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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 415 496
Rank change year-on-year -108 +81 +6
Contract jobs citing Redis 112 105 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.53% 1.94% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 79 54
10th Percentile £398 £425 £375
25th Percentile £413 £460 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £498
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +20.60% -28.93%
75th Percentile £678 £744 £609
90th Percentile £766 £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -13.50% +1.01% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £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 7,332 5,413 7,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.92% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,932 3,714 5,240
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -0.52% +0.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 95 147
10th Percentile £15.07 £20.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.73 £23.88 £20.88
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% -17.23% -31.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £65.81 £61.55
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.22 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £31.64 £39.25
% change year-on-year +35.90% -19.39% -29.53%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -105 98 £506 -20.59% 44
London -93 54 £575 -14.81% 22
UK excluding London -77 40 £433 -13.50% 28
Work from Home -59 32 £433 -27.62% 25
North of England -61 15 £425 -1.16% 8
South East -64 12 £480 +0.42% 8
Midlands - 12 £400 - 3
East Midlands - 7 £393 - 1
North East -22 5 £425 -7.61% 2
North West -34 5 £476 +19.00% 4
Yorkshire - 5 - - 2
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 2
South West -31 4 £700 +35.92% 4
East of England - 1 - - 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 6 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) Apache
3 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.79%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.89%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Magento
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (55.36%) AWS
2 47 (41.96%) GitHub
3 38 (33.93%) Azure
4 36 (32.14%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (22.32%) Serverless
6 17 (15.18%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (11.61%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (11.61%) GCP
9 11 (9.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (9.82%) Amazon S3
10 9 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (8.04%) OpenShift
11 8 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (6.25%) Kong
12 7 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) DNS
2 3 (2.68%) SSL
2 3 (2.68%) VPN
3 2 (1.79%) Firewall
3 2 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (23.21%) NoSQL
3 24 (21.43%) MongoDB
4 18 (16.07%) Relational Database
5 16 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 12 (10.71%) MySQL
7 11 (9.82%) DynamoDB
8 10 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (8.04%) DocumentDB
10 7 (6.25%) Aerospike
10 7 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (5.36%) Hazelcast
12 4 (3.57%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
12 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.57%) Pinecone
12 4 (3.57%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (26.79%) Jenkins
2 28 (25.00%) Git
3 27 (24.11%) GitLab
4 9 (8.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (6.25%) TeamCity
6 6 (5.36%) Vite
7 5 (4.46%) JIRA
7 5 (4.46%) JUnit
8 4 (3.57%) Gradle
8 4 (3.57%) Maven
8 4 (3.57%) Snyk
9 3 (2.68%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.68%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.79%) Gatling
10 2 (1.79%) MLflow
11 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.89%) git-flow
11 1 (0.89%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.89%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.89%) Serilog
General
1 26 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.32%) Finance
3 14 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.04%) Banking
4 9 (8.04%) Front Office
5 6 (5.36%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.79%) Games
8 2 (1.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Military
9 1 (0.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (44.64%) Developer
2 16 (14.29%) Senior
3 15 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.50%) Architect
5 11 (9.82%) Backend Developer
5 11 (9.82%) C# Developer
6 9 (8.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.14%) AWS Architect
8 7 (6.25%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.36%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (44.64%) Kafka
2 26 (23.21%) Node.js
3 25 (22.32%) React
4 23 (20.54%) REST
4 23 (20.54%) RESTful
5 21 (18.75%) OAuth
5 21 (18.75%) Spring
6 18 (16.07%) OAuth2
6 18 (16.07%) Spring Boot
7 13 (11.61%) FastAPI
7 13 (11.61%) Keycloak
7 13 (11.61%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (9.82%) AngularJS
8 11 (9.82%) JWT
9 10 (8.93%) .NET
9 10 (8.93%) JPA
9 10 (8.93%) OpenID
9 10 (8.93%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (8.04%) gRPC
10 9 (8.04%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.32%) Cloud Native
2 18 (16.07%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (11.61%) Derivative
4 7 (6.25%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.46%) Replication
6 4 (3.57%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.68%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.89%) FMCG
9 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.89%) Life Science
9 1 (0.89%) LIMS
9 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Unix
2 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (66.07%) CI/CD
2 64 (57.14%) Microservices
3 56 (50.00%) DevOps
4 46 (41.07%) Observability
5 40 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (33.93%) Containerisation
7 23 (20.54%) Test Automation
8 22 (19.64%) Agile
9 21 (18.75%) AI
10 16 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (13.39%) Clean Code
11 15 (13.39%) Machine Learning
11 15 (13.39%) Migration
11 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering
12 14 (12.50%) Code Quality
12 14 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (12.50%) Event-Driven
12 14 (12.50%) LLM
12 14 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (49.11%) Python
2 38 (33.93%) SQL
3 27 (24.11%) Java
4 17 (15.18%) Bash
4 17 (15.18%) JavaScript
4 17 (15.18%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.50%) C#
6 8 (7.14%) Go
7 6 (5.36%) PHP
8 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.57%) Bicep
10 3 (2.68%) Groovy
10 3 (2.68%) Rust
11 1 (0.89%) C
11 1 (0.89%) Elixir
11 1 (0.89%) R
11 1 (0.89%) Ruby
11 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.25%) Degree
3 7 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.61%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.57%) NCSC
2 4 (3.57%) NIST
2 4 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.57%) WCAG
3 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.79%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.79%) PSD2
3 2 (1.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (52.68%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) Varnish
3 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (53.57%) Kubernetes
2 38 (33.93%) Terraform
3 33 (29.46%) Prometheus
4 31 (27.68%) Grafana
5 17 (15.18%) Argo
6 15 (13.39%) Ansible
7 10 (8.93%) Istio
8 6 (5.36%) linkerd
8 6 (5.36%) Rancher
9 2 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.79%) Knative
10 1 (0.89%) Kibana
10 1 (0.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (8.04%) Databricks
1 9 (8.04%) Dynatrace
1 9 (8.04%) OpenAI
1 9 (8.04%) Splunk
2 8 (7.14%) VMware
3 7 (6.25%) Google
4 5 (4.46%) Adobe
4 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.57%) Confluent
6 3 (2.68%) Apple
6 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.79%) Foundry
7 2 (1.79%) MKS
7 2 (1.79%) Oracle
8 1 (0.89%) TikTok