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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 345 379
Rank change year-on-year -31 +34 +27
Contract jobs citing Replication 264 168 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.61% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 1.70% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 102 88
10th Percentile £360 £334 £361
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -6.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £673 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £63.95 £67.18 -
25th Percentile £69.13 £69.31 -
Median hourly rate £78.00 £73.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £86.63 £76.81 -
90th Percentile £91.65 £78.73 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 -
% change year-on-year +2.39% - -

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 15,482 9,903 10,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 35.93% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,374 6,220 6,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,020 495 428
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.48 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -42.65% +24.59%
75th Percentile £68.94 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -40 117 £534 -4.04% 102
North of England -18 75 £485 +2.11% 30
North West -18 44 £491 +3.35% 19
Yorkshire -15 27 £519 -14.39% 9
South East -67 18 £581 +2.20% 43
Midlands -68 16 £450 -5.26% 7
East of England -19 15 £600 +26.32% 15
South West -42 15 £620 +19.13% 12
West Midlands -67 14 £450 -5.26% 5
North East - 4 £425 - 2
East Midlands -17 1 £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 10 (3.79%) Confluence
2 8 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.52%) CMS
4 2 (0.76%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) MQSeries
4 2 (0.76%) nginx
4 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.76%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.38%) Actimize
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 87 (32.95%) Azure
2 80 (30.30%) AWS
3 24 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (7.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (6.82%) AWS KMS
7 18 (6.82%) GCP
8 15 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (4.92%) GitHub
9 13 (4.92%) Power Platform
10 12 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (4.55%) OCI
11 10 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.79%) SuccessFactors
12 8 (3.03%) Adobe Analytics
12 8 (3.03%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.02%) SAN
2 27 (10.23%) DNS
3 24 (9.09%) Firewall
4 19 (7.20%) NAS
4 19 (7.20%) VLAN
5 14 (5.30%) VPN
6 13 (4.92%) SSL
7 12 (4.55%) DHCP
7 12 (4.55%) VSAN
8 11 (4.17%) Network Security
9 10 (3.79%) Kerberos
10 9 (3.41%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (2.27%) OpenLDAP
11 6 (2.27%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.14%) iSCSI
12 3 (1.14%) Multicast
12 3 (1.14%) SSH
13 2 (0.76%) IMAP
13 2 (0.76%) SMS
13 2 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (17.42%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (16.29%) SQL Server
3 27 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (9.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 25 (9.47%) MySQL
6 19 (7.20%) Oracle Database
7 16 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (5.30%) Redis
9 12 (4.55%) Power BI
10 11 (4.17%) MongoDB
11 10 (3.79%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.79%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.03%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.03%) Sybase ASE
13 7 (2.65%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.27%) SAP HANA
15 5 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.89%) Metadata
16 4 (1.52%) Db2
Development Applications
1 29 (10.98%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.82%) Git
2 18 (6.82%) JIRA
3 7 (2.65%) GitLab
4 4 (1.52%) ER Studio
5 3 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.14%) Toad
6 2 (0.76%) Flyway
6 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.76%) MLflow
6 2 (0.76%) Selenium
6 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.76%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.38%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.38%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.88%) Finance
3 33 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (8.71%) Banking
4 23 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.03%) Marketing
7 6 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.52%) Advertising
8 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.52%) Publishing
9 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.76%) Billing
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (20.08%) DBA
2 47 (17.80%) Senior
3 30 (11.36%) Architect
4 27 (10.23%) Storage Engineer
5 25 (9.47%) Administrator
6 24 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Consultant
8 21 (7.95%) Lead
9 19 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (7.20%) SQL DBA
10 12 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
11 11 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
12 10 (3.79%) Active Directory Engineer
12 10 (3.79%) SAP Consultant
13 9 (3.41%) Analyst
13 9 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.41%) Data Architect
13 9 (3.41%) Wintel Engineer
14 8 (3.03%) Senior DBA
14 8 (3.03%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (19.32%) Terraform
2 17 (6.44%) Kafka
3 13 (4.92%) LDAP
4 9 (3.41%) Flash
4 9 (3.41%) HTML
5 8 (3.03%) CSS
6 7 (2.65%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.27%) Middleware
7 6 (2.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 5 (1.89%) OAuth
8 5 (1.89%) SAML
9 3 (1.14%) eBPF
9 3 (1.14%) JSON
9 3 (1.14%) Loki
9 3 (1.14%) Oracle Streams
9 3 (1.14%) REST
9 3 (1.14%) Spring
9 3 (1.14%) XML
10 2 (0.76%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.50%) Clustering
2 27 (10.23%) Data Centre
3 22 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 14 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.79%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.65%) Mainframe
7 7 (2.65%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.27%) PKI
9 5 (1.89%) CMDB
9 5 (1.89%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (1.89%) EMC VNX
10 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.76%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 86 (32.58%) Linux
2 60 (22.73%) Windows
3 45 (17.05%) Windows Server
4 26 (9.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (6.82%) Unix
6 16 (6.06%) VMS
7 12 (4.55%) CentOS
7 12 (4.55%) Rocky
8 9 (3.41%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (2.27%) AIX
9 6 (2.27%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (1.52%) SUSE
11 4 (1.52%) zOS
12 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.85%) Performance Tuning
2 82 (31.06%) High Availability
3 79 (29.92%) Disaster Recovery
4 66 (25.00%) DevOps
5 64 (24.24%) Migration
6 45 (17.05%) CI/CD
7 44 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 44 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (16.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (15.53%) Data Modelling
10 36 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
11 30 (11.36%) ITIL
11 30 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (10.98%) Agile
13 28 (10.61%) Validation
14 27 (10.23%) Runbook
15 26 (9.85%) RBAC
16 25 (9.47%) AI
16 25 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (25.00%) SQL
2 65 (24.62%) PowerShell
3 53 (20.08%) Python
4 21 (7.95%) Bash
5 18 (6.82%) Groovy
6 17 (6.44%) T-SQL
7 16 (6.06%) Java
8 9 (3.41%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.41%) Perl
9 6 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.52%) Bicep
10 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.14%) CQL
11 3 (1.14%) Go
12 2 (0.76%) ABAP
12 2 (0.76%) JCL
12 2 (0.76%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) C#
13 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 109 (41.29%) Security Cleared
2 85 (32.20%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 24 (9.09%) Degree
4 23 (8.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (6.82%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 12 (4.55%) DV Cleared
10 10 (3.79%) VCAP
11 9 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.03%) MCSA
12 8 (3.03%) MCSE
13 5 (1.89%) NCDA
14 4 (1.52%) OCP
14 4 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (1.14%) NCIE
16 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.92%) QA
2 8 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.65%) GDPR
3 7 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.89%) NIST
4 5 (1.89%) SLA
5 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) DICOM
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (14.77%) Virtual Machines
2 37 (14.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (12.50%) vSphere
4 29 (10.98%) Docker
5 27 (10.23%) Active Directory
6 26 (9.85%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.30%) NFS
8 12 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
9 10 (3.79%) Hyper-V
10 9 (3.41%) GPFS
11 8 (3.03%) Firmware
12 4 (1.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 4 (1.52%) SRDF
13 3 (1.14%) ACF2
13 3 (1.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (1.14%) RACF
14 2 (0.76%) Corosync
14 2 (0.76%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.76%) Postfix
14 2 (0.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 45 (17.05%) Ansible
2 27 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.23%) Prometheus
3 26 (9.85%) Grafana
4 19 (7.20%) vCenter Server
5 15 (5.68%) NetBackup
6 11 (4.17%) Data Guard
6 11 (4.17%) Oracle RMAN
6 11 (4.17%) SCOM
7 9 (3.41%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (3.03%) vRealize
8 8 (3.03%) VxRail
9 4 (1.52%) Argo
9 4 (1.52%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 4 (1.52%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (1.52%) Rancher
9 4 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.52%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 57 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 47 (17.80%) VMware
3 45 (17.05%) Oracle
4 37 (14.02%) ServiceNow
5 28 (10.61%) NetApp
5 28 (10.61%) Veeam
6 25 (9.47%) Cisco
7 23 (8.71%) Dell
8 20 (7.58%) IBM
8 20 (7.58%) SAP
9 13 (4.92%) Google
10 11 (4.17%) Brocade
11 9 (3.41%) Red Hat
11 9 (3.41%) Sybase
12 8 (3.03%) Adobe
12 8 (3.03%) EMC
13 7 (2.65%) BMC
13 7 (2.65%) Databricks
13 7 (2.65%) Dynatrace
13 7 (2.65%) Remedy
205 Replication jobs in England