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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 430 480
Rank change year-on-year -104 +50 +66
Contract jobs citing Redis 132 122 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 2.04% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 97 65
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £462 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £515 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% +4.04% -26.67%
75th Percentile £639 £750 £625
90th Percentile £769 - £733
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 8,196 5,988 7,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.44% 18.19% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,437 4,055 5,162
10th Percentile £351 £349 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 92 107
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.28 £14.70
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £42.11 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £63.81 £64.06 £58.73
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.58 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.21% +5.47% -42.86%

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 26 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 26 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 -110 106 £525 +1.94% 100
London -87 71 £575 -4.17% 63
Work from Home -75 34 £513 -0.49% 40
UK excluding London -100 32 £488 +7.25% 46
North of England -68 14 £425 +6.25% 14
Yorkshire -40 8 £500 +28.21% 2
South East -79 7 £513 +17.82% 12
North East -39 5 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands - 5 £700 - 5
East of England - 4 £850 - 4
South West -35 3 £700 +35.92% 8
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 5
Scotland -19 2 £525 +2.44% 1
East Midlands - 2 £407 -
North West -48 1 £476 +15.39% 10

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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.52%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (51.52%) AWS
2 58 (43.94%) Azure
3 57 (43.18%) GitHub
4 48 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (18.94%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (18.94%) GCP
6 16 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (12.12%) Serverless
7 12 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (6.82%) Azure AKS
8 9 (6.82%) Datadog
9 8 (6.06%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (5.30%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (56.82%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (35.61%) MongoDB
3 18 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 18 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 16 (12.12%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.33%) MySQL
6 7 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (5.30%) InterSystems Cache
7 6 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.79%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.79%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.79%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.03%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.03%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.52%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.52%) Flink
10 2 (1.52%) Metadata
10 2 (1.52%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 38 (28.79%) Jenkins
2 37 (28.03%) Git
3 22 (16.67%) JIRA
4 19 (14.39%) GitLab
5 10 (7.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.06%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.79%) Vite
8 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.03%) Gradle
8 4 (3.03%) Maven
8 4 (3.03%) Snyk
9 3 (2.27%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.27%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.52%) JUnit
11 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.76%) Moq
11 1 (0.76%) NUnit
11 1 (0.76%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (24.24%) Finance
2 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.36%) Banking
3 15 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.58%) Front Office
5 8 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.30%) Retail
7 6 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.27%) Law
8 3 (2.27%) Legal
8 3 (2.27%) Marketing
9 2 (1.52%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.76%) Games
10 1 (0.76%) International Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (53.03%) Developer
2 23 (17.42%) Senior
3 19 (14.39%) Java Developer
4 18 (13.64%) Backend Developer
5 13 (9.85%) Node.js Developer
6 12 (9.09%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.82%) Lead
9 9 (6.82%) Software Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.30%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.55%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.55%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.55%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (4.55%) Site Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (37.88%) REST
2 44 (33.33%) Kafka
3 32 (24.24%) Node.js
4 31 (23.48%) React
5 29 (21.97%) Spring
6 24 (18.18%) RESTful
7 23 (17.42%) Spring Boot
8 20 (15.15%) Jest
9 19 (14.39%) OAuth
10 17 (12.88%) OpenAPI
10 17 (12.88%) Swagger
11 16 (12.12%) JWT
12 14 (10.61%) AngularJS
13 13 (9.85%) .NET
13 13 (9.85%) hapi
13 13 (9.85%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (9.09%) Celery
14 12 (9.09%) FastAPI
14 12 (9.09%) OAuth2
15 11 (8.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.03%) Cloud Native
2 26 (19.70%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.85%) Derivative
4 9 (6.82%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.55%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.79%) Replication
7 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.03%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.52%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.33%) Linux
2 4 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.76%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (64.39%) CI/CD
2 69 (52.27%) DevOps
3 61 (46.21%) Microservices
4 41 (31.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (29.55%) AI
5 39 (29.55%) Observability
6 38 (28.79%) Containerisation
7 35 (26.52%) Agile
8 27 (20.45%) Test Automation
9 26 (19.70%) Software Engineering
10 25 (18.94%) Clean Code
11 23 (17.42%) Event-Driven
12 22 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (13.64%) OWASP
14 17 (12.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (12.88%) Machine Learning
15 16 (12.12%) Refactoring
15 16 (12.12%) Technical Debt
16 15 (11.36%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 65 (49.24%) Python
2 39 (29.55%) Java
3 36 (27.27%) SQL
4 22 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 20 (15.15%) C#
6 14 (10.61%) Bash
6 14 (10.61%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.58%) Go
8 5 (3.79%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.03%) Bicep
9 4 (3.03%) PHP
9 4 (3.03%) Ruby
10 3 (2.27%) Delphi
10 3 (2.27%) Elixir
10 3 (2.27%) Groovy
10 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.27%) Rust
11 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) Degree
4 6 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.55%) QA
3 4 (3.03%) WCAG
4 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.76%) HL7
System Software
1 75 (56.82%) Docker
2 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.52%) Varnish
3 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (60.61%) Kubernetes
2 41 (31.06%) Terraform
3 29 (21.97%) Prometheus
4 27 (20.45%) Grafana
5 13 (9.85%) Ansible
6 10 (7.58%) Argo
7 5 (3.79%) Rancher
8 3 (2.27%) Bosun
8 3 (2.27%) Istio
9 2 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.52%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.76%) Kibana
10 1 (0.76%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (8.33%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.06%) Google
3 7 (5.30%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.30%) TikTok
4 6 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.03%) Foundry
5 4 (3.03%) Okta
6 3 (2.27%) Databricks
6 3 (2.27%) New Relic
6 3 (2.27%) Oracle
6 3 (2.27%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.27%) Splunk
7 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.52%) Confluent
7 2 (1.52%) MKS
7 2 (1.52%) VMware
8 1 (0.76%) Adobe
8 1 (0.76%) Apple
8 1 (0.76%) NVIDIA