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

6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 350 381
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 +16
Contract jobs citing Replication 258 123 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.97% 1.49% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 84 96
10th Percentile £400 £366 £281
25th Percentile £449 £444 £398
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 £629 £675 £689
UK median daily rate £522 £545 £507
% change year-on-year -4.22% +7.50% +1.40%
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 13,102 8,282 11,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.34% 34.18% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,308 5,415 7,443
10th Percentile £308 £300 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.14%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.60% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 661 326 822
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.71 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.45 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +34.01% +10.37% +42.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £31.13
% change year-on-year +38.46% +4.42% +38.43%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -12 98 £583 +3.56% 17
North of England -17 59 £477 +5.89% 16
South East -38 48 £525 -3.67% 15
North West -10 34 £465 +3.24% 8
Midlands -43 32 £425 -12.82% 10
West Midlands -33 29 £419 -14.10% 8
Yorkshire -34 23 £487 -4.51% 6
South West -46 11 £543 -1.00% 5
East of England -34 4 £800 +71.38% 1
North East - 3 £425 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £540 - 2
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 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.16%) Apache
2 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.16%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (1.94%) SAP HCM
2 4 (1.55%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.16%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.78%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.95%) Azure
2 60 (23.26%) AWS
3 38 (14.73%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.36%) OpenShift
5 13 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.04%) SuccessFactors
6 10 (3.88%) GitHub
7 8 (3.10%) SaaS
7 8 (3.10%) Serverless
8 7 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.94%) Azure Stack
10 5 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 52 (20.16%) SAN
2 51 (19.77%) NAS
3 40 (15.50%) DNS
4 34 (13.18%) DHCP
5 32 (12.40%) Kerberos
6 19 (7.36%) Fibre Channel
7 17 (6.59%) VSAN
8 16 (6.20%) Firewall
9 14 (5.43%) iSCSI
10 9 (3.49%) VLAN
11 6 (2.33%) VPN
12 5 (1.94%) Network Security
13 3 (1.16%) IPv4
13 3 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
14 2 (0.78%) LAN
14 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
15 1 (0.39%) FCoE
15 1 (0.39%) Multicast
15 1 (0.39%) WAN
15 1 (0.39%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.10%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.10%) SAP HANA
7 7 (2.71%) MySQL
8 6 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.33%) Redis
8 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.94%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.16%) DB2
10 3 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (5.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.49%) JIRA
3 7 (2.71%) Git
4 6 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.78%) Flyway
5 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.39%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) LSMW
6 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.18%) Finance
3 19 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.26%) Banking
6 8 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.33%) Legal
9 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (12.02%) Architect
2 27 (10.47%) Senior
3 20 (7.75%) Analyst
3 20 (7.75%) DBA
4 17 (6.59%) Consultant
4 17 (6.59%) Storage Analyst
5 16 (6.20%) Wintel Engineer
6 15 (5.81%) SAP Consultant
6 15 (5.81%) Storage Engineer
7 14 (5.43%) SQL DBA
8 13 (5.04%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 10 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) Active Directory Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) Administrator
12 8 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (2.71%) Developer
14 6 (2.33%) Database Developer
14 6 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.18%) LDAP
2 21 (8.14%) Flash
3 16 (6.20%) OAuth
3 16 (6.20%) SAML
4 8 (3.10%) Kafka
5 6 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (1.94%) REST
6 5 (1.94%) SOAP
7 4 (1.55%) FHIR
7 4 (1.55%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.16%) SAP ALE
8 3 (1.16%) SAP Basis
8 3 (1.16%) XML
9 2 (0.78%) EDIFACT
9 2 (0.78%) JSON
9 2 (0.78%) Middleware
9 2 (0.78%) OpenID
9 2 (0.78%) Spring
9 2 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.12%) Clustering
2 27 (10.47%) Enterprise Storage
3 22 (8.53%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (7.36%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.10%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.55%) NHS
9 4 (1.55%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.16%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.78%) CMDB
11 2 (0.78%) EMC VNX
11 2 (0.78%) Life Science
11 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.71%) Windows
2 52 (20.16%) Linux
3 42 (16.28%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.88%) Unix
5 9 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.71%) VMS
7 4 (1.55%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.55%) SUSE
7 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.16%) AIX
8 3 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.50%) Migration
2 84 (32.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 81 (31.40%) High Availability
4 62 (24.03%) Performance Tuning
5 55 (21.32%) Capacity Planning
6 42 (16.28%) DevOps
7 34 (13.18%) ITIL
8 32 (12.40%) Agile
9 31 (12.02%) RBAC
10 30 (11.63%) Data Protection
11 27 (10.47%) Runbook
12 26 (10.08%) Data Modelling
13 25 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (9.30%) Project Delivery
14 24 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (9.30%) Validation
15 23 (8.91%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
17 19 (7.36%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 84 (32.56%) PowerShell
2 39 (15.12%) SQL
3 34 (13.18%) Python
4 14 (5.43%) Bash
5 13 (5.04%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.88%) Groovy
7 9 (3.49%) Java
8 3 (1.16%) ABAP
8 3 (1.16%) Perl
8 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.39%) Bicep
10 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.39%) Korn
10 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.39%) PHP
10 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 116 (44.96%) Security Cleared
2 89 (34.50%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (6.98%) VCAP
5 14 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.43%) MCSA
5 14 (5.43%) MCSE
6 9 (3.49%) Degree
7 7 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.33%) NCDA
9 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.78%) PMP
11 2 (0.78%) VCDX
12 1 (0.39%) OCP
12 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.75%) GDPR
2 16 (6.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.71%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.71%) QA
4 6 (2.33%) NIST
5 5 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.55%) DICOM
6 4 (1.55%) HL7
7 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.78%) GRC
7 2 (0.78%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.39%) COBIT
8 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (24.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 48 (18.60%) VMware ESXi
3 47 (18.22%) vSphere
4 42 (16.28%) NFS
5 23 (8.91%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (7.75%) GPFS
7 16 (6.20%) Docker
8 7 (2.71%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.33%) Firmware
9 6 (2.33%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.55%) SRDF
10 4 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.78%) Corosync
11 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (11.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (11.24%) Ansible
3 28 (10.85%) Terraform
4 26 (10.08%) vCenter Server
5 24 (9.30%) Kubernetes
6 19 (7.36%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (6.59%) vRealize
8 11 (4.26%) Grafana
8 11 (4.26%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.88%) VxRail
10 8 (3.10%) EMC VPLEX
10 8 (3.10%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (3.10%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.10%) vMotion
11 6 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (1.94%) SCCM
13 4 (1.55%) Rancher
14 3 (1.16%) Kustomize
14 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (1.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 78 (30.23%) VMware
2 70 (27.13%) Microsoft
3 41 (15.89%) Cisco
4 31 (12.02%) ServiceNow
5 29 (11.24%) Oracle
6 28 (10.85%) IBM
6 28 (10.85%) NetApp
7 26 (10.08%) SAP
8 20 (7.75%) Pure Storage
9 15 (5.81%) EMC
9 15 (5.81%) Veeam
10 14 (5.43%) Dell
10 14 (5.43%) Okta
11 13 (5.04%) Commvault
12 12 (4.65%) Brocade
13 7 (2.71%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.71%) Zerto
14 6 (2.33%) RedGate
15 5 (1.94%) BMC
15 5 (1.94%) Red Hat
62 Replication jobs in England