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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 399 510
Rank change year-on-year -114 +111 -3
Contract jobs citing Redis 110 119 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.41% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.52% 2.13% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 88 59
10th Percentile £395 £403 £370
25th Percentile £401 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £648 £700 £619
90th Percentile £771 £750 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% -4.21% +2.70%
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 7,233 5,584 7,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.77% 19.06% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,955 3,852 5,129
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.03% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 108 152
10th Percentile £18.23 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.90 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.63 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +61.19% -9.60% -39.70%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -136 93 £500 -16.67% 48
London -85 49 £594 -12.04% 27
UK excluding London -81 43 £433 -4.95% 29
Work from Home -38 32 £433 -12.89% 30
South East -52 13 £458 +11.86% 11
North of England -61 13 £413 -8.33% 7
Midlands - 13 £400 - 5
North West -34 9 £400 - 4
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 4
South West -31 4 £700 +20.17% 1
North East -20 3 £425 -6.59% 2
Scotland +5 2 £537 +2.29% 1
East of England - 2 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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 4 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) Apache
2 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.91%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) Drupal
2 1 (0.91%) MQSeries
2 1 (0.91%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (60.00%) AWS
2 39 (35.45%) Azure
3 38 (34.55%) GitHub
4 28 (25.45%) GitHub Actions
4 28 (25.45%) Serverless
5 16 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (10.00%) OpenShift
8 10 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 10 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (7.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (7.27%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (7.27%) GCP
9 8 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (5.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (2.73%) Firewall
2 3 (2.73%) SSL
2 3 (2.73%) VPN
3 1 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (47.27%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (22.73%) NoSQL
3 15 (13.64%) MongoDB
4 14 (12.73%) MySQL
4 14 (12.73%) Relational Database
4 14 (12.73%) SQL Server
5 12 (10.91%) DynamoDB
6 11 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (10.00%) DocumentDB
7 8 (7.27%) Aerospike
7 8 (7.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.64%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.64%) Pinecone
10 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.73%) Weaviate
11 2 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.82%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.82%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 26 (23.64%) GitLab
2 25 (22.73%) Git
3 24 (21.82%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.45%) JUnit
4 6 (5.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (5.45%) Vite
5 5 (4.55%) JIRA
5 5 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.73%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.82%) Gatling
7 2 (1.82%) MLflow
8 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.91%) Moq
8 1 (0.91%) NUnit
8 1 (0.91%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.91%) Serilog
General
1 28 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.55%) Finance
3 15 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.09%) Banking
5 6 (5.45%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.55%) Front Office
7 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Games
8 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.82%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (40.00%) Developer
2 17 (15.45%) Architect
2 17 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (9.09%) Senior
4 9 (8.18%) C# Developer
5 8 (7.27%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.36%) .NET Developer
7 6 (5.45%) AWS Developer
7 6 (5.45%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Python Developer
9 4 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.64%) C# Developer - Commodities
9 4 (3.64%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (40.91%) Kafka
2 31 (28.18%) Node.js
3 27 (24.55%) React
4 24 (21.82%) REST
5 22 (20.00%) RESTful
6 17 (15.45%) OAuth
7 15 (13.64%) Keycloak
7 15 (13.64%) Spring
7 15 (13.64%) Spring Boot
8 14 (12.73%) OAuth2
9 12 (10.91%) .NET
9 12 (10.91%) FastAPI
10 10 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 10 (9.09%) GraphQL
10 10 (9.09%) gRPC
10 10 (9.09%) Jest
10 10 (9.09%) OpenID
11 9 (8.18%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (7.27%) Flask
12 8 (7.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.64%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.09%) Derivative
4 8 (7.27%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.55%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.55%) Replication
6 3 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.73%) Energy Derivatives
7 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Life Science
8 1 (0.91%) LIMS
8 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.91%) Linux
2 2 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 60 (54.55%) Microservices
3 50 (45.45%) DevOps
4 42 (38.18%) Observability
5 39 (35.45%) Containerisation
6 37 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (22.73%) Agile
8 24 (21.82%) Test Automation
9 19 (17.27%) AI
10 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (14.55%) Code Quality
12 16 (14.55%) Machine Learning
12 16 (14.55%) Migration
13 15 (13.64%) Clean Code
14 14 (12.73%) Design Patterns
14 14 (12.73%) Secrets Management
15 13 (11.82%) Data Modelling
15 13 (11.82%) Data Pipeline
15 13 (11.82%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 51 (46.36%) Python
2 30 (27.27%) SQL
3 22 (20.00%) Java
4 19 (17.27%) TypeScript
5 17 (15.45%) JavaScript
6 16 (14.55%) Bash
7 14 (12.73%) C#
8 8 (7.27%) Go
9 7 (6.36%) PHP
10 6 (5.45%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.64%) Bicep
11 4 (3.64%) Groovy
12 3 (2.73%) Rust
13 2 (1.82%) Ruby
14 1 (0.91%) Delphi
14 1 (0.91%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 29 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.18%) Degree
4 6 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) QA
2 5 (4.55%) NCSC
3 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.64%) NIST
3 4 (3.64%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.73%) WCAG
5 2 (1.82%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.82%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.82%) PSD2
5 2 (1.82%) SEPA
6 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 53 (48.18%) Docker
2 7 (6.36%) Varnish
3 3 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (30.00%) Terraform
3 30 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 27 (24.55%) Grafana
5 16 (14.55%) Ansible
6 15 (13.64%) Argo
7 10 (9.09%) Istio
8 7 (6.36%) linkerd
8 7 (6.36%) Rancher
9 2 (1.82%) Knative
9 2 (1.82%) Packer
10 1 (0.91%) Consul
10 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (10.00%) Splunk
2 10 (9.09%) Databricks
2 10 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 9 (8.18%) OpenAI
3 9 (8.18%) VMware
4 7 (6.36%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.45%) Adobe
5 6 (5.45%) Google
5 6 (5.45%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.73%) Apple
7 3 (2.73%) Confluent
8 2 (1.82%) Foundry
8 2 (1.82%) Oracle
8 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.91%) MKS
9 1 (0.91%) SAP
9 1 (0.91%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.91%) Solace