Memcached Job Trends

Memcached
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Memcached skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 698 646 875
Rank change year-on-year -52 +229 +90
Permanent jobs citing Memcached 5 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.021% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.057% 0.11% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - - £42,000
25th Percentile - £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile - £82,000 £64,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% +25.00% -27.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,714 8,443 20,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 20.09% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6,363 6,441 15,734
10th Percentile £39,240 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Memcached
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Memcached relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Memcached job vacancy trend in the UK

Memcached
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Memcached.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Memcached

Memcached
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Memcached within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -69 5 £47,000 -14.55%
London -21 4 - -
UK excluding London -73 1 £47,000 -6.00%
Work from Home - 1 £47,000 -
South West - 1 £47,000 -

Memcached
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Drupal
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Redis
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Couchbase
2 4 (80.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Gatling
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Development Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 4 (80.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 4 (80.00%) Canary Deployment
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Distributed Cache
2 4 (80.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (80.00%) Low Latency
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) OOP
2 4 (80.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Kotlin
1 4 (80.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Consul
1 1 (20.00%) Packer
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) TOWER Software