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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 426 507
Rank change year-on-year -106 +81 +28
Contract jobs citing Redis 120 113 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.36% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.51% 1.94% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 88 57
10th Percentile £413 £418 £350
25th Percentile £479 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £671 £750 £625
90th Percentile £793 - £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +9.29% -3.68% -
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 7,946 5,822 7,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.29% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,243 3,941 5,416
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £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 259 103 153
10th Percentile £15.57 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.38 £20.49
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.67% -34.78%
75th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.52% +5.47% -45.45%

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 7 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 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 7 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 -105 98 £525 -12.50% 78
London -101 62 £575 -14.81% 46
UK excluding London -103 31 £500 +9.29% 40
Work from Home -86 25 £561 -2.01% 37
North of England -58 13 £425 -1.16% 8
South East -67 8 £513 +17.82% 12
Yorkshire - 7 £500 - 2
Midlands - 6 £700 - 4
North East -33 5 £425 -7.61% 1
South West -31 4 £700 +35.92% 7
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
East of England - 4 £850 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £407 - 2
North West -42 1 £476 +19.00% 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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.67%) Apache
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.67%) MQSeries
2 2 (1.67%) nginx
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Magento
2 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (48.33%) AWS
2 51 (42.50%) Azure
3 48 (40.00%) GitHub
4 41 (34.17%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.83%) Serverless
7 18 (15.00%) GCP
8 17 (14.17%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (9.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 9 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (5.83%) Azure AKS
13 7 (5.83%) Datadog
14 6 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 6 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (5.00%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) Firewall
1 2 (1.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.83%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (52.50%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (31.67%) MongoDB
3 21 (17.50%) Relational Database
4 18 (15.00%) NoSQL
4 18 (15.00%) SQL Server
5 12 (10.00%) MySQL
6 8 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (5.00%) InterSystems Cache
8 5 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (4.17%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.17%) DynamoDB
8 5 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (4.17%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.33%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.50%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.67%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.67%) Metadata
11 2 (1.67%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (31.67%) Jenkins
2 32 (26.67%) Git
3 16 (13.33%) GitLab
4 15 (12.50%) JIRA
5 10 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.67%) TeamCity
7 6 (5.00%) Vite
8 4 (3.33%) Gradle
8 4 (3.33%) Maven
8 4 (3.33%) Snyk
9 3 (2.50%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.67%) JUnit
11 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.83%) Moq
11 1 (0.83%) NUnit
11 1 (0.83%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (20.00%) Finance
2 23 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.33%) Front Office
5 9 (7.50%) Banking
6 8 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.33%) Retail
9 3 (2.50%) Marketing
10 2 (1.67%) Law
10 2 (1.67%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.83%) Games
11 1 (0.83%) Legal
11 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (52.50%) Developer
2 20 (16.67%) Senior
3 17 (14.17%) Backend Developer
4 15 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 13 (10.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) C# Developer
6 12 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
7 11 (9.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Lead
8 8 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Architect
9 7 (5.83%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.00%) .NET Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Senior Backend Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Site Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (4.17%) C# Developer - Commodities
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (33.33%) REST
2 39 (32.50%) Kafka
3 30 (25.00%) Node.js
3 30 (25.00%) React
4 21 (17.50%) RESTful
4 21 (17.50%) Spring
5 20 (16.67%) OAuth
6 18 (15.00%) Jest
6 18 (15.00%) Spring Boot
7 17 (14.17%) JWT
8 15 (12.50%) OpenAPI
8 15 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (12.50%) Swagger
9 13 (10.83%) .NET
9 13 (10.83%) AngularJS
10 12 (10.00%) Celery
10 12 (10.00%) OAuth2
11 11 (9.17%) FastAPI
11 11 (9.17%) hapi
11 11 (9.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (28.33%) Cloud Native
2 21 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.83%) Derivative
4 7 (5.83%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.17%) Replication
6 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.67%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.83%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (61.67%) CI/CD
2 64 (53.33%) DevOps
3 62 (51.67%) Microservices
4 37 (30.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 34 (28.33%) Observability
7 29 (24.17%) AI
8 27 (22.50%) Agile
9 25 (20.83%) Test Automation
10 21 (17.50%) Clean Code
10 21 (17.50%) Software Engineering
11 18 (15.00%) Event-Driven
11 18 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (14.17%) OWASP
13 16 (13.33%) Refactoring
13 16 (13.33%) Technical Debt
14 15 (12.50%) Machine Learning
15 14 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (11.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 62 (51.67%) Python
2 35 (29.17%) SQL
3 30 (25.00%) Java
4 20 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 19 (15.83%) C#
6 14 (11.67%) Bash
6 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.17%) Go
8 5 (4.17%) PHP
9 4 (3.33%) Bicep
10 3 (2.50%) Groovy
11 2 (1.67%) Elixir
11 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.67%) Ruby
11 2 (1.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.83%) C
12 1 (0.83%) Delphi
12 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.83%) R
12 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.00%) Degree
5 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) Accessibility
1 7 (5.83%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) WCAG
3 2 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) HL7
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (57.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Varnish
3 2 (1.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (60.83%) Kubernetes
2 35 (29.17%) Terraform
3 26 (21.67%) Grafana
4 25 (20.83%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.67%) Ansible
6 9 (7.50%) Argo
7 5 (4.17%) Rancher
8 3 (2.50%) Istio
9 2 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.83%) Kibana
10 1 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.83%) linkerd
10 1 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 7 (5.83%) Dynatrace
2 7 (5.83%) Google
3 6 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.00%) TikTok
4 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.33%) Splunk
5 3 (2.50%) Adobe
5 3 (2.50%) Foundry
6 2 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.67%) Confluent
6 2 (1.67%) Databricks
6 2 (1.67%) MKS
6 2 (1.67%) Oracle
6 2 (1.67%) VMware
7 1 (0.83%) Apple
7 1 (0.83%) Okta
7 1 (0.83%) PagerDuty