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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 384 509
Rank change year-on-year -124 +125 -42
Contract jobs citing Redis 121 127 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.43% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.74% 2.25% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 91 65
10th Percentile £393 £402 £354
25th Percentile £402 £448 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £613
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £441 £411 £450
% change year-on-year +7.36% -8.72% -5.26%
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 6,938 5,648 7,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.05% 19.00% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,768 3,890 5,157
10th Percentile £350 £351 £340
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £488
% change year-on-year -4.04% +1.54% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 96 172
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.19 £24.06 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -31.49%
75th Percentile £74.84 £64.56 £58.81
90th Percentile £84.80 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.76%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -110 107 £500 -16.67% 71
UK excluding London -57 55 £441 +7.36% 55
London -80 53 £575 -14.81% 32
Work from Home -38 35 £433 -17.62% 48
North of England -45 21 £425 -5.56% 20
Midlands -39 18 £549 +37.13% 4
North West - 14 £420 - 14
South East -59 12 £434 +6.05% 22
West Midlands -54 10 £700 +75.00% 4
South West -31 9 £700 +20.17% 2
East Midlands - 8 £397 -
North East -11 4 £425 -5.56% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £625 - 3
Scotland +10 2 £537 +2.29% 1
East of England - 2 - - 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 (4.96%) Confluence
2 5 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Camunda
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (54.55%) AWS
2 49 (40.50%) Azure
3 45 (37.19%) GitHub
4 36 (29.75%) Serverless
5 35 (28.93%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (14.05%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (11.57%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (10.74%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
10 12 (9.92%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (9.09%) OpenShift
12 9 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (7.44%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (7.44%) GCP
12 9 (7.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (6.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 6 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) DNS
2 4 (3.31%) Firewall
3 3 (2.48%) SSL
3 3 (2.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) BGP
4 1 (0.83%) DMZ
4 1 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.83%) Internet
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
4 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.83%) VSAN
4 1 (0.83%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (44.63%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (21.49%) NoSQL
3 15 (12.40%) MongoDB
4 14 (11.57%) SQL Server
5 13 (10.74%) DynamoDB
6 12 (9.92%) DocumentDB
6 12 (9.92%) MySQL
7 10 (8.26%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (8.26%) Relational Database
8 9 (7.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (6.61%) Aerospike
9 8 (6.61%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (4.13%) Data Lake
11 4 (3.31%) Delta Lake
11 4 (3.31%) Pinecone
11 4 (3.31%) Weaviate
12 3 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.48%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.48%) Couchbase
13 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (22.31%) GitLab
1 27 (22.31%) Jenkins
2 26 (21.49%) Git
3 8 (6.61%) JIRA
4 7 (5.79%) JUnit
4 7 (5.79%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (5.79%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.96%) Mocha
5 6 (4.96%) Vite
6 4 (3.31%) MLflow
6 4 (3.31%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.48%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.65%) Gatling
8 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.83%) Mockito
9 1 (0.83%) Moq
9 1 (0.83%) NUnit
9 1 (0.83%) Xcode
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.14%) Finance
3 19 (15.70%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.09%) Banking
5 7 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.96%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Front Office
7 4 (3.31%) Retail
8 3 (2.48%) Games
9 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 54 (44.63%) Developer
2 18 (14.88%) Architect
3 17 (14.05%) Senior
4 15 (12.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.09%) Backend Developer
6 9 (7.44%) C# Developer
6 9 (7.44%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Technical Architect
9 6 (4.96%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) AWS Architect
9 6 (4.96%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Gen AI Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (34.71%) Kafka
2 37 (30.58%) Node.js
3 32 (26.45%) REST
4 30 (24.79%) React
5 18 (14.88%) RESTful
6 16 (13.22%) FastAPI
7 15 (12.40%) gRPC
7 15 (12.40%) Jest
7 15 (12.40%) OAuth
8 14 (11.57%) Keycloak
8 14 (11.57%) Spring Boot
9 13 (10.74%) Spring
10 12 (9.92%) CSS
10 12 (9.92%) GraphQL
10 12 (9.92%) OAuth2
10 12 (9.92%) WebSockets
11 11 (9.09%) Flask
11 11 (9.09%) OpenID
12 10 (8.26%) .NET
12 10 (8.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.14%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.26%) Derivative
4 9 (7.44%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.96%) Client/Server
6 5 (4.13%) Replication
7 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.48%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.83%) PKI
9 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Windows
3 2 (1.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (61.98%) CI/CD
2 69 (57.02%) Microservices
3 58 (47.93%) DevOps
4 43 (35.54%) Observability
5 40 (33.06%) Containerisation
6 38 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (23.14%) Agile
8 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (16.53%) Test Automation
10 19 (15.70%) AI
11 17 (14.05%) Machine Learning
12 16 (13.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (11.57%) Code Quality
13 14 (11.57%) Design Patterns
13 14 (11.57%) Migration
13 14 (11.57%) Secrets Management
14 13 (10.74%) Clean Code
14 13 (10.74%) Open Source
15 12 (9.92%) Generative AI
15 12 (9.92%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.11%) Python
2 41 (33.88%) SQL
3 22 (18.18%) Java
4 20 (16.53%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.70%) Bash
5 19 (15.70%) TypeScript
6 14 (11.57%) Go
7 13 (10.74%) C#
8 7 (5.79%) PHP
9 5 (4.13%) Bicep
9 5 (4.13%) Groovy
9 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.31%) Rust
11 1 (0.83%) Delphi
11 1 (0.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.92%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (7.44%) Degree
6 4 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) QA
2 9 (7.44%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.79%) WCAG
4 6 (4.96%) NCSC
5 5 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.13%) NIST
6 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.65%) GDPR
7 2 (1.65%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.65%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.65%) PSD2
7 2 (1.65%) SEPA
8 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 58 (47.93%) Docker
2 6 (4.96%) Varnish
3 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (46.28%) Kubernetes
2 36 (29.75%) Grafana
2 36 (29.75%) Prometheus
3 35 (28.93%) Terraform
4 17 (14.05%) Ansible
5 12 (9.92%) Argo
6 9 (7.44%) Istio
7 7 (5.79%) linkerd
8 6 (4.96%) Rancher
9 2 (1.65%) Knative
9 2 (1.65%) Packer
10 1 (0.83%) Consul
10 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (9.92%) Splunk
2 11 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 11 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.26%) Databricks
3 10 (8.26%) OpenAI
4 9 (7.44%) VMware
5 8 (6.61%) Google
6 7 (5.79%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.13%) Adobe
8 4 (3.31%) New Relic
8 4 (3.31%) Oracle
8 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.48%) Apple
9 3 (2.48%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.65%) Confluent
10 2 (1.65%) Foundry
10 2 (1.65%) Informatica
10 2 (1.65%) Pega
10 2 (1.65%) Rollbar
10 2 (1.65%) Salesforce