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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 414 510
Rank change year-on-year -115 +96 +27
Contract jobs citing Redis 121 111 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.60% 2.01% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 86 52
10th Percentile £400 £421 £375
25th Percentile £449 £460 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +20.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £703 £747 £621
90th Percentile £775 £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £469 £490
% change year-on-year -6.24% -4.29% +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 7,581 5,518 7,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.17% 18.75% 17.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,065 3,745 5,333
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 102 155
10th Percentile £14.51 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -12.53% -31.73%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.90 £54.56
90th Percentile £78.58 £78.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £31.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.90% -9.01% -38.54%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -109 104 £525 -13.93% 39
London -85 63 £594 -12.04% 13
UK excluding London -71 36 £440 -6.24% 33
Work from Home -73 30 £500 -6.54% 29
North of England -61 12 £425 -1.16% 6
South East -70 11 £496 +9.07% 15
Midlands - 10 £424 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 - - 1
East Midlands - 6 £393 - 1
North East -30 5 £425 -7.61% 1
South West -21 4 £700 +35.92% 5
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
East of England - 3 £600 - 3
North West -31 1 £476 +19.00% 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 6 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.65%) Apache
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.65%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (52.07%) AWS
2 48 (39.67%) GitHub
3 46 (38.02%) Azure
4 42 (34.71%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (17.36%) Serverless
6 18 (14.88%) GCP
7 14 (11.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (11.57%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
8 12 (9.92%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (7.44%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (6.61%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.96%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (4.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) DNS
2 2 (1.65%) Firewall
2 2 (1.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (47.11%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (24.79%) MongoDB
3 24 (19.83%) NoSQL
4 21 (17.36%) Relational Database
5 18 (14.88%) SQL Server
6 15 (12.40%) MySQL
7 11 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (8.26%) DynamoDB
9 8 (6.61%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (4.96%) Aerospike
11 6 (4.96%) Hazelcast
12 5 (4.13%) Data Lake
13 4 (3.31%) BigQuery
13 4 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (3.31%) DocumentDB
13 4 (3.31%) InterSystems Cache
13 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
14 3 (2.48%) Delta Lake
15 2 (1.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (30.58%) Jenkins
2 29 (23.97%) Git
3 25 (20.66%) GitLab
4 10 (8.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (6.61%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.96%) JIRA
6 6 (4.96%) Vite
7 5 (4.13%) JUnit
8 4 (3.31%) Gradle
8 4 (3.31%) Maven
8 4 (3.31%) Snyk
9 3 (2.48%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.65%) Gatling
11 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.83%) git-flow
11 1 (0.83%) Moq
11 1 (0.83%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.83%) Serilog
11 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (23.97%) Finance
2 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.26%) Banking
3 10 (8.26%) Front Office
3 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.96%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.48%) Marketing
8 2 (1.65%) Retail
8 2 (1.65%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (46.28%) Developer
2 19 (15.70%) Senior
3 15 (12.40%) Backend Developer
3 15 (12.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) Architect
4 14 (11.57%) Java Developer
5 12 (9.92%) C# Developer
6 9 (7.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.61%) AWS Architect
8 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.96%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Node.js Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Senior Backend Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Site Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.13%) C# Developer - Commodities
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (42.98%) Kafka
2 31 (25.62%) REST
3 28 (23.14%) React
4 24 (19.83%) Node.js
4 24 (19.83%) Spring
5 23 (19.01%) RESTful
6 22 (18.18%) OAuth
7 21 (17.36%) Spring Boot
8 17 (14.05%) OAuth2
9 15 (12.40%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (11.57%) JWT
11 13 (10.74%) AngularJS
11 13 (10.74%) Jest
12 12 (9.92%) .NET
13 11 (9.09%) FastAPI
13 11 (9.09%) Keycloak
14 10 (8.26%) Celery
14 10 (8.26%) JPA
14 10 (8.26%) Next.js
14 10 (8.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 24 (19.83%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (12.40%) Derivative
4 9 (7.44%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.13%) Replication
6 4 (3.31%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.48%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.44%) Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.83%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (66.12%) CI/CD
2 66 (54.55%) DevOps
2 66 (54.55%) Microservices
3 44 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (36.36%) Observability
4 37 (30.58%) Containerisation
5 26 (21.49%) Test Automation
6 25 (20.66%) AI
7 24 (19.83%) Agile
8 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.88%) Clean Code
9 18 (14.88%) Event-Driven
10 17 (14.05%) Migration
10 17 (14.05%) Software Engineering
11 16 (13.22%) Code Quality
11 16 (13.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (12.40%) Machine Learning
13 14 (11.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (11.57%) LLM
13 14 (11.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (51.24%) Python
2 38 (31.40%) SQL
3 34 (28.10%) Java
4 18 (14.88%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.05%) Bash
5 17 (14.05%) C#
6 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.44%) Go
8 7 (5.79%) PHP
9 4 (3.31%) Bicep
10 3 (2.48%) Groovy
10 3 (2.48%) Rust
11 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.83%) C
12 1 (0.83%) Elixir
12 1 (0.83%) R
12 1 (0.83%) Ruby
12 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (26.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.61%) Degree
4 7 (5.79%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.57%) QA
2 5 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.31%) NIST
3 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.31%) WCAG
4 3 (2.48%) NCSC
5 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.65%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.65%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.65%) PSD2
5 2 (1.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 64 (52.89%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) Varnish
3 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 69 (57.02%) Kubernetes
2 41 (33.88%) Terraform
3 34 (28.10%) Prometheus
4 32 (26.45%) Grafana
5 18 (14.88%) Ansible
6 15 (12.40%) Argo
7 9 (7.44%) Istio
8 5 (4.13%) linkerd
8 5 (4.13%) Rancher
9 2 (1.65%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.83%) Kibana
10 1 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.26%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.61%) Google
2 8 (6.61%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.61%) Splunk
3 6 (4.96%) Databricks
3 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.96%) VMware
4 5 (4.13%) Adobe
5 4 (3.31%) Confluent
5 4 (3.31%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.31%) TikTok
6 3 (2.48%) Apple
6 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.65%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.65%) Foundry
7 2 (1.65%) MKS
7 2 (1.65%) Oracle