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 7 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 359 387
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 +17
Contract jobs citing Replication 265 167 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.61% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 1.68% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 104 93
10th Percentile £362 £363 £315
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £673 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £52.10 £68.34 -
25th Percentile £55.25 £72.23 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% - -
75th Percentile £78.25 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £88.30 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -13.60% - -

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 15,497 9,912 10,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.67% 35.96% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,455 6,253 6,353
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 489 462
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -40.42% +20.03%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.50 £75.14
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +27.50% -36.84% +8.57%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -34 112 £535 -2.73% 92
North of England -13 74 £491 +3.35% 22
North West -19 44 £491 +3.35% 15
Yorkshire -22 26 £519 -14.39% 5
South East -83 20 £556 -1.11% 33
South West -37 19 £574 +10.38% 13
Midlands -74 19 £456 -3.95% 5
West Midlands -66 17 £456 -3.95% 5
East of England -9 13 £600 +26.32% 12
North East - 4 £425 - 2
East Midlands -16 1 £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 9 (3.40%) Confluence
2 7 (2.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.13%) CMS
5 2 (0.75%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (2.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.75%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.38%) Actimize
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 86 (32.45%) Azure
2 78 (29.43%) AWS
3 23 (8.68%) Entra ID
4 20 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (7.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (6.79%) AWS KMS
7 16 (6.04%) GCP
8 15 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (5.28%) Power Platform
10 12 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (4.53%) GitHub
10 12 (4.53%) OCI
11 10 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.77%) SuccessFactors
12 9 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.02%) OpenShift
13 8 (3.02%) Serverless
14 7 (2.64%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.34%) SAN
2 25 (9.43%) DNS
3 24 (9.06%) Firewall
4 21 (7.92%) NAS
5 19 (7.17%) VLAN
6 13 (4.91%) VPN
7 12 (4.53%) SSL
7 12 (4.53%) VSAN
8 11 (4.15%) DHCP
9 10 (3.77%) Network Security
10 9 (3.40%) Fibre Channel
11 8 (3.02%) Kerberos
12 6 (2.26%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (1.89%) TCP/IP
14 3 (1.13%) iSCSI
14 3 (1.13%) Multicast
14 3 (1.13%) SSH
15 2 (0.75%) FTP
15 2 (0.75%) HTTP
15 2 (0.75%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
1 45 (16.98%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.81%) Amazon Aurora
2 26 (9.81%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (9.06%) MySQL
4 19 (7.17%) Oracle Database
5 16 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (5.28%) Redis
7 12 (4.53%) Power BI
8 11 (4.15%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (3.77%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.02%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.02%) Sybase ASE
11 7 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.64%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.64%) SAP HANA
12 5 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 27 (10.19%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.79%) JIRA
3 16 (6.04%) Git
4 5 (1.89%) GitLab
5 4 (1.51%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.13%) Toad
7 2 (0.75%) Flyway
7 2 (0.75%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.75%) Selenium
7 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.75%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.45%) Finance
3 32 (12.08%) Documentation Skills
4 26 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.68%) Banking
6 15 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.64%) Marketing
8 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Advertising
10 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Publishing
11 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.75%) Billing
11 2 (0.75%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (20.00%) DBA
2 47 (17.74%) Senior
3 33 (12.45%) Architect
4 27 (10.19%) Storage Engineer
5 24 (9.06%) Administrator
5 24 (9.06%) Consultant
6 23 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (7.55%) Lead
8 19 (7.17%) SQL DBA
9 18 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.15%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (4.15%) Senior Consultant
10 11 (4.15%) Technical Specialist
11 10 (3.77%) Active Directory Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.40%) Wintel Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Analyst
13 8 (3.02%) Senior DBA
13 8 (3.02%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (19.25%) Terraform
2 15 (5.66%) Kafka
3 12 (4.53%) LDAP
4 9 (3.40%) Flash
5 8 (3.02%) HTML
6 7 (2.64%) CSS
7 6 (2.26%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.26%) Middleware
7 6 (2.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 5 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.89%) OAuth
9 4 (1.51%) FHIR
9 4 (1.51%) REST
9 4 (1.51%) SAML
10 3 (1.13%) JSON
10 3 (1.13%) Oracle Streams
10 3 (1.13%) Spring
10 3 (1.13%) XML
11 2 (0.75%) OpenID
11 2 (0.75%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.45%) Clustering
2 26 (9.81%) Data Centre
3 22 (8.30%) Enterprise Storage
4 13 (4.91%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (4.53%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.89%) CMDB
9 5 (1.89%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (1.89%) EMC VNX
9 5 (1.89%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.89%) PKI
10 4 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.51%) NHS
10 4 (1.51%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.13%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 85 (32.08%) Linux
2 61 (23.02%) Windows
3 45 (16.98%) Windows Server
4 25 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (6.79%) Unix
6 16 (6.04%) VMS
7 12 (4.53%) CentOS
8 11 (4.15%) Rocky
9 9 (3.40%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (2.26%) AIX
11 5 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (1.89%) Ubuntu
12 4 (1.51%) SUSE
12 4 (1.51%) zOS
13 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.34%) Performance Tuning
2 82 (30.94%) High Availability
3 79 (29.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 65 (24.53%) DevOps
4 65 (24.53%) Migration
5 45 (16.98%) CI/CD
6 44 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (16.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (16.23%) Data Modelling
7 43 (16.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 37 (13.96%) Capacity Planning
9 33 (12.45%) ITIL
10 31 (11.70%) Validation
11 30 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (10.94%) Agile
13 27 (10.19%) Performance Optimisation
13 27 (10.19%) Runbook
13 27 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (9.81%) RBAC
15 23 (8.68%) AI
Programming Languages
1 65 (24.53%) PowerShell
1 65 (24.53%) SQL
2 49 (18.49%) Python
3 19 (7.17%) Bash
4 17 (6.42%) Groovy
4 17 (6.42%) T-SQL
5 16 (6.04%) Java
6 9 (3.40%) Perl
7 8 (3.02%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.51%) Bicep
9 4 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.13%) CQL
11 2 (0.75%) ABAP
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) JCL
11 2 (0.75%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (42.26%) Security Cleared
2 87 (32.83%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.06%) Azure Certification
3 24 (9.06%) Degree
4 23 (8.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (6.79%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 13 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (4.53%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.77%) VCAP
10 9 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.02%) MCSA
11 8 (3.02%) MCSE
12 5 (1.89%) NCDA
13 4 (1.51%) OCP
13 4 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (1.13%) NCIE
15 2 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.91%) QA
2 9 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.26%) GDPR
3 6 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.89%) NIST
5 4 (1.51%) DICOM
5 4 (1.51%) HL7
5 4 (1.51%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (14.34%) Virtual Machines
1 38 (14.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (12.83%) vSphere
3 28 (10.57%) Active Directory
4 27 (10.19%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (9.81%) Docker
6 14 (5.28%) NFS
7 12 (4.53%) Oracle RAC
8 9 (3.40%) GPFS
8 9 (3.40%) Hyper-V
9 7 (2.64%) Firmware
10 4 (1.51%) SRDF
11 3 (1.13%) ACF2
11 3 (1.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (1.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (1.13%) RACF
11 3 (1.13%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.75%) Corosync
12 2 (0.75%) Postfix
12 2 (0.75%) Squid
Systems Management
1 44 (16.60%) Ansible
2 25 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.06%) Prometheus
4 23 (8.68%) Grafana
5 20 (7.55%) vCenter Server
6 16 (6.04%) NetBackup
7 11 (4.15%) Data Guard
7 11 (4.15%) Oracle RMAN
7 11 (4.15%) SCOM
8 9 (3.40%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (3.40%) vRealize
9 8 (3.02%) VxRail
10 4 (1.51%) Argo
10 4 (1.51%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 4 (1.51%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (1.51%) Rancher
10 4 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.51%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 56 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 48 (18.11%) VMware
3 46 (17.36%) Oracle
4 39 (14.72%) ServiceNow
5 29 (10.94%) NetApp
5 29 (10.94%) Veeam
6 25 (9.43%) Cisco
7 23 (8.68%) Dell
8 22 (8.30%) SAP
9 18 (6.79%) IBM
10 12 (4.53%) Google
11 11 (4.15%) Brocade
12 9 (3.40%) EMC
12 9 (3.40%) Red Hat
12 9 (3.40%) Sybase
13 7 (2.64%) Adobe
13 7 (2.64%) BMC
13 7 (2.64%) Dynatrace
13 7 (2.64%) Pure Storage
13 7 (2.64%) Remedy
172 Replication jobs in England