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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 436 488
Rank change year-on-year -88 +52 +53
Contract jobs citing Redis 125 121 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 2.04% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 95 64
10th Percentile £411 £415 £350
25th Percentile £466 £448 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £545 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +10.66% -27.04%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £625
90th Percentile £778 - £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -
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 8,086 5,917 7,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.23% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,351 4,014 5,378
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 102 139
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.71 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £25.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.31 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £31.25
% change year-on-year +20.89% +1.25% -40.48%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -116 100 £525 -8.70% 120
London -86 64 £575 -9.80% 47
UK excluding London -98 33 £500 +8.70% 102
Work from Home -95 28 £545 +4.71% 94
North of England -61 14 £425 -1.16% 27
Yorkshire - 8 £500 - 8
South East -68 7 £513 +17.82% 17
Midlands - 6 £700 - 15
North East -35 5 £425 -7.61% 3
South West -30 4 £700 +35.92% 12
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 8
East of England - 4 £850 - 10
Scotland -15 2 £525 +2.44% 12
East Midlands - 2 £407 - 7
North West -44 1 £476 +19.00% 16

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 6 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.60%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Magento
2 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (49.60%) AWS
2 56 (44.80%) Azure
3 50 (40.00%) GitHub
4 44 (35.20%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (21.60%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (17.60%) GCP
7 18 (14.40%) Serverless
8 16 (12.80%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (8.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.20%) Amazon S3
11 8 (6.40%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (5.60%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (5.60%) Datadog
13 6 (4.80%) Akamai
13 6 (4.80%) Fastly
13 6 (4.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Firewall
1 2 (1.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.80%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (54.40%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (33.60%) MongoDB
3 20 (16.00%) Relational Database
4 19 (15.20%) SQL Server
5 17 (13.60%) NoSQL
6 11 (8.80%) MySQL
7 7 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.60%) InterSystems Cache
8 6 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (4.00%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.00%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.20%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.60%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.60%) Flink
12 2 (1.60%) Metadata
12 2 (1.60%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 39 (31.20%) Jenkins
2 34 (27.20%) Git
3 17 (13.60%) GitLab
3 17 (13.60%) JIRA
4 10 (8.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (6.40%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.80%) Vite
7 4 (3.20%) Gradle
7 4 (3.20%) Maven
7 4 (3.20%) Snyk
8 3 (2.40%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.60%) JUnit
10 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.80%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.80%) Moq
10 1 (0.80%) NUnit
10 1 (0.80%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
General
1 28 (22.40%) Finance
2 23 (18.40%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.60%) Banking
5 10 (8.00%) Front Office
6 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.20%) Retail
10 3 (2.40%) Marketing
11 2 (1.60%) Law
11 2 (1.60%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.80%) Games
12 1 (0.80%) International Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Legal
12 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (53.60%) Developer
2 21 (16.80%) Senior
3 18 (14.40%) Backend Developer
4 16 (12.80%) Java Developer
5 13 (10.40%) C# Developer
5 13 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) Node.js Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.20%) Lead
8 9 (7.20%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.60%) .NET Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Lead Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Senior Backend Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.20%) REST
2 40 (32.00%) Kafka
3 32 (25.60%) Node.js
4 31 (24.80%) React
5 24 (19.20%) Spring
6 22 (17.60%) RESTful
7 20 (16.00%) OAuth
7 20 (16.00%) Spring Boot
8 19 (15.20%) Jest
9 17 (13.60%) JWT
10 16 (12.80%) OpenAPI
10 16 (12.80%) Swagger
11 14 (11.20%) .NET
11 14 (11.20%) AngularJS
11 14 (11.20%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (9.60%) Celery
12 12 (9.60%) hapi
12 12 (9.60%) OAuth2
13 11 (8.80%) FastAPI
13 11 (8.80%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.60%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.40%) Derivative
4 8 (6.40%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.00%) Replication
6 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.80%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (61.60%) CI/CD
2 66 (52.80%) DevOps
3 62 (49.60%) Microservices
4 37 (29.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (28.80%) Containerisation
6 35 (28.00%) Observability
7 33 (26.40%) AI
8 30 (24.00%) Agile
9 26 (20.80%) Test Automation
10 24 (19.20%) Software Engineering
11 22 (17.60%) Clean Code
12 21 (16.80%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (16.00%) Event-Driven
13 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.60%) OWASP
15 16 (12.80%) Refactoring
15 16 (12.80%) Technical Debt
16 15 (12.00%) API Design
16 15 (12.00%) Machine Learning
16 15 (12.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 65 (52.00%) Python
2 36 (28.80%) SQL
3 34 (27.20%) Java
4 22 (17.60%) TypeScript
5 21 (16.80%) C#
6 14 (11.20%) Bash
6 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
7 12 (9.60%) Go
8 5 (4.00%) Bicep
9 4 (3.20%) PHP
10 3 (2.40%) Elixir
10 3 (2.40%) Groovy
10 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.40%) Ruby
10 3 (2.40%) Rust
11 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.80%) Delphi
11 1 (0.80%) R
11 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.60%) Degree
3 7 (5.60%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.80%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) WCAG
4 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.80%) HL7
System Software
1 72 (57.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (1.60%) Varnish
2 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 77 (61.60%) Kubernetes
2 36 (28.80%) Terraform
3 26 (20.80%) Grafana
3 26 (20.80%) Prometheus
4 13 (10.40%) Ansible
5 10 (8.00%) Argo
6 5 (4.00%) Rancher
7 3 (2.40%) Istio
8 2 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.60%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.80%) Kibana
9 1 (0.80%) linkerd
Vendors
1 10 (8.00%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.40%) Google
3 7 (5.60%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.60%) TikTok
4 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.40%) Foundry
5 3 (2.40%) Oracle
5 3 (2.40%) Splunk
6 2 (1.60%) Adobe
6 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.60%) Confluent
6 2 (1.60%) Databricks
6 2 (1.60%) MKS
6 2 (1.60%) Okta
6 2 (1.60%) VMware
7 1 (0.80%) Apple
7 1 (0.80%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.80%) PagerDuty