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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 400 489
Rank change year-on-year -121 +89 +17
Contract jobs citing Redis 112 109 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.54% 1.96% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 82 54
10th Percentile £398 £407 £379
25th Percentile £413 £457 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £613 £498
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +23.12% -30.18%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £597
90th Percentile £766 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.40% +5.26%
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 7,250 5,548 7,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 19.00% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,894 3,807 5,237
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 98 148
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.59 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.81 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.55% -20.90% -29.08%

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 19 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 19 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 -100 98 £500 -23.08% 52
London -89 51 £594 -13.64% 29
UK excluding London -79 43 £433 -9.52% 30
Work from Home -59 32 £433 -20.64% 28
North of England -54 17 £425 -1.16% 5
Midlands - 13 £400 - 3
South East -57 12 £480 +0.42% 14
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 1
North West -33 7 £476 +19.00% 2
North East -19 5 £425 -7.61% 1
Yorkshire - 5 - - 2
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 2
South West -23 4 £700 +35.92% 3
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 5 (4.46%) 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 46 (41.07%) GitHub
3 37 (33.04%) Azure
4 35 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (23.21%) Serverless
6 16 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (11.61%) GCP
9 11 (9.82%) Amazon S3
10 10 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (8.04%) OpenShift
12 8 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (6.25%) Kong
13 7 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (5.36%) Vertex AI
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 50 (44.64%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (23.21%) NoSQL
3 23 (20.54%) MongoDB
4 18 (16.07%) Relational Database
5 15 (13.39%) SQL Server
6 12 (10.71%) DynamoDB
6 12 (10.71%) MySQL
7 10 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (8.93%) DocumentDB
8 8 (7.14%) Aerospike
9 7 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (5.36%) Hazelcast
11 4 (3.57%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.57%) Pinecone
11 4 (3.57%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.68%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.68%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.79%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (26.79%) Jenkins
2 29 (25.89%) Git
3 28 (25.00%) GitLab
4 8 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (6.25%) TeamCity
6 6 (5.36%) JUnit
6 6 (5.36%) Vite
7 5 (4.46%) JIRA
8 4 (3.57%) Gradle
8 4 (3.57%) Maven
8 4 (3.57%) Snyk
8 4 (3.57%) 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%) NUnit
11 1 (0.89%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.89%) Serilog
General
1 25 (22.32%) Finance
1 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.39%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.04%) Banking
4 8 (7.14%) Front Office
5 6 (5.36%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Games
6 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.79%) Marketing
8 1 (0.89%) Military
8 1 (0.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (44.64%) Developer
2 15 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (13.39%) Senior
3 14 (12.50%) Architect
4 11 (9.82%) Backend Developer
5 10 (8.93%) 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
8 7 (6.25%) Software Engineer
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%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (44.64%) Kafka
2 29 (25.89%) Node.js
3 26 (23.21%) React
4 24 (21.43%) REST
5 23 (20.54%) RESTful
6 22 (19.64%) OAuth
7 21 (18.75%) Spring
8 19 (16.96%) OAuth2
9 18 (16.07%) Spring Boot
10 13 (11.61%) FastAPI
10 13 (11.61%) Keycloak
10 13 (11.61%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (9.82%) AngularJS
11 11 (9.82%) JWT
11 11 (9.82%) OpenID
12 10 (8.93%) .NET
12 10 (8.93%) Jest
12 10 (8.93%) JPA
12 10 (8.93%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (8.04%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 18 (16.07%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (10.71%) 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 65 (58.04%) Microservices
3 54 (48.21%) DevOps
4 46 (41.07%) Observability
5 39 (34.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (33.93%) Containerisation
7 24 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 23 (20.54%) Agile
9 21 (18.75%) AI
10 16 (14.29%) Clean Code
10 16 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (14.29%) Migration
10 16 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 15 (13.39%) Code Quality
11 15 (13.39%) Machine Learning
11 15 (13.39%) Secrets Management
12 14 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (12.50%) Event-Driven
12 14 (12.50%) LLM
12 14 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 53 (47.32%) Python
2 36 (32.14%) SQL
3 28 (25.00%) Java
4 18 (16.07%) TypeScript
5 17 (15.18%) JavaScript
6 15 (13.39%) Bash
7 13 (11.61%) C#
8 8 (7.14%) Go
9 6 (5.36%) PHP
10 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.57%) Bicep
12 3 (2.68%) Groovy
12 3 (2.68%) Rust
13 1 (0.89%) C
13 1 (0.89%) Elixir
13 1 (0.89%) R
13 1 (0.89%) Ruby
13 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.25%) Degree
4 7 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 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%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.79%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.79%) PSD2
3 2 (1.79%) SEPA
4 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (52.68%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) Varnish
3 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (52.68%) Kubernetes
2 36 (32.14%) Terraform
3 32 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 30 (26.79%) Grafana
5 17 (15.18%) Argo
6 14 (12.50%) 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 10 (8.93%) Databricks
2 9 (8.04%) Dynatrace
2 9 (8.04%) OpenAI
2 9 (8.04%) Splunk
3 8 (7.14%) VMware
4 7 (6.25%) Google
5 5 (4.46%) Adobe
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.57%) Confluent
7 3 (2.68%) Apple
7 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.79%) Foundry
8 2 (1.79%) MKS
8 2 (1.79%) Oracle
9 1 (0.89%) TikTok