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 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 114 114
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 +48
Contract jobs citing Replication 12 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.46% 0.83% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 2.27% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 13
10th Percentile £469 £421 -
25th Percentile £553 £513 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% +6.60% -7.08%
75th Percentile £717 £675 £693
90th Percentile £736 £735 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550

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 902 749 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.47% 36.52% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 511 494
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £456 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +1.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £709
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 6
10th Percentile £19.44 £17.57 £19.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.28 £22.45
Median hourly rate £35.82 £28.29 £25.40
Median % change year-on-year +26.64% +11.36% -27.43%
75th Percentile £58.92 £43.39 £27.00
90th Percentile £69.70 £86.43 £59.75
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £30.16
% change year-on-year +22.12% -3.61% -13.83%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -23 10 £643 +22.38% 5
West End of London - 2 £620 - 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HCM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Stack
2 2 (16.67%) OCI
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Matillion
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) GIS
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (8.33%) ER Studio
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Data Integration Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Integration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cassandra Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Database Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL Server DBA
3 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) SUSE
3 1 (8.33%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (41.67%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) AI
3 4 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (25.00%) Project Management
4 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (25.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 2 (16.67%) System Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) CQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) Solace
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) VMware