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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 387 363
Rank change year-on-year -16 -24 +52
Contract jobs citing Replication 236 131 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.47% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.36% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 84 121
10th Percentile £372 £413 £300
25th Percentile £414 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £627
90th Percentile £638 £713 £693
UK median daily rate £510 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.92% -0.95% +2.94%
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 14,966 9,624 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.25% 34.86% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,284 6,081 6,944
10th Percentile £318 £305 £300
25th Percentile £421 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 482 623
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.72 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.34% -27.28% +11.23%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £86.71 £80.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +12.68%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -33 81 £550 -4.35% 25
North of England -12 74 £485 -5.37% 17
North West -7 44 £484 -20.98% 10
South East -58 33 £525 -8.70% 9
Yorkshire -28 27 £519 +1.27% 6
Midlands -53 21 £449 -5.53% 3
West Midlands -53 19 £449 -5.53% 3
South West -42 12 £570 +6.54% 6
East of England -18 10 £600 +30.93% 4
North East - 4 £425 - 1
East Midlands -12 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 6 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.12%) Confluence
3 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.05%) Azure
2 65 (27.54%) AWS
3 24 (10.17%) Entra ID
4 19 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.51%) GitHub
5 13 (5.51%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.81%) GCP
7 9 (3.81%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.97%) Serverless
10 6 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.12%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.12%) AWS KMS
11 5 (2.12%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.12%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 46 (19.49%) SAN
2 36 (15.25%) NAS
3 24 (10.17%) DNS
4 19 (8.05%) VLAN
5 18 (7.63%) Firewall
6 15 (6.36%) VSAN
7 12 (5.08%) Fibre Channel
7 12 (5.08%) VPN
8 9 (3.81%) DHCP
8 9 (3.81%) Network Security
9 7 (2.97%) Kerberos
9 7 (2.97%) SSL
10 5 (2.12%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.27%) Multicast
13 1 (0.42%) FCoE
13 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.42%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (19.49%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (5.08%) MySQL
5 11 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (4.66%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (3.39%) Power BI
7 8 (3.39%) SAP HANA
8 7 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.97%) Sybase ASE
9 6 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.54%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.54%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.54%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.12%) Oracle Database 12c
10 5 (2.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (8.90%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.51%) JIRA
3 10 (4.24%) Git
4 5 (2.12%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.27%) ER Studio
5 3 (1.27%) Toad
6 2 (0.85%) Flyway
6 2 (0.85%) GitLab
6 2 (0.85%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.85%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.29%) Finance
3 19 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.78%) Banking
5 13 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.12%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (17.37%) DBA
2 35 (14.83%) Senior
3 24 (10.17%) Storage Engineer
4 22 (9.32%) Architect
4 22 (9.32%) SQL DBA
5 18 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.78%) Administrator
6 16 (6.78%) Consultant
7 13 (5.51%) Lead
8 12 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) Active Directory Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) SAP Consultant
10 9 (3.81%) Analyst
10 9 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.81%) Storage Analyst
10 9 (3.81%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (3.39%) Data Engineer
12 7 (2.97%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 7 (2.97%) Sybase DBA
13 6 (2.54%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.93%) Flash
2 11 (4.66%) LDAP
3 9 (3.81%) Kafka
4 4 (1.69%) FHIR
4 4 (1.69%) Middleware
4 4 (1.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.27%) JSON
5 3 (1.27%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.27%) Oracle Streams
5 3 (1.27%) REST
5 3 (1.27%) SAP Basis
5 3 (1.27%) XML
6 2 (0.85%) EDIFACT
6 2 (0.85%) OpenID
6 2 (0.85%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.85%) Spring
6 2 (0.85%) Web Services
7 1 (0.42%) SAML
7 1 (0.42%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.95%) Clustering
2 24 (10.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 23 (9.75%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.78%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.24%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.97%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.54%) CMDB
8 5 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.69%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.69%) NHS
9 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (30.51%) Linux
2 50 (21.19%) Windows
3 30 (12.71%) Windows Server
4 21 (8.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (8.05%) Unix
6 10 (4.24%) VMS
7 8 (3.39%) CentOS
7 8 (3.39%) Rocky
8 7 (2.97%) AIX
9 5 (2.12%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (2.12%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (1.69%) SUSE
11 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.78%) Performance Tuning
2 74 (31.36%) Migration
3 72 (30.51%) High Availability
4 69 (29.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 53 (22.46%) DevOps
6 43 (18.22%) Capacity Planning
7 36 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (13.14%) ITIL
9 28 (11.86%) Runbook
10 27 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (11.02%) CI/CD
12 25 (10.59%) Agile
12 25 (10.59%) RBAC
12 25 (10.59%) Validation
13 24 (10.17%) Project Delivery
14 23 (9.75%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (8.90%) Data Protection
17 20 (8.47%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 64 (27.12%) PowerShell
2 60 (25.42%) SQL
3 46 (19.49%) Python
4 20 (8.47%) Bash
5 18 (7.63%) T-SQL
6 13 (5.51%) Java
7 12 (5.08%) Groovy
8 6 (2.54%) Perl
8 6 (2.54%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.69%) Bicep
9 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.85%) Rust
11 1 (0.42%) C#
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) Korn
11 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.42%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) VBScript
11 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 93 (39.41%) Security Cleared
2 72 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (6.36%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (5.08%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (4.24%) VCAP
9 9 (3.81%) Degree
10 8 (3.39%) MCSA
10 8 (3.39%) MCSE
10 8 (3.39%) NCDA
11 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.27%) NCIE
12 3 (1.27%) OCP
12 3 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.08%) QA
2 6 (2.54%) GDPR
2 6 (2.54%) NIST
3 5 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.69%) DICOM
4 4 (1.69%) HL7
5 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.85%) GRC
5 2 (0.85%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) COBIT
6 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (20.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (15.68%) vSphere
3 32 (13.56%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (12.29%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (10.59%) NFS
6 24 (10.17%) Active Directory
7 17 (7.20%) Docker
8 13 (5.51%) GPFS
9 11 (4.66%) Oracle RAC
10 9 (3.81%) Hyper-V
11 7 (2.97%) Firmware
12 5 (2.12%) SRDF
13 3 (1.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.85%) Corosync
15 1 (0.42%) ACF2
15 1 (0.42%) RACF
15 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
15 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (16.53%) Ansible
2 37 (15.68%) Terraform
3 22 (9.32%) Kubernetes
4 20 (8.47%) vCenter Server
5 17 (7.20%) NetBackup
6 15 (6.36%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.93%) Grafana
8 12 (5.08%) vRealize
9 11 (4.66%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (4.24%) Data Guard
10 10 (4.24%) VxRail
11 9 (3.81%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (3.39%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (2.54%) vMotion
14 5 (2.12%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (2.12%) SCOM
15 4 (1.69%) Kustomize
15 4 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 4 (1.69%) SnapMirror
15 4 (1.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 61 (25.85%) VMware
2 50 (21.19%) Microsoft
3 36 (15.25%) Oracle
4 32 (13.56%) Cisco
4 32 (13.56%) ServiceNow
5 30 (12.71%) NetApp
6 22 (9.32%) Veeam
7 21 (8.90%) SAP
8 19 (8.05%) IBM
9 17 (7.20%) Dell
10 16 (6.78%) Brocade
11 15 (6.36%) Pure Storage
12 11 (4.66%) EMC
13 10 (4.24%) Red Hat
14 9 (3.81%) SolarWinds
15 8 (3.39%) Commvault
15 8 (3.39%) Sybase
16 7 (2.97%) BMC
16 7 (2.97%) Google
16 7 (2.97%) Remedy