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 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 368 424
Rank change year-on-year +34 +56 +62
Contract jobs citing Replication 220 152 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 1.55% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 88 84
10th Percentile £363 £371 £350
25th Percentile £463 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +4.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £578
90th Percentile £675 £702 £684
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £515
% change year-on-year -0.19% +2.14% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £60.95 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £62.75 £24.57 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £25.80 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year +157.80% -54.26% -19.43%
75th Percentile £73.25 £27.27 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.65 £28.01 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £23.59 £56.40
% change year-on-year +181.90% -58.17% -19.43%

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 11,271 9,783 12,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.18% 32.00% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,084 5,868 8,236
10th Percentile £286 £294 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 311 454
10th Percentile £13.58 £15.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.36 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.61% -10.11% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.36 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.75 £42.92
% change year-on-year -23.74% -19.03% +22.61%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -3 101 £550 - 14
Midlands +5 41 £475 +15.15% 13
South East +19 40 £550 +22.22% 14
West Midlands +5 38 £475 +18.75% 5
North of England -40 16 £450 -4.76% 11
South West -3 15 £520 -5.11% 3
East of England - 11 £800 - 3
North West -22 9 £450 -4.76% 4
Yorkshire -27 7 £443 -19.45% 6
East Midlands -13 3 - - 8
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 26 (11.82%) Confluence
2 12 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.00%) nginx
3 11 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (4.55%) Office Communications Server
4 10 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (4.55%) Skype for Business
5 8 (3.64%) Oracle Application Server
6 4 (1.82%) MQSeries
7 3 (1.36%) Apache
7 3 (1.36%) CICS
7 3 (1.36%) GeoServer
7 3 (1.36%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 13 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.45%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 12 (5.45%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.55%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.45%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.09%) AWS
2 57 (25.91%) Azure
3 29 (13.18%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (13.18%) Amazon S3
4 27 (12.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 27 (12.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 23 (10.45%) AWS KMS
6 21 (9.55%) Amazon ELB
7 18 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (7.27%) SuccessFactors
9 13 (5.91%) Serverless
10 12 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.45%) GitHub
11 11 (5.00%) Amazon Glacier
11 11 (5.00%) Route 53
11 11 (5.00%) SaaS
12 10 (4.55%) Snowflake
13 8 (3.64%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 62 (28.18%) DNS
2 48 (21.82%) Firewall
3 38 (17.27%) SAN
4 23 (10.45%) SSH
5 22 (10.00%) DHCP
6 21 (9.55%) FTP
6 21 (9.55%) HTTP
6 21 (9.55%) SMTP
7 15 (6.82%) NAS
8 14 (6.36%) VPN
9 11 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 11 (5.00%) VLAN
10 10 (4.55%) DDNS
10 10 (4.55%) IMAP
10 10 (4.55%) iSCSI
10 10 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (3.64%) WAN
12 7 (3.18%) LAN
13 5 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (1.82%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.09%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (6.36%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.36%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.45%) Oracle Database
6 11 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 9 (4.09%) Oracle Exadata
7 9 (4.09%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (4.09%) Redis
8 8 (3.64%) DB2
8 8 (3.64%) Oracle ODI
8 8 (3.64%) Power BI
8 8 (3.64%) Star Schema
9 7 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.18%) MySQL
10 6 (2.73%) Couchbase
11 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.09%) Git
3 28 (12.73%) JIRA
4 21 (9.55%) Vagrant
5 8 (3.64%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.82%) Subversion
6 4 (1.82%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.36%) GitLab
8 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.45%) CANoe
9 1 (0.45%) gulp
9 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 59 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.73%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.18%) Finance
4 24 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.73%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (5.45%) Banking
8 6 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.73%) Retail
9 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.82%) International Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Electronics
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (15.45%) Platform Engineer
2 27 (12.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (10.45%) Architect
4 22 (10.00%) Consultant
5 21 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 19 (8.64%) AWS DevOps
8 18 (8.18%) Data Engineer
9 16 (7.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (6.36%) Senior
12 12 (5.45%) Administrator
12 12 (5.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.45%) DBA
12 12 (5.45%) SAP Consultant
12 12 (5.45%) Support Engineer
13 11 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
14 10 (4.55%) Exchange Engineer
14 10 (4.55%) Exchange Support
15 9 (4.09%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.82%) Kafka
2 15 (6.82%) LDAP
2 15 (6.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 15 (6.82%) XML
3 11 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.00%) Flash
3 11 (5.00%) REST
4 9 (4.09%) SOAP
5 8 (3.64%) JSON
5 8 (3.64%) Web Services
6 7 (3.18%) Middleware
6 7 (3.18%) OAuth
6 7 (3.18%) SAML
7 6 (2.73%) OpenID
8 5 (2.27%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.82%) EDIFACT
9 4 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.82%) Keycloak
9 4 (1.82%) TIBCO EMS
9 4 (1.82%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.55%) Data Centre
2 20 (9.09%) Clustering
3 14 (6.36%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.64%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.18%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.73%) Mainframe
8 6 (2.73%) PKI
8 6 (2.73%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.36%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.36%) Equities
10 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.91%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 81 (36.82%) Linux
2 68 (30.91%) Windows
3 26 (11.82%) VMS
4 21 (9.55%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (9.55%) Windows Server
5 15 (6.82%) Ubuntu
6 11 (5.00%) Unix
7 10 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (2.73%) Solaris
10 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.36%) AIX
11 3 (1.36%) zOS
12 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.45%) MVS
13 1 (0.45%) SUSE
13 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.36%) DevOps
2 56 (25.45%) High Availability
3 50 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 46 (20.91%) Performance Tuning
5 40 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 39 (17.73%) Migration
7 38 (17.27%) Agile
8 36 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (14.55%) Change Management
10 31 (14.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (12.73%) Configuration Management
12 24 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (10.91%) ITIL
13 22 (10.00%) Cloud Security
13 22 (10.00%) Patch Management
14 18 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (7.73%) Analytics
15 17 (7.73%) Data Protection
15 17 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (7.27%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 63 (28.64%) Python
2 56 (25.45%) PowerShell
3 47 (21.36%) SQL
4 25 (11.36%) Groovy
5 24 (10.91%) Java
6 19 (8.64%) Bash
7 16 (7.27%) Perl
8 9 (4.09%) ABAP
9 8 (3.64%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.18%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.91%) AWK
11 2 (0.91%) Go
11 2 (0.91%) JCL
11 2 (0.91%) PHP
11 2 (0.91%) sed
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.45%) REXX
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (31.36%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.82%) Degree
4 20 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 18 (8.18%) AWS Certification
6 15 (6.82%) Azure Certification
7 13 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.82%) OCP
8 4 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.36%) VCAP
10 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.91%) CCNA
10 2 (0.91%) CCNP
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.91%) Data Quality
1 13 (5.91%) GDPR
2 5 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.82%) QA
4 3 (1.36%) SLA
5 2 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 46 (20.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (19.09%) Docker
4 22 (10.00%) NFS
5 21 (9.55%) DFS Replication
6 19 (8.64%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (7.73%) vSphere
8 13 (5.91%) GPFS
9 10 (4.55%) Brightmail
9 10 (4.55%) Dovecot
9 10 (4.55%) ISA Server
9 10 (4.55%) Postfix
9 10 (4.55%) Squid
10 7 (3.18%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (2.73%) Hyper-V
12 5 (2.27%) VMware NSX
13 4 (1.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 4 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (18.64%) Terraform
2 28 (12.73%) Grafana
2 28 (12.73%) Prometheus
3 25 (11.36%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.91%) Ansible
5 11 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (5.00%) vRealize
6 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (4.55%) Nessus
6 10 (4.55%) Proxmox
7 9 (4.09%) SCCM
8 8 (3.64%) vCenter Server
9 7 (3.18%) Data Guard
9 7 (3.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (3.18%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.27%) SCOM
12 4 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (1.82%) Kibana
12 4 (1.82%) logstash
Vendors
1 54 (24.55%) VMware
2 52 (23.64%) Microsoft
3 39 (17.73%) ServiceNow
4 35 (15.91%) Oracle
5 28 (12.73%) IBM
6 21 (9.55%) Cisco
7 19 (8.64%) NetApp
8 18 (8.18%) Veeam
9 17 (7.73%) SAP
10 12 (5.45%) Dell
11 10 (4.55%) Confluent
11 10 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (3.64%) EMC
12 8 (3.64%) TIBCO
13 6 (2.73%) Red Hat
14 5 (2.27%) Computacenter
14 5 (2.27%) CyberArk
14 5 (2.27%) Google
14 5 (2.27%) Solace
14 5 (2.27%) SolarWinds