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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 340 387
Rank change year-on-year -38 +47 +39
Contract jobs citing Replication 271 175 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.63% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 1.72% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 108 85
10th Percentile £358 £361 £368
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.94% +0.19%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £658 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £526
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.70% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £63.95 £67.18 -
25th Percentile £69.13 £69.31 -
Median hourly rate £78.00 £73.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £86.63 £76.81 -
90th Percentile £91.65 £78.73 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 -
% change year-on-year +2.39% - -

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 15,961 10,166 10,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 36.42% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,581 6,361 6,029
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £644 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £820
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.29% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,185 535 355
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.81 £16.10
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.51 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -43.81% +13.69%
75th Percentile £67.70 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.42 £46.18
% change year-on-year +31.31% -40.63% +2.62%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -35 135 £550 - 88
North of England -5 70 £483 +7.33% 28
North West -13 40 £491 +9.09% 20
Yorkshire -6 27 £425 - 6
East of England -9 18 £600 +26.32% 5
South West -28 17 £658 +31.50% 8
Midlands -58 14 £448 -5.79% 3
West Midlands -67 10 £450 -5.26% 2
South East -93 9 £521 +4.25% 29
East Midlands -11 3 £404 - 1
North East - 3 £425 - 2
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 11 (4.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (3.69%) Confluence
3 7 (2.58%) CMS
4 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) Apache
6 2 (0.74%) IIS
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 8 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.85%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.11%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.37%) Actimize
6 1 (0.37%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.37%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.52%) Azure
2 78 (28.78%) AWS
3 25 (9.23%) Entra ID
4 23 (8.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 21 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 21 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.38%) AWS KMS
6 20 (7.38%) GCP
7 14 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (4.80%) GitHub
8 13 (4.80%) OCI
8 13 (4.80%) Power Platform
9 11 (4.06%) Adobe Analytics
10 10 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (2.58%) Cohesity
11 7 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.21%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.44%) SAN
2 28 (10.33%) DNS
3 21 (7.75%) Firewall
4 14 (5.17%) VLAN
5 13 (4.80%) SSL
6 12 (4.43%) NAS
6 12 (4.43%) Network Security
7 11 (4.06%) DHCP
7 11 (4.06%) VPN
8 10 (3.69%) Kerberos
8 10 (3.69%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.58%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (2.21%) OpenLDAP
11 5 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (1.48%) Broadband
12 4 (1.48%) IPv4
12 4 (1.48%) IPv6
12 4 (1.48%) SSH
12 4 (1.48%) VSAN
13 3 (1.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (19.56%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (16.61%) SQL Server
3 32 (11.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (11.44%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (10.33%) MySQL
6 23 (8.49%) Oracle Database
7 16 (5.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (5.54%) Redis
9 14 (5.17%) MongoDB
10 13 (4.80%) Power BI
11 12 (4.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (4.06%) Relational Database
13 10 (3.69%) NoSQL
14 8 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (2.58%) Db2
15 7 (2.58%) RDBMS
15 7 (2.58%) SAP HANA
15 7 (2.58%) Sybase ASE
16 6 (2.21%) Metadata
17 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 26 (9.59%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.12%) Git
3 20 (7.38%) JIRA
4 11 (4.06%) GitLab
5 4 (1.48%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.11%) MLflow
6 3 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.11%) Toad
7 2 (0.74%) Selenium
7 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.74%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.37%) Flyway
8 1 (0.37%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.37%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.13%) Finance
3 36 (13.28%) Documentation Skills
4 24 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.75%) Banking
6 17 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.06%) Marketing
8 7 (2.58%) Advertising
8 7 (2.58%) Publishing
9 6 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Billing
12 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Legal
13 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (21.03%) DBA
2 46 (16.97%) Senior
3 34 (12.55%) Architect
4 28 (10.33%) Administrator
5 25 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (8.86%) Storage Engineer
7 22 (8.12%) Lead
8 21 (7.75%) Consultant
9 18 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (6.64%) SQL DBA
10 14 (5.17%) Technical Specialist
11 13 (4.80%) Senior DBA
12 10 (3.69%) Data Architect
13 9 (3.32%) Web Specialist
13 9 (3.32%) Wintel Engineer
14 8 (2.95%) Active Directory Engineer
14 8 (2.95%) Analyst
14 8 (2.95%) SC Cleared DBA
15 7 (2.58%) Data Engineer
15 7 (2.58%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.56%) Terraform
2 16 (5.90%) Kafka
3 14 (5.17%) LDAP
4 12 (4.43%) HTML
5 11 (4.06%) CSS
6 9 (3.32%) Middleware
7 8 (2.95%) Flash
8 7 (2.58%) Keycloak
8 7 (2.58%) REST
8 7 (2.58%) SAML
9 6 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.21%) OAuth
9 6 (2.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.85%) Web Services
11 4 (1.48%) Oracle Streams
12 3 (1.11%) eBPF
12 3 (1.11%) Loki
13 2 (0.74%) LangChain
13 2 (0.74%) pydantic
13 2 (0.74%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.33%) Clustering
2 26 (9.59%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.38%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.32%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.32%) Mainframe
5 9 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.95%) PKI
7 6 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.48%) CMDB
9 4 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.48%) IoT
9 4 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.11%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 83 (30.63%) Linux
2 56 (20.66%) Windows
3 44 (16.24%) Windows Server
4 20 (7.38%) Unix
5 19 (7.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (4.43%) CentOS
6 12 (4.43%) Rocky
7 11 (4.06%) VMS
8 9 (3.32%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (2.21%) AIX
9 6 (2.21%) zOS
10 4 (1.48%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.11%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.37%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (33.21%) Performance Tuning
2 89 (32.84%) Disaster Recovery
3 76 (28.04%) High Availability
4 60 (22.14%) DevOps
5 59 (21.77%) Migration
6 53 (19.56%) CI/CD
7 52 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (18.82%) Data Modelling
9 43 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 38 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (11.81%) Root Cause Analysis
12 31 (11.44%) Business Continuity
12 31 (11.44%) Validation
13 29 (10.70%) Capacity Planning
13 29 (10.70%) Runbook
14 28 (10.33%) Agile
14 28 (10.33%) Analytics
15 27 (9.96%) AI
16 26 (9.59%) Secrets Management
17 24 (8.86%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.31%) SQL
2 64 (23.62%) PowerShell
3 57 (21.03%) Python
4 19 (7.01%) Groovy
5 17 (6.27%) Bash
6 16 (5.90%) T-SQL
7 14 (5.17%) Java
8 11 (4.06%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.69%) Perl
10 5 (1.85%) ABAP
10 5 (1.85%) Bicep
11 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.11%) CQL
12 3 (1.11%) Go
12 3 (1.11%) JCL
13 2 (0.74%) Rust
13 2 (0.74%) Scala
14 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 110 (40.59%) Security Cleared
2 89 (32.84%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.33%) Degree
4 23 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (7.75%) AWS Certification
5 21 (7.75%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (5.17%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (3.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (2.95%) MCSA
11 8 (2.95%) MCSE
11 8 (2.95%) VCAP
12 4 (1.48%) OCP
12 4 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.43%) QA
2 11 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.21%) SLA
5 5 (1.85%) GDPR
6 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.11%) NIST
7 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.74%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.74%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 35 (12.92%) Virtual Machines
2 33 (12.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (10.33%) Docker
4 27 (9.96%) Active Directory
5 23 (8.49%) vSphere
6 16 (5.90%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (4.43%) Oracle RAC
8 10 (3.69%) NFS
9 9 (3.32%) Firmware
10 8 (2.95%) GPFS
11 7 (2.58%) Hyper-V
12 4 (1.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (1.11%) ACF2
13 3 (1.11%) RACF
13 3 (1.11%) SRDF
14 2 (0.74%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.74%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.74%) Postfix
14 2 (0.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (14.76%) Ansible
2 26 (9.59%) Prometheus
3 25 (9.23%) Grafana
4 20 (7.38%) Kubernetes
5 13 (4.80%) NetBackup
6 11 (4.06%) SCOM
6 11 (4.06%) vCenter Server
7 10 (3.69%) Data Guard
7 10 (3.69%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (1.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 5 (1.85%) vRealize
9 4 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 4 (1.48%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.48%) Nagios
9 4 (1.48%) Rancher
10 3 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (23.99%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.71%) Oracle
3 43 (15.87%) VMware
4 35 (12.92%) ServiceNow
5 26 (9.59%) NetApp
5 26 (9.59%) Veeam
6 25 (9.23%) IBM
7 21 (7.75%) SAP
8 19 (7.01%) Cisco
8 19 (7.01%) Dell
9 14 (5.17%) Google
10 11 (4.06%) Adobe
11 9 (3.32%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.95%) Databricks
12 8 (2.95%) EMC
13 7 (2.58%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.58%) Sybase
14 6 (2.21%) BMC
14 6 (2.21%) Brocade
14 6 (2.21%) Confluent
169 Replication jobs in England