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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 431 469
Rank change year-on-year -110 +38 +76
Contract jobs citing Redis 124 122 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.53% 2.05% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 95 66
10th Percentile £411 £405 £350
25th Percentile £466 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £515 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% +3.52% -24.91%
75th Percentile £648 £750 £625
90th Percentile £778 - £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +7.25% -4.21% -
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 8,107 5,940 7,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.38% 18.23% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,352 4,021 5,264
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -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 97 119
10th Percentile £16.56 £19.45 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.32 £20.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -2.60% -30.00%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.10 £77.50 £71.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £32.05 £31.25
% change year-on-year +25.59% +2.56% -39.02%

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 21 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 21 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 -96 98 £525 +0.96% 98
London -87 63 £575 -5.74% 65
UK excluding London -103 32 £488 +7.25% 42
Work from Home -87 30 £529 +2.72% 37
North of England -63 14 £425 +3.03% 9
Yorkshire -46 8 £500 +28.21% 2
South East -74 7 £513 +17.82% 11
North East -38 5 £425 -7.61% 1
Midlands - 5 £700 - 5
East of England - 4 £850 - 3
South West -36 3 £700 +35.92% 11
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 5
Scotland -22 2 £525 +2.44% 1
East Midlands - 2 £407 -
North West -48 1 £476 +15.39% 6

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 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) MQSeries
3 2 (1.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (50.00%) AWS
2 57 (45.97%) Azure
3 53 (42.74%) GitHub
4 47 (37.90%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (20.16%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (18.55%) GCP
7 16 (12.90%) Serverless
8 15 (12.10%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.26%) Azure AKS
10 9 (7.26%) Datadog
11 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.65%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (5.65%) Snowflake
13 6 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.84%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (56.45%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (33.87%) MongoDB
3 18 (14.52%) Relational Database
3 18 (14.52%) SQL Server
4 16 (12.90%) NoSQL
5 10 (8.06%) MySQL
6 7 (5.65%) InterSystems Cache
7 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (4.03%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.03%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.23%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.23%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.42%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.61%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.61%) Flink
11 2 (1.61%) Metadata
11 2 (1.61%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (30.65%) Jenkins
2 35 (28.23%) Git
3 21 (16.94%) JIRA
4 18 (14.52%) GitLab
5 10 (8.06%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.45%) TeamCity
7 5 (4.03%) Vite
8 4 (3.23%) Gradle
8 4 (3.23%) Maven
8 4 (3.23%) Snyk
9 3 (2.42%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.42%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.42%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.61%) JUnit
11 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.81%) Moq
11 1 (0.81%) NUnit
11 1 (0.81%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 28 (22.58%) Finance
2 25 (20.16%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.48%) Banking
5 10 (8.06%) Front Office
6 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.23%) Retail
10 3 (2.42%) Legal
10 3 (2.42%) Marketing
11 2 (1.61%) Law
11 2 (1.61%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.81%) Games
12 1 (0.81%) International Banking
12 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (52.42%) Developer
2 21 (16.94%) Senior
3 17 (13.71%) Backend Developer
4 16 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 13 (10.48%) Node.js Developer
6 12 (9.68%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.26%) Lead
8 9 (7.26%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.45%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Lead Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Senior Backend Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (36.29%) REST
2 40 (32.26%) Kafka
3 32 (25.81%) Node.js
4 30 (24.19%) React
5 25 (20.16%) Spring
6 21 (16.94%) RESTful
7 20 (16.13%) Jest
7 20 (16.13%) Spring Boot
8 19 (15.32%) OAuth
9 17 (13.71%) OpenAPI
9 17 (13.71%) Swagger
10 16 (12.90%) JWT
11 14 (11.29%) AngularJS
12 13 (10.48%) .NET
12 13 (10.48%) hapi
13 12 (9.68%) Celery
13 12 (9.68%) OAuth2
13 12 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (8.87%) Next.js
15 10 (8.06%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (26.61%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.48%) Derivative
4 8 (6.45%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.03%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.03%) Replication
6 4 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.61%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.81%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.87%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (62.10%) CI/CD
2 65 (52.42%) DevOps
3 58 (46.77%) Microservices
4 37 (29.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (28.23%) AI
5 35 (28.23%) Observability
6 34 (27.42%) Containerisation
7 32 (25.81%) Agile
8 26 (20.97%) Test Automation
9 24 (19.35%) Clean Code
9 24 (19.35%) Software Engineering
10 21 (16.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (16.13%) Event-Driven
12 18 (14.52%) OWASP
13 16 (12.90%) Refactoring
13 16 (12.90%) Technical Debt
14 15 (12.10%) API Design
14 15 (12.10%) Machine Learning
14 15 (12.10%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 62 (50.00%) Python
2 35 (28.23%) Java
2 35 (28.23%) SQL
3 22 (17.74%) TypeScript
4 20 (16.13%) C#
5 14 (11.29%) Bash
6 13 (10.48%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.06%) Go
8 4 (3.23%) Bicep
8 4 (3.23%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.42%) Delphi
9 3 (2.42%) Elixir
9 3 (2.42%) Groovy
9 3 (2.42%) PHP
9 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.42%) Ruby
9 3 (2.42%) Rust
10 1 (0.81%) C
10 1 (0.81%) R
10 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.84%) Degree
3 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.84%) QA
3 4 (3.23%) WCAG
4 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.81%) HL7
System Software
1 71 (57.26%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 76 (61.29%) Kubernetes
2 37 (29.84%) Terraform
3 28 (22.58%) Prometheus
4 27 (21.77%) Grafana
5 13 (10.48%) Ansible
6 10 (8.06%) Argo
7 5 (4.03%) Rancher
8 3 (2.42%) Istio
9 2 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.61%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.81%) Kibana
10 1 (0.81%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (8.87%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.45%) Google
3 7 (5.65%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.65%) TikTok
4 6 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.23%) Foundry
5 4 (3.23%) Okta
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle
6 3 (2.42%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.42%) Splunk
7 2 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.61%) Confluent
7 2 (1.61%) Databricks
7 2 (1.61%) MKS
7 2 (1.61%) VMware
8 1 (0.81%) Adobe
8 1 (0.81%) Apple
8 1 (0.81%) Checkmarx