Replication Contracts 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 378 417
Rank change year-on-year +14 +39 +59
Contract jobs citing Replication 135 177 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 1.55% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 110 137
10th Percentile £410 £300 £393
25th Percentile £463 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £585
90th Percentile £675 £703 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £514 £512
% change year-on-year +1.17% +0.39% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 21
10th Percentile £78.83 - £60.00
25th Percentile £79.03 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £79.35 - £67.50
75th Percentile £79.68 - £75.00
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.35 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +35.00%

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 9,213 11,418 15,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 30.68% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,873 7,342 11,153
10th Percentile £305 £282 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 823 513
10th Percentile £15.49 £12.24 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £12.25
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +44.23% -1.46%
75th Percentile £59.00 £63.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £36.02 £25.50
% change year-on-year -16.02% +41.26% -5.49%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Replication in England

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Replication in England.

Daily rate trend for Replication in England

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in England

Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Replication in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 July 2025. 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 0 55 £580 +16.00% 179
South East +43 19 £563 -2.17% 38
Midlands +15 18 £475 -17.39% 40
West Midlands +12 17 £475 -22.45% 27
South West +34 16 £545 -16.15% 32
North of England -11 14 £480 -6.61% 30
East of England +35 10 £467 -15.18% 31
Yorkshire -10 10 £510 -0.78% 15
North West +9 4 £450 -10.00% 14
East Midlands 0 1 - - 13
Replication
UK

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.67%) Confluence
2 7 (5.19%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (5.19%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (5.19%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (5.19%) Exchange Server 2013
2 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.19%) Office Communications Server
2 7 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.19%) SharePoint Server
2 7 (5.19%) Skype for Business
3 5 (3.70%) Apache
4 4 (2.96%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.74%) CICS
6 1 (0.74%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 2 (1.48%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 2 (1.48%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.74%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.74%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.74%) AWS
2 21 (15.56%) Azure
3 10 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 7 (5.19%) AWS KMS
4 7 (5.19%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.19%) Nutanix
4 7 (5.19%) Snowflake
4 7 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (4.44%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (4.44%) Amazon Glacier
6 5 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.70%) GCP
6 5 (3.70%) GitHub
6 5 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.96%) IaaS
7 4 (2.96%) PaaS
7 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (21.48%) DNS
2 20 (14.81%) Firewall
3 14 (10.37%) DHCP
3 14 (10.37%) SAN
4 9 (6.67%) SSH
5 8 (5.93%) HTTP
5 8 (5.93%) VPN
6 7 (5.19%) DDNS
6 7 (5.19%) Kerberos
6 7 (5.19%) VLAN
7 6 (4.44%) FTP
7 6 (4.44%) SMTP
8 5 (3.70%) NAS
8 5 (3.70%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.70%) VSAN
9 4 (2.96%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (2.96%) WAN
10 3 (2.22%) LAN
10 3 (2.22%) SNMP
10 3 (2.22%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.30%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.19%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.44%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.96%) Metadata
8 4 (2.96%) MySQL
8 4 (2.96%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.96%) Power BI
8 4 (2.96%) Redis
9 3 (2.22%) Big Data
9 3 (2.22%) DB2
9 3 (2.22%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.63%) Git
2 10 (7.41%) JIRA
3 7 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.44%) Vagrant
5 4 (2.96%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.22%) GitLab
6 3 (2.22%) Subversion
7 2 (1.48%) DBeaver
7 2 (1.48%) JMeter
7 2 (1.48%) Postman
7 2 (1.48%) Selenium
8 1 (0.74%) CANoe
8 1 (0.74%) LabVIEW
General
1 34 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.30%) Finance
3 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.67%) Banking
6 4 (2.96%) Legal
7 3 (2.22%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.48%) Automotive
8 2 (1.48%) Billing
8 2 (1.48%) International Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Electronics
9 1 (0.74%) French Language
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Local Government
9 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (11.85%) Architect
2 15 (11.11%) DBA
3 14 (10.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (8.15%) Administrator
4 11 (8.15%) Support Engineer
5 9 (6.67%) Consultant
5 9 (6.67%) Senior
6 8 (5.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.19%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Exchange Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Exchange Support
8 5 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (2.96%) Project Manager
9 4 (2.96%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.67%) Kafka
2 8 (5.93%) JSON
3 7 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.19%) XML
4 5 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (3.70%) SOAP
5 4 (2.96%) .NET
5 4 (2.96%) EDIFACT
5 4 (2.96%) Middleware
5 4 (2.96%) Web Services
6 3 (2.22%) LDAP
6 3 (2.22%) REST
7 2 (1.48%) JWT
7 2 (1.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 2 (1.48%) SAML
7 2 (1.48%) SAP BSP
7 2 (1.48%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.74%) ADO
8 1 (0.74%) Flash
8 1 (0.74%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 15 (11.11%) Clustering
3 7 (5.19%) Mainframe
3 7 (5.19%) PKI
4 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.22%) CMDB
5 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.22%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.22%) SCADA
6 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.48%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.48%) LPAR
6 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.41%) Windows
2 34 (25.19%) Linux
3 10 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (6.67%) Solaris
4 9 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.19%) Unix
5 7 (5.19%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (4.44%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (4.44%) VMS
7 5 (3.70%) HPUX
8 2 (1.48%) AIX
8 2 (1.48%) OS/400
8 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.74%) SUSE
9 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 41 (30.37%) High Availability
3 32 (23.70%) DevOps
4 26 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (14.07%) ITIL
7 18 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 18 (13.33%) Migration
8 17 (12.59%) Configuration Management
9 15 (11.11%) Agile
10 14 (10.37%) Analytics
10 14 (10.37%) Validation
11 12 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (8.89%) Data Protection
12 11 (8.15%) Change Management
12 11 (8.15%) Data Governance
12 11 (8.15%) Data Modelling
13 10 (7.41%) Business Continuity
13 10 (7.41%) Data Ingestion
13 10 (7.41%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.41%) SQL
2 28 (20.74%) Python
3 19 (14.07%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.85%) Java
5 12 (8.89%) Perl
6 8 (5.93%) Bash
6 8 (5.93%) Groovy
7 6 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.70%) ABAP
9 4 (2.96%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.96%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.22%) C#
11 2 (1.48%) AWK
11 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.48%) Go
11 2 (1.48%) JCL
11 2 (1.48%) RPG
11 2 (1.48%) Scala
11 2 (1.48%) sed
11 2 (1.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.04%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.48%) CCNP
6 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.48%) Degree
6 2 (1.48%) MCSE
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.48%) VCAP
6 2 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.37%) GDPR
2 8 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.44%) SLA
4 5 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.22%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.22%) NIST
6 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.48%) QA
7 1 (0.74%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.74%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.74%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (22.96%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.07%) Docker
3 11 (8.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.19%) Brightmail
4 7 (5.19%) ISA Server
4 7 (5.19%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.44%) DFS Replication
5 6 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (2.22%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (2.22%) iptables
7 3 (2.22%) vSphere
8 2 (1.48%) GPFS
8 2 (1.48%) NFS
8 2 (1.48%) PowerHA
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.74%) Samba
9 1 (0.74%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 14 (10.37%) Terraform
2 13 (9.63%) Ansible
2 13 (9.63%) Grafana
3 10 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (4.44%) logstash
5 6 (4.44%) Puppet
6 5 (3.70%) Kibana
6 5 (3.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (2.96%) EMC NetWorker
7 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.96%) Nagios
7 4 (2.96%) Netcool
7 4 (2.96%) Tivoli
8 3 (2.22%) Cacti
8 3 (2.22%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.22%) QRadar
8 3 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.81%) VMware
3 13 (9.63%) Oracle
3 13 (9.63%) ServiceNow
4 12 (8.89%) IBM
5 9 (6.67%) SAP
5 9 (6.67%) Splunk
6 7 (5.19%) Red Hat
6 7 (5.19%) Veeam
7 6 (4.44%) Confluent
8 5 (3.70%) Dell
8 5 (3.70%) EMC
8 5 (3.70%) Qualys
9 4 (2.96%) Cisco
9 4 (2.96%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.96%) Sun
10 3 (2.22%) HP
10 3 (2.22%) Nokia
10 3 (2.22%) Sybase
10 3 (2.22%) Unisys