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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 429 507
Rank change year-on-year -114 +78 +37
Contract jobs citing Redis 122 115 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.36% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.53% 1.97% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 90 57
10th Percentile £413 £418 £350
25th Percentile £476 £451 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £658 £750 £625
90th Percentile £790 - £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.68% -
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 7,972 5,847 7,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.28% 18.30% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,261 3,958 5,409
10th Percentile £350 £355 £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 £629 £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 259 103 151
10th Percentile £15.57 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.38 £20.24
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.67% -35.39%
75th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.52% +5.47% -45.45%

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 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 8 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 -108 99 £525 -12.50% 71
London -93 62 £575 -14.81% 40
UK excluding London -93 33 £488 +6.67% 41
Work from Home -78 25 £561 +4.86% 38
North of England -67 14 £425 -1.16% 9
South East -66 8 £513 +17.82% 12
Yorkshire - 8 £500 - 3
Midlands - 6 £700 - 4
North East -33 5 £425 -7.61% 1
South West -33 4 £700 +35.92% 7
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
East of England - 4 £850 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £407 - 2
Scotland -16 1 £475 -7.32% 3
North West -48 1 £476 +19.00% 5

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 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.64%) MQSeries
2 2 (1.64%) nginx
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.82%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Magento
2 1 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (48.36%) AWS
2 53 (43.44%) Azure
3 49 (40.16%) GitHub
4 42 (34.43%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (21.31%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (15.57%) GCP
6 19 (15.57%) Serverless
7 17 (13.93%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (9.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (5.74%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (5.74%) Datadog
13 6 (4.92%) Akamai
13 6 (4.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 6 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) DNS
1 2 (1.64%) Firewall
1 2 (1.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (53.28%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (31.97%) MongoDB
3 21 (17.21%) Relational Database
4 18 (14.75%) NoSQL
4 18 (14.75%) SQL Server
5 13 (10.66%) MySQL
6 8 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.92%) InterSystems Cache
8 5 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.10%) DynamoDB
8 5 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (4.10%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.46%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.64%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.64%) Metadata
11 2 (1.64%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (31.97%) Jenkins
2 32 (26.23%) Git
3 17 (13.93%) GitLab
4 15 (12.30%) JIRA
5 10 (8.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.56%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.92%) Vite
8 4 (3.28%) Gradle
8 4 (3.28%) Maven
8 4 (3.28%) Snyk
9 3 (2.46%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.64%) JUnit
11 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.82%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.82%) Moq
11 1 (0.82%) NUnit
11 1 (0.82%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
General
1 24 (19.67%) Finance
1 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.20%) Front Office
4 9 (7.38%) Banking
5 8 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Retail
8 3 (2.46%) Marketing
9 2 (1.64%) Law
9 2 (1.64%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.82%) Games
10 1 (0.82%) Legal
10 1 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (52.46%) Developer
2 20 (16.39%) Senior
3 17 (13.93%) Backend Developer
4 15 (12.30%) Java Developer
5 14 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.84%) Node.js Developer
7 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.56%) Lead
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.74%) Architect
9 7 (5.74%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.92%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Senior Backend Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) GCP Developer
11 5 (4.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (33.61%) REST
2 40 (32.79%) Kafka
3 31 (25.41%) React
4 30 (24.59%) Node.js
5 22 (18.03%) Spring
6 21 (17.21%) RESTful
7 20 (16.39%) OAuth
8 19 (15.57%) Spring Boot
9 18 (14.75%) Jest
10 17 (13.93%) JWT
11 15 (12.30%) OpenAPI
11 15 (12.30%) RabbitMQ
11 15 (12.30%) Swagger
12 13 (10.66%) .NET
12 13 (10.66%) AngularJS
13 12 (9.84%) Celery
13 12 (9.84%) OAuth2
14 11 (9.02%) FastAPI
14 11 (9.02%) hapi
14 11 (9.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 22 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.66%) Derivative
4 8 (6.56%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.10%) Replication
6 4 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.64%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.64%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.84%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (62.30%) CI/CD
2 66 (54.10%) DevOps
3 62 (50.82%) Microservices
4 39 (31.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (29.51%) Containerisation
5 36 (29.51%) Observability
6 31 (25.41%) AI
7 27 (22.13%) Agile
8 25 (20.49%) Test Automation
9 22 (18.03%) Software Engineering
10 21 (17.21%) Clean Code
11 20 (16.39%) Event-Driven
12 19 (15.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.93%) OWASP
15 16 (13.11%) Refactoring
15 16 (13.11%) Technical Debt
16 15 (12.30%) Machine Learning
17 14 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (11.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (51.64%) Python
2 36 (29.51%) SQL
3 31 (25.41%) Java
4 20 (16.39%) TypeScript
5 19 (15.57%) C#
6 15 (12.30%) Bash
7 14 (11.48%) JavaScript
8 11 (9.02%) Go
9 5 (4.10%) Bicep
9 5 (4.10%) PHP
10 3 (2.46%) Groovy
10 3 (2.46%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.64%) Elixir
11 2 (1.64%) Ruby
11 2 (1.64%) Rust
12 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.82%) Delphi
12 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.82%) R
12 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.92%) Degree
5 5 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) Accessibility
1 7 (5.74%) QA
2 4 (3.28%) WCAG
3 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.82%) HL7
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) NIST
4 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (56.56%) Docker
2 3 (2.46%) Varnish
3 2 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (61.48%) Kubernetes
2 37 (30.33%) Terraform
3 27 (22.13%) Grafana
4 26 (21.31%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.48%) Ansible
6 10 (8.20%) Argo
7 5 (4.10%) Rancher
8 3 (2.46%) Istio
9 2 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.64%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.82%) Kibana
10 1 (0.82%) linkerd
10 1 (0.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.20%) OpenAI
2 7 (5.74%) Dynatrace
2 7 (5.74%) Google
2 7 (5.74%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.92%) TikTok
4 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.28%) Splunk
5 3 (2.46%) Adobe
5 3 (2.46%) Foundry
6 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.64%) Confluent
6 2 (1.64%) Databricks
6 2 (1.64%) MKS
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle
6 2 (1.64%) VMware
7 1 (0.82%) Apple
7 1 (0.82%) Okta
7 1 (0.82%) PagerDuty