DFS Replication Contracts

Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DFS Replication skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DFS Replication over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 716 820
Rank change year-on-year +131 +104 -158
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 1 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.010% 0.012%
As % of the System Software category 0.021% 0.075% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile - £263 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 £466
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% -41.02% +7.68%
75th Percentile - £330 £506
90th Percentile - £447 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £466
% change year-on-year - - +9.26%

All System Software Skills
UK

DFS Replication is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,700 7,960 12,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.26% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 5,688 8,602
10th Percentile £195 £205 £200
25th Percentile £325 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £488 £448
% change year-on-year -5.64% +8.94% +7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 293 326
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.30 £13.19
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.79 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +162.50% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £39.80 £18.12
% change year-on-year -47.24% +119.71% +2.06%

DFS Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DFS Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DFS Replication.

Daily rate trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DFS Replication.

Hourly rate trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DFS Replication within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +122 1 £475 +72.73%
England +115 1 £475 +72.73% 1
South East - 1 £475 -
UK excluding London - 1 £475 - 1

DFS Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware