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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 439 442
Rank change year-on-year -75 +3 +80
Contract jobs citing Redis 157 124 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.90% 2.08% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 96 82
10th Percentile £400 £385 £363
25th Percentile £425 £423 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% -5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £620 £659 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -7.50%
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 8,280 5,956 6,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.04% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 3,982 4,798
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.90% -2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £745 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 93 86
10th Percentile £16.49 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.96 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.84 £40.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +16.06% -34.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.89% +18.30% -42.86%

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 12 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 12 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 -113 125 £525 +10.53% 198
London -75 79 £550 +7.32% 144
Work from Home -70 41 £550 +22.22% 577
UK excluding London -107 38 £426 -8.00% 85
North of England -73 16 £426 -6.48% 19
Yorkshire -36 12 £575 +47.44% 4
East of England -14 8 £425 -10.53% 12
Midlands -46 7 £350 -46.15% 6
South East -63 5 £569 +30.75% 18
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
North East -42 4 £425 -7.61% 8
Scotland -29 2 £525 +5.00% 16
West Midlands -50 2 £575 -11.54% 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 8 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.55%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.91%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Magento
1 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 91 (57.96%) AWS
2 68 (43.31%) GitHub
3 64 (40.76%) Azure
4 59 (37.58%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (21.66%) GCP
6 21 (13.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (10.19%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (8.92%) Serverless
9 12 (7.64%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.73%) AWS KMS
11 9 (5.73%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.73%) Datadog
11 9 (5.73%) Snowflake
12 8 (5.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) DNS
2 5 (3.18%) 5G
2 5 (3.18%) HTTP
2 5 (3.18%) SSH
2 5 (3.18%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.55%) 4G
4 2 (1.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (64.33%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (42.68%) MongoDB
3 33 (21.02%) MySQL
4 25 (15.92%) NoSQL
5 24 (15.29%) SQL Server
6 17 (10.83%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (10.19%) Relational Database
8 13 (8.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.46%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.46%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.82%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.82%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.18%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.18%) Power BI
11 5 (3.18%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.91%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (31.85%) Git
2 48 (30.57%) Jenkins
3 32 (20.38%) GitLab
4 28 (17.83%) JIRA
5 8 (5.10%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.18%) Gradle
7 5 (3.18%) Maven
7 5 (3.18%) Mocha
7 5 (3.18%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.55%) Selenium
8 4 (2.55%) Snyk
8 4 (2.55%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.91%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.27%) git-flow
10 2 (1.27%) Sinon.JS
11 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.64%) PHPUnit
General
1 39 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.83%) Finance
3 24 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.64%) Banking
5 10 (6.37%) Retail
6 9 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.46%) Front Office
8 6 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.55%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.91%) Law
10 3 (1.91%) Legal
10 3 (1.91%) Marketing
10 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Local Government
11 2 (1.27%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.64%) Games
12 1 (0.64%) International Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 79 (50.32%) Developer
2 27 (17.20%) Senior
3 24 (15.29%) Java Developer
4 16 (10.19%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.55%) Lead
6 14 (8.92%) Node.js Developer
7 13 (8.28%) Python Developer
7 13 (8.28%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.64%) Software Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.73%) C# Developer
10 9 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (5.10%) DBA
12 7 (4.46%) Administrator
12 7 (4.46%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.46%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.46%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.82%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (40.76%) REST
2 54 (34.39%) Kafka
2 54 (34.39%) Terraform
3 37 (23.57%) Spring
4 34 (21.66%) RESTful
5 30 (19.11%) Spring Boot
6 28 (17.83%) Node.js
6 28 (17.83%) React
7 21 (13.38%) Jest
8 20 (12.74%) FastAPI
8 20 (12.74%) OAuth
9 19 (12.10%) CSS
10 18 (11.46%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (10.83%) JWT
11 17 (10.83%) OpenAPI
11 17 (10.83%) Swagger
12 16 (10.19%) HTML
13 15 (9.55%) Django
14 14 (8.92%) hapi
15 13 (8.28%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 25 (15.92%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.92%) Replication
4 10 (6.37%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.73%) Derivative
6 6 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.18%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (3.18%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.18%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.83%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (67.52%) CI/CD
2 80 (50.96%) DevOps
3 59 (37.58%) Microservices
4 57 (36.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (30.57%) Agile
5 48 (30.57%) Observability
6 47 (29.94%) AI
7 40 (25.48%) Containerisation
8 34 (21.66%) Event-Driven
9 32 (20.38%) Software Engineering
10 31 (19.75%) Test Automation
11 30 (19.11%) Validation
12 23 (14.65%) Clean Code
12 23 (14.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 22 (14.01%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (13.38%) OWASP
14 21 (13.38%) Scrum
15 20 (12.74%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (11.46%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 71 (45.22%) Python
2 50 (31.85%) Java
3 48 (30.57%) SQL
4 25 (15.92%) Bash
5 21 (13.38%) TypeScript
6 15 (9.55%) C#
6 15 (9.55%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.46%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.46%) Ruby
7 7 (4.46%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.18%) Go
8 5 (3.18%) Rust
9 4 (2.55%) Groovy
9 4 (2.55%) PHP
10 3 (1.91%) Delphi
10 3 (1.91%) Elixir
11 2 (1.27%) C
11 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.73%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.73%) Degree
5 8 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) QA
2 9 (5.73%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.55%) WCAG
4 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.64%) HL7
System Software
1 90 (57.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.27%) Varnish
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (57.32%) Kubernetes
2 32 (20.38%) Grafana
3 30 (19.11%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.64%) Ansible
5 9 (5.73%) Argo
6 5 (3.18%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.18%) Rancher
7 3 (1.91%) Bosun
7 3 (1.91%) Kibana
8 2 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.27%) Istio
8 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.64%) logstash
9 1 (0.64%) Packer
9 1 (0.64%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (5.10%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.46%) Google
2 7 (4.46%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.46%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.46%) TikTok
3 5 (3.18%) Databricks
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.18%) Splunk
4 4 (2.55%) Okta
4 4 (2.55%) Oracle
5 3 (1.91%) Confluent
5 3 (1.91%) Foundry
5 3 (1.91%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (1.91%) New Relic
5 3 (1.91%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.27%) IBM
6 2 (1.27%) MKS
7 1 (0.64%) SAP
7 1 (0.64%) VMware