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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 344 431
Rank change year-on-year -5 +87 +3
Contract jobs citing Replication 240 139 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.54% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 1.60% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 81 61
10th Percentile £400 £325 £313
25th Percentile £456 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £60.13 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £64.31 £24.57 -
Median hourly rate £77.25 £25.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +199.48% -53.10% -21.43%
75th Percentile £79.38 £27.27 £55.70
90th Percentile £89.13 £28.01 £56.12
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £23.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year +227.47% -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 11,886 8,682 11,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.12% 33.46% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 5,329 7,651
10th Percentile £280 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £627 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 595 259 756
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £16.98
Median hourly rate £33.50 £35.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +9.23% +44.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £58.71
90th Percentile £76.55 £83.24 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.83 £32.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.28% +1.25% +44.54%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -24 103 £580 +10.27% 20
South East +1 47 £525 +7.14% 19
Midlands -23 32 £402 +0.50% 13
West Midlands -18 30 £402 -2.55% 8
North of England -50 29 £458 +1.78% 9
North West -22 15 £456 +1.33% 7
Yorkshire -51 15 £481 +16.61% 2
South West -15 13 £516 -5.79% 3
East of England -22 10 £800 +71.38% 4
East Midlands -25 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 7 (2.92%) Confluence
2 5 (2.08%) Apache
2 5 (2.08%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (1.67%) nginx
4 3 (1.25%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.25%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.00%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.17%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.25%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.83%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (32.50%) Azure
2 61 (25.42%) AWS
3 29 (12.08%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.25%) GitHub
4 15 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
5 13 (5.42%) Amazon S3
6 12 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.17%) Serverless
8 10 (4.17%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.92%) AWS KMS
9 7 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.92%) OCI
9 7 (2.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 51 (21.25%) DNS
2 37 (15.42%) SAN
3 33 (13.75%) DHCP
3 33 (13.75%) NAS
4 31 (12.92%) Kerberos
5 28 (11.67%) Firewall
6 10 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (4.17%) iSCSI
7 7 (2.92%) SSH
8 6 (2.50%) FTP
8 6 (2.50%) HTTP
8 6 (2.50%) SMTP
8 6 (2.50%) VSAN
9 4 (1.67%) IMAP
9 4 (1.67%) IPv4
9 4 (1.67%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.25%) LAN
10 3 (1.25%) VPN
10 3 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.17%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.58%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.92%) MySQL
7 7 (2.92%) Power BI
8 6 (2.50%) Couchbase
8 6 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.08%) DB2
9 5 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (2.08%) Oracle ODI
9 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.08%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.00%) Git
3 7 (2.92%) JIRA
4 6 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.50%) Vagrant
5 5 (2.08%) DBeaver
6 3 (1.25%) GitLab
7 2 (0.83%) Subversion
7 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.42%) gulp
8 1 (0.42%) LSMW
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 55 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.33%) Finance
3 28 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.50%) Retail
8 5 (2.08%) Banking
8 5 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.25%) Legal
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Police
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (9.58%) Architect
1 23 (9.58%) Consultant
1 23 (9.58%) Platform Engineer
2 20 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 19 (7.92%) Analyst
3 19 (7.92%) Senior
4 16 (6.67%) Storage Analyst
5 15 (6.25%) DBA
6 12 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
7 11 (4.58%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 10 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.17%) SQL DBA
9 9 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.75%) SAP HCM Consultant
9 9 (3.75%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (3.33%) Developer
10 8 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.58%) LDAP
2 22 (9.17%) OAuth
2 22 (9.17%) SAML
3 19 (7.92%) Flash
4 16 (6.67%) Kafka
5 11 (4.58%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 11 (4.58%) SOAP
6 10 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.75%) XML
8 8 (3.33%) Web Services
9 7 (2.92%) OpenID
9 7 (2.92%) REST
10 6 (2.50%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.25%) Keycloak
12 2 (0.83%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.83%) JSON
12 2 (0.83%) SAP ALE
12 2 (0.83%) Ultra Messaging
13 1 (0.42%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.08%) Clustering
2 21 (8.75%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (5.42%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 12 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.92%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.67%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.67%) PKI
8 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.25%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.25%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.25%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.83%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.08%) Linux
2 51 (21.25%) Windows
3 40 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.17%) Unix
5 9 (3.75%) VMS
6 7 (2.92%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.50%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.83%) Solaris
10 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.25%) Migration
2 68 (28.33%) High Availability
3 66 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 53 (22.08%) Performance Tuning
5 39 (16.25%) DevOps
6 37 (15.42%) Agile
6 37 (15.42%) CI/CD
7 27 (11.25%) Capacity Planning
8 25 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (10.00%) RBAC
10 23 (9.58%) Data Modelling
11 21 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (7.92%) Data Migration
12 19 (7.92%) Validation
13 18 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (7.08%) Analytics
14 17 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
15 16 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 41 (17.08%) Python
2 41 (17.08%) SQL
3 13 (5.42%) Bash
4 9 (3.75%) ABAP
4 9 (3.75%) Groovy
5 8 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.50%) Java
6 6 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.08%) Perl
7 5 (2.08%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.42%) Bicep
9 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.42%) Korn
9 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 90 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 67 (27.92%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (7.08%) Degree
5 15 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (5.00%) VCAP
8 11 (4.58%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.33%) MCSA
9 8 (3.33%) MCSE
10 6 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.08%) OCP
11 5 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.25%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.83%) VCDX
14 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.42%) GDPR
2 17 (7.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 14 (5.83%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.92%) QA
5 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.25%) SLA
7 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.83%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.83%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.42%) COBIT
8 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (24.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 53 (22.08%) Active Directory
3 40 (16.67%) NFS
4 35 (14.58%) VMware ESXi
5 34 (14.17%) vSphere
6 21 (8.75%) Docker
7 19 (7.92%) GPFS
8 13 (5.42%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (2.50%) DFS Replication
10 5 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (2.08%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.67%) Dovecot
11 4 (1.67%) Postfix
11 4 (1.67%) Squid
11 4 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (1.25%) SRDF
13 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.83%) Veritas File System
13 2 (0.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (15.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 25 (10.42%) Terraform
3 21 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (7.92%) Ansible
4 19 (7.92%) Kubernetes
5 16 (6.67%) vRealize
6 13 (5.42%) Grafana
6 13 (5.42%) Prometheus
7 12 (5.00%) vCenter Server
8 9 (3.75%) SCCM
9 8 (3.33%) vMotion
10 6 (2.50%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (2.08%) Data Guard
11 5 (2.08%) SCOM
12 4 (1.67%) Kibana
12 4 (1.67%) logstash
12 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.67%) Nessus
12 4 (1.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 73 (30.42%) VMware
2 68 (28.33%) Microsoft
3 35 (14.58%) Oracle
4 32 (13.33%) ServiceNow
5 31 (12.92%) IBM
6 30 (12.50%) Cisco
7 19 (7.92%) SAP
8 18 (7.50%) NetApp
9 14 (5.83%) Okta
10 12 (5.00%) Pure Storage
11 11 (4.58%) EMC
12 10 (4.17%) Commvault
13 7 (2.92%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.92%) Veeam
14 6 (2.50%) Confluent
14 6 (2.50%) Dell
14 6 (2.50%) RedGate
15 5 (2.08%) Computacenter
16 4 (1.67%) Isilon
16 4 (1.67%) Jaspersoft