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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 433 474
Rank change year-on-year -109 +41 +55
Contract jobs citing Redis 133 119 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.63% 2.00% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 94 65
10th Percentile £400 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £508 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +2.53% -26.67%
75th Percentile £642 £750 £625
90th Percentile £766 - £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +7.25% -4.21% -
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 8,148 5,949 7,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.14% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,411 4,031 5,070
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 90 103
10th Percentile £16.28 £19.20 £14.40
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £39.50 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.69 £60.78
90th Percentile £76.30 £78.83 £72.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -119 107 £525 +1.94% 110
London -78 72 £568 -5.42% 70
Work from Home -68 34 £513 -0.49% 47
UK excluding London -78 32 £488 +7.25% 49
North of England -63 14 £425 +6.25% 18
Yorkshire -46 8 £500 +28.21% 3
South East -68 7 £513 +17.82% 11
North East -39 5 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands - 5 £700 - 4
East of England - 4 £850 - 4
South West -40 3 £700 +35.92% 9
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 4
Scotland -15 2 £525 +2.44% 1
East Midlands - 2 £407 -
North West -55 1 £476 +15.39% 13

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 7 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.26%) Apache
4 2 (1.50%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Magento
1 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (51.13%) AWS
2 59 (44.36%) Azure
3 58 (43.61%) GitHub
4 49 (36.84%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (19.55%) GCP
6 15 (11.28%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (10.53%) Serverless
8 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (6.77%) Azure AKS
10 9 (6.77%) Datadog
11 8 (6.02%) Snowflake
12 7 (5.26%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.51%) Akamai
13 6 (4.51%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.51%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) Internet
2 1 (0.75%) DNS
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (56.39%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (34.59%) MongoDB
3 18 (13.53%) Relational Database
3 18 (13.53%) SQL Server
4 17 (12.78%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.27%) MySQL
6 7 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (5.26%) InterSystems Cache
7 6 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.51%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.76%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.76%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.76%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.01%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.26%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.50%) Aerospike
11 2 (1.50%) Flink
11 2 (1.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 40 (30.08%) Jenkins
2 36 (27.07%) Git
3 22 (16.54%) JIRA
4 21 (15.79%) GitLab
5 10 (7.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (6.02%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.76%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.01%) Gradle
8 4 (3.01%) Maven
8 4 (3.01%) Snyk
8 4 (3.01%) Vite
9 3 (2.26%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.26%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.50%) JUnit
11 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.75%) Mocha
11 1 (0.75%) Moq
11 1 (0.75%) NUnit
11 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
General
1 32 (24.06%) Finance
2 30 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.28%) Banking
3 15 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.52%) Front Office
5 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.02%) Retail
7 7 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.51%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.26%) Law
9 3 (2.26%) Legal
9 3 (2.26%) Marketing
10 2 (1.50%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.75%) Games
11 1 (0.75%) International Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Local Government
11 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 71 (53.38%) Developer
2 23 (17.29%) Senior
3 20 (15.04%) Java Developer
4 19 (14.29%) Backend Developer
5 13 (9.77%) Node.js Developer
6 12 (9.02%) C# Developer
6 12 (9.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.52%) Lead
9 9 (6.77%) Software Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.26%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.51%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.51%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.51%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (4.51%) Site Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (36.84%) REST
2 44 (33.08%) Kafka
3 31 (23.31%) Node.js
4 30 (22.56%) React
4 30 (22.56%) Spring
5 24 (18.05%) Spring Boot
6 23 (17.29%) RESTful
7 21 (15.79%) Jest
8 19 (14.29%) OAuth
9 17 (12.78%) OpenAPI
9 17 (12.78%) Swagger
10 16 (12.03%) JWT
11 14 (10.53%) AngularJS
12 13 (9.77%) .NET
12 13 (9.77%) hapi
12 13 (9.77%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (9.02%) Celery
13 12 (9.02%) FastAPI
13 12 (9.02%) OAuth2
14 11 (8.27%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.32%) Cloud Native
2 27 (20.30%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.77%) Derivative
4 9 (6.77%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.51%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.76%) Replication
7 4 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.01%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.50%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.27%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (63.91%) CI/CD
2 69 (51.88%) DevOps
3 61 (45.86%) Microservices
4 41 (30.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (30.08%) AI
5 40 (30.08%) Containerisation
6 39 (29.32%) Observability
7 38 (28.57%) Agile
8 27 (20.30%) Test Automation
9 25 (18.80%) Clean Code
9 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
10 24 (18.05%) Event-Driven
11 23 (17.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (13.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 18 (13.53%) OWASP
13 17 (12.78%) Machine Learning
14 16 (12.03%) API Design
14 16 (12.03%) Refactoring
14 16 (12.03%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.87%) Python
2 40 (30.08%) Java
3 38 (28.57%) SQL
4 23 (17.29%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.29%) C#
6 15 (11.28%) Bash
7 14 (10.53%) JavaScript
8 9 (6.77%) Go
9 5 (3.76%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.01%) Bicep
10 4 (3.01%) PHP
10 4 (3.01%) Ruby
11 3 (2.26%) Delphi
11 3 (2.26%) Elixir
11 3 (2.26%) Groovy
11 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.26%) Rust
12 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.75%) R
12 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.51%) Degree
3 6 (4.51%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 7 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) WCAG
3 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 76 (57.14%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.50%) Varnish
3 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (61.65%) Kubernetes
2 41 (30.83%) Terraform
3 29 (21.80%) Prometheus
4 27 (20.30%) Grafana
5 13 (9.77%) Ansible
6 10 (7.52%) Argo
7 5 (3.76%) Rancher
8 3 (2.26%) Bosun
8 3 (2.26%) Istio
9 2 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.50%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.75%) Kibana
10 1 (0.75%) linkerd
Vendors
1 10 (7.52%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.02%) Google
3 7 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.26%) TikTok
4 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.76%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.01%) Databricks
6 4 (3.01%) Foundry
6 4 (3.01%) Okta
7 3 (2.26%) New Relic
7 3 (2.26%) Oracle
7 3 (2.26%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.26%) Splunk
8 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.50%) Confluent
8 2 (1.50%) MKS
8 2 (1.50%) VMware
9 1 (0.75%) Adobe
9 1 (0.75%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.75%) NVIDIA