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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 425 432
Rank change year-on-year -100 +7 +78
Contract jobs citing Redis 166 133 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 2.22% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 100 81
10th Percentile £400 £374 £363
25th Percentile £425 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £476 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.08% -9.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £679 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +1.29% +3.33% -14.29%
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 8,110 6,002 6,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.87% 18.16% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,395 4,007 4,601
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 82 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.58 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.88 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -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 8 October 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 13 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 October 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 -87 133 £533 +11.81% 317
London -82 86 £533 +0.24% 230
Work from Home -74 46 £550 +22.22% 124
UK excluding London -113 38 £471 +1.29% 106
North of England -64 15 £500 +11.11% 19
Yorkshire -27 11 £575 +47.44% 2
East of England -29 7 £425 -10.53% 23
Midlands -49 7 £350 -46.15% 10
South East -67 5 £625 +43.68% 20
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 5
Scotland -20 4 £475 -5.00% 10
North East - 4 £425 - 2
West Midlands -49 2 £575 -11.54% 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 7 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.01%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.41%) Confluence
4 3 (1.81%) Apache
4 3 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.81%) nginx
5 2 (1.20%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.20%) Traefik
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Trello
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (59.04%) AWS
2 72 (43.37%) Azure
3 71 (42.77%) GitHub
4 59 (35.54%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (22.89%) GCP
6 24 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (10.24%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (10.24%) Serverless
9 13 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.63%) AWS KMS
12 10 (6.02%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 10 (6.02%) Azure AKS
12 10 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (5.42%) Datadog
13 9 (5.42%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (5.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.22%) DNS
2 6 (3.61%) 5G
2 6 (3.61%) HTTP
2 6 (3.61%) SSH
2 6 (3.61%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.01%) 4G
4 2 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.60%) Internet
5 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (65.06%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (45.78%) MongoDB
3 36 (21.69%) MySQL
4 30 (18.07%) NoSQL
5 26 (15.66%) SQL Server
6 19 (11.45%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (9.64%) Relational Database
8 15 (9.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.22%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.22%) DynamoDB
9 7 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.22%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.61%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.61%) Hazelcast
10 6 (3.61%) Power BI
11 5 (3.01%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.81%) Data Vault
14 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 53 (31.93%) Git
2 52 (31.33%) Jenkins
3 35 (21.08%) GitLab
4 32 (19.28%) JIRA
5 10 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.61%) Gradle
6 6 (3.61%) Maven
6 6 (3.61%) Mocha
6 6 (3.61%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (3.61%) Selenium
7 4 (2.41%) Snyk
7 4 (2.41%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.41%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.81%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.81%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.81%) JUnit
9 2 (1.20%) git-flow
9 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.20%) Sinon.JS
General
1 44 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.47%) Finance
3 27 (16.27%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.64%) Banking
5 13 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.63%) Retail
7 9 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.22%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.61%) Front Office
9 6 (3.61%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.81%) Law
10 3 (1.81%) Legal
10 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Local Government
11 2 (1.20%) Marketing
11 2 (1.20%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.60%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (48.80%) Developer
2 29 (17.47%) Senior
3 25 (15.06%) Java Developer
4 17 (10.24%) Python Developer
5 16 (9.64%) Backend Developer
6 14 (8.43%) Lead
6 14 (8.43%) Node.js Developer
6 14 (8.43%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.83%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.02%) DBA
10 9 (5.42%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (4.82%) Administrator
11 8 (4.82%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.82%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) C# Developer
12 7 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (43.37%) REST
2 63 (37.95%) Terraform
3 62 (37.35%) Kafka
4 38 (22.89%) Spring
5 37 (22.29%) RESTful
6 31 (18.67%) Spring Boot
7 30 (18.07%) Node.js
7 30 (18.07%) React
8 22 (13.25%) CSS
8 22 (13.25%) Jest
8 22 (13.25%) OAuth
9 20 (12.05%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (11.45%) HTML
11 18 (10.84%) FastAPI
11 18 (10.84%) JWT
12 17 (10.24%) OpenAPI
12 17 (10.24%) Swagger
13 16 (9.64%) Django
14 14 (8.43%) hapi
15 13 (7.83%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 28 (16.87%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (11.45%) Replication
4 10 (6.02%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.82%) Derivative
6 7 (4.22%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.01%) Autonomous Agent
8 5 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (3.01%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.05%) Linux
2 6 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.41%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.41%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (67.47%) CI/CD
2 86 (51.81%) DevOps
3 66 (39.76%) Microservices
4 63 (37.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (31.93%) Agile
5 53 (31.93%) Observability
6 47 (28.31%) AI
7 44 (26.51%) Containerisation
8 43 (25.90%) Event-Driven
9 37 (22.29%) Validation
10 35 (21.08%) Software Engineering
10 35 (21.08%) Test Automation
11 29 (17.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 25 (15.06%) Scrum
13 24 (14.46%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (13.86%) Clean Code
15 22 (13.25%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (12.65%) Data Modelling
16 21 (12.65%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 76 (45.78%) Python
2 53 (31.93%) Java
2 53 (31.93%) SQL
3 30 (18.07%) Bash
4 22 (13.25%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.43%) C#
7 10 (6.02%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.82%) Ruby
9 7 (4.22%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.22%) Rust
10 6 (3.61%) Go
11 4 (2.41%) Groovy
11 4 (2.41%) PHP
12 3 (1.81%) Bicep
12 3 (1.81%) Delphi
13 2 (1.20%) C
13 2 (1.20%) Elixir
14 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (30.72%) Security Cleared
2 40 (24.10%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.23%) Degree
4 11 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.64%) QA
2 13 (7.83%) Data Quality
3 10 (6.02%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.41%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) HL7
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 96 (57.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.60%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 98 (59.04%) Kubernetes
2 41 (24.70%) Grafana
3 35 (21.08%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.23%) Ansible
5 7 (4.22%) Argo
6 5 (3.01%) Kibana
6 5 (3.01%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.41%) Bosun
7 4 (2.41%) Istio
7 4 (2.41%) Rancher
8 2 (1.20%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.20%) Packer
8 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.60%) logstash
9 1 (0.60%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (5.42%) Dynatrace
1 9 (5.42%) Oracle
2 8 (4.82%) Google
3 7 (4.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.22%) OpenAI
3 7 (4.22%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.22%) Splunk
3 7 (4.22%) TikTok
4 6 (3.61%) Okta
5 5 (3.01%) Databricks
6 4 (2.41%) New Relic
7 3 (1.81%) Confluent
7 3 (1.81%) Foundry
7 3 (1.81%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (1.81%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.20%) F5
8 2 (1.20%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.20%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) MKS
9 1 (0.60%) Atlassian