) SQL
3 36 (27.91%) Java
4 21 (16.28%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.95%) C#
6 16 (12.40%) JavaScript
7 14 (10.85%) Bash
8 9 (6.98%) Go
9 7 (5.43%) PHP
10 4 (3.10%) Bicep
11 3 (2.33%) Groovy
11 3 (2.33%) Rust
12 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.78%) C
13 1 (0.78%) Elixir
13 1 (0.78%) R
13 1 (0.78%) Ruby
13 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.20%) Degree
4 7 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.08%) QA
2 7 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.10%) NIST
3 4 (3.10%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.10%) WCAG
4 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) HL7
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.78%) PSD2
5 1 (0.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 73 (56.59%) Docker
2 5 (3.88%) Varnish
3 2 (1.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (58.91%) Kubernetes
2 40 (31.01%) Terraform
3 28 (21.71%) Grafana
3 28 (21.71%) Prometheus
4 15 (11.63%) Ansible
5 10 (7.75%) Argo
6 5 (3.88%) Rancher
7 4 (3.10%) Istio
8 2 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.78%) Kibana
9 1 (0.78%) linkerd
9 1 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (6.98%) Google
1 9 (6.98%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.20%) Dynatrace
3 6 (4.65%) Databricks
3 6 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.65%) TikTok
4 5 (3.88%) Adobe
5 4 (3.10%) Splunk
6 3 (2.33%) Apple
6 3 (2.33%) Confluent
6 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.55%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.55%) Foundry
7 2 (1.55%) MKS
7 2 (1.55%) Oracle
7 2 (1.55%) VMware