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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 361 379
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +27
Contract jobs citing Replication 250 114 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 1.37% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 74 106
10th Percentile £395 £363 £291
25th Percentile £426 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £635
90th Percentile £626 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +3.10% -2.72% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £55.25 £78.83 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £79.03 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% - -
75th Percentile £77.13 £79.68 -
90th Percentile £79.25 £79.87 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -18.08% - -

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 13,671 8,341 11,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.34% 34.28% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,571 5,378 7,379
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 722 358 843
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £21.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £44.23 £34.42 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% -5.70% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.17 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.95 £83.59 £72.38
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.47 £35.50
% change year-on-year +26.99% -5.73% +59.48%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -24 95 £580 +7.91% 30
North of England -24 65 £478 +6.22% 7
South East -29 44 £525 -2.78% 16
North West -10 39 £471 +4.58% 5
Midlands -32 28 £425 -10.53% 3
West Midlands -42 26 £419 -11.84% 3
Yorkshire -40 24 £519 +1.76% 2
South West -28 12 £543 -0.46% 5
North East - 3 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £540 -
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 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.60%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.20%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 84 (33.60%) Azure
2 59 (23.60%) AWS
3 44 (17.60%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.80%) OpenShift
5 12 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.80%) GitHub
6 9 (3.60%) SuccessFactors
7 8 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.80%) Serverless
9 6 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.00%) Azure Stack
10 5 (2.00%) Cohesity
10 5 (2.00%) Nutanix
10 5 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.60%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (18.80%) SAN
2 45 (18.00%) NAS
3 41 (16.40%) DNS
4 32 (12.80%) Kerberos
5 31 (12.40%) DHCP
6 18 (7.20%) VSAN
7 17 (6.80%) Fibre Channel
8 13 (5.20%) Firewall
9 12 (4.80%) VLAN
10 10 (4.00%) Network Security
11 9 (3.60%) iSCSI
12 8 (3.20%) VPN
13 4 (1.60%) OpenLDAP
14 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
15 1 (0.40%) FCoE
15 1 (0.40%) Multicast
15 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
15 1 (0.40%) WAN
15 1 (0.40%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.40%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.20%) SAP HANA
7 7 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.40%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.00%) MySQL
9 5 (2.00%) Redis
10 4 (1.60%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.60%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.60%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.60%) Sybase ASE
11 3 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.00%) JIRA
3 8 (3.20%) Git
4 6 (2.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.80%) Flyway
5 2 (0.80%) GitLab
5 2 (0.80%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) LSMW
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.00%) Finance
3 17 (6.80%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.20%) Banking
6 7 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.00%) Legal
8 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.80%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.40%) Front Office
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (10.80%) Senior
2 26 (10.40%) Architect
3 24 (9.60%) DBA
4 19 (7.60%) Analyst
5 18 (7.20%) Wintel Engineer
6 16 (6.40%) Consultant
6 16 (6.40%) Storage Analyst
6 16 (6.40%) Storage Engineer
7 15 (6.00%) SQL DBA
8 11 (4.40%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.40%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (4.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 9 (3.60%) Administrator
10 9 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.20%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) Developer
13 6 (2.40%) Migration Engineer
13 6 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.40%) LDAP
2 21 (8.40%) Flash
3 16 (6.40%) OAuth
3 16 (6.40%) SAML
4 6 (2.40%) Kafka
5 5 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.60%) FHIR
7 3 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.20%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.20%) OpenID
7 3 (1.20%) REST
7 3 (1.20%) SAP ALE
7 3 (1.20%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.20%) SOAP
8 2 (0.80%) EDIFACT
8 2 (0.80%) JSON
8 2 (0.80%) Middleware
8 2 (0.80%) Spring
8 2 (0.80%) XML
9 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.40%) Clustering
2 26 (10.40%) Enterprise Storage
3 23 (9.20%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (7.60%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.60%) EMC VMAX
7 7 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.00%) CMDB
10 4 (1.60%) EMC VNX
10 4 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.60%) NHS
10 4 (1.60%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.20%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.80%) Life Science
12 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Symmetrix
13 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.40%) Linux
2 55 (22.00%) Windows
3 39 (15.60%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.60%) Unix
5 10 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.80%) VMS
7 5 (2.00%) AIX
7 5 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.60%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.60%) SUSE
9 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (35.20%) Disaster Recovery
2 85 (34.00%) Migration
3 82 (32.80%) High Availability
4 63 (25.20%) Performance Tuning
5 54 (21.60%) Capacity Planning
6 41 (16.40%) DevOps
7 38 (15.20%) RBAC
8 31 (12.40%) Runbook
9 27 (10.80%) ITIL
9 27 (10.80%) Project Delivery
10 26 (10.40%) Agile
10 26 (10.40%) Validation
11 25 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (8.80%) Network Virtualisation
13 22 (8.80%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (8.40%) CI/CD
14 21 (8.40%) Data Protection
15 20 (8.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.80%) PowerShell
2 41 (16.40%) SQL
3 37 (14.80%) Python
4 16 (6.40%) Bash
5 13 (5.20%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.40%) Groovy
7 10 (4.00%) Java
8 4 (1.60%) Perl
9 3 (1.20%) Bicep
9 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.80%) Korn
10 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.40%) ABAP
11 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 113 (45.20%) Security Cleared
2 92 (36.80%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 19 (7.60%) VCAP
5 18 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (6.40%) MCSA
6 16 (6.40%) MCSE
7 12 (4.80%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.00%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.20%) NCDA
10 7 (2.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (2.00%) Degree
12 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.20%) NCIE
14 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.40%) OCP
14 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.40%) PMP
14 1 (0.40%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.20%) GDPR
2 17 (6.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (4.40%) QA
4 6 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.40%) NIST
5 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.60%) DICOM
6 4 (1.60%) HL7
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 60 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (19.60%) vSphere
3 48 (19.20%) VMware ESXi
4 43 (17.20%) Active Directory
5 38 (15.20%) NFS
6 29 (11.60%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (8.00%) GPFS
8 16 (6.40%) Docker
9 8 (3.20%) Hyper-V
10 7 (2.80%) Firmware
11 6 (2.40%) SRDF
12 5 (2.00%) VMware NSX
13 3 (1.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.80%) Corosync
15 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (12.80%) Ansible
2 31 (12.40%) Terraform
3 29 (11.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 29 (11.60%) vCenter Server
4 23 (9.20%) Kubernetes
5 19 (7.60%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (6.80%) vRealize
7 12 (4.80%) Grafana
7 12 (4.80%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.40%) VxRail
9 10 (4.00%) EMC VPLEX
10 9 (3.60%) NetBackup
11 8 (3.20%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (3.20%) vMotion
12 5 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.60%) Kustomize
13 4 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (1.60%) SnapMirror
13 4 (1.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.20%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 76 (30.40%) VMware
2 69 (27.60%) Microsoft
3 46 (18.40%) Cisco
4 33 (13.20%) ServiceNow
5 31 (12.40%) Oracle
6 26 (10.40%) IBM
7 22 (8.80%) NetApp
7 22 (8.80%) SAP
8 21 (8.40%) Pure Storage
9 16 (6.40%) Brocade
10 14 (5.60%) Dell
10 14 (5.60%) Okta
11 13 (5.20%) EMC
12 12 (4.80%) Commvault
12 12 (4.80%) Veeam
13 8 (3.20%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.80%) Red Hat
15 6 (2.40%) RedGate
15 6 (2.40%) Zerto
16 5 (2.00%) CyberArk