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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 638 740 699
Rank change year-on-year +102 -41 +313
Permanent jobs citing Memcached 5 2 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.003% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.071% 0.015% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £46,375 -
25th Percentile - £55,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £76,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +38.64% -31.25%
75th Percentile - £95,938 £57,500
90th Percentile - £105,125 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% -

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 7,020 13,439 13,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.94% 21.03% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,139 8,149 11,052
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 2 December 2025. 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 +112 5 - -
London +75 4 - -
UK excluding London +91 1 - -
Work from Home +87 1 - -
South East - 1 - -

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Redis
2 4 (80.00%) Couchbase
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Development Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (60.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Canary Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Distributed Cache
3 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) OO
3 3 (60.00%) OOP
3 3 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk