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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 353 394
Rank change year-on-year +11 +41 +31
Contract jobs citing Replication 237 136 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 1.63% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 83 90
10th Percentile £400 £353 £281
25th Percentile £456 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £548 £588
90th Percentile £637 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +1.15% -
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 12,115 8,369 11,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.65% 33.60% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,692 5,350 7,670
10th Percentile £290 £287 £256
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -0.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £673 £662
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 286 805
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.85 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +14.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £68.19 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.71 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £29.72
% change year-on-year +4.62% +9.35% +32.18%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -6 98 £583 +10.85% 14
South East -15 48 £525 +9.38% 24
North of England -36 34 £458 +4.69% 15
Midlands -36 27 £401 -2.79% 14
West Midlands -31 25 £401 -5.65% 9
North West -16 18 £456 +1.33% 10
Yorkshire -44 17 £475 +18.75% 4
South West -33 12 £525 -4.20% 8
East of England -30 10 £800 +71.38% 8
East Midlands -32 2 - - 5
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 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.27%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.27%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.06%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.22%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.69%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.27%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (29.96%) Azure
2 56 (23.63%) AWS
3 29 (12.24%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.33%) SuccessFactors
5 14 (5.91%) GitHub
6 13 (5.49%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.22%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.95%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.95%) SaaS
9 7 (2.95%) Serverless
10 6 (2.53%) Datadog
10 6 (2.53%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (20.68%) DNS
2 39 (16.46%) SAN
3 38 (16.03%) NAS
4 33 (13.92%) DHCP
5 32 (13.50%) Kerberos
6 21 (8.86%) Firewall
7 15 (6.33%) Fibre Channel
8 11 (4.64%) iSCSI
9 8 (3.38%) VSAN
10 4 (1.69%) IPv4
11 3 (1.27%) LAN
11 3 (1.27%) VPN
11 3 (1.27%) WAN
12 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.84%) X.500
13 1 (0.42%) FCoE
13 1 (0.42%) Network Security
13 1 (0.42%) SSH
13 1 (0.42%) VLAN
13 1 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 20 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.75%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.22%) MySQL
6 9 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.53%) Power BI
10 5 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.11%) DB2
10 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.69%) GIS
11 4 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.69%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (5.06%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.53%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (2.11%) Git
4 4 (1.69%) DBeaver
5 3 (1.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) Flyway
6 1 (0.42%) gulp
6 1 (0.42%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.42%) LSMW
6 1 (0.42%) Maven
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
6 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 50 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.77%) Finance
3 25 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.53%) Retail
8 5 (2.11%) Banking
8 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (11.81%) Architect
2 26 (10.97%) Consultant
3 22 (9.28%) Analyst
4 19 (8.02%) Senior
4 19 (8.02%) Storage Analyst
5 17 (7.17%) Data Engineer
6 14 (5.91%) SAP Consultant
7 13 (5.49%) DBA
7 13 (5.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 13 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.64%) SQL DBA
9 9 (3.80%) SAP HCM Consultant
9 9 (3.80%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Developer
10 8 (3.38%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (2.95%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (2.53%) Database Developer
12 6 (2.53%) SAP Functional Consultant
12 6 (2.53%) SQL Database Developer
12 6 (2.53%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.50%) LDAP
2 22 (9.28%) OAuth
2 22 (9.28%) SAML
3 20 (8.44%) Flash
4 12 (5.06%) Kafka
4 12 (5.06%) SOAP
5 9 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.38%) Web Services
6 8 (3.38%) XML
7 7 (2.95%) OpenID
8 6 (2.53%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 5 (2.11%) REST
10 4 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.27%) Keycloak
11 3 (1.27%) SAP ALE
12 2 (0.84%) SAP Basis
13 1 (0.42%) Ajax
13 1 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
13 1 (0.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.39%) Clustering
2 21 (8.86%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (7.59%) Enterprise Storage
4 16 (6.75%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.53%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
8 4 (1.69%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.69%) PKI
9 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.41%) Linux
1 46 (19.41%) Windows
2 39 (16.46%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.38%) Unix
4 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.84%) AIX
5 2 (0.84%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Solaris
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.91%) Migration
2 71 (29.96%) Disaster Recovery
3 66 (27.85%) High Availability
4 49 (20.68%) Performance Tuning
5 35 (14.77%) Agile
6 34 (14.35%) Capacity Planning
7 31 (13.08%) DevOps
8 26 (10.97%) Data Modelling
8 26 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (10.55%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.55%) RBAC
10 24 (10.13%) Data Protection
10 24 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (9.28%) Validation
12 20 (8.44%) Data Migration
13 18 (7.59%) Analytics
13 18 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (7.59%) ITIL
13 18 (7.59%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (32.49%) PowerShell
2 37 (15.61%) SQL
3 30 (12.66%) Python
4 13 (5.49%) Bash
5 10 (4.22%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.80%) ABAP
7 4 (1.69%) Java
8 3 (1.27%) Groovy
9 2 (0.84%) Perl
9 2 (0.84%) PHP
9 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) Bicep
10 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.42%) Korn
10 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 94 (39.66%) Security Cleared
2 68 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (7.17%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.91%) Degree
6 13 (5.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (5.06%) VCAP
8 8 (3.38%) MCSA
8 8 (3.38%) MCSE
9 6 (2.53%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.27%) NCDA
11 3 (1.27%) OCP
11 3 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.84%) VCDX
13 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.28%) GDPR
2 15 (6.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 13 (5.49%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.95%) QA
5 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.27%) SLA
7 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.84%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.84%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) COBIT
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (24.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (21.52%) Active Directory
3 39 (16.46%) NFS
4 34 (14.35%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (13.92%) vSphere
6 19 (8.02%) GPFS
7 14 (5.91%) Docker
8 12 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.27%) Firmware
11 3 (1.27%) SRDF
12 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.42%) Veritas File System
13 1 (0.42%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (16.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 22 (9.28%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (8.44%) Terraform
4 18 (7.59%) Ansible
5 16 (6.75%) Kubernetes
5 16 (6.75%) vRealize
6 12 (5.06%) vCenter Server
7 8 (3.38%) Grafana
7 8 (3.38%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.38%) SCCM
7 8 (3.38%) vMotion
8 6 (2.53%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (2.11%) NetBackup
9 5 (2.11%) SCOM
10 4 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.69%) VxRail
11 3 (1.27%) Kibana
11 3 (1.27%) logstash
11 3 (1.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 74 (31.22%) VMware
2 69 (29.11%) Microsoft
3 31 (13.08%) Cisco
4 29 (12.24%) IBM
4 29 (12.24%) Oracle
5 26 (10.97%) ServiceNow
6 22 (9.28%) NetApp
6 22 (9.28%) SAP
7 15 (6.33%) Pure Storage
8 14 (5.91%) EMC
8 14 (5.91%) Okta
9 12 (5.06%) Commvault
10 11 (4.64%) Veeam
11 7 (2.95%) Dell
12 6 (2.53%) Brocade
12 6 (2.53%) RedGate
12 6 (2.53%) SolarWinds
13 5 (2.11%) Computacenter
13 5 (2.11%) Isilon
14 4 (1.69%) Zerto