Redis: market
Redis is an in-memory data store: cache, sessions, queues, counters, pub/sub and rate limiting with sub-millisecond latency. We track 1 596 open positions listing Redis, 1 472 of them fresh. Redis is almost never the primary database — it is required as a mandatory part of the backend stack next to a relational database and a message broker. Most of the demand comes from Backend, Fullstack and DevOps roles. It most often appears next to PostgreSQL, Python and Kafka. 42% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Redis demand.
The Redis market currently has 1,596 open roles, 1,472 of them freshly observed. Median salary $8,510/mo. Observed candidate pool — 1,545.
42% of Redis postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 109 of 1596 jobs; remote share from 1342 with a stated format; 1472 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Redis postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 228
New sources connected: 17 Aug +29 · 24 Aug +28 · 31 Aug +20 · 7 Sept +22 · 14 Sept +18 · 21 Sept +27 · 28 Sept +15 · 5 Oct +11 · 12 Oct +20
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Redis salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Redis postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Redis postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,596 |
| Observed supply | 1,545 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $2,490, one in ten over $17,474. Half the market falls between $4,500 and $15,000. Sample: 109.
The range histogram for Redis postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 248 |
| PL | 246 |
| RU | 235 |
| IN | 76 |
| GB | 61 |
| DE | 44 |
| KZ | 38 |
| CA | 37 |
| HK | 34 |
| BR | 22 |
The top country for Redis demand is the US (248 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Redis most often appears next to PostgreSQL, Python and Kafka. PostgreSQL and Kafka next to it form the typical backend storage 'triangle'.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Backend | 688 |
| Fullstack | 277 |
| DevOps | 184 |
| Architect | 66 |
| Frontend | 53 |
| Data | 45 |
| Platform Engineer | 41 |
| ML/AI | 32 |
| QA | 25 |
| AI Engineer | 23 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 610 |
| middle | 151 |
| principal | 145 |
| lead | 71 |
| junior | 61 |
Senior-and-above is about 80% of 1 038 graded Redis postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 839 employers. The largest accounts for 1.9%, the top ten for 10.2%; the remaining 89.8% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 1.9% |
| top-3 | 4.8% |
| top-10 | 10.2% |
| long tail | 89.8% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 134 sources; the largest accounts for 20.7% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Redis postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Senior Python Developer · PL
- DESARROLLADOR FULLSTACK .NET - LATAM · CR
- Senior Software Engineer - Storefront Services Team · US · $12,958
- Middle Systems Analyst - ведущий системный аналитик · BY
- Tech Lead Backend ( Nest.js)
- PHP Developer · US · $2,491
- Node.js Developer · US · $2,491
- Middle Backend Developer · RU
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-24
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Redis market — short answers from the same data slice.
What is asked about Redis for a backend developer?
Data structures (strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams), caching and invalidation strategies, TTL and eviction, persistence (RDB, AOF), distributed locks and their limits.
Is Redis only a cache?
No: it is used for task queues, leaderboards, rate limiting, session storage, pub/sub and event streams. As a primary data store, however, it is rare.
How big is Redis demand?
The slice tracks 1 596 open positions naming Redis explicitly; the real reach is wider — backend postings often imply it without mention.