Hybrid/Remote Memcached Contract Job Trends

Memcached
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Memcached skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 - 392
Rank change year-on-year - - +194
Contract jobs citing Memcached 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.021% - 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.076% - 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.90%
75th Percentile £388 - £713
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £455 - £675
% change year-on-year - - -6.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Memcached falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,624 3,251 4,953
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.95% 25.91% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,762 2,158 3,677
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% +0.05% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 62 59
10th Percentile £31.25 £37.20 £45.25
25th Percentile £40.75 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.84% -33.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £62.93 £58.55
% change year-on-year -14.19% +7.49% -7.44%

Memcached
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Memcached and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Memcached job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Memcached
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Memcached.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Memcached

Memcached
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) Sumo Logic
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) CouchDB
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) htmx
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Server Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian