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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 421 445
Rank change year-on-year -119 +24 +74
Contract jobs citing Redis 163 133 124
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 2.20% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 100 80
10th Percentile £400 £374 £361
25th Percentile £425 £418 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £483 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -5.85% -21.15%
75th Percentile £601 £688 £641
90th Percentile £701 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -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 8,168 6,036 6,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.89% 18.21% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,444 4,038 4,635
10th Percentile £353 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £484
% change year-on-year - -1.76% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 88 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £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 £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.13 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.86% +20.00% -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 3 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 3 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 -115 131 £529 +9.59% 676
London -73 83 £534 +0.47% 229
Work from Home -76 43 £550 +22.22% 765
UK excluding London -127 39 £475 +1.06% 728
North of England -78 15 £500 +14.29% 120
Yorkshire -30 11 £575 +47.44% 34
East of England -18 8 £425 -10.53% 76
Midlands -48 7 £350 -46.15% 82
South East -66 6 £613 +40.80% 105
East Midlands - 5 £300 - 37
North East - 4 £425 - 36
Scotland -29 3 £525 +5.00% 158
West Midlands -44 2 £575 -11.54% 45

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 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.07%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.84%) Apache
3 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.84%) Confluence
4 2 (1.23%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.61%) Traefik
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (60.74%) AWS
2 69 (42.33%) Azure
2 69 (42.33%) GitHub
3 59 (36.20%) GitHub Actions
4 37 (22.70%) GCP
5 24 (14.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (10.43%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (9.20%) Serverless
9 13 (7.98%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.75%) AWS KMS
12 10 (6.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 10 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (5.52%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.52%) Datadog
13 9 (5.52%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (5.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.29%) DNS
2 6 (3.68%) 5G
2 6 (3.68%) HTTP
2 6 (3.68%) SSH
2 6 (3.68%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.07%) 4G
4 1 (0.61%) Internet
4 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (66.26%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (46.01%) MongoDB
3 36 (22.09%) MySQL
4 30 (18.40%) NoSQL
5 23 (14.11%) SQL Server
6 21 (12.88%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (9.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (8.59%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.29%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.29%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (3.68%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.68%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.68%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.07%) Power BI
11 5 (3.07%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.84%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.23%) Flink
13 2 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (31.90%) Git
2 51 (31.29%) Jenkins
3 36 (22.09%) GitLab
4 30 (18.40%) JIRA
5 10 (6.13%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.68%) Mocha
6 6 (3.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.07%) Gradle
7 5 (3.07%) Maven
7 5 (3.07%) Selenium
8 4 (2.45%) Snyk
8 4 (2.45%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.45%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.84%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.84%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.23%) git-flow
10 2 (1.23%) JMeter
10 2 (1.23%) JUnit
10 2 (1.23%) Sinon.JS
General
1 41 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.18%) Finance
3 26 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.59%) Banking
5 11 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.75%) Retail
6 9 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.68%) Front Office
9 5 (3.07%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.84%) Law
10 3 (1.84%) Legal
10 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Local Government
11 2 (1.23%) Marketing
11 2 (1.23%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.61%) Games
12 1 (0.61%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (47.85%) Developer
2 29 (17.79%) Senior
3 24 (14.72%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.82%) Backend Developer
4 16 (9.82%) Python Developer
5 14 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.59%) Lead
5 14 (8.59%) Node.js Developer
6 13 (7.98%) Senior Developer
6 13 (7.98%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.13%) DBA
9 9 (5.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Administrator
10 8 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (42.33%) REST
2 62 (38.04%) Kafka
2 62 (38.04%) Terraform
3 37 (22.70%) RESTful
3 37 (22.70%) Spring
4 30 (18.40%) Spring Boot
5 28 (17.18%) Node.js
5 28 (17.18%) React
6 22 (13.50%) Jest
7 21 (12.88%) CSS
7 21 (12.88%) OAuth
8 19 (11.66%) FastAPI
8 19 (11.66%) RabbitMQ
9 18 (11.04%) HTML
10 17 (10.43%) Django
10 17 (10.43%) JWT
10 17 (10.43%) OpenAPI
10 17 (10.43%) Swagger
11 14 (8.59%) Celery
11 14 (8.59%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 26 (15.95%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (10.43%) Replication
4 10 (6.13%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.91%) Derivative
6 6 (3.68%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.07%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.07%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.88%) Linux
2 6 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.45%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.45%) Unix
4 2 (1.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (69.33%) CI/CD
2 84 (51.53%) DevOps
3 63 (38.65%) Microservices
4 62 (38.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (31.90%) Agile
6 51 (31.29%) Observability
7 47 (28.83%) AI
8 42 (25.77%) Containerisation
9 41 (25.15%) Event-Driven
10 35 (21.47%) Validation
11 33 (20.25%) Software Engineering
12 32 (19.63%) Test Automation
13 27 (16.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 25 (15.34%) Scrum
15 23 (14.11%) Clean Code
15 23 (14.11%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (13.50%) Performance Optimisation
17 21 (12.88%) API Development
17 21 (12.88%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 75 (46.01%) Python
2 51 (31.29%) Java
2 51 (31.29%) SQL
3 30 (18.40%) Bash
4 20 (12.27%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.82%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.98%) C#
7 10 (6.13%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.29%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.29%) Ruby
9 6 (3.68%) Go
9 6 (3.68%) Rust
10 4 (2.45%) Groovy
10 4 (2.45%) PHP
11 3 (1.84%) Delphi
12 2 (1.23%) C
12 2 (1.23%) Elixir
12 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.93%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) Degree
4 11 (6.75%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (6.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.20%) QA
2 11 (6.75%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.45%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 95 (58.28%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.61%) Varnish
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (59.51%) Kubernetes
2 39 (23.93%) Grafana
3 35 (21.47%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.98%) Ansible
5 10 (6.13%) Argo
6 5 (3.07%) Kibana
6 5 (3.07%) Kustomize
6 5 (3.07%) Rancher
7 4 (2.45%) Bosun
7 4 (2.45%) Istio
8 2 (1.23%) Packer
8 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.61%) logstash
9 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (4.91%) Google
1 8 (4.91%) Splunk
2 7 (4.29%) Dynatrace
2 7 (4.29%) OpenAI
2 7 (4.29%) ServiceNow
2 7 (4.29%) TikTok
3 6 (3.68%) Oracle
4 5 (3.07%) Databricks
4 5 (3.07%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.07%) Okta
5 4 (2.45%) New Relic
6 3 (1.84%) Confluent
6 3 (1.84%) Foundry
6 3 (1.84%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.84%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.23%) IBM
7 2 (1.23%) MKS
8 1 (0.61%) F5
8 1 (0.61%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) VMware