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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 412 482
Rank change year-on-year -113 +70 +43
Contract jobs citing Redis 106 106 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.44% 1.92% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 82 54
10th Percentile £400 £425 £375
25th Percentile £438 £457 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £713 £747 £609
90th Percentile £774 £750 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £478 £490
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.45% +3.16%
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 7,372 5,511 7,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 18.92% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,943 3,773 5,232
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% -4.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £762 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 102 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.13 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.75% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £72.63 £65.34 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.38 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £30.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.54% -11.94% -40.26%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -101 93 £513 -19.61% 96
London -91 55 £575 -14.81% 57
UK excluding London -70 34 £433 -9.52% 45
Work from Home -67 28 £500 -12.66% 47
North of England -63 12 £425 -1.16% 12
Midlands - 11 £400 - 2
South East -59 10 £480 +2.89% 21
East Midlands - 7 £393 -
North East -22 5 £425 -7.61% 4
Yorkshire - 5 - - 2
South West -25 4 £700 +35.92% 6
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
North West -43 2 £538 +34.50% 6
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 6 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.89%) Apache
2 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.89%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Magento
2 1 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (51.89%) AWS
2 41 (38.68%) GitHub
3 37 (34.91%) Azure
4 35 (33.02%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (19.81%) Serverless
6 18 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (14.15%) GCP
8 12 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (10.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (10.38%) Amazon S3
9 11 (10.38%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (7.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (7.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (7.55%) OpenShift
12 6 (5.66%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (4.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) DNS
2 2 (1.89%) Firewall
2 2 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (44.34%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (20.75%) NoSQL
3 21 (19.81%) MongoDB
4 18 (16.98%) Relational Database
5 17 (16.04%) SQL Server
6 12 (11.32%) MySQL
7 11 (10.38%) DynamoDB
8 10 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (6.60%) Aerospike
9 7 (6.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (5.66%) Hazelcast
11 4 (3.77%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
11 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.77%) DocumentDB
11 4 (3.77%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.83%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.89%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.89%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (28.30%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.58%) Git
2 25 (23.58%) GitLab
3 10 (9.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (7.55%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.66%) Vite
6 5 (4.72%) JUnit
7 4 (3.77%) Gradle
7 4 (3.77%) Maven
7 4 (3.77%) Snyk
8 3 (2.83%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.89%) Gatling
9 2 (1.89%) JIRA
10 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.94%) git-flow
10 1 (0.94%) Moq
10 1 (0.94%) NUnit
10 1 (0.94%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.94%) Serilog
10 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (25.47%) Finance
2 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Front Office
4 9 (8.49%) Banking
4 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Games
9 1 (0.94%) Military
9 1 (0.94%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (45.28%) Developer
2 15 (14.15%) Senior
3 14 (13.21%) Architect
4 13 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Backend Developer
5 12 (11.32%) C# Developer
6 10 (9.43%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.55%) AWS Architect
7 8 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.66%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.72%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.72%) C# Developer - Commodities
9 5 (4.72%) Front Office Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (44.34%) Kafka
2 24 (22.64%) React
3 23 (21.70%) REST
4 21 (19.81%) Node.js
5 20 (18.87%) OAuth
5 20 (18.87%) RESTful
6 19 (17.92%) Spring
7 17 (16.04%) OAuth2
8 16 (15.09%) Spring Boot
9 14 (13.21%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (10.38%) .NET
10 11 (10.38%) AngularJS
10 11 (10.38%) FastAPI
10 11 (10.38%) JWT
10 11 (10.38%) Keycloak
11 10 (9.43%) gRPC
11 10 (9.43%) JPA
11 10 (9.43%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (8.49%) OpenID
12 9 (8.49%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.47%) Cloud Native
2 19 (17.92%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (14.15%) Derivative
4 8 (7.55%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.72%) Replication
6 4 (3.77%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.83%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.94%) FMCG
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Life Science
9 1 (0.94%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Unix
2 1 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (66.04%) CI/CD
2 60 (56.60%) Microservices
3 55 (51.89%) DevOps
4 40 (37.74%) Observability
5 38 (35.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (30.19%) Containerisation
7 23 (21.70%) Test Automation
8 22 (20.75%) Agile
9 20 (18.87%) AI
10 16 (15.09%) Migration
11 15 (14.15%) Clean Code
11 15 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (14.15%) Software Engineering
12 14 (13.21%) Code Quality
12 14 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (13.21%) Machine Learning
13 13 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (12.26%) Event-Driven
13 13 (12.26%) Secrets Management
14 12 (11.32%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 54 (50.94%) Python
2 37 (34.91%) SQL
3 29 (27.36%) Java
4 17 (16.04%) TypeScript
5 16 (15.09%) C#
6 14 (13.21%) Bash
7 12 (11.32%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.49%) Go
9 6 (5.66%) PHP
10 4 (3.77%) Bicep
11 3 (2.83%) Groovy
11 3 (2.83%) Rust
12 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.94%) C
13 1 (0.94%) Elixir
13 1 (0.94%) R
13 1 (0.94%) Ruby
13 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.55%) Degree
4 7 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) QA
2 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.77%) NIST
2 4 (3.77%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.77%) WCAG
3 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) NCSC
4 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.89%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.89%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.89%) PSD2
4 2 (1.89%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (51.89%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) Varnish
3 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (52.83%) Kubernetes
2 36 (33.96%) Terraform
3 31 (29.25%) Prometheus
4 29 (27.36%) Grafana
5 15 (14.15%) Argo
6 13 (12.26%) Ansible
7 9 (8.49%) Istio
8 5 (4.72%) linkerd
8 5 (4.72%) Rancher
9 2 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.94%) Kibana
10 1 (0.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (8.49%) Dynatrace
2 8 (7.55%) Splunk
3 7 (6.60%) Databricks
3 7 (6.60%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.66%) Google
4 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.66%) VMware
5 5 (4.72%) Adobe
6 4 (3.77%) Confluent
6 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.83%) Apple
7 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.89%) Foundry
8 2 (1.89%) MKS
8 2 (1.89%) Oracle
8 2 (1.89%) TikTok