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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 387 518
Rank change year-on-year -97 +131 -79
Contract jobs citing Redis 118 141 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.45% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 2.45% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 97 67
10th Percentile £361 £402 £359
25th Percentile £400 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £598 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% +19.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £644
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +8.19% -18.20% +11.11%
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 6,398 5,750 7,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.36% 18.49% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,403 3,797 5,247
10th Percentile £335 £355 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 89 184
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.92
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.09 £21.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -9.41% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.75 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.69% -24.74% -29.65%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -92 104 £475 -17.39% 69
UK excluding London -45 58 £443 +8.19% 37
London -71 47 £513 -21.15% 40
Work from Home -25 34 £400 -27.27% 56
North of England -42 25 £450 - 14
Midlands -31 17 £650 +36.84% 4
North West - 17 £450 - 9
South East -37 11 £433 +5.75% 12
West Midlands -35 10 £650 +36.84% 4
South West -16 8 £675 +3.85% 1
East Midlands - 7 £393 -
Yorkshire - 6 £501 - 2
North East -14 3 - - 3
Scotland - 3 £537 - 1
East of England -25 2 - - 3

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 (6.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Camunda
3 1 (0.85%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Drupal
3 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.85%) Finacle
2 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (53.39%) AWS
2 46 (38.98%) Azure
3 41 (34.75%) GitHub
4 32 (27.12%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (26.27%) Serverless
6 17 (14.41%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (12.71%) OpenShift
9 13 (11.02%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (10.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (8.47%) Amazon S3
11 10 (8.47%) GCP
12 9 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (6.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 8 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (4.24%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) DNS
2 4 (3.39%) Firewall
3 3 (2.54%) SSL
3 3 (2.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) BGP
4 1 (0.85%) DMZ
4 1 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.85%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) VSAN
4 1 (0.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (48.31%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (26.27%) NoSQL
3 13 (11.02%) DocumentDB
3 13 (11.02%) DynamoDB
4 12 (10.17%) MongoDB
4 12 (10.17%) MySQL
4 12 (10.17%) SQL Server
5 11 (9.32%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (7.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (6.78%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.93%) Aerospike
9 4 (3.39%) Power BI
9 4 (3.39%) Weaviate
10 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.54%) Couchbase
10 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.54%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.69%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 26 (22.03%) Git
1 26 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 24 (20.34%) GitLab
3 9 (7.63%) JIRA
3 9 (7.63%) SonarQube
4 7 (5.93%) JUnit
4 7 (5.93%) Mocha
5 5 (4.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (3.39%) MLflow
7 3 (2.54%) Postman
8 2 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.69%) Gatling
8 2 (1.69%) Maven
8 2 (1.69%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.69%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.69%) Subversion
8 2 (1.69%) Vite
8 2 (1.69%) Xcode
8 2 (1.69%) XCTest
General
1 37 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.88%) Finance
3 20 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.32%) Banking
5 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.39%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Games
9 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.85%) Front Office
10 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.85%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (44.07%) Developer
2 21 (17.80%) Architect
3 15 (12.71%) Senior
4 13 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Backend Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.78%) C# Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) AWS Architect
9 6 (5.08%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Gen AI Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) .NET Developer
11 4 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.39%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (38.14%) Kafka
2 36 (30.51%) Node.js
3 30 (25.42%) REST
4 23 (19.49%) React
5 20 (16.95%) RESTful
6 17 (14.41%) FastAPI
7 16 (13.56%) Keycloak
8 15 (12.71%) OAuth
8 15 (12.71%) Spring Boot
9 14 (11.86%) Jest
9 14 (11.86%) Spring
10 13 (11.02%) gRPC
11 12 (10.17%) Flask
11 12 (10.17%) HTML
11 12 (10.17%) OAuth2
12 11 (9.32%) CSS
12 11 (9.32%) GraphQL
12 11 (9.32%) OpenID
12 11 (9.32%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (9.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.71%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.78%) Derivative
4 7 (5.93%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.08%) Client/Server
6 5 (4.24%) Replication
7 2 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.69%) Energy Derivatives
7 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.85%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
2 3 (2.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (60.17%) CI/CD
2 69 (58.47%) Microservices
3 52 (44.07%) DevOps
4 44 (37.29%) Containerisation
5 41 (34.75%) Observability
6 35 (29.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (25.42%) Agile
8 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (14.41%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.71%) Code Quality
11 14 (11.86%) AI
11 14 (11.86%) Migration
11 14 (11.86%) Open Source
11 14 (11.86%) Secrets Management
12 13 (11.02%) Design Patterns
12 13 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (11.02%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (10.17%) Event-Driven
13 12 (10.17%) Front End Development
13 12 (10.17%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 52 (44.07%) Python
2 40 (33.90%) SQL
3 22 (18.64%) Java
4 21 (17.80%) JavaScript
5 20 (16.95%) Bash
6 16 (13.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (11.02%) C#
8 11 (9.32%) Go
9 7 (5.93%) PHP
10 6 (5.08%) Groovy
11 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.54%) Rust
13 2 (1.69%) Bicep
13 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.85%) Delphi
14 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (9.32%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.63%) Degree
5 6 (5.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.85%) CCNP
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.85%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) QA
2 10 (8.47%) Accessibility
3 9 (7.63%) WCAG
4 6 (5.08%) NCSC
5 5 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.24%) NIST
6 4 (3.39%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.69%) GDPR
7 2 (1.69%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.69%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.69%) PSD2
7 2 (1.69%) SEPA
8 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 54 (45.76%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) Varnish
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (49.15%) Kubernetes
2 37 (31.36%) Grafana
2 37 (31.36%) Prometheus
3 33 (27.97%) Terraform
4 17 (14.41%) Ansible
5 11 (9.32%) Argo
6 8 (6.78%) Istio
7 6 (5.08%) linkerd
8 5 (4.24%) Rancher
9 2 (1.69%) Knative
9 2 (1.69%) Packer
10 1 (0.85%) Consul
10 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Dynatrace
1 15 (12.71%) Splunk
2 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.63%) Databricks
4 8 (6.78%) Google
4 8 (6.78%) Oracle
4 8 (6.78%) VMware
5 7 (5.93%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.08%) OpenAI
7 5 (4.24%) Adobe
8 4 (3.39%) Informatica
8 4 (3.39%) New Relic
8 4 (3.39%) Pega
8 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.54%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.69%) Apple
10 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.69%) Confluent
10 2 (1.69%) Rollbar
10 2 (1.69%) SAP