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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 416 502
Rank change year-on-year -97 +86 +14
Contract jobs citing Redis 117 109 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 1.96% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 83 58
10th Percentile £399 £409 £368
25th Percentile £407 £453 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -35.59%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £566
90th Percentile £765 £750 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -5.98% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 7,273 5,550 7,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.39% 18.97% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,956 3,833 5,210
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £480
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.88% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 104 143
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.56 £24.06 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.15 £58.62
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.13 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% -25.00% -31.09%

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 May 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 15 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 May 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 -97 98 £500 -16.67% 52
London -81 52 £625 -7.41% 33
UK excluding London -70 45 £433 -5.98% 23
Work from Home -45 35 £466 -11.19% 25
North of England -54 16 £425 -1.16% 3
South East -54 13 £476 +10.07% 10
Midlands - 13 £400 - 6
North West -33 9 £400 - 2
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 4
North East -18 4 £425 -7.61%
South West -28 4 £700 +35.92% 1
Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
Scotland -4 2 £537 +2.29%
East of England - 1 - - 2

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 5 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.71%) Apache
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.71%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.85%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Drupal
4 1 (0.85%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (56.41%) AWS
2 43 (36.75%) GitHub
3 40 (34.19%) Azure
4 32 (27.35%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (23.08%) Serverless
6 16 (13.68%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (9.40%) GCP
10 10 (8.55%) Amazon S3
10 10 (8.55%) OpenShift
11 9 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (6.84%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (6.84%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (5.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) DNS
2 3 (2.56%) SSL
2 3 (2.56%) VPN
3 2 (1.71%) Firewall
3 2 (1.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 19 (16.24%) MongoDB
4 18 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 16 (13.68%) Relational Database
6 13 (11.11%) MySQL
7 12 (10.26%) DynamoDB
8 11 (9.40%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (9.40%) DocumentDB
9 8 (6.84%) Aerospike
9 8 (6.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (3.42%) BigQuery
10 4 (3.42%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.42%) Pinecone
11 3 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.56%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (24.79%) GitLab
2 28 (23.93%) Git
3 27 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (6.84%) TeamCity
6 6 (5.13%) JIRA
6 6 (5.13%) JUnit
6 6 (5.13%) Vite
7 5 (4.27%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.56%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.71%) Gatling
9 2 (1.71%) Gradle
9 2 (1.71%) Maven
9 2 (1.71%) MLflow
9 2 (1.71%) Snyk
10 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.85%) Moq
10 1 (0.85%) NUnit
10 1 (0.85%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.85%) Serilog
General
1 30 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 29 (24.79%) Finance
3 15 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.26%) Banking
5 8 (6.84%) Front Office
5 8 (6.84%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.56%) Games
6 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.71%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Marketing
8 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (43.59%) Developer
2 18 (15.38%) Architect
3 17 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.11%) Senior
5 11 (9.40%) C# Developer
6 10 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.84%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.84%) AWS Architect
7 8 (6.84%) Backend Developer
8 7 (5.98%) AWS Developer
8 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (5.13%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) C# Developer - Commodities
10 5 (4.27%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.27%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (41.03%) Kafka
2 32 (27.35%) Node.js
3 29 (24.79%) React
4 24 (20.51%) REST
5 23 (19.66%) RESTful
6 20 (17.09%) OAuth
7 17 (14.53%) OAuth2
7 17 (14.53%) Spring
8 15 (12.82%) Keycloak
8 15 (12.82%) Spring Boot
9 13 (11.11%) .NET
9 13 (11.11%) FastAPI
10 12 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (9.40%) AngularJS
11 11 (9.40%) OpenID
12 10 (8.55%) gRPC
12 10 (8.55%) Jest
13 9 (7.69%) GraphQL
13 9 (7.69%) JWT
13 9 (7.69%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (11.11%) Derivative
4 8 (6.84%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.13%) Replication
6 5 (4.27%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.56%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.85%) Life Science
9 1 (0.85%) LIMS
9 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (64.10%) CI/CD
2 64 (54.70%) Microservices
3 52 (44.44%) DevOps
4 43 (36.75%) Observability
5 39 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 37 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (21.37%) Agile
7 25 (21.37%) Test Automation
8 21 (17.95%) AI
9 18 (15.38%) Clean Code
10 17 (14.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (14.53%) Machine Learning
11 16 (13.68%) Code Quality
11 16 (13.68%) Migration
11 16 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (12.82%) Design Patterns
12 15 (12.82%) Secrets Management
12 15 (12.82%) Software Engineering
13 14 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (11.97%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 54 (46.15%) Python
2 37 (31.62%) SQL
3 25 (21.37%) Java
4 19 (16.24%) TypeScript
5 18 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 16 (13.68%) C#
7 15 (12.82%) Bash
8 8 (6.84%) Go
9 7 (5.98%) PHP
10 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.42%) Bicep
11 4 (3.42%) Groovy
12 3 (2.56%) Rust
13 2 (1.71%) Ruby
14 1 (0.85%) C
14 1 (0.85%) Delphi
14 1 (0.85%) Elixir
14 1 (0.85%) R
14 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.69%) Degree
4 7 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.42%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.26%) QA
2 5 (4.27%) NCSC
3 4 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.42%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.42%) WCAG
4 2 (1.71%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.71%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.71%) PSD2
4 2 (1.71%) SEPA
5 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (49.57%) Docker
2 7 (5.98%) Varnish
3 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (50.43%) Kubernetes
2 34 (29.06%) Terraform
3 30 (25.64%) Prometheus
4 27 (23.08%) Grafana
5 16 (13.68%) Argo
6 14 (11.97%) Ansible
7 10 (8.55%) Istio
8 7 (5.98%) linkerd
8 7 (5.98%) Rancher
9 2 (1.71%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.71%) Knative
10 1 (0.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.55%) Databricks
1 10 (8.55%) Dynatrace
1 10 (8.55%) Splunk
2 9 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 9 (7.69%) VMware
3 6 (5.13%) Adobe
3 6 (5.13%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.13%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.42%) Confluent
4 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.56%) Apple
6 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.71%) Foundry
6 2 (1.71%) MKS
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle
6 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.85%) Solace