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 8 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 348 372
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 +39
Contract jobs citing Replication 263 124 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.49% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 82 98
10th Percentile £400 £363 £281
25th Percentile £456 £425 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £598 £597
90th Percentile £630 £627 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £56.83 £24.37 -
25th Percentile £60.31 £25.55 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +159.82% - -
75th Percentile £79.13 £53.60 -
90th Percentile £85.28 £68.66 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £23.59 -
% change year-on-year +208.39% - -

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 12,886 8,306 11,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.96% 34.11% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,191 5,455 7,553
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £672
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 313 808
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.35
25th Percentile £20.31 £22.27 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.00 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +17.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £84.80 £67.11
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +36.92% +16.07% +24.44%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -26 98 £580 +11.54% 13
South East -10 54 £525 - 20
North of England -30 47 £472 +4.91% 18
Midlands -35 33 £402 -17.54% 11
West Midlands -39 31 £402 -17.54% 7
North West -12 24 £460 +2.22% 13
Yorkshire -39 22 £487 -4.51% 4
South West -32 15 £550 +0.36% 12
East of England -29 10 £800 +71.38% 3
North East -16 2 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £540 - 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 5 (1.90%) Apache
1 5 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.56%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (3.80%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.52%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.14%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.56%) Azure
2 55 (20.91%) AWS
3 31 (11.79%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.37%) SuccessFactors
5 18 (6.84%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.18%) GitHub
7 10 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.42%) SaaS
9 8 (3.04%) Serverless
9 8 (3.04%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.28%) GCP
11 6 (2.28%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.39%) SAN
2 50 (19.01%) NAS
3 48 (18.25%) DNS
4 34 (12.93%) DHCP
5 33 (12.55%) Kerberos
6 22 (8.37%) Firewall
7 18 (6.84%) Fibre Channel
8 16 (6.08%) VSAN
9 14 (5.32%) iSCSI
10 7 (2.66%) VLAN
11 4 (1.52%) IPv4
11 4 (1.52%) Network Security
11 4 (1.52%) VPN
12 3 (1.14%) LAN
13 2 (0.76%) X.500
14 1 (0.38%) FCoE
14 1 (0.38%) SSH
14 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
14 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.04%) MySQL
7 7 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.28%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.90%) Redis
9 5 (1.90%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.52%) DB2
10 4 (1.52%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.52%) Power BI
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.14%) SAP HANA
11 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (3.80%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (1.90%) Git
4 3 (1.14%) JIRA
5 2 (0.76%) DBeaver
5 2 (0.76%) Flyway
5 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) LSMW
General
1 59 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.31%) Finance
3 27 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.51%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.56%) Banking
6 10 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.04%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.28%) Legal
9 6 (2.28%) Retail
10 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (12.17%) Architect
2 30 (11.41%) Consultant
3 26 (9.89%) Senior
4 23 (8.75%) Analyst
5 22 (8.37%) SAP Consultant
6 20 (7.60%) Storage Analyst
7 19 (7.22%) DBA
8 15 (5.70%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 13 (4.94%) SQL DBA
11 12 (4.56%) Storage Engineer
12 10 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.42%) SAP HCM Consultant
13 9 (3.42%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (3.42%) Wintel Engineer
14 7 (2.66%) Administrator
14 7 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (2.66%) Infrastructure Architect
14 7 (2.66%) Senior SAP Consultant
14 7 (2.66%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.55%) LDAP
2 21 (7.98%) Flash
2 21 (7.98%) OAuth
2 21 (7.98%) SAML
3 12 (4.56%) SOAP
4 9 (3.42%) Kafka
5 8 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (3.04%) Web Services
6 7 (2.66%) OpenID
6 7 (2.66%) XML
7 6 (2.28%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.90%) Keycloak
8 5 (1.90%) REST
9 4 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (1.52%) FHIR
10 3 (1.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 3 (1.14%) SAP ALE
10 3 (1.14%) SAP Basis
11 1 (0.38%) .NET
11 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.03%) Clustering
2 26 (9.89%) Enterprise Storage
3 24 (9.13%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (6.84%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.28%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.28%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.52%) PKI
9 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.14%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.14%) EMC VNX
10 3 (1.14%) NHS
10 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.14%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.43%) Windows
2 53 (20.15%) Linux
3 44 (16.73%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.04%) Unix
5 7 (2.66%) VMS
6 6 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.90%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.52%) SUSE
8 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.76%) AIX
9 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (32.70%) Migration
2 79 (30.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 65 (24.71%) High Availability
4 53 (20.15%) Performance Tuning
5 46 (17.49%) Capacity Planning
6 35 (13.31%) ITIL
7 32 (12.17%) Agile
7 32 (12.17%) DevOps
7 32 (12.17%) RBAC
8 29 (11.03%) Data Modelling
8 29 (11.03%) Data Protection
9 28 (10.65%) Validation
10 27 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (10.27%) Performance Optimisation
11 26 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (9.13%) Runbook
13 21 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (7.60%) CI/CD
15 19 (7.22%) Data Migration
15 19 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 83 (31.56%) PowerShell
2 40 (15.21%) SQL
3 29 (11.03%) Python
4 15 (5.70%) Bash
5 12 (4.56%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.42%) ABAP
7 5 (1.90%) Groovy
8 3 (1.14%) Java
8 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) Perl
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 109 (41.44%) Security Cleared
2 77 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.22%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (4.56%) VCAP
6 11 (4.18%) Degree
7 8 (3.04%) MCSA
7 8 (3.04%) MCSE
8 7 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.28%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.28%) NCDA
10 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.76%) PMP
11 2 (0.76%) VCDX
12 1 (0.38%) OCP
12 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.60%) GDPR
2 14 (5.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 9 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.90%) NIST
4 5 (1.90%) QA
5 4 (1.52%) DICOM
5 4 (1.52%) HL7
5 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.76%) GRC
6 2 (0.76%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 66 (25.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (20.91%) Active Directory
3 45 (17.11%) VMware ESXi
4 43 (16.35%) NFS
4 43 (16.35%) vSphere
5 20 (7.60%) GPFS
6 15 (5.70%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (4.56%) Docker
8 6 (2.28%) Firmware
8 6 (2.28%) Hyper-V
8 6 (2.28%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.52%) SRDF
9 4 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 38 (14.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 23 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (8.37%) Ansible
4 21 (7.98%) Terraform
5 20 (7.60%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.60%) vRealize
6 19 (7.22%) vCenter Server
7 10 (3.80%) Grafana
7 10 (3.80%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.42%) VxRail
9 8 (3.04%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (3.04%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.04%) vMotion
10 7 (2.66%) SCCM
11 6 (2.28%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (1.90%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.90%) Rancher
12 5 (1.90%) SCOM
13 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 82 (31.18%) VMware
2 70 (26.62%) Microsoft
3 36 (13.69%) Cisco
4 32 (12.17%) SAP
4 32 (12.17%) ServiceNow
5 31 (11.79%) Oracle
6 29 (11.03%) NetApp
7 27 (10.27%) IBM
8 19 (7.22%) Pure Storage
9 18 (6.84%) EMC
10 16 (6.08%) Veeam
11 14 (5.32%) Dell
11 14 (5.32%) Okta
12 13 (4.94%) Commvault
13 11 (4.18%) Brocade
14 7 (2.66%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.66%) Zerto
15 6 (2.28%) RedGate
16 5 (1.90%) Dynatrace
16 5 (1.90%) Isilon
74 Replication jobs in England