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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 356 405
Rank change year-on-year +16 +49 +18
Contract jobs citing Replication 244 133 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.52% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 1.55% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 79 78
10th Percentile £401 £323 £303
25th Percentile £456 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +2.80%
75th Percentile £611 £562 £588
90th Percentile £635 £626 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £502 £514
% change year-on-year +4.69% -2.43% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £60.20 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £24.57 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £25.80 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year +196.57% -54.26% -19.43%
75th Percentile £79.25 £27.27 -
90th Percentile £87.20 £28.01 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £23.59 £56.40
% change year-on-year +224.29% -58.17% -19.43%

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 12,311 8,582 11,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.83% 33.59% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,799 5,391 7,624
10th Percentile £290 £281 £258
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £546
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +0.14% -5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £669 £658
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 275 763
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.83 £12.89
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.55 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.75 £35.89 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +19.00% +34.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.36 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.08
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.05% +33.78%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -7 104 £585 +11.43% 17
South East -12 48 £525 +3.45% 20
North of England -42 34 £458 +4.69% 10
Midlands -31 28 £402 +0.50% 14
West Midlands -26 26 £402 -2.55% 8
North West -14 18 £456 +1.33% 7
Yorkshire -46 17 £475 +18.75% 2
South West -27 12 £525 -4.20% 4
East of England -23 10 £800 +71.38% 4
East Midlands -22 2 - - 6
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 6 (2.46%) Apache
1 6 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.64%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.23%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.92%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.10%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.64%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.23%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (31.15%) Azure
2 57 (23.36%) AWS
3 29 (11.89%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.15%) SuccessFactors
5 14 (5.74%) GitHub
6 13 (5.33%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.10%) Snowflake
9 9 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.87%) Serverless
12 6 (2.46%) Datadog
12 6 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.46%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.46%) SaaS
12 6 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (20.49%) DNS
2 40 (16.39%) SAN
3 38 (15.57%) NAS
4 33 (13.52%) DHCP
5 32 (13.11%) Kerberos
6 22 (9.02%) Firewall
7 15 (6.15%) Fibre Channel
8 11 (4.51%) iSCSI
9 8 (3.28%) VSAN
10 4 (1.64%) IPv4
11 3 (1.23%) LAN
11 3 (1.23%) VPN
11 3 (1.23%) WAN
12 2 (0.82%) SSH
12 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.82%) X.500
13 1 (0.41%) FTP
13 1 (0.41%) IMAP
13 1 (0.41%) Network Security
13 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.07%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.97%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (5.33%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.69%) MySQL
6 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.87%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.46%) Power BI
9 5 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.05%) DB2
9 5 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.05%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.64%) GIS
10 4 (1.64%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (5.74%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.46%) Git
2 6 (2.46%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.64%) DBeaver
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
5 2 (0.82%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) Flyway
6 1 (0.41%) gulp
6 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.41%) LSMW
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) Subversion
6 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 54 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.75%) Finance
3 27 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.28%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.46%) Retail
8 5 (2.05%) Banking
8 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.64%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Front Office
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Police
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (11.48%) Architect
2 26 (10.66%) Consultant
3 21 (8.61%) Analyst
4 19 (7.79%) Senior
5 18 (7.38%) Storage Analyst
6 17 (6.97%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.74%) DBA
7 14 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (5.74%) SAP Consultant
8 13 (5.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (4.51%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.69%) SAP HCM Consultant
10 9 (3.69%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (3.69%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Developer
12 7 (2.87%) Infrastructure Architect
13 6 (2.46%) Database Developer
13 6 (2.46%) SAP Functional Consultant
13 6 (2.46%) SQL Database Developer
13 6 (2.46%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.52%) LDAP
2 22 (9.02%) OAuth
2 22 (9.02%) SAML
3 20 (8.20%) Flash
4 13 (5.33%) Kafka
5 12 (4.92%) SOAP
6 10 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.69%) XML
8 8 (3.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 8 (3.28%) Web Services
9 7 (2.87%) OpenID
10 6 (2.46%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.46%) REST
11 4 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
12 3 (1.23%) Keycloak
12 3 (1.23%) SAP ALE
13 2 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
13 2 (0.82%) JSON
13 2 (0.82%) SAP Basis
13 2 (0.82%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.48%) Clustering
2 21 (8.61%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (7.38%) Enterprise Storage
4 16 (6.56%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.46%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.64%) EMC VMAX
8 4 (1.64%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.64%) PKI
9 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.23%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.82%) Life Science
10 2 (0.82%) SCADA
10 2 (0.82%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.67%) Linux
1 48 (19.67%) Windows
2 39 (15.98%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.28%) Unix
4 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.64%) VMS
5 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.82%) AIX
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Solaris
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (33.20%) Migration
2 77 (31.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 67 (27.46%) High Availability
4 52 (21.31%) Performance Tuning
5 35 (14.34%) Agile
6 34 (13.93%) Capacity Planning
6 34 (13.93%) DevOps
7 28 (11.48%) CI/CD
8 27 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (10.66%) Data Modelling
9 26 (10.66%) RBAC
10 25 (10.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 24 (9.84%) Data Protection
12 22 (9.02%) Validation
13 20 (8.20%) Data Migration
13 20 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (7.38%) Analytics
14 18 (7.38%) Performance Optimisation
14 18 (7.38%) Runbook
14 18 (7.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 79 (32.38%) PowerShell
2 41 (16.80%) SQL
3 34 (13.93%) Python
4 15 (6.15%) Bash
5 10 (4.10%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.69%) ABAP
7 4 (1.64%) Groovy
7 4 (1.64%) Java
7 4 (1.64%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.82%) Perl
9 2 (0.82%) PHP
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) Korn
10 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 96 (39.34%) Security Cleared
2 70 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (6.97%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.15%) Degree
6 13 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (4.92%) VCAP
8 8 (3.28%) MCSA
8 8 (3.28%) MCSE
9 7 (2.87%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.05%) OCP
10 5 (2.05%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.23%) NCDA
12 2 (0.82%) VCDX
13 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.84%) GDPR
2 15 (6.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 13 (5.33%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.87%) QA
5 4 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
7 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.82%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.82%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.41%) COBIT
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (23.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (20.90%) Active Directory
3 39 (15.98%) NFS
4 34 (13.93%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (13.52%) vSphere
6 19 (7.79%) GPFS
7 16 (6.56%) Docker
8 13 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.05%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.23%) Firmware
11 3 (1.23%) SRDF
12 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.41%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.41%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.41%) Postfix
13 1 (0.41%) Veritas File System
13 1 (0.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (15.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 22 (9.02%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (8.61%) Terraform
4 18 (7.38%) Ansible
4 18 (7.38%) Kubernetes
5 16 (6.56%) vRealize
6 12 (4.92%) vCenter Server
7 8 (3.28%) Grafana
7 8 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.28%) SCCM
7 8 (3.28%) vMotion
8 6 (2.46%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (2.05%) NetBackup
9 5 (2.05%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (2.05%) SCOM
10 4 (1.64%) Data Guard
10 4 (1.64%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (1.64%) Kibana
10 4 (1.64%) logstash
10 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 74 (30.33%) VMware
2 71 (29.10%) Microsoft
3 33 (13.52%) Oracle
4 31 (12.70%) Cisco
5 29 (11.89%) IBM
6 27 (11.07%) ServiceNow
7 22 (9.02%) NetApp
7 22 (9.02%) SAP
8 15 (6.15%) Pure Storage
9 14 (5.74%) EMC
9 14 (5.74%) Okta
10 12 (4.92%) Commvault
11 11 (4.51%) Veeam
12 7 (2.87%) Dell
13 6 (2.46%) Brocade
13 6 (2.46%) RedGate
13 6 (2.46%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.05%) Computacenter
14 5 (2.05%) Isilon
15 4 (1.64%) Zerto