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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 408 503
Rank change year-on-year -101 +95 +10
Contract jobs citing Redis 125 111 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.64% 2.01% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 86 53
10th Percentile £400 £421 £375
25th Percentile £449 £460 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £694 £747 £625
90th Percentile £775 £750 £670
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 7,631 5,527 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 18.66% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,093 3,753 5,323
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £755 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 102 153
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £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 £69.33 £65.90 £54.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.29% -9.60% -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 16 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 16 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 -104 107 £525 -13.93% 88
London -98 66 £575 -14.81% 52
UK excluding London -87 36 £440 -6.24% 44
Work from Home -51 31 £500 -6.54% 42
North of England -61 12 £425 -1.16% 9
South East -55 11 £496 +9.07% 18
Midlands - 10 £424 - 2
East Midlands - 6 £393 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 - - 2
North East -29 5 £425 -7.61% 1
South West -25 4 £700 +35.92% 5
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
East of England - 3 £600 - 5
North West -40 1 £476 +19.00% 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 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.60%) Apache
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.60%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Magento
2 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (52.80%) AWS
2 51 (40.80%) GitHub
3 49 (39.20%) Azure
4 45 (36.00%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (16.80%) Serverless
7 20 (16.00%) GCP
8 16 (12.80%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (11.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (9.60%) Amazon S3
10 12 (9.60%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (7.20%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (6.40%) OpenShift
14 6 (4.80%) Akamai
14 6 (4.80%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) DNS
2 2 (1.60%) Firewall
2 2 (1.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (48.00%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (25.60%) MongoDB
3 24 (19.20%) NoSQL
4 21 (16.80%) Relational Database
5 18 (14.40%) SQL Server
6 15 (12.00%) MySQL
7 11 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (8.00%) DynamoDB
9 8 (6.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (4.80%) Aerospike
11 6 (4.80%) Hazelcast
12 5 (4.00%) Data Lake
12 5 (4.00%) InterSystems Cache
13 4 (3.20%) BigQuery
13 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (3.20%) DocumentDB
13 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
14 3 (2.40%) Delta Lake
15 2 (1.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 40 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 31 (24.80%) Git
3 26 (20.80%) GitLab
4 10 (8.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (6.40%) JIRA
5 8 (6.40%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.80%) Vite
7 5 (4.00%) JUnit
8 4 (3.20%) Gradle
8 4 (3.20%) Maven
8 4 (3.20%) Snyk
9 3 (2.40%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.60%) Gatling
11 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.80%) Moq
11 1 (0.80%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.80%) Serilog
General
1 31 (24.80%) Finance
2 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.80%) Banking
3 11 (8.80%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.00%) Front Office
5 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.80%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.40%) Marketing
9 2 (1.60%) Law
9 2 (1.60%) Retail
9 2 (1.60%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (48.00%) Developer
2 20 (16.00%) Senior
3 16 (12.80%) Backend Developer
3 16 (12.80%) Java Developer
4 15 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.20%) Architect
6 12 (9.60%) C# Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.40%) AWS Architect
8 8 (6.40%) Node.js Developer
8 8 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.80%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Backend Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Site Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.00%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (42.40%) Kafka
2 34 (27.20%) REST
3 28 (22.40%) React
4 26 (20.80%) Node.js
5 25 (20.00%) Spring
6 24 (19.20%) RESTful
7 22 (17.60%) OAuth
7 22 (17.60%) Spring Boot
8 17 (13.60%) OAuth2
9 16 (12.80%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (12.00%) Jest
11 14 (11.20%) JWT
12 13 (10.40%) AngularJS
13 12 (9.60%) .NET
14 11 (8.80%) FastAPI
14 11 (8.80%) Keycloak
15 10 (8.00%) gRPC
15 10 (8.00%) Next.js
15 10 (8.00%) OpenAPI
15 10 (8.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 25 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (12.00%) Derivative
4 9 (7.20%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.00%) Replication
6 4 (3.20%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.40%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Linux
2 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (65.60%) CI/CD
2 69 (55.20%) Microservices
3 68 (54.40%) DevOps
4 44 (35.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (35.20%) Observability
5 38 (30.40%) Containerisation
6 26 (20.80%) AI
6 26 (20.80%) Test Automation
7 24 (19.20%) Agile
8 20 (16.00%) Clean Code
8 20 (16.00%) Event-Driven
8 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.40%) Migration
10 17 (13.60%) Software Engineering
11 16 (12.80%) Code Quality
11 16 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (12.80%) Machine Learning
12 15 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (12.00%) LLM
12 15 (12.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 64 (51.20%) Python
2 38 (30.40%) SQL
3 36 (28.80%) Java
4 18 (14.40%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.60%) Bash
5 17 (13.60%) C#
6 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.20%) Go
8 7 (5.60%) PHP
9 4 (3.20%) Bicep
10 3 (2.40%) Groovy
10 3 (2.40%) Rust
11 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.80%) C
12 1 (0.80%) Elixir
12 1 (0.80%) R
12 1 (0.80%) Ruby
12 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.40%) Degree
4 7 (5.60%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.60%) 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 14 (11.20%) QA
2 6 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.20%) NIST
3 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.20%) WCAG
4 3 (2.40%) NCSC
5 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.60%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.60%) PSD2
5 2 (1.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 67 (53.60%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) Varnish
3 2 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (58.40%) Kubernetes
2 41 (32.80%) Terraform
3 34 (27.20%) Prometheus
4 32 (25.60%) Grafana
5 18 (14.40%) Ansible
6 15 (12.00%) Argo
7 9 (7.20%) Istio
8 5 (4.00%) linkerd
8 5 (4.00%) Rancher
9 2 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.80%) Kibana
10 1 (0.80%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.00%) Dynatrace
2 9 (7.20%) Google
2 9 (7.20%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.40%) Splunk
4 6 (4.80%) Databricks
4 6 (4.80%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.80%) VMware
5 5 (4.00%) Adobe
5 5 (4.00%) TikTok
6 4 (3.20%) Confluent
6 4 (3.20%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.40%) Apple
7 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.60%) Foundry
8 2 (1.60%) MKS
8 2 (1.60%) Oracle