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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 386 496
Rank change year-on-year -125 +110 +8
Contract jobs citing Redis 118 125 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.43% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.62% 2.25% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 93 61
10th Percentile £398 £401 £359
25th Percentile £405 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +26.32% -36.67%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £613
90th Percentile £766 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £411 £463
% change year-on-year +5.30% -11.19% -2.63%
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 7,266 5,548 7,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.84% 18.99% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,997 3,849 5,159
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £649 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -2.06% -0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 109 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.03 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.65 £76.50 £71.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £36.75
% change year-on-year +58.03% -13.90% -33.18%

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 10 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 10 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 -111 101 £500 -16.67% 55
UK excluding London -93 50 £433 +5.30% 38
London -97 50 £575 -14.81% 30
Work from Home -49 33 £433 -8.95% 38
North of England -63 19 £425 -5.56% 12
Midlands - 14 £401 - 4
South East -55 13 £458 +11.86% 14
North West -23 9 £400 - 10
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 1
North East -15 6 £425 -6.59%
West Midlands - 6 £700 - 3
South West -31 5 £700 +20.17% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £625 - 2
Scotland +8 2 £537 +2.29% 2
East of England - 2 - - 1

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 4 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.39%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) Apache
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) CMS
2 1 (0.85%) Drupal
2 1 (0.85%) MQSeries
2 1 (0.85%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Magento
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (61.86%) AWS
2 46 (38.98%) Azure
3 39 (33.05%) GitHub
4 30 (25.42%) Serverless
5 29 (24.58%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (14.41%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (14.41%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (9.32%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (9.32%) OpenShift
9 10 (8.47%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (7.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 9 (7.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.78%) GCP
11 8 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (5.08%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) DNS
2 3 (2.54%) Firewall
2 3 (2.54%) SSL
2 3 (2.54%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (45.76%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (26.27%) NoSQL
3 15 (12.71%) MongoDB
4 14 (11.86%) MySQL
4 14 (11.86%) Relational Database
4 14 (11.86%) SQL Server
5 12 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (10.17%) DynamoDB
6 11 (9.32%) DocumentDB
7 9 (7.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (6.78%) Aerospike
9 7 (5.93%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (3.39%) BigQuery
10 4 (3.39%) Pinecone
11 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.54%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.69%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.69%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 26 (22.03%) Git
1 26 (22.03%) GitLab
2 25 (21.19%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.08%) JUnit
3 6 (5.08%) Mocha
3 6 (5.08%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (5.08%) Vite
4 5 (4.24%) JIRA
4 5 (4.24%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.24%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.54%) Spinnaker
6 2 (1.69%) Gatling
6 2 (1.69%) MLflow
7 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.85%) Moq
7 1 (0.85%) NUnit
7 1 (0.85%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.85%) Serilog
General
1 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.88%) Finance
3 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.47%) Banking
5 6 (5.08%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.24%) Front Office
7 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Games
8 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (42.37%) Developer
2 17 (14.41%) Architect
2 17 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (13.56%) Senior
4 10 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (7.63%) C# Developer
6 8 (6.78%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.93%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Developer
8 6 (5.08%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.24%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.24%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (38.98%) Kafka
2 36 (30.51%) Node.js
3 31 (26.27%) React
4 25 (21.19%) REST
5 22 (18.64%) RESTful
6 17 (14.41%) OAuth
7 16 (13.56%) Jest
7 16 (13.56%) Keycloak
8 15 (12.71%) Spring
8 15 (12.71%) Spring Boot
9 14 (11.86%) OAuth2
10 13 (11.02%) FastAPI
11 12 (10.17%) .NET
12 11 (9.32%) CSS
12 11 (9.32%) GraphQL
12 11 (9.32%) gRPC
13 10 (8.47%) AngularJS
13 10 (8.47%) HTML
13 10 (8.47%) OpenID
14 9 (7.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.88%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.47%) Derivative
4 8 (6.78%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.08%) Client/Server
5 6 (5.08%) Replication
6 3 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.54%) Energy Derivatives
7 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) LIMS
8 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 66 (55.93%) Microservices
3 52 (44.07%) DevOps
4 43 (36.44%) Observability
5 40 (33.90%) Containerisation
6 38 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (25.42%) Agile
8 25 (21.19%) Test Automation
9 19 (16.10%) AI
10 18 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (14.41%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (13.56%) Code Quality
12 16 (13.56%) Machine Learning
12 16 (13.56%) Migration
13 15 (12.71%) Clean Code
13 15 (12.71%) Secrets Management
14 14 (11.86%) Design Patterns
15 13 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
15 13 (11.02%) LLM
15 13 (11.02%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.92%) Python
2 37 (31.36%) SQL
3 23 (19.49%) JavaScript
3 23 (19.49%) TypeScript
4 22 (18.64%) Java
5 17 (14.41%) Bash
6 14 (11.86%) C#
7 9 (7.63%) Go
8 7 (5.93%) PHP
9 6 (5.08%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.24%) Groovy
11 4 (3.39%) Bicep
12 3 (2.54%) Rust
13 2 (1.69%) Ruby
14 1 (0.85%) Delphi
14 1 (0.85%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 31 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.63%) Degree
5 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.39%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) QA
2 9 (7.63%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.78%) WCAG
4 5 (4.24%) NCSC
5 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.39%) NIST
5 4 (3.39%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.69%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.69%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.69%) PSD2
6 2 (1.69%) SEPA
7 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (49.15%) Docker
2 7 (5.93%) Varnish
3 3 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (48.31%) Kubernetes
2 34 (28.81%) Terraform
3 32 (27.12%) Prometheus
4 29 (24.58%) Grafana
5 16 (13.56%) Ansible
6 15 (12.71%) Argo
7 10 (8.47%) Istio
8 8 (6.78%) Rancher
9 7 (5.93%) linkerd
10 2 (1.69%) Knative
10 2 (1.69%) Packer
11 1 (0.85%) Consul
11 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (9.32%) Dynatrace
1 11 (9.32%) Splunk
2 10 (8.47%) Databricks
3 9 (7.63%) OpenAI
3 9 (7.63%) VMware
4 7 (5.93%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.93%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.08%) Adobe
5 6 (5.08%) Google
6 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.54%) Apple
7 3 (2.54%) Confluent
8 2 (1.69%) Foundry
8 2 (1.69%) Oracle
8 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.85%) MKS
9 1 (0.85%) SAP
9 1 (0.85%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.85%) Solace