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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 417 508
Rank change year-on-year -98 +91 +5
Contract jobs citing Redis 113 109 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.57% 1.97% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 82 54
10th Percentile £393 £425 £379
25th Percentile £413 £461 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £493
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +24.37% -32.07%
75th Percentile £650 £747 £584
90th Percentile £768 £750 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £477 £495
% change year-on-year -9.23% -3.74% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £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 7,210 5,533 7,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.95% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,864 3,812 5,210
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 98 145
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -125 97 £500 -21.57% 56
London -85 50 £594 -12.04% 32
UK excluding London -80 43 £433 -9.23% 26
Work from Home -57 34 £433 -24.29% 29
North of England -54 17 £425 -1.16% 3
Midlands - 13 £400 - 5
South East -52 12 £480 +0.42% 14
North West -30 8 £438 +9.50% 2
East Midlands - 8 £397 - 1
North East -16 5 £425 -7.61% 1
West Midlands - 5 £700 - 4
South West -30 4 £700 +35.92% 2
Yorkshire - 4 - -
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 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.77%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (56.64%) AWS
2 44 (38.94%) GitHub
3 37 (32.74%) Azure
4 33 (29.20%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (23.89%) Serverless
6 17 (15.04%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (13.27%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (11.50%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (9.73%) Amazon S3
10 11 (9.73%) GCP
11 9 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (7.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (7.96%) OpenShift
12 8 (7.08%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (5.31%) Kong
14 6 (5.31%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) SSL
2 3 (2.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.77%) Firewall
3 2 (1.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (46.90%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (23.01%) NoSQL
3 22 (19.47%) MongoDB
4 18 (15.93%) Relational Database
5 14 (12.39%) SQL Server
6 13 (11.50%) MySQL
7 12 (10.62%) DynamoDB
8 11 (9.73%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (8.85%) DocumentDB
10 8 (7.08%) Aerospike
10 8 (7.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (7.08%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (4.42%) Hazelcast
12 4 (3.54%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.54%) Pinecone
13 3 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.65%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.65%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (25.66%) Git
1 29 (25.66%) Jenkins
2 27 (23.89%) GitLab
3 7 (6.19%) Octopus Deploy
3 7 (6.19%) TeamCity
4 6 (5.31%) JUnit
4 6 (5.31%) Vite
5 5 (4.42%) JIRA
6 4 (3.54%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.65%) Gradle
7 3 (2.65%) Maven
7 3 (2.65%) Snyk
7 3 (2.65%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.77%) Gatling
8 2 (1.77%) MLflow
9 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.88%) git-flow
9 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.88%) Serilog
General
1 26 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.24%) Finance
3 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.96%) Banking
5 7 (6.19%) Front Office
6 6 (5.31%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Games
7 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.77%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 49 (43.36%) Developer
2 16 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (13.27%) Architect
4 14 (12.39%) Senior
5 10 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (7.96%) Backend Developer
6 9 (7.96%) C# Developer
7 8 (7.08%) AWS Architect
8 7 (6.19%) AWS Developer
8 7 (6.19%) Java Developer
8 7 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.31%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (43.36%) Kafka
2 30 (26.55%) Node.js
3 27 (23.89%) React
4 24 (21.24%) REST
5 23 (20.35%) RESTful
6 21 (18.58%) OAuth
7 19 (16.81%) Spring
8 18 (15.93%) OAuth2
9 16 (14.16%) Spring Boot
10 14 (12.39%) Keycloak
11 13 (11.50%) FastAPI
11 13 (11.50%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (9.73%) AngularJS
12 11 (9.73%) OpenID
13 10 (8.85%) .NET
13 10 (8.85%) Jest
13 10 (8.85%) JWT
14 9 (7.96%) gRPC
14 9 (7.96%) OpenTelemetry
14 9 (7.96%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 17 (15.04%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (9.73%) Derivative
4 7 (6.19%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.31%) Replication
6 5 (4.42%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.65%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
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 10 (8.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (65.49%) CI/CD
2 64 (56.64%) Microservices
3 53 (46.90%) DevOps
4 45 (39.82%) Observability
5 38 (33.63%) Containerisation
5 38 (33.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (22.12%) Test Automation
7 24 (21.24%) Agile
8 21 (18.58%) AI
9 17 (15.04%) Clean Code
9 17 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (14.16%) Code Quality
10 16 (14.16%) Migration
10 16 (14.16%) Secrets Management
11 15 (13.27%) Machine Learning
11 15 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.27%) Software Engineering
12 14 (12.39%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (12.39%) LLM
13 13 (11.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 53 (46.90%) Python
2 35 (30.97%) SQL
3 26 (23.01%) Java
4 19 (16.81%) TypeScript
5 17 (15.04%) JavaScript
6 15 (13.27%) Bash
7 12 (10.62%) C#
8 8 (7.08%) Go
9 7 (6.19%) PHP
10 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.54%) Bicep
11 4 (3.54%) Groovy
12 3 (2.65%) Rust
13 2 (1.77%) Ruby
14 1 (0.88%) C
14 1 (0.88%) Elixir
14 1 (0.88%) R
14 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.19%) Degree
4 7 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.50%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.54%) NCSC
2 4 (3.54%) NIST
2 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.54%) WCAG
3 2 (1.77%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.77%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.77%) PSD2
3 2 (1.77%) SEPA
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 61 (53.98%) Docker
2 6 (5.31%) Varnish
3 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (51.33%) Kubernetes
2 35 (30.97%) Terraform
3 31 (27.43%) Prometheus
4 29 (25.66%) Grafana
5 16 (14.16%) Argo
6 13 (11.50%) Ansible
7 10 (8.85%) Istio
8 7 (6.19%) Rancher
9 6 (5.31%) linkerd
10 2 (1.77%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.77%) Knative
11 1 (0.88%) Kibana
11 1 (0.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.85%) Databricks
1 10 (8.85%) Dynatrace
2 9 (7.96%) OpenAI
2 9 (7.96%) Splunk
3 8 (7.08%) VMware
4 6 (5.31%) Adobe
4 6 (5.31%) Google
5 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.54%) Confluent
6 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.65%) Apple
8 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.77%) Foundry
8 2 (1.77%) MKS
8 2 (1.77%) Oracle
8 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.88%) SAP
9 1 (0.88%) Sitecore