Redis: market
Redis is an in-memory data store: cache, sessions, queues, counters, pub/sub and rate limiting with sub-millisecond latency. We track 1 489 open positions listing Redis, 1 366 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. 41% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Redis demand.
The Redis market currently has 1,489 open roles, 1,366 of them freshly observed. Median salary $9,246/mo. Observed candidate pool — 1,524.
41% of Redis postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 70 of 1489 jobs; remote share from 1235 with a stated format; 1366 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,489 |
| Observed supply | 1,524 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $3,000, one in ten over $18,141. Half the market falls between $5,012 and $15,250. Sample: 70.
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 |
|---|---|
| RU | 227 |
| PL | 222 |
| US | 222 |
| IN | 71 |
| GB | 62 |
| DE | 47 |
| KZ | 40 |
| CA | 35 |
| HK | 28 |
| UZ | 21 |
The top country for Redis demand is Russia (227 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 | 626 |
| Fullstack | 251 |
| DevOps | 176 |
| Architect | 57 |
| Frontend | 50 |
| Data | 49 |
| Platform Engineer | 36 |
| ML/AI | 30 |
| QA | 23 |
| AI Engineer | 23 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 550 |
| middle | 140 |
| principal | 137 |
| lead | 62 |
| junior | 57 |
Senior-and-above is about 79% of 946 graded Redis postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 772 employers. The largest accounts for 2.3%, the top ten for 11.8%; the remaining 88.2% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.3% |
| top-3 | 5.0% |
| top-10 | 11.8% |
| long tail | 88.2% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 136 sources; the largest accounts for 21.5% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Redis postings arrive mostly from job boards & aggregators and ATS & career sites.
Recent openings
- Senior Fullstack Engineer
- Lead C# .Net /Engineering Manager (Antifraud | Fintech) · RU
- Senior Backend Engineer - Go ( Java Spring Boot welcome ) | IT Vendor, 40K - 60K · HK
- .NET Developer · PL
- Senior Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure · US · $15,417
- Sr. Engineer, Database Reliability · US · $18,142
- Desenvolvedor Full Stack Java (Pleno) - Shop · BR
- .NET Developer (Mid) · PL
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 2026-10-20
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 1 489 open positions naming Redis explicitly; the real reach is wider — backend postings often imply it without mention.