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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 363 375
Rank change year-on-year -38 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing Replication 244 159 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 1.61% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 101 106
10th Percentile £372 £375 £306
25th Percentile £425 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £672 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £507
% change year-on-year +3.70% -0.15% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £53.15 £68.34 -
25th Percentile £57.88 £72.23 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% - -
75th Percentile £77.38 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £87.95 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -12.33% - -

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 15,309 9,886 10,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.51% 35.63% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,366 6,242 6,543
10th Percentile £325 £305 £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 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 944 501 506
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £19.53
Median hourly rate £42.40 £32.71 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -34.58% +8.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -33.33% +2.66%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -50 91 £550 +2.33% 30
North of England -15 71 £513 +7.89% 7
North West -11 44 £497 +4.59% 5
South East -68 26 £510 -11.30% 13
Yorkshire -24 23 £528 +3.02% 1
Midlands -56 22 £450 -5.26% 5
West Midlands -57 20 £450 -5.26% 4
South West -41 17 £574 +9.86% 5
East of England -17 11 £600 +26.32% 4
North East - 4 £425 - 1
East Midlands -12 1 £540 - 1
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 7 (2.87%) Confluence
2 4 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Actimize
3 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 77 (31.56%) AWS
2 76 (31.15%) Azure
3 23 (9.43%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (7.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (6.56%) AWS KMS
5 16 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.15%) GCP
7 13 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (4.51%) OCI
9 10 (4.10%) GitHub
9 10 (4.10%) Power Platform
9 10 (4.10%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (3.69%) OpenShift
11 8 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.87%) Serverless
13 5 (2.05%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.57%) SAN
2 24 (9.84%) DNS
2 24 (9.84%) NAS
3 22 (9.02%) Firewall
4 19 (7.79%) VLAN
5 14 (5.74%) VSAN
6 13 (5.33%) VPN
7 12 (4.92%) Fibre Channel
8 10 (4.10%) DHCP
9 9 (3.69%) Network Security
10 8 (3.28%) Kerberos
10 8 (3.28%) SSL
11 4 (1.64%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.23%) Multicast
12 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.41%) SSH
13 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.41%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.21%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (16.39%) SQL Server
3 22 (9.02%) Amazon Aurora
3 22 (9.02%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (8.61%) MySQL
5 19 (7.79%) Oracle Database
6 13 (5.33%) Redis
7 12 (4.92%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (4.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (4.10%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.28%) Power BI
11 8 (3.28%) SAP HANA
12 7 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.87%) RDBMS
12 7 (2.87%) Sybase ASE
13 6 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (2.46%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (2.05%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 23 (9.43%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.56%) JIRA
3 12 (4.92%) Git
4 4 (1.64%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.64%) GitLab
5 3 (1.23%) Flyway
5 3 (1.23%) Liquibase
5 3 (1.23%) Toad
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 85 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.30%) Finance
3 27 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.02%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (8.20%) Banking
6 11 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.23%) Legal
10 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.82%) Military
10 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (18.85%) DBA
2 42 (17.21%) Senior
3 32 (13.11%) Architect
4 26 (10.66%) Storage Engineer
5 23 (9.43%) Administrator
6 21 (8.61%) Consultant
6 21 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (6.97%) Lead
8 15 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.74%) SQL DBA
10 11 (4.51%) Active Directory Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) SAP Consultant
11 9 (3.69%) Analyst
11 9 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.69%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (3.69%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) Senior DBA
12 8 (3.28%) Storage Analyst
13 7 (2.87%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (20.08%) Terraform
2 13 (5.33%) Flash
2 13 (5.33%) Kafka
3 11 (4.51%) LDAP
4 6 (2.46%) Middleware
4 6 (2.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 5 (2.05%) OAuth
6 4 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.64%) FHIR
6 4 (1.64%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.64%) REST
6 4 (1.64%) SAML
7 3 (1.23%) JSON
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Streams
7 3 (1.23%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.23%) Spring
7 3 (1.23%) XML
8 2 (0.82%) EDIFACT
8 2 (0.82%) OpenID
8 2 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.70%) Clustering
2 26 (10.66%) Enterprise Storage
3 24 (9.84%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (4.92%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.46%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (2.05%) CMDB
9 5 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.64%) EMC VNX
10 4 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.64%) NHS
10 4 (1.64%) PKI
11 3 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 82 (33.61%) Linux
2 51 (20.90%) Windows
3 34 (13.93%) Windows Server
4 23 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (6.97%) Unix
6 14 (5.74%) VMS
7 10 (4.10%) CentOS
8 9 (3.69%) Rocky
9 7 (2.87%) AIX
9 7 (2.87%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (2.05%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (1.64%) SUSE
12 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (34.02%) Performance Tuning
2 79 (32.38%) High Availability
3 78 (31.97%) Disaster Recovery
4 62 (25.41%) Migration
5 56 (22.95%) DevOps
6 42 (17.21%) Data Modelling
7 41 (16.80%) Capacity Planning
7 41 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 38 (15.57%) CI/CD
9 37 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (13.11%) Validation
11 31 (12.70%) ITIL
12 30 (12.30%) Root Cause Analysis
13 29 (11.89%) Agile
14 28 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (11.07%) RBAC
16 26 (10.66%) Performance Optimisation
17 25 (10.25%) Runbook
18 21 (8.61%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.18%) PowerShell
1 59 (24.18%) SQL
2 47 (19.26%) Python
3 20 (8.20%) Bash
4 16 (6.56%) Java
5 14 (5.74%) Groovy
6 12 (4.92%) T-SQL
7 8 (3.28%) Perl
8 6 (2.46%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.05%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.64%) Bicep
11 3 (1.23%) CQL
12 2 (0.82%) Rust
13 1 (0.41%) C#
13 1 (0.41%) Go
13 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 103 (42.21%) Security Cleared
2 77 (31.56%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (7.38%) Azure Certification
5 15 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.33%) Degree
6 13 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (4.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (4.10%) VCAP
9 9 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.28%) MCSA
10 8 (3.28%) MCSE
11 7 (2.87%) NCDA
12 4 (1.64%) OCP
12 4 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.23%) NCIE
14 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.10%) QA
2 8 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.46%) GDPR
3 6 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.05%) NIST
5 4 (1.64%) DICOM
5 4 (1.64%) HL7
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
7 2 (0.82%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (16.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (15.16%) vSphere
3 31 (12.70%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (12.30%) VMware ESXi
5 28 (11.48%) Active Directory
6 21 (8.61%) Docker
7 17 (6.97%) NFS
8 13 (5.33%) Oracle RAC
9 12 (4.92%) GPFS
10 9 (3.69%) Hyper-V
11 7 (2.87%) Firmware
12 4 (1.64%) SRDF
13 3 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (1.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.82%) Corosync
15 1 (0.41%) ACF2
15 1 (0.41%) RACF
15 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
15 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (16.80%) Ansible
2 23 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.61%) Prometheus
4 20 (8.20%) Grafana
4 20 (8.20%) vCenter Server
5 18 (7.38%) NetBackup
6 12 (4.92%) Data Guard
6 12 (4.92%) Oracle RMAN
6 12 (4.92%) vRealize
7 10 (4.10%) VxRail
8 8 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (2.46%) SCOM
10 5 (2.05%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.64%) Argo
11 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 4 (1.64%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (1.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 52 (21.31%) VMware
2 49 (20.08%) Microsoft
3 48 (19.67%) Oracle
4 35 (14.34%) ServiceNow
5 30 (12.30%) NetApp
6 29 (11.89%) Cisco
7 27 (11.07%) Veeam
8 22 (9.02%) SAP
9 20 (8.20%) Dell
10 18 (7.38%) IBM
11 13 (5.33%) Brocade
12 11 (4.51%) EMC
13 10 (4.10%) Google
13 10 (4.10%) Pure Storage
14 9 (3.69%) Red Hat
15 8 (3.28%) Sybase
16 7 (2.87%) BMC
16 7 (2.87%) Remedy
17 6 (2.46%) Confluent
17 6 (2.46%) Dynatrace