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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 352 422
Rank change year-on-year +12 +70 +13
Contract jobs citing Replication 225 143 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 1.63% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 82 64
10th Percentile £398 £357 £333
25th Percentile £450 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +5.20% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £579
90th Percentile £638 £660 £631
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £501
% change year-on-year -2.38% +4.90% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £60.13 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £61.81 £24.57 -
Median hourly rate £71.50 £25.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +177.19% -53.10% -21.43%
75th Percentile £78.56 £27.27 £55.70
90th Percentile £88.88 £28.01 £56.12
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £23.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year +203.09% -57.11% -21.43%

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 11,163 8,761 11,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 32.55% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,116 5,270 7,697
10th Percentile £281 £275 £262
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £531 £545
% change year-on-year -5.75% -2.66% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 252 563
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.55 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.79
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +4.93% +48.19%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.27 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.11 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.29% -1.43% +46.11%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +2 99 £563 +2.27% 10
South East +7 40 £488 +3.72% 40
Midlands -2 40 £425 +6.25% 19
West Midlands -1 38 £425 +3.03% 4
North of England -52 22 £475 +5.85% 27
South West -13 14 £508 -7.39% 21
North West -21 13 £465 -1.67% 16
East of England -11 10 £800 +71.38% 21
Yorkshire -45 9 £487 +1.19% 7
East Midlands -27 2 - - 15
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 18 (8.00%) Confluence
2 10 (4.44%) nginx
3 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.67%) Oracle Application Server
4 6 (2.67%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.22%) Apache
5 5 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (2.22%) Office Communications Server
5 5 (2.22%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (2.22%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.33%) GeoServer
6 3 (1.33%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.89%) CICS
7 2 (0.89%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (4.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (5.33%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.44%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.33%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.89%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (32.00%) AWS
2 64 (28.44%) Azure
3 21 (9.33%) Amazon S3
4 20 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (8.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (6.67%) AWS KMS
7 15 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
8 14 (6.22%) Amazon ELB
9 13 (5.78%) GitHub
10 12 (5.33%) Serverless
11 11 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.89%) Entra ID
11 11 (4.89%) SaaS
12 10 (4.44%) Snowflake
13 9 (4.00%) Route 53
14 7 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (23.56%) DNS
2 38 (16.89%) Firewall
3 36 (16.00%) SAN
4 20 (8.89%) DHCP
5 19 (8.44%) NAS
6 16 (7.11%) SSH
7 14 (6.22%) FTP
7 14 (6.22%) HTTP
7 14 (6.22%) SMTP
8 13 (5.78%) Kerberos
9 12 (5.33%) iSCSI
10 10 (4.44%) TCP/IP
11 9 (4.00%) IMAP
11 9 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
12 8 (3.56%) Fibre Channel
12 8 (3.56%) VPN
13 7 (3.11%) VLAN
14 5 (2.22%) DDNS
14 5 (2.22%) VSAN
15 4 (1.78%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.67%) Amazon RDS
1 33 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.89%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.89%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.00%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.11%) DB2
6 7 (3.11%) MySQL
6 7 (3.11%) Oracle Exadata
6 7 (3.11%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (2.67%) Couchbase
7 6 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.67%) Oracle ODI
7 6 (2.67%) Power BI
7 6 (2.67%) Star Schema
8 5 (2.22%) Redis
9 4 (1.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (15.11%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.67%) Git
3 20 (8.89%) JIRA
4 14 (6.22%) Vagrant
5 6 (2.67%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.78%) Subversion
6 4 (1.78%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.33%) GitLab
8 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.44%) gulp
9 1 (0.44%) LSMW
9 1 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 61 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.67%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.22%) Finance
4 27 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.56%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.00%) Banking
6 9 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.67%) Retail
9 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) International Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Police
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
2 25 (11.11%) Architect
3 23 (10.22%) Consultant
4 20 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 18 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (7.56%) Analyst
6 17 (7.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 17 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (7.56%) Senior
7 16 (7.11%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (6.67%) Storage Analyst
9 13 (5.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.78%) Storage Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (4.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.89%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.44%) DBA
12 10 (4.44%) Infrastructure Architect
13 9 (4.00%) SAP HCM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.22%) LDAP
2 22 (9.78%) Kafka
3 19 (8.44%) Flash
4 15 (6.67%) OAuth
4 15 (6.67%) SAML
5 13 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (5.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 11 (4.89%) REST
6 11 (4.89%) SOAP
6 11 (4.89%) XML
7 8 (3.56%) Web Services
8 7 (3.11%) OpenID
9 6 (2.67%) Middleware
9 6 (2.67%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.78%) JSON
10 4 (1.78%) Keycloak
10 4 (1.78%) Ultra Messaging
11 3 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.33%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.78%) Clustering
2 21 (9.33%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.00%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.56%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (3.11%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.22%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.78%) PKI
9 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.89%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.89%) Equities
11 2 (0.89%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.89%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 73 (32.44%) Linux
2 61 (27.11%) Windows
3 30 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.89%) VMS
5 14 (6.22%) Amazon Linux
6 13 (5.78%) Ubuntu
7 11 (4.89%) Unix
8 6 (2.67%) Solaris
9 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.89%) AIX
12 2 (0.89%) zOS
13 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.44%) MVS
13 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.22%) High Availability
2 53 (23.56%) Performance Tuning
3 49 (21.78%) DevOps
3 49 (21.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 48 (21.33%) CI/CD
5 45 (20.00%) Migration
6 42 (18.67%) Agile
7 30 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (11.11%) Change Management
9 25 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (9.78%) Data Modelling
11 20 (8.89%) Configuration Management
11 20 (8.89%) ITIL
12 19 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (8.44%) RBAC
13 18 (8.00%) Analytics
14 16 (7.11%) Data Protection
14 16 (7.11%) Observability
15 15 (6.67%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 61 (27.11%) PowerShell
2 54 (24.00%) Python
3 41 (18.22%) SQL
4 18 (8.00%) Groovy
5 16 (7.11%) Bash
6 13 (5.78%) Java
7 10 (4.44%) Perl
8 9 (4.00%) ABAP
9 8 (3.56%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.11%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.89%) Go
11 2 (0.89%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.67%) Degree
4 19 (8.44%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (7.11%) AWS Certification
7 13 (5.78%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.56%) VCAP
10 6 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.78%) MCSA
11 4 (1.78%) MCSE
11 4 (1.78%) OCP
11 4 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.89%) VCDX
14 1 (0.44%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) GDPR
2 14 (6.22%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.78%) QA
5 3 (1.33%) SLA
6 2 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.89%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (24.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (20.89%) Active Directory
3 32 (14.22%) Docker
3 32 (14.22%) NFS
4 31 (13.78%) VMware ESXi
5 28 (12.44%) vSphere
6 19 (8.44%) GPFS
7 14 (6.22%) DFS Replication
8 9 (4.00%) Dovecot
8 9 (4.00%) Postfix
8 9 (4.00%) Squid
8 9 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (3.11%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (2.22%) Brightmail
10 5 (2.22%) ISA Server
10 5 (2.22%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.78%) Veritas File System
11 4 (1.78%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 4 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 35 (15.56%) Terraform
2 25 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.78%) Grafana
3 22 (9.78%) Prometheus
4 20 (8.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (8.00%) Ansible
6 17 (7.56%) vRealize
7 14 (6.22%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (4.89%) vCenter Server
9 9 (4.00%) Nessus
9 9 (4.00%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.00%) SCCM
10 7 (3.11%) Data Guard
10 7 (3.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (2.67%) Kibana
11 6 (2.67%) logstash
12 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (2.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (2.22%) SCOM
13 4 (1.78%) Rancher
Vendors
1 64 (28.44%) VMware
2 52 (23.11%) Microsoft
3 41 (18.22%) ServiceNow
4 38 (16.89%) Oracle
5 34 (15.11%) IBM
6 30 (13.33%) Cisco
7 24 (10.67%) NetApp
8 19 (8.44%) SAP
9 14 (6.22%) Veeam
10 12 (5.33%) EMC
11 11 (4.89%) Dell
12 9 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
13 7 (3.11%) Okta
13 7 (3.11%) TIBCO
14 6 (2.67%) Confluent
15 5 (2.22%) Computacenter
15 5 (2.22%) CyberArk
15 5 (2.22%) Solace
15 5 (2.22%) SolarWinds
16 4 (1.78%) Splunk