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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 425 437
Rank change year-on-year -98 +12 +84
Contract jobs citing Redis 163 132 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.99% 2.18% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 102 81
10th Percentile £400 £376 £363
25th Percentile £425 £418 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -1.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £601 £688 £638
90th Percentile £701 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
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 8,205 6,066 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.94% 18.35% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,462 4,055 4,602
10th Percentile £351 £340 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 89 90
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.05 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £38.96 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +11.31% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.00 £71.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -91 131 £525 +6.33% 280
London -84 84 £534 -2.95% 187
Work from Home -74 42 £550 +22.22% 136
UK excluding London -104 38 £475 - 130
North of England -76 15 £500 +11.11% 29
Yorkshire -33 11 £575 +47.44% 4
East of England -19 8 £425 -10.53% 19
Midlands -48 7 £350 -46.15% 11
South East -64 6 £613 +40.80% 23
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 2
North East - 4 £425 - 5
Scotland -26 2 £525 +5.00% 17
West Midlands -42 2 £575 -11.54% 9

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 7 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.07%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.45%) Apache
3 4 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.84%) Confluence
5 2 (1.23%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Magento
1 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 99 (60.74%) AWS
2 69 (42.33%) Azure
2 69 (42.33%) GitHub
3 59 (36.20%) GitHub Actions
4 37 (22.70%) GCP
5 23 (14.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (11.04%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (9.20%) Serverless
9 13 (7.98%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (6.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 10 (6.13%) AWS KMS
12 9 (5.52%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.52%) Datadog
12 9 (5.52%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (5.52%) Snowflake
12 9 (5.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.29%) DNS
2 6 (3.68%) 5G
2 6 (3.68%) HTTP
2 6 (3.68%) SSH
2 6 (3.68%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.07%) 4G
4 1 (0.61%) Internet
4 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (65.64%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (45.40%) MongoDB
3 35 (21.47%) MySQL
4 30 (18.40%) NoSQL
5 22 (13.50%) SQL Server
6 20 (12.27%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (8.59%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (8.59%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.29%) Delta Lake
8 7 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.29%) InterSystems Cache
9 6 (3.68%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.68%) Hazelcast
10 5 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.07%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.07%) Power BI
10 5 (3.07%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.84%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.23%) Flink
Development Applications
1 53 (32.52%) Git
2 51 (31.29%) Jenkins
3 36 (22.09%) GitLab
4 30 (18.40%) JIRA
5 10 (6.13%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.68%) Mocha
6 6 (3.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.07%) Gradle
7 5 (3.07%) Maven
7 5 (3.07%) Selenium
8 4 (2.45%) Snyk
8 4 (2.45%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.45%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.84%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.84%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.23%) git-flow
10 2 (1.23%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.23%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.18%) Finance
3 25 (15.34%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.20%) Banking
5 11 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.75%) Retail
6 9 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.68%) Front Office
8 6 (3.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.84%) Law
9 3 (1.84%) Legal
9 3 (1.84%) Marketing
9 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Local Government
10 2 (1.23%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.61%) Games
11 1 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (49.08%) Developer
2 29 (17.79%) Senior
3 24 (14.72%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.82%) Backend Developer
4 16 (9.82%) Python Developer
5 14 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.59%) Lead
5 14 (8.59%) Node.js Developer
6 13 (7.98%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.36%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.75%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.52%) DBA
9 9 (5.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) C# Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (42.94%) REST
2 62 (38.04%) Kafka
3 61 (37.42%) Terraform
4 37 (22.70%) Spring
5 36 (22.09%) RESTful
6 30 (18.40%) Spring Boot
7 28 (17.18%) Node.js
8 27 (16.56%) React
9 22 (13.50%) CSS
9 22 (13.50%) Jest
10 20 (12.27%) FastAPI
10 20 (12.27%) OAuth
11 19 (11.66%) HTML
11 19 (11.66%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (10.43%) OpenAPI
12 17 (10.43%) Swagger
13 16 (9.82%) Django
13 16 (9.82%) JWT
14 14 (8.59%) Celery
14 14 (8.59%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.70%) Cloud Native
2 27 (16.56%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (9.20%) Replication
4 10 (6.13%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.91%) Derivative
6 5 (3.07%) Autonomous Agent
6 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.07%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.07%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.88%) Linux
2 6 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.45%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.45%) Unix
4 2 (1.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (69.94%) CI/CD
2 85 (52.15%) DevOps
3 63 (38.65%) Microservices
4 62 (38.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (31.90%) Agile
6 50 (30.67%) Observability
7 47 (28.83%) AI
8 44 (26.99%) Containerisation
9 41 (25.15%) Event-Driven
10 33 (20.25%) Validation
11 32 (19.63%) Software Engineering
11 32 (19.63%) Test Automation
12 27 (16.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 25 (15.34%) Scrum
14 23 (14.11%) Clean Code
14 23 (14.11%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (13.50%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (12.88%) OWASP
17 20 (12.27%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (46.01%) Python
2 51 (31.29%) SQL
3 50 (30.67%) Java
4 30 (18.40%) Bash
5 20 (12.27%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.82%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.59%) C#
8 10 (6.13%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.29%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.68%) Go
10 6 (3.68%) Ruby
11 5 (3.07%) PHP
11 5 (3.07%) Rust
12 4 (2.45%) Groovy
13 3 (1.84%) Delphi
14 2 (1.23%) C
14 2 (1.23%) Elixir
14 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.61%) Bicep
15 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 38 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) Degree
4 11 (6.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (6.13%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.82%) QA
2 10 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.45%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 97 (59.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.23%) Varnish
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (58.90%) Kubernetes
2 38 (23.31%) Grafana
3 34 (20.86%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.98%) Ansible
5 10 (6.13%) Argo
6 5 (3.07%) Kibana
6 5 (3.07%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.07%) Rancher
7 4 (2.45%) Bosun
7 4 (2.45%) Istio
8 2 (1.23%) Packer
8 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) logstash
9 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (4.91%) Google
1 8 (4.91%) Splunk
2 7 (4.29%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.29%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.29%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.29%) TikTok
3 6 (3.68%) Oracle
4 5 (3.07%) Databricks
4 5 (3.07%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.45%) New Relic
5 4 (2.45%) Okta
6 3 (1.84%) Confluent
6 3 (1.84%) Foundry
6 3 (1.84%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.84%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.23%) IBM
7 2 (1.23%) MKS
8 1 (0.61%) Adobe
8 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.61%) VMware