Replication Contract Job Trends in England

Replication
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 389 400
Rank change year-on-year +44 +11 +80
Contract jobs citing Replication 170 140 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 1.38% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 87 111
10th Percentile £339 £370 £350
25th Percentile £450 £468 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £586
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile £67.18 - £55.00
25th Percentile £69.31 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £73.25 - £67.50
75th Percentile £76.81 - £74.38
90th Percentile £78.73 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £73.25 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +170.00%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,971 10,152 13,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 30.82% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,272 6,271 9,491
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 414 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Replication in England

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in England

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Replication

Replication
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Replication in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Replication in England

Replication
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
London +5 73 £556 +1.14% 13
Midlands +11 37 £475 +5.56% 9
West Midlands +17 35 £475 -13.40% 4
South East +37 33 £556 +11.25% 12
North of England -5 18 £475 -5.00% 10
South West +22 11 £520 -20.00% 4
North West -11 10 £475 -2.31% 5
Yorkshire -10 8 £606 +10.23% 5
East of England +7 4 £475 -17.39% 1
East Midlands -2 2 - - 4
Replication
UK

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (15.29%) Confluence
2 13 (7.65%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (7.65%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (7.65%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (7.65%) Exchange Server 2013
2 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.65%) Office Communications Server
2 13 (7.65%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.65%) SharePoint Server
2 13 (7.65%) Skype for Business
3 11 (6.47%) nginx
4 4 (2.35%) Apache
4 4 (2.35%) MQSeries
4 4 (2.35%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (1.76%) CICS
6 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.18%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.59%) IIS
7 1 (0.59%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.59%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.59%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 1 (0.59%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 51 (30.00%) AWS
2 38 (22.35%) Azure
3 27 (15.88%) Amazon EC2
4 26 (15.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 26 (15.29%) Amazon S3
5 24 (14.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (13.53%) AWS KMS
7 22 (12.94%) Amazon ELB
8 13 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.06%) Amazon Glacier
10 11 (6.47%) Route 53
11 10 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.71%) Serverless
13 7 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.12%) GitHub
13 7 (4.12%) Snowflake
14 6 (3.53%) Entra ID
14 6 (3.53%) Power Platform
15 5 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (2.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 54 (31.76%) DNS
2 35 (20.59%) Firewall
3 31 (18.24%) SAN
4 24 (14.12%) HTTP
5 23 (13.53%) SSH
6 22 (12.94%) FTP
6 22 (12.94%) SMTP
7 21 (12.35%) DHCP
8 15 (8.82%) VPN
9 13 (7.65%) DDNS
10 12 (7.06%) VLAN
11 11 (6.47%) TCP/IP
12 10 (5.88%) IMAP
12 10 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (4.12%) iSCSI
14 6 (3.53%) NAS
14 6 (3.53%) WAN
15 5 (2.94%) VSAN
16 4 (2.35%) Kerberos
16 4 (2.35%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.41%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (15.88%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.06%) Oracle Exadata
5 11 (6.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (6.47%) Oracle Database
6 10 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.53%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (3.53%) Power BI
9 5 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.94%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.94%) DB2
9 5 (2.94%) Redis
10 4 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.35%) Oracle ODI
10 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.35%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (17.06%) Git
2 29 (17.06%) JIRA
3 22 (12.94%) Vagrant
4 4 (2.35%) DBeaver
4 4 (2.35%) Subversion
4 4 (2.35%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) CANoe
5 1 (0.59%) GitLab
5 1 (0.59%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 25 (14.71%) Finance
4 16 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.24%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (7.65%) Banking
7 9 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.94%) International Banking
8 5 (2.94%) Legal
9 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Automotive
10 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Electronics
11 1 (0.59%) French Language
11 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (15.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 26 (15.29%) Platform Engineer
2 19 (11.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 18 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (10.59%) Support Engineer
4 17 (10.00%) DBA
5 16 (9.41%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.24%) Architect
8 13 (7.65%) Exchange Engineer
8 13 (7.65%) Exchange Support
9 12 (7.06%) Administrator
9 12 (7.06%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.47%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) Storage Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Infrastructure Architect
12 8 (4.71%) Senior
13 7 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.59%) Kafka
2 15 (8.82%) LDAP
3 11 (6.47%) Middleware
3 11 (6.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 8 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.71%) JSON
5 7 (4.12%) REST
5 7 (4.12%) XML
6 5 (2.94%) Flash
7 4 (2.35%) EDIFACT
7 4 (2.35%) TIBCO EMS
8 3 (1.76%) AWT
8 3 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.76%) GWT
8 3 (1.76%) JMS
8 3 (1.76%) Rendezvous
8 3 (1.76%) SAML
8 3 (1.76%) SOAP
8 3 (1.76%) Ultra Messaging
8 3 (1.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.41%) Clustering
3 9 (5.29%) Mainframe
4 8 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.76%) CMDB
8 3 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.76%) Equities
8 3 (1.76%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.76%) PKI
8 3 (1.76%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.18%) SCADA
10 1 (0.59%) HACMP
10 1 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 70 (41.18%) Linux
2 66 (38.82%) Windows
3 26 (15.29%) VMS
4 22 (12.94%) Amazon Linux
5 13 (7.65%) Unix
5 13 (7.65%) Windows Server 2003
6 12 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (7.06%) Ubuntu
7 11 (6.47%) Solaris
8 8 (4.71%) Windows Server
9 5 (2.94%) HPUX
10 4 (2.35%) AIX
11 3 (1.76%) zOS
12 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.59%) MVS
13 1 (0.59%) SUSE
13 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.18%) High Availability
2 48 (28.24%) DevOps
3 44 (25.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 36 (21.18%) CI/CD
4 36 (21.18%) Performance Tuning
5 32 (18.82%) Platform Engineering
6 29 (17.06%) Configuration Management
7 26 (15.29%) Change Management
8 25 (14.71%) Patch Management
9 24 (14.12%) ITIL
10 23 (13.53%) Cloud Security
11 19 (11.18%) Agile
11 19 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (9.41%) Migration
14 13 (7.65%) Architectural Design
14 13 (7.65%) Content Management
14 13 (7.65%) Enterprise Content Management
14 13 (7.65%) Enterprise Search
14 13 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 51 (30.00%) Python
2 48 (28.24%) SQL
3 42 (24.71%) PowerShell
4 25 (14.71%) Groovy
5 23 (13.53%) Java
6 18 (10.59%) Perl
7 13 (7.65%) Bash
8 8 (4.71%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.35%) ABAP
9 4 (2.35%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.18%) AWK
10 2 (1.18%) C#
10 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.18%) Go
10 2 (1.18%) JCL
10 2 (1.18%) sed
10 2 (1.18%) VBScript
11 1 (0.59%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.59%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 58 (34.12%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.59%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.24%) AWS Certification
4 14 (8.24%) Degree
5 13 (7.65%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.76%) OCP
8 3 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.18%) CCNA
9 2 (1.18%) CCNP
9 2 (1.18%) MCSE
9 2 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.18%) VCAP
9 2 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.24%) GDPR
2 8 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.35%) SLA
5 3 (1.76%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.76%) QA
6 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.59%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (25.88%) Active Directory
2 32 (18.82%) Docker
3 26 (15.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (12.94%) DFS Replication
5 13 (7.65%) Brightmail
5 13 (7.65%) ISA Server
6 11 (6.47%) NFS
7 10 (5.88%) Dovecot
7 10 (5.88%) Postfix
7 10 (5.88%) Squid
7 10 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (4.71%) vSphere
9 7 (4.12%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (4.12%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (3.53%) GPFS
11 5 (2.94%) Hyper-V
12 4 (2.35%) Veritas File System
12 4 (2.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (2.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (19.41%) Terraform
2 25 (14.71%) Grafana
2 25 (14.71%) Prometheus
3 18 (10.59%) Kubernetes
4 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Clustering
5 10 (5.88%) Nessus
5 10 (5.88%) Proxmox
6 9 (5.29%) Ansible
7 7 (4.12%) Data Guard
7 7 (4.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (4.12%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (3.53%) Kibana
8 6 (3.53%) logstash
8 6 (3.53%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.94%) NetBackup
9 5 (2.94%) vRealize
10 4 (2.35%) QRadar
10 4 (2.35%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.35%) SCCM
11 3 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 39 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 28 (16.47%) VMware
4 23 (13.53%) Oracle
5 22 (12.94%) IBM
6 13 (7.65%) Cisco
6 13 (7.65%) Veeam
7 11 (6.47%) NetApp
8 10 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (5.29%) Confluent
9 9 (5.29%) Dell
10 7 (4.12%) TIBCO
11 6 (3.53%) Red Hat
11 6 (3.53%) SAP
12 5 (2.94%) CyberArk
12 5 (2.94%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.35%) Qualys
13 4 (2.35%) SaltStack
13 4 (2.35%) Solace
13 4 (2.35%) Splunk