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 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 366 420
Rank change year-on-year +34 +54 +53
Contract jobs citing Replication 190 143 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.46% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 1.47% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 81 101
10th Percentile £355 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +0.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £579
90th Percentile £638 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £60.95 - -
25th Percentile £62.75 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £74.63 - £68.75
90th Percentile £77.85 - £75.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 10,444 9,734 13,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.29% 31.24% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,529 5,851 8,964
10th Percentile £290 £296 £293
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 304 460
10th Percentile £14.38 £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.42 £21.30
Median hourly rate £27.53 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.94% +12.36% +67.92%
75th Percentile £54.06 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.64 £42.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -37.32% -3.06% +64.38%

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +14 84 £525 -4.55% 29
Midlands +3 38 £475 +11.76% 6
South East +21 37 £550 +10.00% 28
West Midlands +11 36 £475 +11.76% 4
South West +25 18 £520 -22.96% 10
North of England -38 12 £450 -4.76% 10
North West -25 9 £450 -4.76% 3
East of England -10 5 £500 -9.09% 6
Yorkshire -31 3 - - 2
East Midlands -12 2 - - 2
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 27 (14.21%) Confluence
2 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.79%) nginx
2 11 (5.79%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.26%) Exchange Server 2003
3 10 (5.26%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (5.26%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (5.26%) Exchange Server 2013
3 10 (5.26%) Office Communications Server
3 10 (5.26%) SharePoint Server
3 10 (5.26%) Skype for Business
4 8 (4.21%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (2.11%) MQSeries
6 3 (1.58%) Apache
6 3 (1.58%) CICS
6 3 (1.58%) GeoServer
6 3 (1.58%) Smallworld
7 2 (1.05%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.05%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (5.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.53%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) SAP HR
1 3 (1.58%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 1 (0.53%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.74%) AWS
2 43 (22.63%) Azure
3 31 (16.32%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (15.26%) Amazon S3
5 28 (14.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (14.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 23 (12.11%) AWS KMS
8 22 (11.58%) Amazon ELB
9 14 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (6.32%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (6.32%) Serverless
10 12 (6.32%) Snowflake
11 11 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.79%) GitHub
11 11 (5.79%) Route 53
12 8 (4.21%) Power Platform
12 8 (4.21%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (32.11%) DNS
2 42 (22.11%) Firewall
3 28 (14.74%) SAN
4 24 (12.63%) SSH
5 22 (11.58%) FTP
5 22 (11.58%) HTTP
5 22 (11.58%) SMTP
6 19 (10.00%) DHCP
7 14 (7.37%) VPN
8 12 (6.32%) VLAN
9 11 (5.79%) TCP/IP
10 10 (5.26%) DDNS
10 10 (5.26%) IMAP
10 10 (5.26%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (4.21%) WAN
12 7 (3.68%) iSCSI
13 6 (3.16%) NAS
14 5 (2.63%) VSAN
15 4 (2.11%) Kerberos
15 4 (2.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.58%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (20.53%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.47%) SQL Server
4 16 (8.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (6.84%) NoSQL
6 12 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.32%) Oracle Database
6 12 (6.32%) Oracle Exadata
7 10 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (4.21%) Oracle ODI
8 8 (4.21%) Power BI
8 8 (4.21%) Redis
8 8 (4.21%) Star Schema
9 7 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.68%) DB2
9 7 (3.68%) MongoDB
10 6 (3.16%) Couchbase
11 5 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 32 (16.84%) Git
3 30 (15.79%) JIRA
4 22 (11.58%) Vagrant
5 8 (4.21%) DBeaver
6 4 (2.11%) Subversion
6 4 (2.11%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.58%) GitLab
8 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.53%) CANoe
9 1 (0.53%) gulp
9 1 (0.53%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 48 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.84%) Public Sector
3 23 (12.11%) Finance
4 17 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.37%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (6.84%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.21%) Banking
8 4 (2.11%) International Banking
9 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.58%) Retail
10 2 (1.05%) Automotive
10 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) French Language
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
2 26 (13.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 18 (9.47%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (8.42%) Data Engineer
5 16 (8.42%) DBA
6 15 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.89%) Support Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Architect
8 12 (6.32%) Administrator
8 12 (6.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 12 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.79%) Consultant
10 10 (5.26%) Exchange Engineer
10 10 (5.26%) Exchange Support
10 10 (5.26%) Senior
11 9 (4.74%) Storage Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.11%) Kafka
2 15 (7.89%) LDAP
2 15 (7.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 11 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.74%) JSON
4 9 (4.74%) REST
4 9 (4.74%) XML
5 8 (4.21%) Flash
5 8 (4.21%) Middleware
6 7 (3.68%) OAuth
6 7 (3.68%) SAML
7 6 (3.16%) OpenID
8 5 (2.63%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.11%) EDIFACT
9 4 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.11%) TIBCO EMS
9 4 (2.11%) Ultra Messaging
9 4 (2.11%) Web Services
10 3 (1.58%) JMS
10 3 (1.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.00%) Clustering
2 18 (9.47%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (4.21%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.16%) Mainframe
5 6 (3.16%) PKI
5 6 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.58%) CMDB
7 3 (1.58%) Equities
7 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.05%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 73 (38.42%) Linux
2 65 (34.21%) Windows
3 26 (13.68%) VMS
4 22 (11.58%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (7.37%) Windows Server
6 12 (6.32%) Ubuntu
6 12 (6.32%) Unix
7 10 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (3.68%) Solaris
10 4 (2.11%) AIX
11 3 (1.58%) zOS
12 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.53%) HPUX
13 1 (0.53%) MVS
13 1 (0.53%) SUSE
13 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (27.89%) High Availability
2 52 (27.37%) DevOps
3 47 (24.74%) CI/CD
4 41 (21.58%) Performance Tuning
5 39 (20.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 36 (18.95%) Platform Engineering
7 31 (16.32%) Change Management
8 29 (15.26%) Agile
8 29 (15.26%) Configuration Management
9 24 (12.63%) Migration
9 24 (12.63%) Patch Management
10 23 (12.11%) Cloud Security
10 23 (12.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (11.05%) ITIL
12 20 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (7.89%) Analytics
15 15 (7.89%) ETL
16 12 (6.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.05%) Python
2 53 (27.89%) SQL
3 52 (27.37%) PowerShell
4 27 (14.21%) Groovy
5 24 (12.63%) Java
6 17 (8.95%) Bash
6 17 (8.95%) Perl
7 8 (4.21%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.68%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.63%) ABAP
10 2 (1.05%) AWK
10 2 (1.05%) Go
10 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.05%) JCL
10 2 (1.05%) sed
10 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.05%) VBScript
11 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.53%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) REXX
Qualifications
1 62 (32.63%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.00%) Degree
4 18 (9.47%) DV Cleared
5 16 (8.42%) AWS Certification
6 14 (7.37%) Azure Certification
7 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.11%) OCP
8 4 (2.11%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (2.11%) VCAP
8 4 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.05%) CCNA
10 2 (1.05%) CCNP
10 2 (1.05%) CISSP
10 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.05%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.37%) GDPR
2 13 (6.84%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.63%) SLA
4 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.11%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 38 (20.00%) Docker
3 33 (17.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (11.58%) DFS Replication
5 15 (7.89%) NFS
6 13 (6.84%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (6.84%) vSphere
7 10 (5.26%) Brightmail
7 10 (5.26%) Dovecot
7 10 (5.26%) ISA Server
7 10 (5.26%) Postfix
7 10 (5.26%) Squid
8 9 (4.74%) GPFS
9 7 (3.68%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (3.16%) Hyper-V
10 6 (3.16%) VMware NSX
11 4 (2.11%) Veritas File System
11 4 (2.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 4 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (20.53%) Terraform
2 29 (15.26%) Grafana
2 29 (15.26%) Prometheus
3 21 (11.05%) Kubernetes
4 11 (5.79%) Ansible
5 10 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
5 10 (5.26%) Nessus
5 10 (5.26%) Proxmox
6 8 (4.21%) vCenter Server
6 8 (4.21%) vRealize
7 7 (3.68%) Data Guard
7 7 (3.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (3.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 7 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.63%) Kibana
8 5 (2.63%) logstash
8 5 (2.63%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.63%) SCCM
9 4 (2.11%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 46 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 39 (20.53%) VMware
3 33 (17.37%) ServiceNow
4 32 (16.84%) Oracle
5 22 (11.58%) IBM
6 16 (8.42%) Cisco
7 13 (6.84%) Veeam
8 11 (5.79%) NetApp
9 10 (5.26%) Confluent
9 10 (5.26%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (4.74%) Dell
10 9 (4.74%) SAP
11 8 (4.21%) TIBCO
12 6 (3.16%) Red Hat
13 5 (2.63%) CyberArk
13 5 (2.63%) Solace
13 5 (2.63%) SolarWinds
14 4 (2.11%) Qualys
14 4 (2.11%) SaltStack
14 4 (2.11%) Splunk