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 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 356 381
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 +11
Contract jobs citing Replication 263 123 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 1.48% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 84 97
10th Percentile £402 £366 £281
25th Percentile £452 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.23% +2.80%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £627
90th Percentile £630 £675 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £57.35 £32.62 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £40.30 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £53.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - -
75th Percentile £79.13 £66.15 -
90th Percentile £85.28 £73.68 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £25.80 -
% change year-on-year +182.03% - -

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 13,147 8,326 11,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.29% 34.16% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,325 5,444 7,507
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -0.32% -3.93%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 332 822
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.68 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.36 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.50 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.23% +8.66% +41.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.57 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.95 £84.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £30.14
% change year-on-year +38.46% +7.83% +34.04%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Replication job vacancy trend 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 7 May 2026.

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 7 May 2026.

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 7 May 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
London -14 101 £585 +4.00% 19
North of England -12 58 £477 +5.89% 19
South East -16 48 £525 -3.67% 14
North West -8 34 £465 +3.24% 9
Midlands -48 32 £425 -12.82% 10
West Midlands -37 29 £419 -14.10% 7
Yorkshire -38 22 £487 -4.51% 8
South West -41 10 £548 -0.09% 6
East of England -33 8 £800 +71.38% 2
North East - 3 £425 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £540 - 3
Replication
UK

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.14%) Apache
2 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.14%) Confluence
3 2 (0.76%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.42%) SAP HCM
1 9 (3.42%) SAP Payroll
2 5 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.52%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.14%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.32%) Azure
2 59 (22.43%) AWS
3 37 (14.07%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.22%) OpenShift
4 19 (7.22%) SuccessFactors
5 13 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.80%) GitHub
7 8 (3.04%) SaaS
7 8 (3.04%) Serverless
8 7 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.90%) Azure Stack
10 5 (1.90%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.39%) SAN
2 50 (19.01%) NAS
3 40 (15.21%) DNS
4 34 (12.93%) DHCP
5 32 (12.17%) Kerberos
6 18 (6.84%) Fibre Channel
7 17 (6.46%) VSAN
8 16 (6.08%) Firewall
9 14 (5.32%) iSCSI
10 8 (3.04%) VLAN
11 6 (2.28%) VPN
12 4 (1.52%) Network Security
13 3 (1.14%) IPv4
13 3 (1.14%) OpenLDAP
14 2 (0.76%) LAN
14 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
15 1 (0.38%) FCoE
15 1 (0.38%) Multicast
15 1 (0.38%) WAN
15 1 (0.38%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.66%) MySQL
7 7 (2.66%) SAP HANA
8 6 (2.28%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.28%) Redis
8 6 (2.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.90%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.14%) DB2
10 3 (1.14%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (5.32%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.42%) JIRA
3 7 (2.66%) Git
4 6 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.76%) Flyway
5 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) LSMW
6 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.93%) Finance
3 23 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.18%) Banking
6 8 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.28%) Legal
9 5 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.14%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (11.79%) Architect
2 28 (10.65%) Senior
3 25 (9.51%) Consultant
4 20 (7.60%) Analyst
4 20 (7.60%) DBA
5 19 (7.22%) SAP Consultant
6 17 (6.46%) Storage Analyst
7 16 (6.08%) Wintel Engineer
8 15 (5.70%) Storage Engineer
9 14 (5.32%) SQL DBA
10 13 (4.94%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 10 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.04%) Active Directory Engineer
14 8 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (2.66%) Administrator
15 7 (2.66%) Developer
15 7 (2.66%) SAP HCM Consultant
16 6 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.93%) LDAP
2 21 (7.98%) Flash
3 16 (6.08%) OAuth
3 16 (6.08%) SAML
4 9 (3.42%) SOAP
5 8 (3.04%) Kafka
6 7 (2.66%) XML
7 6 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.28%) Web Services
8 5 (1.90%) REST
9 4 (1.52%) FHIR
9 4 (1.52%) Keycloak
10 3 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (1.14%) SAP ALE
10 3 (1.14%) SAP Basis
11 2 (0.76%) EDIFACT
11 2 (0.76%) JSON
11 2 (0.76%) Middleware
11 2 (0.76%) OpenID
11 2 (0.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.83%) Clustering
2 27 (10.27%) Enterprise Storage
3 22 (8.37%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (6.84%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.04%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.28%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.52%) NHS
9 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.14%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.76%) CMDB
11 2 (0.76%) EMC VNX
11 2 (0.76%) Life Science
11 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.29%) Windows
2 51 (19.39%) Linux
3 42 (15.97%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.80%) Unix
5 8 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.66%) VMS
7 4 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.52%) SUSE
7 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.76%) AIX
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.22%) Migration
2 84 (31.94%) Disaster Recovery
3 80 (30.42%) High Availability
4 61 (23.19%) Performance Tuning
5 55 (20.91%) Capacity Planning
6 41 (15.59%) DevOps
7 34 (12.93%) ITIL
8 32 (12.17%) Agile
9 30 (11.41%) Data Modelling
9 30 (11.41%) Data Protection
9 30 (11.41%) RBAC
10 27 (10.27%) Runbook
11 25 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (9.13%) Project Delivery
12 24 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (9.13%) Validation
13 23 (8.75%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (7.60%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 83 (31.56%) PowerShell
2 39 (14.83%) SQL
3 33 (12.55%) Python
4 13 (4.94%) Bash
4 13 (4.94%) T-SQL
5 10 (3.80%) Groovy
6 9 (3.42%) Java
7 7 (2.66%) ABAP
8 3 (1.14%) Perl
8 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 117 (44.49%) Security Cleared
2 88 (33.46%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (6.84%) VCAP
5 14 (5.32%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.32%) MCSA
5 14 (5.32%) MCSE
6 9 (3.42%) Degree
7 7 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 6 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.28%) NCDA
9 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.76%) PMP
11 2 (0.76%) VCDX
12 1 (0.38%) OCP
12 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.60%) GDPR
2 16 (6.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.28%) NIST
4 6 (2.28%) QA
5 5 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.52%) DICOM
6 4 (1.52%) HL7
7 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.76%) GRC
7 2 (0.76%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.38%) COBIT
8 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (24.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (18.25%) Active Directory
2 48 (18.25%) VMware ESXi
3 47 (17.87%) vSphere
4 42 (15.97%) NFS
5 22 (8.37%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (7.60%) GPFS
7 16 (6.08%) Docker
8 7 (2.66%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.28%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.90%) Firmware
11 4 (1.52%) SRDF
11 4 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.76%) Corosync
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (11.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (11.03%) Ansible
3 27 (10.27%) Terraform
4 26 (9.89%) vCenter Server
5 24 (9.13%) Kubernetes
6 19 (7.22%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (6.46%) vRealize
8 11 (4.18%) Grafana
8 11 (4.18%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.80%) VxRail
10 8 (3.04%) EMC VPLEX
10 8 (3.04%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.04%) vMotion
11 7 (2.66%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (2.28%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (1.90%) SCCM
14 4 (1.52%) Rancher
15 3 (1.14%) Kustomize
15 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
15 3 (1.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 78 (29.66%) VMware
2 70 (26.62%) Microsoft
3 40 (15.21%) Cisco
4 32 (12.17%) SAP
4 32 (12.17%) ServiceNow
5 29 (11.03%) Oracle
6 28 (10.65%) NetApp
7 27 (10.27%) IBM
8 20 (7.60%) Pure Storage
9 16 (6.08%) EMC
10 15 (5.70%) Veeam
11 14 (5.32%) Dell
11 14 (5.32%) Okta
12 13 (4.94%) Commvault
13 11 (4.18%) Brocade
14 7 (2.66%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.66%) Zerto
15 6 (2.28%) RedGate
16 5 (1.90%) BMC
16 5 (1.90%) Remedy