Replication Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Replication
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 67 66
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +21
Contract jobs citing Replication 21 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.87% 0.28% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.65% 1.06% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -22.33%
75th Percentile £488 £425 £431
90th Percentile - - £488
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £76.50 - -

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Replication falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 316 189 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.23% 26.10% 37.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 120 173
10th Percentile £250 £158 £271
25th Percentile £400 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +16.17% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £575
90th Percentile £600 £738 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 11
10th Percentile - £19.65 £31.04
25th Percentile - £24.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.45 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% -53.15% +230.96%
75th Percentile - £53.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £23.53 £57.53 £68.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% +23.11%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Replication relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Replication job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Replication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Replication

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Replication.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Replication

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 19 (90.48%) Confluence
2 9 (42.86%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (90.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 19 (90.48%) Amazon EC2
2 19 (90.48%) Amazon ELB
2 19 (90.48%) Amazon S3
2 19 (90.48%) AWS KMS
2 19 (90.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 11 (52.38%) Azure
4 10 (47.62%) Amazon Glacier
5 9 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (42.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (90.48%) DNS
1 19 (90.48%) Firewall
1 19 (90.48%) FTP
1 19 (90.48%) HTTP
1 19 (90.48%) SMTP
1 19 (90.48%) SSH
2 9 (42.86%) IMAP
2 9 (42.86%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (90.48%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (90.48%) Git
1 19 (90.48%) Jenkins
1 19 (90.48%) JIRA
1 19 (90.48%) Vagrant
General
1 21 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (76.19%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (76.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (76.19%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (71.43%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (71.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (42.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (38.10%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Integration Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) LDAP
2 2 (9.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (90.48%) Amazon Linux
1 19 (90.48%) Linux
1 19 (90.48%) VMS
1 19 (90.48%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Change Management
1 19 (90.48%) Cloud Security
1 19 (90.48%) Configuration Management
1 19 (90.48%) DevOps
1 19 (90.48%) Patch Management
1 19 (90.48%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (9.52%) CRM
3 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
3 2 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (9.52%) Use Case
3 2 (9.52%) Validation
4 1 (4.76%) Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Groovy
1 19 (90.48%) PowerShell
1 19 (90.48%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) Perl
3 9 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (90.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 9 (42.86%) Azure Certification
3 9 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 19 (90.48%) DFS Replication
1 19 (90.48%) Docker
2 10 (47.62%) Active Directory
3 9 (42.86%) Dovecot
3 9 (42.86%) Postfix
3 9 (42.86%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (90.48%) Grafana
1 19 (90.48%) Prometheus
1 19 (90.48%) Terraform
2 9 (42.86%) Nessus
2 9 (42.86%) Proxmox
3 2 (9.52%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) ServiceNow
2 9 (42.86%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (9.52%) Dell
3 2 (9.52%) Isilon