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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 353 373
Rank change year-on-year +29 +20 +31
Contract jobs citing Replication 263 116 171
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.47% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.39% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 78 98
10th Percentile £400 £363 £281
25th Percentile £456 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £630 £665 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.50%
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 12,900 8,334 11,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.61% 34.00% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 5,465 7,487
10th Percentile £303 £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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 666 315 815
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.85 £15.13
Median hourly rate £45.46 £36.48 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.62% +29.13% +25.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £68.83
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -12 100 £578 +7.44% 15
South East -21 52 £525 - 8
North of England -27 49 £469 +4.27% 20
Midlands -39 33 £402 -17.54% 5
West Midlands -36 31 £402 -17.54% 5
North West -27 25 £460 +2.22% 13
Yorkshire -51 22 £487 -4.51% 4
South West -32 13 £565 +3.10% 5
East of England -29 10 £800 +71.38% 1
North East - 3 £425 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £540 -
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 3 (1.14%) Confluence
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.76%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
4 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 13 (4.94%) SAP Payroll
2 11 (4.18%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.52%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.14%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.56%) Azure
2 58 (22.05%) AWS
3 32 (12.17%) Entra ID
4 24 (9.13%) SuccessFactors
5 18 (6.84%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.18%) GitHub
7 10 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.42%) Serverless
9 8 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.04%) SaaS
10 7 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.28%) GCP
11 6 (2.28%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.39%) SAN
2 50 (19.01%) NAS
3 44 (16.73%) DNS
4 33 (12.55%) DHCP
4 33 (12.55%) Kerberos
5 21 (7.98%) Firewall
6 18 (6.84%) Fibre Channel
7 16 (6.08%) VSAN
8 14 (5.32%) iSCSI
9 7 (2.66%) VLAN
10 4 (1.52%) Network Security
10 4 (1.52%) VPN
11 3 (1.14%) IPv4
11 3 (1.14%) LAN
12 2 (0.76%) X.500
13 1 (0.38%) FCoE
13 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
13 1 (0.38%) WAN
13 1 (0.38%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.04%) MySQL
8 7 (2.66%) Redis
9 6 (2.28%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.28%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.52%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.14%) DB2
12 3 (1.14%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (4.94%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.04%) Git
3 6 (2.28%) JIRA
3 6 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.76%) Flyway
4 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) LSMW
5 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.69%) Finance
3 27 (10.27%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.56%) Banking
6 8 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.04%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.28%) Legal
7 6 (2.28%) Retail
8 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.76%) Military
10 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.38%) Front Office
10 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (11.79%) Architect
2 30 (11.41%) Consultant
3 25 (9.51%) Senior
4 23 (8.75%) Analyst
4 23 (8.75%) SAP Consultant
5 20 (7.60%) Storage Analyst
6 19 (7.22%) DBA
7 14 (5.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 13 (4.94%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.94%) SQL DBA
9 12 (4.56%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.42%) SAP HCM Consultant
10 9 (3.42%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (3.42%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (2.66%) Administrator
11 7 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.66%) Developer
11 7 (2.66%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.55%) LDAP
2 21 (7.98%) Flash
3 19 (7.22%) OAuth
3 19 (7.22%) SAML
4 11 (4.18%) SOAP
5 10 (3.80%) Kafka
6 9 (3.42%) XML
7 8 (3.04%) Web Services
8 7 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.90%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.90%) OpenID
9 5 (1.90%) REST
10 4 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.52%) FHIR
10 4 (1.52%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.14%) SAP ALE
11 3 (1.14%) SAP Basis
12 2 (0.76%) EDIFACT
12 2 (0.76%) JSON
12 2 (0.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.79%) Clustering
2 26 (9.89%) Enterprise Storage
3 23 (8.75%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (6.46%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.28%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.28%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.52%) NHS
8 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.52%) PKI
8 4 (1.52%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.14%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.14%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.76%) Life Science
10 2 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 54 (20.53%) Linux
1 54 (20.53%) Windows
2 41 (15.59%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.04%) Unix
4 7 (2.66%) VMS
5 5 (1.90%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.52%) SUSE
6 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.76%) AIX
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (32.70%) Migration
2 78 (29.66%) Disaster Recovery
3 67 (25.48%) High Availability
4 54 (20.53%) Performance Tuning
5 46 (17.49%) Capacity Planning
6 37 (14.07%) DevOps
7 34 (12.93%) Agile
7 34 (12.93%) ITIL
8 30 (11.41%) RBAC
9 29 (11.03%) Data Modelling
9 29 (11.03%) Data Protection
10 28 (10.65%) Validation
11 27 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (9.51%) Performance Optimisation
13 24 (9.13%) Runbook
14 23 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (7.60%) Data Migration
17 19 (7.22%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 81 (30.80%) PowerShell
2 36 (13.69%) SQL
3 29 (11.03%) Python
4 15 (5.70%) Bash
5 12 (4.56%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.42%) ABAP
7 8 (3.04%) Groovy
7 8 (3.04%) Java
8 3 (1.14%) Perl
9 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 115 (43.73%) Security Cleared
2 83 (31.56%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.46%) DV Cleared
3 17 (6.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (4.56%) VCAP
6 11 (4.18%) Degree
7 8 (3.04%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.04%) MCSA
7 8 (3.04%) MCSE
8 7 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.28%) NCDA
10 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.76%) PMP
12 2 (0.76%) VCDX
13 1 (0.38%) OCP
13 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.60%) GDPR
2 14 (5.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.28%) QA
5 5 (1.90%) NIST
6 4 (1.52%) DICOM
6 4 (1.52%) HL7
6 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.76%) GRC
7 2 (0.76%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.38%) COBIT
8 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (24.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (19.39%) Active Directory
3 45 (17.11%) VMware ESXi
4 43 (16.35%) NFS
4 43 (16.35%) vSphere
5 20 (7.60%) GPFS
6 17 (6.46%) Docker
7 15 (5.70%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.28%) Firmware
8 6 (2.28%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.90%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.52%) SRDF
10 4 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.76%) Corosync
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 36 (13.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 26 (9.89%) Terraform
3 24 (9.13%) Ansible
4 22 (8.37%) Kubernetes
5 21 (7.98%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (7.60%) vRealize
7 19 (7.22%) vCenter Server
8 12 (4.56%) Grafana
8 12 (4.56%) Prometheus
9 9 (3.42%) VxRail
10 8 (3.04%) EMC VPLEX
10 8 (3.04%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.04%) vMotion
11 7 (2.66%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (2.28%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (2.28%) SCCM
13 5 (1.90%) Rancher
14 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.52%) SCOM
15 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 79 (30.04%) VMware
2 65 (24.71%) Microsoft
3 36 (13.69%) Cisco
3 36 (13.69%) SAP
4 35 (13.31%) ServiceNow
5 29 (11.03%) NetApp
5 29 (11.03%) Oracle
6 27 (10.27%) IBM
7 19 (7.22%) Pure Storage
8 18 (6.84%) EMC
9 16 (6.08%) Veeam
10 14 (5.32%) Dell
10 14 (5.32%) Okta
11 13 (4.94%) Commvault
12 11 (4.18%) Brocade
13 7 (2.66%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.66%) Zerto
14 6 (2.28%) RedGate
15 5 (1.90%) Dynatrace
15 5 (1.90%) Isilon