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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 405 513
Rank change year-on-year -101 +108 -16
Contract jobs citing Redis 113 121 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.41% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.56% 2.16% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 91 58
10th Percentile £397 £404 £368
25th Percentile £402 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £631 £703 £609
90th Percentile £763 £750 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £458 £475
% change year-on-year -5.46% -3.68% +2.70%
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 7,252 5,614 7,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 19.08% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,966 3,872 5,181
10th Percentile £350 £355 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.28%
75th Percentile £594 £639 £650
90th Percentile £695 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £483
% change year-on-year -2.56% +0.93% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 109 148
10th Percentile £17.15 £20.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.44 £24.25 £20.94
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -32.54%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.65 £73.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £39.25
% change year-on-year +58.03% -19.39% -31.74%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -118 94 £500 -16.67% 48
London -78 49 £550 -18.52% 24
UK excluding London -78 44 £433 -5.46% 30
Work from Home -54 33 £433 -12.89% 26
North of England -58 15 £425 -5.56% 9
South East -44 13 £458 +11.86% 10
Midlands - 13 £400 - 5
North West -38 9 £400 - 5
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 4
North East -13 4 £425 -6.59% 1
South West -30 4 £700 +20.17% 2
Scotland +2 2 £537 +2.29% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
East of England - 1 - - 4

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 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.77%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Drupal
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (60.18%) AWS
2 41 (36.28%) GitHub
3 40 (35.40%) Azure
4 30 (26.55%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (25.66%) Serverless
6 17 (15.04%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (15.04%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (10.62%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 11 (9.73%) OpenShift
10 10 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (7.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (7.96%) GCP
12 8 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (7.08%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (7.08%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (7.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (5.31%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) SSL
2 3 (2.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (47.79%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (22.12%) NoSQL
3 17 (15.04%) MongoDB
4 14 (12.39%) Relational Database
4 14 (12.39%) SQL Server
5 13 (11.50%) MySQL
6 12 (10.62%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (10.62%) DynamoDB
7 11 (9.73%) DocumentDB
8 9 (7.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (7.08%) Aerospike
10 7 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (3.54%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.54%) Pinecone
12 3 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.65%) Hazelcast
12 3 (2.65%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (24.78%) GitLab
2 27 (23.89%) Jenkins
3 26 (23.01%) Git
4 6 (5.31%) JIRA
4 6 (5.31%) JUnit
4 6 (5.31%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (5.31%) Vite
5 5 (4.42%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.42%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.65%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.77%) Gatling
7 2 (1.77%) MLflow
8 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.88%) Gradle
8 1 (0.88%) Moq
8 1 (0.88%) NUnit
8 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.88%) Serilog
8 1 (0.88%) Snyk
General
1 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.89%) Finance
3 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.85%) Banking
5 6 (5.31%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.42%) Front Office
7 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Games
7 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (39.82%) Developer
2 18 (15.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (15.04%) Architect
4 11 (9.73%) Senior
5 10 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (7.08%) AWS Architect
6 8 (7.08%) C# Developer
7 7 (6.19%) .NET Developer
7 7 (6.19%) AWS Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.42%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.42%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.42%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (42.48%) Kafka
2 32 (28.32%) Node.js
3 28 (24.78%) React
4 24 (21.24%) REST
5 21 (18.58%) RESTful
6 18 (15.93%) OAuth
7 16 (14.16%) Keycloak
7 16 (14.16%) Spring
8 15 (13.27%) OAuth2
8 15 (13.27%) Spring Boot
9 12 (10.62%) FastAPI
10 11 (9.73%) .NET
11 10 (8.85%) AngularJS
11 10 (8.85%) gRPC
11 10 (8.85%) Jest
11 10 (8.85%) OpenID
11 10 (8.85%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (7.96%) GraphQL
13 8 (7.08%) Flask
13 8 (7.08%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.01%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.85%) Derivative
4 8 (7.08%) AI Agents
5 7 (6.19%) Replication
6 5 (4.42%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.65%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.88%) Life Science
9 1 (0.88%) LIMS
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.62%) Linux
2 2 (1.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (66.37%) CI/CD
2 60 (53.10%) Microservices
3 51 (45.13%) DevOps
4 44 (38.94%) Observability
5 39 (34.51%) Containerisation
5 39 (34.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (23.01%) Agile
7 25 (22.12%) Test Automation
8 20 (17.70%) AI
9 17 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (15.04%) Machine Learning
9 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (14.16%) Code Quality
10 16 (14.16%) Migration
11 15 (13.27%) Clean Code
11 15 (13.27%) Secrets Management
12 14 (12.39%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (12.39%) Design Patterns
12 14 (12.39%) LLM
12 14 (12.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (46.90%) Python
2 32 (28.32%) SQL
3 23 (20.35%) Java
4 19 (16.81%) TypeScript
5 18 (15.93%) JavaScript
6 17 (15.04%) Bash
7 13 (11.50%) C#
8 8 (7.08%) Go
9 7 (6.19%) PHP
10 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.42%) Groovy
12 4 (3.54%) Bicep
13 3 (2.65%) Rust
14 2 (1.77%) Ruby
15 1 (0.88%) Delphi
15 1 (0.88%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 32 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.96%) Degree
4 7 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.54%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.73%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) NCSC
3 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.54%) NIST
3 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.54%) WCAG
4 2 (1.77%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.77%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.77%) PSD2
4 2 (1.77%) SEPA
5 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 57 (50.44%) Docker
2 7 (6.19%) Varnish
3 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (52.21%) Kubernetes
2 35 (30.97%) Terraform
3 32 (28.32%) Prometheus
4 29 (25.66%) Grafana
5 16 (14.16%) Ansible
5 16 (14.16%) Argo
6 10 (8.85%) Istio
7 8 (7.08%) Rancher
8 7 (6.19%) linkerd
9 2 (1.77%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.77%) Knative
9 2 (1.77%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (9.73%) Dynatrace
1 11 (9.73%) Splunk
2 10 (8.85%) Databricks
3 9 (7.96%) OpenAI
3 9 (7.96%) VMware
4 7 (6.19%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.31%) Adobe
5 6 (5.31%) Google
5 6 (5.31%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.54%) Confluent
8 3 (2.65%) Apple
9 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.77%) Foundry
9 2 (1.77%) MKS
9 2 (1.77%) Oracle
9 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.88%) SAP
10 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.88%) Solace