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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 415 506
Rank change year-on-year -109 +91 +20
Contract jobs citing Redis 116 111 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.54% 2.01% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 52
10th Percentile £400 £421 £375
25th Percentile £446 £460 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £691 £747 £621
90th Percentile £764 £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £469 £490
% change year-on-year -7.78% -4.29% +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 7,550 5,511 7,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.13% 18.76% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,049 3,742 5,323
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £762 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 104 156
10th Percentile £14.60 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.78% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.99 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.31 £78.34 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% -9.60% -40.26%

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 11 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 11 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 -105 100 £519 -14.96% 60
London -96 59 £575 -14.81% 28
UK excluding London -79 36 £433 -7.78% 39
Work from Home -69 30 £500 -6.54% 37
North of England -67 12 £425 -1.16% 9
South East -57 11 £496 +9.07% 17
Midlands - 11 £400 - 2
East Midlands - 7 £393 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 - - 1
North East -24 5 £425 -7.61% 2
South West -21 4 £700 +35.92% 5
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
East of England - 2 £350 - 3
North West -43 1 £476 +19.00% 6

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 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.72%) Apache
2 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.72%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Magento
2 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (52.59%) AWS
2 46 (39.66%) GitHub
3 42 (36.21%) Azure
4 40 (34.48%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (18.10%) Serverless
6 20 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (13.79%) GCP
8 13 (11.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (11.21%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (10.34%) Amazon S3
9 12 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (7.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (6.90%) OpenShift
13 6 (5.17%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (4.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) Firewall
2 2 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (46.55%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (24.14%) MongoDB
3 23 (19.83%) NoSQL
4 19 (16.38%) Relational Database
5 18 (15.52%) SQL Server
6 13 (11.21%) MySQL
7 11 (9.48%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (9.48%) DynamoDB
8 8 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (6.03%) Aerospike
9 7 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (5.17%) Hazelcast
11 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
12 4 (3.45%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.45%) DocumentDB
12 4 (3.45%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.59%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.59%) InterSystems Cache
14 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 35 (30.17%) Jenkins
2 28 (24.14%) Git
3 25 (21.55%) GitLab
4 10 (8.62%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (6.90%) TeamCity
6 6 (5.17%) Vite
7 5 (4.31%) JIRA
7 5 (4.31%) JUnit
8 4 (3.45%) Gradle
8 4 (3.45%) Maven
8 4 (3.45%) Snyk
9 3 (2.59%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.72%) Gatling
11 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.86%) git-flow
11 1 (0.86%) NUnit
11 1 (0.86%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.86%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.86%) Serilog
11 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (24.14%) Finance
2 27 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.62%) Front Office
4 9 (7.76%) Banking
4 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.17%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.59%) Marketing
8 2 (1.72%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (46.55%) Developer
2 16 (13.79%) Senior
3 14 (12.07%) Architect
3 14 (12.07%) Backend Developer
4 13 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) C# Developer
5 12 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 9 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.90%) AWS Architect
8 6 (5.17%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Senior Backend Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.31%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Front Office Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (43.97%) Kafka
2 28 (24.14%) REST
3 26 (22.41%) React
4 24 (20.69%) Node.js
5 23 (19.83%) Spring
6 21 (18.10%) RESTful
7 20 (17.24%) OAuth
7 20 (17.24%) Spring Boot
8 17 (14.66%) OAuth2
9 14 (12.07%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (11.21%) AngularJS
11 12 (10.34%) .NET
11 12 (10.34%) Jest
11 12 (10.34%) JWT
12 11 (9.48%) FastAPI
12 11 (9.48%) Keycloak
13 10 (8.62%) gRPC
13 10 (8.62%) JPA
13 10 (8.62%) Next.js
13 10 (8.62%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (19.83%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (12.93%) Derivative
4 9 (7.76%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.31%) Replication
6 4 (3.45%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.59%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.86%) FMCG
9 1 (0.86%) Life Science
9 1 (0.86%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.03%) Linux
2 1 (0.86%) Unix
2 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 65 (56.03%) Microservices
3 61 (52.59%) DevOps
4 43 (37.07%) Observability
5 41 (35.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (29.31%) Containerisation
7 25 (21.55%) Test Automation
8 23 (19.83%) Agile
9 22 (18.97%) AI
10 17 (14.66%) Clean Code
10 17 (14.66%) Migration
10 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (13.79%) Event-Driven
11 16 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (12.93%) Software Engineering
13 14 (12.07%) Code Quality
13 14 (12.07%) Machine Learning
14 13 (11.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 13 (11.21%) LLM
14 13 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (49.14%) Python
2 38 (32.76%) SQL
3 33 (28.45%) Java
4 18 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.66%) C#
6 16 (13.79%) Bash
7 13 (11.21%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.76%) Go
9 7 (6.03%) PHP
10 4 (3.45%) Bicep
11 3 (2.59%) Groovy
11 3 (2.59%) Rust
12 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.86%) C
13 1 (0.86%) Elixir
13 1 (0.86%) R
13 1 (0.86%) Ruby
13 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.90%) Degree
4 7 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.45%) NIST
2 4 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.45%) WCAG
3 3 (2.59%) NCSC
4 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.72%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.72%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.72%) PSD2
4 2 (1.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 60 (51.72%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Varnish
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (54.31%) Kubernetes
2 38 (32.76%) Terraform
3 33 (28.45%) Prometheus
4 31 (26.72%) Grafana
5 15 (12.93%) Ansible
5 15 (12.93%) Argo
6 9 (7.76%) Istio
7 5 (4.31%) linkerd
7 5 (4.31%) Rancher
8 2 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.86%) Kibana
9 1 (0.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.62%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.90%) Splunk
3 7 (6.03%) Databricks
3 7 (6.03%) Google
3 7 (6.03%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.17%) VMware
5 5 (4.31%) Adobe
6 4 (3.45%) Confluent
6 4 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.59%) Apple
7 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.59%) TikTok
8 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.72%) Foundry
8 2 (1.72%) MKS
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle