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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 419 449
Rank change year-on-year -112 +30 +83
Contract jobs citing Redis 143 126 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.75% 2.12% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 97 75
10th Percentile £400 £385 £350
25th Percentile £472 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -1.52% -23.85%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £625
90th Percentile £763 - £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £465 £463
% change year-on-year +10.22% +0.54% -2.63%
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 8,177 5,951 7,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,463 4,003 4,956
10th Percentile £358 £341 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 93 100
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.11 £27.11 £19.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -39.74%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -127 117 £550 +12.82% 45
London -80 75 £550 -4.35% 19
Work from Home -71 36 £550 +16.09% 31
UK excluding London -103 36 £513 +10.22% 35
North of England -76 16 £425 -3.90% 10
Yorkshire -36 11 £575 +47.44% 1
East of England -17 7 £425 -10.53% 3
South East -80 6 £513 +17.82% 9
North East -35 5 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands - 5 £700 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
South West -40 3 £700 +35.92% 8
Scotland -17 2 £525 +2.44% 1
East Midlands - 1 £447 -

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 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.10%) Apache
4 2 (1.40%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.40%) nginx
4 2 (1.40%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Magento
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (53.85%) AWS
2 62 (43.36%) GitHub
3 59 (41.26%) Azure
4 54 (37.76%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (20.98%) GCP
6 24 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (13.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (10.49%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (9.09%) Serverless
11 9 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (6.29%) AWS KMS
11 9 (6.29%) Azure AKS
11 9 (6.29%) Datadog
12 8 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (4.90%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (4.90%) Snowflake
14 6 (4.20%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 6 (4.20%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) DNS
2 3 (2.10%) 5G
2 3 (2.10%) HTTP
2 3 (2.10%) SSH
2 3 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.40%) 4G
3 2 (1.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (62.94%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (40.56%) MongoDB
3 25 (17.48%) SQL Server
4 23 (16.08%) MySQL
5 20 (13.99%) NoSQL
6 17 (11.89%) Relational Database
7 15 (10.49%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (8.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.90%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (4.20%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.50%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.80%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.80%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
13 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.10%) Power BI
14 2 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.40%) Data Vault
14 2 (1.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 46 (32.17%) Jenkins
2 41 (28.67%) Git
3 28 (19.58%) GitLab
4 25 (17.48%) JIRA
5 10 (6.99%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (5.59%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.20%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.50%) Gradle
8 5 (3.50%) Maven
9 4 (2.80%) Snyk
10 3 (2.10%) Claude Code
10 3 (2.10%) Spinnaker
10 3 (2.10%) Terragrunt
10 3 (2.10%) Vite
11 2 (1.40%) git-flow
11 2 (1.40%) Selenium
12 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.70%) JUnit
12 1 (0.70%) PHPUnit
General
1 37 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.68%) Finance
3 23 (16.08%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.79%) Banking
5 10 (6.99%) Front Office
6 8 (5.59%) Retail
7 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.20%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.10%) Law
9 3 (2.10%) Legal
9 3 (2.10%) Marketing
9 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.40%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Games
11 1 (0.70%) International Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Local Government
11 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (54.55%) Developer
2 28 (19.58%) Senior
3 22 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 19 (13.29%) Backend Developer
5 14 (9.79%) Node.js Developer
6 12 (8.39%) C# Developer
6 12 (8.39%) Python Developer
6 12 (8.39%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.69%) Lead
8 10 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) DBA
9 8 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.90%) Administrator
11 6 (4.20%) GCP Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (39.86%) REST
2 48 (33.57%) Kafka
3 33 (23.08%) Spring
4 29 (20.28%) Node.js
4 29 (20.28%) React
5 27 (18.88%) RESTful
6 26 (18.18%) Spring Boot
7 20 (13.99%) Jest
8 18 (12.59%) OAuth
9 17 (11.89%) OpenAPI
9 17 (11.89%) Swagger
10 16 (11.19%) JWT
10 16 (11.19%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (9.79%) AngularJS
11 14 (9.79%) CSS
11 14 (9.79%) FastAPI
11 14 (9.79%) hapi
12 12 (8.39%) .NET
13 11 (7.69%) Flask
13 11 (7.69%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.57%) Cloud Native
2 26 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.09%) Derivative
3 13 (9.09%) Replication
4 11 (7.69%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.20%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.80%) Autonomous Agent
7 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.10%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.40%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.79%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (68.53%) CI/CD
2 72 (50.35%) DevOps
3 63 (44.06%) Microservices
4 51 (35.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (30.07%) AI
6 41 (28.67%) Containerisation
6 41 (28.67%) Observability
7 40 (27.97%) Agile
8 28 (19.58%) Event-Driven
8 28 (19.58%) Test Automation
9 27 (18.88%) Software Engineering
9 27 (18.88%) Validation
10 25 (17.48%) Clean Code
11 22 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (13.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 20 (13.99%) OWASP
13 18 (12.59%) Scrum
14 16 (11.19%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (11.19%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (44.76%) Python
2 48 (33.57%) SQL
3 43 (30.07%) Java
4 20 (13.99%) TypeScript
5 18 (12.59%) Bash
5 18 (12.59%) C#
6 13 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.59%) Go
8 6 (4.20%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.50%) Ruby
10 4 (2.80%) PHP
10 4 (2.80%) Rust
10 4 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.10%) Delphi
11 3 (2.10%) Elixir
11 3 (2.10%) Groovy
11 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (28.67%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) AWS Certification
3 9 (6.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (6.29%) Degree
4 8 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.99%) QA
2 8 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.80%) WCAG
5 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.70%) HL7
System Software
1 81 (56.64%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.40%) Varnish
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (60.84%) Kubernetes
2 50 (34.97%) Terraform
3 32 (22.38%) Prometheus
4 30 (20.98%) Grafana
5 12 (8.39%) Ansible
6 10 (6.99%) Argo
7 5 (3.50%) Rancher
8 4 (2.80%) Kustomize
9 3 (2.10%) Bosun
9 3 (2.10%) Istio
10 2 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.70%) Kibana
11 1 (0.70%) linkerd
11 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (6.29%) OpenAI
2 8 (5.59%) Google
3 7 (4.90%) TikTok
4 6 (4.20%) Dynatrace
4 6 (4.20%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.80%) Databricks
5 4 (2.80%) Okta
5 4 (2.80%) Splunk
6 3 (2.10%) Foundry
6 3 (2.10%) New Relic
6 3 (2.10%) Oracle
6 3 (2.10%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.40%) Confluent
7 2 (1.40%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.40%) MKS
7 2 (1.40%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.70%) NVIDIA