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 6 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 368 378
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 +39
Contract jobs citing Replication 244 135 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 1.46% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 89 110
10th Percentile £388 £410 £300
25th Percentile £426 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £627
90th Percentile £630 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £519 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -0.19% +1.17% +0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £53.15 £78.83 -
25th Percentile £57.88 £79.03 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% - -
75th Percentile £73.50 £79.68 -
90th Percentile £77.10 £79.87 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -18.08% - -

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 14,515 9,219 11,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.88% 34.73% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,004 5,880 7,353
10th Percentile £313 £304 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 785 440 823
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.97 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +41.51%
75th Percentile £71.00 £59.48 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.90 £36.02
% change year-on-year +42.25% -14.21% +40.38%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -37 91 £575 -0.86% 16
North of England -20 69 £482 +0.31% 15
North West -3 44 £475 +5.44% 10
South East -28 42 £525 -6.67% 4
Yorkshire -38 23 £528 +3.53% 3
Midlands -55 23 £425 -10.53% 7
West Midlands -53 21 £413 -13.16% 4
South West -31 12 £543 -0.46% 2
East of England -36 3 £600 +28.62% 4
North East - 3 £425 - 2
East Midlands -18 1 £540 - 3
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 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.82%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 93 (38.11%) Azure
2 63 (25.82%) AWS
3 44 (18.03%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.15%) OpenShift
6 14 (5.74%) GitHub
7 10 (4.10%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.69%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.87%) GCP
10 7 (2.87%) Serverless
11 5 (2.05%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.05%) Cohesity
11 5 (2.05%) Nutanix
11 5 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.64%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (18.44%) SAN
2 42 (17.21%) DNS
3 40 (16.39%) NAS
4 30 (12.30%) DHCP
4 30 (12.30%) Kerberos
5 16 (6.56%) VSAN
6 15 (6.15%) VLAN
7 14 (5.74%) Fibre Channel
7 14 (5.74%) Firewall
8 9 (3.69%) Network Security
8 9 (3.69%) VPN
9 7 (2.87%) iSCSI
10 6 (2.46%) SSL
11 4 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.82%) Multicast
14 1 (0.41%) FCoE
14 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.41%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.10%) MySQL
5 8 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (3.28%) Power BI
5 8 (3.28%) SAP HANA
6 7 (2.87%) Sybase ASE
7 6 (2.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (2.46%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.05%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.05%) Redis
9 4 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (7.79%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.10%) JIRA
3 8 (3.28%) Git
4 5 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.23%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.82%) Flyway
6 2 (0.82%) GitLab
6 2 (0.82%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.11%) Finance
3 17 (6.97%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.15%) Banking
5 13 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.05%) Legal
8 4 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.82%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (13.52%) DBA
2 29 (11.89%) Senior
3 22 (9.02%) Architect
4 20 (8.20%) SQL DBA
5 16 (6.56%) Storage Engineer
6 15 (6.15%) Consultant
7 14 (5.74%) Analyst
7 14 (5.74%) Wintel Engineer
8 13 (5.33%) Administrator
9 12 (4.92%) Storage Analyst
10 11 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (4.10%) Lead
12 9 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.69%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.28%) Active Directory Engineer
13 8 (3.28%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 7 (2.87%) Sybase DBA
15 6 (2.46%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.93%) LDAP
2 17 (6.97%) Flash
3 15 (6.15%) OAuth
3 15 (6.15%) SAML
4 7 (2.87%) Kafka
5 4 (1.64%) FHIR
6 3 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.23%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.23%) Middleware
6 3 (1.23%) OpenID
6 3 (1.23%) REST
6 3 (1.23%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.82%) EDIFACT
7 2 (0.82%) JSON
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 2 (0.82%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.82%) Spring
7 2 (0.82%) Web Services
7 2 (0.82%) XML
8 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.21%) Clustering
2 23 (9.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 19 (7.79%) Data Centre
3 19 (7.79%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.87%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.46%) CMDB
8 5 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.64%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.64%) NHS
9 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.23%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (25.00%) Linux
2 58 (23.77%) Windows
3 41 (16.80%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.97%) Unix
5 13 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.46%) VMS
7 5 (2.05%) AIX
7 5 (2.05%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.64%) SUSE
9 3 (1.23%) CentOS
9 3 (1.23%) Rocky
10 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (33.20%) Disaster Recovery
2 80 (32.79%) Migration
3 79 (32.38%) High Availability
4 65 (26.64%) Performance Tuning
5 48 (19.67%) Capacity Planning
6 47 (19.26%) DevOps
7 39 (15.98%) RBAC
8 30 (12.30%) ITIL
9 29 (11.89%) Runbook
10 27 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (10.66%) Agile
12 25 (10.25%) Validation
13 24 (9.84%) CI/CD
13 24 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (9.84%) Project Delivery
14 22 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (9.02%) Task Automation
15 21 (8.61%) Performance Optimisation
16 20 (8.20%) Data Protection
17 19 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (33.61%) PowerShell
2 50 (20.49%) SQL
3 43 (17.62%) Python
4 17 (6.97%) Bash
5 16 (6.56%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.51%) Groovy
7 10 (4.10%) Java
8 4 (1.64%) Bicep
8 4 (1.64%) Perl
8 4 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.82%) Korn
9 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.82%) Rust
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 110 (45.08%) Security Cleared
2 92 (37.70%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (6.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (5.74%) VCAP
6 13 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.92%) MCSA
7 12 (4.92%) MCSE
8 10 (4.10%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (3.28%) Degree
9 8 (3.28%) NCDA
10 5 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.23%) NCIE
12 1 (0.41%) OCP
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.41%) PMP
12 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.79%) GDPR
2 18 (7.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (4.51%) QA
4 6 (2.46%) NIST
5 5 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.64%) DICOM
6 4 (1.64%) HL7
7 3 (1.23%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.82%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) COBIT
9 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (17.21%) Active Directory
3 41 (16.80%) vSphere
4 40 (16.39%) VMware ESXi
5 32 (13.11%) NFS
6 29 (11.89%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (6.56%) GPFS
8 15 (6.15%) Docker
9 8 (3.28%) Hyper-V
10 7 (2.87%) Firmware
11 5 (2.05%) SRDF
12 4 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (1.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.82%) Corosync
15 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (14.75%) Ansible
2 34 (13.93%) Terraform
3 27 (11.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 25 (10.25%) vCenter Server
5 22 (9.02%) Kubernetes
6 18 (7.38%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (6.15%) vRealize
8 14 (5.74%) Prometheus
9 13 (5.33%) Grafana
10 12 (4.92%) NetBackup
11 11 (4.51%) VxRail
12 10 (4.10%) EMC VPLEX
13 8 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (3.28%) vMotion
14 5 (2.05%) EMC NetWorker
15 4 (1.64%) Argo
15 4 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (1.64%) SCOM
15 4 (1.64%) SnapMirror
15 4 (1.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 70 (28.69%) Microsoft
2 66 (27.05%) VMware
3 40 (16.39%) Cisco
4 33 (13.52%) ServiceNow
5 31 (12.70%) Oracle
6 21 (8.61%) IBM
6 21 (8.61%) SAP
7 20 (8.20%) NetApp
8 19 (7.79%) Pure Storage
9 16 (6.56%) Brocade
10 15 (6.15%) Veeam
11 13 (5.33%) Dell
11 13 (5.33%) Okta
12 11 (4.51%) EMC
13 10 (4.10%) Commvault
14 8 (3.28%) SolarWinds
14 8 (3.28%) Sybase
15 7 (2.87%) Red Hat
16 6 (2.46%) Dynatrace
16 6 (2.46%) RedGate