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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 431 495
Rank change year-on-year -98 +64 +23
Contract jobs citing Redis 127 112 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.63% 2.00% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 88 57
10th Percentile £400 £418 £365
25th Percentile £466 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £697 £750 £625
90th Percentile £778 - £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £458 £483
% change year-on-year +3.50% -5.18% +1.58%
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 7,801 5,590 7,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.30% 18.44% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,179 3,788 5,384
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 98 151
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.49 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.88 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -29.08%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.31 £53.94
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £33.93
% change year-on-year +18.52% -6.75% -38.31%

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 27 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 27 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 -130 104 £525 -12.50% 54
London -89 65 £575 -14.81% 24
UK excluding London -97 34 £474 +3.50% 34
Work from Home -84 29 £529 -2.94% 22
North of England -58 13 £425 -1.16% 7
Midlands - 9 £447 - 2
South East -62 8 £513 +17.82% 17
Yorkshire - 7 £500 - 1
North East -32 5 £425 -7.61% 1
East Midlands - 5 £393 - 1
South West -34 4 £700 +35.92% 2
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 1
East of England - 4 £850 - 6
North West -49 1 £476 +19.00% 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 6 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.57%) Apache
2 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.57%) MQSeries
2 2 (1.57%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (51.97%) AWS
2 53 (41.73%) GitHub
3 52 (40.94%) Azure
4 46 (36.22%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (19.69%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (17.32%) Serverless
7 20 (15.75%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (14.96%) GCP
9 14 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (10.24%) Amazon S3
11 12 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (9.45%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (9.45%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (7.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (6.30%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (4.72%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (4.72%) Azure AKS
14 6 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (4.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) DNS
2 2 (1.57%) Firewall
2 2 (1.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (51.97%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (29.92%) MongoDB
3 23 (18.11%) NoSQL
4 22 (17.32%) Relational Database
5 18 (14.17%) SQL Server
6 16 (12.60%) MySQL
7 11 (8.66%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (8.66%) DynamoDB
8 8 (6.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.72%) InterSystems Cache
10 5 (3.94%) Aerospike
10 5 (3.94%) Data Lake
10 5 (3.94%) Hazelcast
11 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.15%) DocumentDB
11 4 (3.15%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.57%) Metadata
13 2 (1.57%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 44 (34.65%) Jenkins
2 34 (26.77%) Git
3 21 (16.54%) GitLab
4 14 (11.02%) JIRA
5 10 (7.87%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.30%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.72%) Vite
8 4 (3.15%) Gradle
8 4 (3.15%) JUnit
8 4 (3.15%) Maven
8 4 (3.15%) Snyk
9 3 (2.36%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.79%) Gatling
10 1 (0.79%) git-flow
10 1 (0.79%) Moq
10 1 (0.79%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.79%) Serilog
10 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (22.05%) Finance
2 26 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.87%) Banking
4 10 (7.87%) Front Office
5 8 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.15%) Retail
9 3 (2.36%) Marketing
10 2 (1.57%) Law
10 2 (1.57%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (51.97%) Developer
2 21 (16.54%) Senior
3 17 (13.39%) Backend Developer
4 16 (12.60%) Java Developer
5 13 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.45%) Architect
6 12 (9.45%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.45%) Node.js Developer
7 11 (8.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.30%) Lead
8 8 (6.30%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.51%) AWS Architect
9 7 (5.51%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.72%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Senior Backend Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) C# Developer - Commodities
11 5 (3.94%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (36.22%) Kafka
2 43 (33.86%) REST
3 31 (24.41%) Node.js
3 31 (24.41%) React
4 25 (19.69%) Spring
5 24 (18.90%) OAuth
5 24 (18.90%) RESTful
6 22 (17.32%) Spring Boot
7 20 (15.75%) Jest
8 17 (13.39%) JWT
9 16 (12.60%) OAuth2
10 15 (11.81%) OpenAPI
10 15 (11.81%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (11.81%) Swagger
11 13 (10.24%) .NET
11 13 (10.24%) AngularJS
12 12 (9.45%) Celery
13 11 (8.66%) FastAPI
13 11 (8.66%) hapi
13 11 (8.66%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.71%) Cloud Native
2 24 (18.90%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (11.02%) Derivative
4 8 (6.30%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.94%) Replication
6 4 (3.15%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.36%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.36%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.57%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.66%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (62.99%) CI/CD
2 71 (55.91%) Microservices
3 68 (53.54%) DevOps
4 41 (32.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (29.92%) Observability
6 37 (29.13%) Containerisation
7 29 (22.83%) Agile
8 28 (22.05%) Test Automation
9 27 (21.26%) AI
10 24 (18.90%) Clean Code
11 21 (16.54%) Event-Driven
11 21 (16.54%) Software Engineering
12 20 (15.75%) OWASP
13 19 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (13.39%) Code Quality
15 17 (13.39%) Migration
16 16 (12.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 16 (12.60%) Refactoring
17 15 (11.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.82%) Python
2 39 (30.71%) SQL
3 35 (27.56%) Java
4 20 (15.75%) TypeScript
5 18 (14.17%) C#
6 15 (11.81%) JavaScript
7 14 (11.02%) Bash
8 9 (7.09%) Go
9 6 (4.72%) PHP
10 4 (3.15%) Bicep
11 3 (2.36%) Groovy
12 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.57%) Rust
13 1 (0.79%) C
13 1 (0.79%) Elixir
13 1 (0.79%) R
13 1 (0.79%) Ruby
13 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.51%) Degree
3 7 (5.51%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) QA
2 7 (5.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.15%) NIST
3 4 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.15%) WCAG
4 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) HL7
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.79%) PSD2
5 1 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 74 (58.27%) Docker
2 4 (3.15%) Varnish
3 2 (1.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (60.63%) Kubernetes
2 39 (30.71%) Terraform
3 27 (21.26%) Grafana
3 27 (21.26%) Prometheus
4 15 (11.81%) Ansible
5 10 (7.87%) Argo
6 5 (3.94%) Rancher
7 4 (3.15%) Istio
8 2 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.79%) Kibana
9 1 (0.79%) linkerd
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (7.09%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.30%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.30%) Google
3 6 (4.72%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.72%) TikTok
4 5 (3.94%) Databricks
5 4 (3.15%) Adobe
5 4 (3.15%) Splunk
6 3 (2.36%) Confluent
6 3 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.57%) Apple
7 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.57%) Foundry
7 2 (1.57%) MKS
7 2 (1.57%) Oracle
7 2 (1.57%) VMware