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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 421 502
Rank change year-on-year -112 +81 +26
Contract jobs citing Redis 122 113 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.56% 2.00% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 89 57
10th Percentile £406 £418 £365
25th Percentile £477 £460 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £699 £750 £625
90th Percentile £788 - £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £458 £483
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.18% +1.58%
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 7,845 5,647 7,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.36% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 3,828 5,379
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 £751 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 100 150
10th Percentile £15.21 £19.56 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.57 £20.82
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.03% -12.53% -29.08%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.94 £53.29
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.31 £31.64 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.92% -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 1 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 1 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 -118 99 £525 -12.50% 102
London -91 62 £575 -14.81% 63
UK excluding London -86 32 £488 +6.67% 47
Work from Home -77 27 £560 +2.75% 44
North of England -64 13 £425 -1.16% 8
South East -66 8 £513 +17.82% 16
Midlands - 7 £700 - 5
Yorkshire - 7 £500 - 1
North East -28 5 £425 -7.61% 2
South West -28 4 £700 +35.92% 6
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 4
East of England - 4 £850 - 6
East Midlands - 3 £393 - 1
North West -39 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 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.64%) MQSeries
2 2 (1.64%) nginx
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.82%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Magento
2 1 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.00%) AWS
2 52 (42.62%) Azure
3 49 (40.16%) GitHub
4 42 (34.43%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (20.49%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.57%) GCP
6 19 (15.57%) Serverless
7 17 (13.93%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (9.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (4.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 6 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.92%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (4.92%) Datadog
12 6 (4.92%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) Firewall
1 2 (1.64%) Internet
2 1 (0.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (51.64%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (31.15%) MongoDB
3 22 (18.03%) Relational Database
4 19 (15.57%) NoSQL
5 18 (14.75%) SQL Server
6 13 (10.66%) MySQL
7 8 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.92%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (4.92%) InterSystems Cache
9 5 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.10%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.46%) Aerospike
11 3 (2.46%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.64%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.64%) Metadata
12 2 (1.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 40 (32.79%) Jenkins
2 33 (27.05%) Git
3 17 (13.93%) GitLab
4 14 (11.48%) JIRA
5 10 (8.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.56%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.92%) Vite
8 4 (3.28%) Gradle
8 4 (3.28%) Maven
8 4 (3.28%) Snyk
9 3 (2.46%) JUnit
9 3 (2.46%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.82%) Gatling
10 1 (0.82%) git-flow
10 1 (0.82%) Moq
10 1 (0.82%) NUnit
10 1 (0.82%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.82%) Serilog
10 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (22.13%) Finance
2 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.20%) Banking
4 10 (8.20%) Front Office
5 8 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Retail
8 3 (2.46%) Marketing
9 2 (1.64%) Law
9 2 (1.64%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (53.28%) Developer
2 21 (17.21%) Senior
3 17 (13.93%) Backend Developer
4 16 (13.11%) Java Developer
5 13 (10.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.84%) Node.js Developer
7 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Architect
9 8 (6.56%) Lead
9 8 (6.56%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.74%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.92%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.92%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.92%) Site Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (4.10%) GCP Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (33.61%) Kafka
1 41 (33.61%) REST
2 31 (25.41%) React
3 30 (24.59%) Node.js
4 22 (18.03%) RESTful
4 22 (18.03%) Spring
5 21 (17.21%) OAuth
6 19 (15.57%) Jest
6 19 (15.57%) Spring Boot
7 17 (13.93%) JWT
8 15 (12.30%) OpenAPI
8 15 (12.30%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (12.30%) Swagger
9 13 (10.66%) .NET
9 13 (10.66%) AngularJS
9 13 (10.66%) OAuth2
10 12 (9.84%) Celery
11 11 (9.02%) FastAPI
11 11 (9.02%) hapi
11 11 (9.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 21 (17.21%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (11.48%) Derivative
4 7 (5.74%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.10%) Replication
6 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.46%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.64%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.02%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (60.66%) CI/CD
2 65 (53.28%) Microservices
3 64 (52.46%) DevOps
4 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (28.69%) Containerisation
5 35 (28.69%) Observability
6 27 (22.13%) Agile
6 27 (22.13%) AI
6 27 (22.13%) Test Automation
7 23 (18.85%) Clean Code
8 21 (17.21%) Software Engineering
9 19 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (14.75%) Event-Driven
10 18 (14.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (13.93%) OWASP
12 16 (13.11%) Code Quality
12 16 (13.11%) Refactoring
13 15 (12.30%) Migration
13 15 (12.30%) Technical Debt
14 14 (11.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (50.82%) Python
2 36 (29.51%) SQL
3 31 (25.41%) Java
4 21 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 19 (15.57%) C#
6 15 (12.30%) JavaScript
7 14 (11.48%) Bash
8 10 (8.20%) Go
9 6 (4.92%) PHP
10 4 (3.28%) Bicep
11 3 (2.46%) Groovy
11 3 (2.46%) Rust
12 2 (1.64%) Elixir
12 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.64%) Ruby
13 1 (0.82%) C
13 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.82%) R
13 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.74%) Degree
3 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) QA
2 7 (5.74%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.28%) WCAG
4 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.82%) HL7
5 1 (0.82%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.82%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.82%) NIST
5 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.82%) PSD2
5 1 (0.82%) SEPA
System Software
1 70 (57.38%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) Varnish
3 2 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (59.84%) Kubernetes
2 36 (29.51%) Terraform
3 27 (22.13%) Grafana
4 26 (21.31%) Prometheus
5 15 (12.30%) Ansible
6 10 (8.20%) Argo
7 5 (4.10%) Rancher
8 3 (2.46%) Istio
9 2 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.82%) Kibana
10 1 (0.82%) linkerd
10 1 (0.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (7.38%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.56%) Google
3 7 (5.74%) Dynatrace
4 6 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.92%) TikTok
5 4 (3.28%) Adobe
5 4 (3.28%) Splunk
6 3 (2.46%) Confluent
6 3 (2.46%) Databricks
6 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.64%) Apple
7 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.64%) Foundry
7 2 (1.64%) MKS
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle
7 2 (1.64%) VMware