Replication Contracts in Edinburgh

Replication
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 69 98
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 +35
Contract jobs citing Replication 10 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.53% 0.82% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.83% 2.36% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £500 £408 £486
25th Percentile £522 £420 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £440 £496
Median % change year-on-year +40.80% -11.29% -5.52%
75th Percentile £675 £494 £508
90th Percentile £725 - £511
Scotland median daily rate £589 £458 £508
% change year-on-year +28.74% -9.94% -3.24%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 261 296 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.97% 34.66% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 161 283
10th Percentile £194 £213 £182
25th Percentile £353 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -0.84% -4.20%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £493
% change year-on-year -0.54% -6.23% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 5
10th Percentile - £13.21 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.74 £18.13 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% -14.72% -51.68%
75th Percentile £23.00 £24.18 £21.67
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £40.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £18.20 £15.25
% change year-on-year +9.73% +19.38% -64.55%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Replication in Edinburgh

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Replication in Edinburgh

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in Edinburgh

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) GIS
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) DBA
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle Licensing
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Solaris
3 4 (40.00%) HPUX
4 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) High Availability
2 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) ITSM
4 3 (30.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Software Licensing
4 3 (30.00%) Systems Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) Sun
1 4 (40.00%) Unisys
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat