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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 403 509
Rank change year-on-year -98 +106 -9
Contract jobs citing Redis 114 119 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.40% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.58% 2.11% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 91 60
10th Percentile £398 £404 £373
25th Percentile £405 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £641 £709 £603
90th Percentile £763 £750 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -5.98% -3.16% -
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 7,234 5,629 7,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 19.06% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,929 3,888 5,179
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.07%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £483
% change year-on-year -2.56% +0.93% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 107 146
10th Percentile £17.05 £20.35 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £54.78
90th Percentile £82.45 £74.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 23 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 23 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 -111 95 £500 -16.67% 55
London -83 50 £575 -14.81% 30
UK excluding London -88 44 £433 -5.98% 29
Work from Home -45 33 £433 -9.52% 25
North of England -52 15 £425 -1.16% 9
South East -52 13 £476 +16.26% 10
Midlands - 13 £400 - 6
North West -28 9 £400 - 7
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 4
North East -18 4 £425 -7.61% 1
South West -34 4 £700 +20.17% 2
Scotland +4 2 £537 +2.29%
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
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 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.51%) Confluence
3 2 (1.75%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Drupal
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (59.65%) AWS
2 40 (35.09%) Azure
2 40 (35.09%) GitHub
3 30 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
4 29 (25.44%) Serverless
5 17 (14.91%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (14.91%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (9.65%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.77%) OpenShift
10 9 (7.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 9 (7.89%) GCP
11 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (7.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (5.26%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) SSL
2 3 (2.63%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.93%) NoSQL
3 17 (14.91%) MongoDB
4 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
5 14 (12.28%) Relational Database
6 13 (11.40%) MySQL
7 12 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (10.53%) DynamoDB
8 11 (9.65%) DocumentDB
9 9 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (7.02%) Aerospike
11 7 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (3.51%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.51%) Pinecone
13 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.63%) Hazelcast
13 3 (2.63%) Weaviate
14 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (24.56%) GitLab
2 27 (23.68%) Git
2 27 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (5.26%) JIRA
4 6 (5.26%) JUnit
4 6 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 6 (5.26%) Vite
5 5 (4.39%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.63%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.75%) Gatling
7 2 (1.75%) MLflow
8 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.88%) Gradle
8 1 (0.88%) Maven
8 1 (0.88%) Moq
8 1 (0.88%) NUnit
8 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.88%) Serilog
8 1 (0.88%) Snyk
General
1 29 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.56%) Finance
3 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.65%) Banking
5 7 (6.14%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.26%) Front Office
7 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Games
7 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (41.23%) Developer
2 17 (14.91%) Architect
2 17 (14.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (9.65%) Senior
4 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (7.89%) C# Developer
6 8 (7.02%) .NET Developer
6 8 (7.02%) AWS Architect
7 7 (6.14%) AWS Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Backend Developer
8 6 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.39%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.39%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (41.23%) Kafka
2 32 (28.07%) Node.js
3 28 (24.56%) React
4 24 (21.05%) REST
5 22 (19.30%) RESTful
6 18 (15.79%) OAuth
7 16 (14.04%) Spring
8 15 (13.16%) Keycloak
8 15 (13.16%) OAuth2
8 15 (13.16%) Spring Boot
9 12 (10.53%) .NET
9 12 (10.53%) FastAPI
10 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
10 10 (8.77%) gRPC
10 10 (8.77%) Jest
10 10 (8.77%) OpenID
10 10 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (7.89%) GraphQL
12 8 (7.02%) pytest
12 8 (7.02%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (9.65%) Derivative
4 8 (7.02%) AI Agents
5 7 (6.14%) Replication
6 5 (4.39%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.63%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Life Science
9 1 (0.88%) LIMS
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.65%) Linux
2 2 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (64.91%) CI/CD
2 61 (53.51%) Microservices
3 50 (43.86%) DevOps
4 43 (37.72%) Observability
5 39 (34.21%) Containerisation
6 38 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (21.93%) Agile
7 25 (21.93%) Test Automation
8 20 (17.54%) AI
9 17 (14.91%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (14.91%) Machine Learning
10 16 (14.04%) Clean Code
10 16 (14.04%) Code Quality
10 16 (14.04%) Migration
10 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.16%) Secrets Management
12 14 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (12.28%) Design Patterns
12 14 (12.28%) LLM
12 14 (12.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (47.37%) Python
2 34 (29.82%) SQL
3 24 (21.05%) Java
4 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 18 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 16 (14.04%) Bash
7 14 (12.28%) C#
8 8 (7.02%) Go
9 7 (6.14%) PHP
10 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.39%) Groovy
12 4 (3.51%) Bicep
13 3 (2.63%) Rust
14 2 (1.75%) Ruby
15 1 (0.88%) Delphi
15 1 (0.88%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 33 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.89%) Degree
4 7 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) NCSC
3 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.51%) NIST
3 4 (3.51%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.51%) WCAG
4 2 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.75%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.75%) PSD2
4 2 (1.75%) SEPA
5 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (50.88%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Varnish
3 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (51.75%) Kubernetes
2 34 (29.82%) Terraform
3 31 (27.19%) Prometheus
4 28 (24.56%) Grafana
5 16 (14.04%) Argo
6 15 (13.16%) Ansible
7 10 (8.77%) Istio
8 8 (7.02%) Rancher
9 7 (6.14%) linkerd
10 2 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.75%) Knative
11 1 (0.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.77%) Databricks
2 10 (8.77%) Splunk
3 9 (7.89%) OpenAI
3 9 (7.89%) VMware
4 6 (5.26%) Adobe
4 6 (5.26%) Google
4 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.51%) Confluent
7 3 (2.63%) Apple
8 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.75%) Foundry
8 2 (1.75%) MKS
8 2 (1.75%) Oracle
8 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.88%) SAP
9 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.88%) Solace