Replication Contract Job Trends in Central London

Replication
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 121 132
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +44
Contract jobs citing Replication 9 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.44% 0.23% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 0.75% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £389 £420 £496
25th Percentile £447 £488 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £556 £688 £650
90th Percentile £618 £740 -
London median daily rate £580 £532 £550
% change year-on-year +9.02% -3.27% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 760 671 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.89% 31.36% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 428 561
10th Percentile £350 £375 £288
25th Percentile £450 £472 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £696 £713
90th Percentile £788 £800 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 15
10th Percentile £19.27 - £14.45
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +12.13% -43.21%
75th Percentile £29.50 £26.19 £32.63
90th Percentile £41.79 - £48.85
London median hourly rate £27.71 £38.54 £28.88
% change year-on-year -28.09% +33.45% -16.09%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Replication job vacancy trend in Central London

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Replication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in Central London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in Central London

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Replication.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Replication

Replication
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
City of London -1 9 £525 -12.50% 2
Replication
London

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Datadog
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
1 2 (22.22%) Sumo Logic
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) dbt
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) CouchDB
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Backup Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Database Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Project Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Memcached
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (22.22%) Data Science
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) LLM
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (22.22%) Server Hardening
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Go
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 1 (11.11%) OCP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) NFS
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
2 1 (11.11%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (11.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) Commvault
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Pure Storage
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) Veeam
1 1 (11.11%) VMware