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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 115 122
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +41
Contract jobs citing Replication 11 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.42% 0.83% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 2.30% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 12
10th Percentile £411 £333 -
25th Percentile £478 £481 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £471
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +37.93% -7.14%
75th Percentile £715 £701 £605
90th Percentile £741 £761 £767
London median daily rate £550 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -6.38% +11.90% -4.55%

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 882 740 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.40% 36.12% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 503 512
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £456 £456 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £849
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 9
10th Percentile £19.42 £17.08 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.52 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.75 £29.07 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +36.74% +22.14% -36.39%
75th Percentile £60.73 £50.79 £27.00
90th Percentile £70.88 £88.75 £58.70
London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.50 £30.06
% change year-on-year +27.12% -1.86% -14.11%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -17 11 £575 -11.54% 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HCM
1 1 (9.09%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Stack
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Matillion
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) VPN
2 3 (27.27%) Multicast
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) NAS
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) GIS
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (9.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) ER Studio
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
2 1 (9.09%) DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Principal Data Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Project Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL Server DBA
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 3 (27.27%) Fixed Income
1 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) SUSE
3 1 (9.09%) VMS
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (45.45%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (27.27%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (27.27%) Low Latency
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Management
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (27.27%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 3 (27.27%) Validation
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Database Security
5 2 (18.18%) Dimensional Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) NFS
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (9.09%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) vMotion
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Solace
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Alteryx
3 1 (9.09%) Commvault
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Pure Storage