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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 358 416
Rank change year-on-year +23 +58 +36
Contract jobs citing Replication 223 147 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.53% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 1.64% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 84 70
10th Percentile £382 £352 £348
25th Percentile £450 £449 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +6.37% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £578
90th Percentile £643 £691 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £526 £505
% change year-on-year -4.94% +4.11% +1.05%
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 11,145 8,969 11,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.24% 32.44% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,066 5,395 7,770
10th Percentile £288 £275 £263
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -4.94% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 261 485
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £20.25
Median hourly rate £28.56 £35.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% -16.47% +41.67%
75th Percentile £63.64 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £77.11
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.27 £41.23
% change year-on-year -18.21% -19.31% +38.73%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -6 100 £544 -3.76% 14
South East +8 40 £488 +8.33% 18
Midlands -8 39 £450 +12.50% 8
West Midlands -3 37 £450 +12.50% 4
North of England -46 22 £475 +0.53% 8
South West -9 13 £513 -6.48% 3
North West -22 13 £465 -1.67% 7
East of England -10 10 £800 - 5
Yorkshire -39 9 £487 -11.45%
East Midlands -22 2 - - 4
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 21 (9.42%) Confluence
2 11 (4.93%) nginx
3 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.14%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.69%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (2.69%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (2.69%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (2.69%) Exchange Server 2013
5 6 (2.69%) Office Communications Server
5 6 (2.69%) Oracle Application Server
5 6 (2.69%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (2.69%) Skype for Business
6 5 (2.24%) Apache
7 3 (1.35%) GeoServer
7 3 (1.35%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.90%) CICS
8 2 (0.90%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.90%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 10 (4.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (5.38%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.48%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.35%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.90%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (31.84%) AWS
2 59 (26.46%) Azure
3 23 (10.31%) Amazon S3
4 22 (9.87%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 20 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (7.62%) AWS KMS
7 17 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (7.17%) Amazon ELB
9 15 (6.73%) SuccessFactors
10 13 (5.83%) GitHub
11 12 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.38%) Serverless
12 11 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.93%) SaaS
13 10 (4.48%) Route 53
13 10 (4.48%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (2.69%) Amazon Glacier
15 6 (2.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (21.97%) DNS
2 41 (18.39%) Firewall
3 37 (16.59%) SAN
4 19 (8.52%) NAS
5 18 (8.07%) SSH
6 16 (7.17%) FTP
6 16 (7.17%) HTTP
6 16 (7.17%) SMTP
7 15 (6.73%) DHCP
8 12 (5.38%) iSCSI
9 10 (4.48%) IMAP
9 10 (4.48%) OpenLDAP
9 10 (4.48%) TCP/IP
9 10 (4.48%) VPN
10 8 (3.59%) Fibre Channel
10 8 (3.59%) VLAN
11 6 (2.69%) DDNS
11 6 (2.69%) Kerberos
12 5 (2.24%) VSAN
12 5 (2.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.70%) Amazon RDS
1 35 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (5.83%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.93%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.93%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.04%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.14%) DB2
6 7 (3.14%) MySQL
6 7 (3.14%) Oracle Exadata
6 7 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (2.69%) Couchbase
7 6 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.69%) Oracle ODI
7 6 (2.69%) Power BI
7 6 (2.69%) Star Schema
8 5 (2.24%) Redis
8 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (16.14%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.66%) Git
3 23 (10.31%) JIRA
4 16 (7.17%) Vagrant
5 6 (2.69%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.79%) Subversion
6 4 (1.79%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.35%) GitLab
8 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.45%) gulp
9 1 (0.45%) LSMW
9 1 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 63 (28.25%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.70%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.35%) Finance
4 26 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.62%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.38%) Banking
7 11 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.14%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.69%) Retail
10 5 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.79%) International Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
13 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Police
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (14.80%) Platform Engineer
2 26 (11.66%) Architect
3 23 (10.31%) Consultant
4 20 (8.97%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 19 (8.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 19 (8.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (8.07%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (7.62%) Senior
8 15 (6.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.28%) Analyst
10 13 (5.83%) Storage Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) SAP Consultant
11 12 (5.38%) Storage Analyst
12 10 (4.48%) DBA
12 10 (4.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 10 (4.48%) Infrastructure Architect
13 9 (4.04%) SAP HCM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.31%) Kafka
2 17 (7.62%) LDAP
3 16 (7.17%) Flash
4 13 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 11 (4.93%) REST
5 11 (4.93%) SOAP
5 11 (4.93%) XML
6 8 (3.59%) OAuth
6 8 (3.59%) SAML
6 8 (3.59%) Web Services
7 7 (3.14%) Middleware
8 6 (2.69%) OpenID
9 5 (2.24%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.79%) JSON
10 4 (1.79%) Keycloak
10 4 (1.79%) TIBCO EMS
10 4 (1.79%) Ultra Messaging
11 3 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.87%) Clustering
2 18 (8.07%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (7.62%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.59%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (3.59%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.14%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.24%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.79%) PKI
10 3 (1.35%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.35%) Equities
10 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.90%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.90%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 75 (33.63%) Linux
2 60 (26.91%) Windows
3 24 (10.76%) Windows Server
4 22 (9.87%) VMS
5 16 (7.17%) Amazon Linux
6 14 (6.28%) Ubuntu
7 12 (5.38%) Unix
8 6 (2.69%) Solaris
8 6 (2.69%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.90%) AIX
11 2 (0.90%) zOS
12 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.45%) MVS
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (25.11%) High Availability
2 54 (24.22%) Performance Tuning
3 51 (22.87%) DevOps
4 49 (21.97%) CI/CD
5 45 (20.18%) Migration
6 44 (19.73%) Disaster Recovery
7 40 (17.94%) Agile
8 31 (13.90%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (13.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (11.66%) Change Management
11 25 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (9.87%) Configuration Management
12 22 (9.87%) Data Modelling
12 22 (9.87%) ITIL
13 20 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (8.07%) Analytics
15 17 (7.62%) Cloud Security
15 17 (7.62%) Data Protection
15 17 (7.62%) Patch Management
16 16 (7.17%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.11%) Python
2 55 (24.66%) PowerShell
3 43 (19.28%) SQL
4 20 (8.97%) Groovy
5 16 (7.17%) Bash
6 15 (6.73%) Java
7 11 (4.93%) Perl
8 9 (4.04%) ABAP
9 8 (3.59%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.14%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.90%) Go
11 2 (0.90%) PHP
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.04%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.21%) Degree
4 19 (8.52%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.62%) AWS Certification
6 16 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (6.28%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.59%) VCAP
10 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.79%) MCSA
10 4 (1.79%) MCSE
10 4 (1.79%) OCP
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.90%) VCDX
13 1 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.83%) GDPR
3 6 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.79%) QA
5 3 (1.35%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.90%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (23.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (18.83%) Active Directory
3 34 (15.25%) Docker
4 29 (13.00%) NFS
5 28 (12.56%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (11.66%) vSphere
7 16 (7.17%) DFS Replication
7 16 (7.17%) GPFS
8 10 (4.48%) Dovecot
8 10 (4.48%) Postfix
8 10 (4.48%) Squid
9 9 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (3.14%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (2.69%) Brightmail
11 6 (2.69%) ISA Server
11 6 (2.69%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.79%) Veritas File System
12 4 (1.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 4 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (16.59%) Terraform
2 25 (11.21%) Kubernetes
3 24 (10.76%) Grafana
3 24 (10.76%) Prometheus
4 18 (8.07%) Ansible
5 14 (6.28%) vRealize
6 12 (5.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (4.93%) vCenter Server
8 10 (4.48%) Nessus
8 10 (4.48%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.04%) SCCM
10 7 (3.14%) Data Guard
10 7 (3.14%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.69%) Kibana
11 6 (2.69%) logstash
11 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (2.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (2.24%) SCOM
13 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 61 (27.35%) VMware
2 47 (21.08%) Microsoft
3 40 (17.94%) ServiceNow
4 35 (15.70%) Oracle
5 33 (14.80%) IBM
6 27 (12.11%) Cisco
7 25 (11.21%) NetApp
8 19 (8.52%) SAP
9 16 (7.17%) Veeam
10 12 (5.38%) EMC
11 11 (4.93%) Dell
12 10 (4.48%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (3.59%) TIBCO
14 6 (2.69%) Confluent
15 5 (2.24%) Computacenter
15 5 (2.24%) CyberArk
15 5 (2.24%) Google
15 5 (2.24%) Solace
15 5 (2.24%) SolarWinds
16 4 (1.79%) Splunk