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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 440 460
Rank change year-on-year -91 +20 +75
Contract jobs citing Redis 140 126 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.72% 2.11% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 97 73
10th Percentile £405 £398 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% +2.04% -24.62%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £625
90th Percentile £763 - £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £465 £463
% change year-on-year +4.84% +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 8,158 5,984 7,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.17% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,435 4,045 4,978
10th Percentile £356 £344 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
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 254 91 102
10th Percentile £15.95 £20.75 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.88 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.70 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -38.77%

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 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 11 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 -112 114 £534 +3.64% 158
London -94 76 £550 -8.33% 113
Work from Home -82 36 £529 +10.67% 72
UK excluding London -97 33 £488 +4.84% 55
North of England -72 14 £425 -3.95% 17
Yorkshire -38 9 £500 +28.21% 3
East of England -14 7 £425 -10.53% 4
South East -78 6 £513 +17.82% 12
North East -38 5 £425 -7.61% 3
Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
South West -35 3 £700 +35.92% 14
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 2
Scotland -18 2 £525 +2.44% 2
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 8 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.43%) nginx
4 2 (1.43%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Magento
1 1 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (52.14%) AWS
2 60 (42.86%) GitHub
3 57 (40.71%) Azure
4 52 (37.14%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (19.29%) GCP
6 26 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (12.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (9.29%) Serverless
11 9 (6.43%) Azure AKS
11 9 (6.43%) Datadog
11 9 (6.43%) Snowflake
12 8 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.00%) AWS KMS
13 7 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (4.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 6 (4.29%) Fastly
14 6 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) DNS
2 3 (2.14%) 5G
2 3 (2.14%) HTTP
2 3 (2.14%) SSH
2 3 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.43%) 4G
3 2 (1.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (38.57%) MongoDB
3 23 (16.43%) SQL Server
4 21 (15.00%) MySQL
5 19 (13.57%) NoSQL
6 18 (12.86%) Relational Database
7 13 (9.29%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (5.00%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (4.29%) Data Lake
10 6 (4.29%) Delta Lake
10 6 (4.29%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.57%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
13 3 (2.14%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.14%) Power BI
14 2 (1.43%) Metadata
14 2 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (31.43%) Jenkins
2 40 (28.57%) Git
3 26 (18.57%) GitLab
4 23 (16.43%) JIRA
5 10 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (5.71%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.29%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.57%) Gradle
8 5 (3.57%) Maven
9 4 (2.86%) Snyk
10 3 (2.14%) Claude Code
10 3 (2.14%) Spinnaker
10 3 (2.14%) Terragrunt
10 3 (2.14%) Vite
11 2 (1.43%) git-flow
11 2 (1.43%) Selenium
12 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.71%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.14%) Finance
3 22 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.71%) Banking
5 10 (7.14%) Front Office
6 9 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.71%) Retail
8 7 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.29%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.14%) Law
10 3 (2.14%) Legal
10 3 (2.14%) Marketing
10 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.43%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.71%) Games
12 1 (0.71%) International Banking
12 1 (0.71%) Local Government
12 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (55.00%) Developer
2 27 (19.29%) Senior
3 22 (15.71%) Java Developer
4 19 (13.57%) Backend Developer
5 13 (9.29%) Node.js Developer
6 12 (8.57%) C# Developer
7 11 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) Lead
7 11 (7.86%) Python Developer
7 11 (7.86%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.43%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.29%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.29%) DBA
11 6 (4.29%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (37.14%) REST
2 45 (32.14%) Kafka
3 31 (22.14%) Spring
4 28 (20.00%) Node.js
5 27 (19.29%) React
5 27 (19.29%) RESTful
6 24 (17.14%) Spring Boot
7 20 (14.29%) Jest
8 18 (12.86%) OAuth
9 16 (11.43%) JWT
9 16 (11.43%) OpenAPI
9 16 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (11.43%) Swagger
10 15 (10.71%) FastAPI
11 13 (9.29%) .NET
11 13 (9.29%) AngularJS
11 13 (9.29%) hapi
12 12 (8.57%) CSS
12 12 (8.57%) OAuth2
13 11 (7.86%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.43%) Cloud Native
2 26 (18.57%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.29%) Derivative
4 11 (7.86%) Replication
5 8 (5.71%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.29%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.43%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (67.14%) CI/CD
2 71 (50.71%) DevOps
3 60 (42.86%) Microservices
4 48 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 41 (29.29%) AI
7 40 (28.57%) Agile
7 40 (28.57%) Observability
8 29 (20.71%) Test Automation
9 26 (18.57%) Software Engineering
10 25 (17.86%) Clean Code
10 25 (17.86%) Event-Driven
11 24 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (16.43%) Validation
13 20 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (13.57%) OWASP
15 17 (12.14%) Scrum
16 16 (11.43%) Refactoring
16 16 (11.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.14%) Python
2 49 (35.00%) SQL
3 41 (29.29%) Java
4 20 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.57%) Bash
5 19 (13.57%) C#
6 12 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.71%) Go
8 6 (4.29%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.57%) Ruby
10 4 (2.86%) PHP
10 4 (2.86%) Rust
10 4 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.14%) Bicep
11 3 (2.14%) Delphi
11 3 (2.14%) Elixir
11 3 (2.14%) Groovy
11 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) Degree
4 8 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) Data Quality
1 9 (6.43%) QA
2 7 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.86%) WCAG
4 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.71%) HL7
System Software
1 80 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.43%) Varnish
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 48 (34.29%) Terraform
3 32 (22.86%) Prometheus
4 29 (20.71%) Grafana
5 13 (9.29%) Ansible
6 10 (7.14%) Argo
7 5 (3.57%) Rancher
8 3 (2.14%) Bosun
8 3 (2.14%) Istio
9 2 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.43%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.71%) Kibana
10 1 (0.71%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (5.71%) Google
1 8 (5.71%) OpenAI
2 7 (5.00%) TikTok
3 6 (4.29%) Dynatrace
3 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.86%) Databricks
5 4 (2.86%) Okta
6 3 (2.14%) Foundry
6 3 (2.14%) New Relic
6 3 (2.14%) Oracle
6 3 (2.14%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.14%) Splunk
7 2 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.43%) Confluent
7 2 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.43%) MKS
7 2 (1.43%) VMware
8 1 (0.71%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.71%) NVIDIA