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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 428 462
Rank change year-on-year -92 +34 +66
Contract jobs citing Redis 140 128 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.72% 2.15% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 99 73
10th Percentile £405 £392 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +2.04% -24.62%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £625
90th Percentile £763 - £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £465 £463
% change year-on-year +7.53% +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 8,147 5,961 7,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,430 4,022 4,961
10th Percentile £358 £344 £350
25th Percentile £419 £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 252 92 102
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.87 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.38 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% +1.52% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.63 £59.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.58 £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 13 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 13 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 -96 114 £543 +5.34% 250
London -90 75 £550 -8.33% 191
Work from Home -74 35 £540 +12.87% 109
UK excluding London -107 34 £500 +7.53% 80
North of England -60 15 £425 -3.95% 22
Yorkshire -33 10 £550 +41.03% 3
East of England -14 7 £425 -10.53% 9
South East -67 6 £513 +17.82% 15
North East -38 5 £425 -7.61% 6
Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
South West -37 3 £700 +35.92% 14
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 3
Scotland -15 2 £525 +2.44% 11
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 75 (53.57%) AWS
2 61 (43.57%) GitHub
3 57 (40.71%) Azure
4 53 (37.86%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (20.00%) GCP
6 25 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (13.57%) 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%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (5.71%) AWS KMS
12 8 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (4.29%) Akamai
14 6 (4.29%) Amazon S3
14 6 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
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 86 (61.43%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (38.57%) MongoDB
3 23 (16.43%) SQL Server
4 22 (15.71%) MySQL
5 19 (13.57%) NoSQL
6 18 (12.86%) Relational Database
7 14 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (7.86%) 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 39 (27.86%) Git
3 27 (19.29%) GitLab
4 23 (16.43%) JIRA
5 10 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (5.71%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.57%) Gradle
7 5 (3.57%) Maven
8 4 (2.86%) Snyk
9 3 (2.14%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.14%) Spinnaker
9 3 (2.14%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.14%) Vite
10 2 (1.43%) git-flow
10 2 (1.43%) Selenium
11 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.71%) JUnit
11 1 (0.71%) MLflow
11 1 (0.71%) RhodeCode
General
1 37 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.43%) Finance
3 23 (16.43%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.00%) Banking
5 10 (7.14%) Front Office
6 8 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.71%) Retail
7 7 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.29%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.14%) Law
9 3 (2.14%) Legal
9 3 (2.14%) Marketing
9 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.43%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) Games
11 1 (0.71%) International Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 76 (54.29%) 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%) Lead
7 11 (7.86%) Python Developer
7 11 (7.86%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.43%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.00%) DBA
12 6 (4.29%) Administrator
12 6 (4.29%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (4.29%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.29%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (4.29%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (37.86%) REST
2 46 (32.86%) Kafka
3 32 (22.86%) Spring
4 28 (20.00%) Node.js
5 26 (18.57%) React
5 26 (18.57%) RESTful
6 25 (17.86%) Spring Boot
7 19 (13.57%) Jest
8 17 (12.14%) 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%) AngularJS
11 13 (9.29%) hapi
12 12 (8.57%) .NET
12 12 (8.57%) CSS
13 11 (7.86%) Celery
13 11 (7.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.43%) Cloud Native
2 26 (18.57%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.29%) Derivative
4 12 (8.57%) Replication
5 9 (6.43%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.29%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.14%) Autonomous Agent
9 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (66.43%) CI/CD
2 70 (50.00%) DevOps
3 60 (42.86%) Microservices
4 49 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (29.29%) AI
5 41 (29.29%) Containerisation
5 41 (29.29%) Observability
6 39 (27.86%) Agile
7 28 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 26 (18.57%) Event-Driven
8 26 (18.57%) Software Engineering
9 25 (17.86%) Clean Code
9 25 (17.86%) Validation
10 23 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (12.86%) OWASP
13 17 (12.14%) Scrum
14 16 (11.43%) Refactoring
14 16 (11.43%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.43%) Python
2 49 (35.00%) SQL
3 42 (30.00%) Java
4 19 (13.57%) Bash
4 19 (13.57%) TypeScript
5 18 (12.86%) 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%) Delphi
11 3 (2.14%) Elixir
11 3 (2.14%) Groovy
11 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.43%) Bicep
13 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) Degree
4 8 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 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 79 (56.43%) 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 50 (35.71%) Terraform
3 32 (22.86%) Prometheus
4 29 (20.71%) Grafana
5 12 (8.57%) Ansible
6 10 (7.14%) Argo
7 5 (3.57%) Rancher
8 3 (2.14%) Bosun
8 3 (2.14%) Istio
8 3 (2.14%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
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