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 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 355 423
Rank change year-on-year +16 +68 +68
Contract jobs citing Replication 210 154 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.50% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 1.59% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 87 93
10th Percentile £366 £375 £353
25th Percentile £463 £459 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +4.19% +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £578
90th Percentile £675 £734 £670
UK median daily rate £516 £526 £510
% change year-on-year -1.85% +3.14% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £61.55 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £64.25 £24.57 £55.00
Median hourly rate £71.50 £25.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +177.19% -57.01% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77.94 £27.27 £66.88
90th Percentile £79.18 £28.01 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £23.59 £60.00
% change year-on-year +203.09% -60.68% -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 10,976 9,685 12,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.44% 31.56% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,878 5,782 8,753
10th Percentile £285 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.63% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 302 463
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.45% +2.62% +52.54%
75th Percentile £52.66 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.33% -15.73% +50.29%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +8 94 £550 - 33
Midlands -5 40 £475 +11.76% 20
South East +21 39 £550 +10.00% 16
West Midlands 0 37 £475 +11.76% 10
South West +5 16 £520 -5.45% 6
North of England -37 13 £450 -4.76% 6
East of England -6 12 £800 +45.36% 3
North West -21 9 £450 -4.76% 2
Yorkshire -36 4 - - 4
East Midlands -16 3 - - 10
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 (12.86%) Confluence
2 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.24%) nginx
3 11 (5.24%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (4.76%) Office Communications Server
4 10 (4.76%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (4.76%) Skype for Business
5 8 (3.81%) Oracle Application Server
6 4 (1.90%) Apache
6 4 (1.90%) MQSeries
7 3 (1.43%) CICS
7 3 (1.43%) GeoServer
7 3 (1.43%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.95%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.48%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 12 (5.71%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.76%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.43%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.48%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 70 (33.33%) AWS
2 51 (24.29%) Azure
3 31 (14.76%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (13.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 29 (13.81%) Amazon S3
5 28 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (10.95%) AWS KMS
7 22 (10.48%) Amazon ELB
8 19 (9.05%) SuccessFactors
9 16 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.71%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (5.71%) GitHub
10 12 (5.71%) Serverless
11 11 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.24%) Route 53
11 11 (5.24%) Snowflake
12 9 (4.29%) SaaS
13 8 (3.81%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 63 (30.00%) DNS
2 48 (22.86%) Firewall
3 34 (16.19%) SAN
4 24 (11.43%) SSH
5 22 (10.48%) DHCP
5 22 (10.48%) FTP
5 22 (10.48%) HTTP
5 22 (10.48%) SMTP
6 14 (6.67%) VPN
7 11 (5.24%) NAS
7 11 (5.24%) TCP/IP
7 11 (5.24%) VLAN
8 10 (4.76%) DDNS
8 10 (4.76%) IMAP
8 10 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
9 8 (3.81%) WAN
10 7 (3.33%) iSCSI
11 5 (2.38%) LAN
12 4 (1.90%) IPv4
12 4 (1.90%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.19%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.71%) Oracle Database
7 10 (4.76%) Oracle Exadata
8 9 (4.29%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (3.81%) DB2
9 8 (3.81%) Oracle ODI
9 8 (3.81%) Power BI
9 8 (3.81%) Redis
9 8 (3.81%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.33%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.86%) Couchbase
12 5 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (19.52%) Jenkins
2 32 (15.24%) Git
3 29 (13.81%) JIRA
4 22 (10.48%) Vagrant
5 8 (3.81%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.90%) Subversion
6 4 (1.90%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.43%) GitLab
8 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.48%) CANoe
9 1 (0.48%) gulp
9 1 (0.48%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.48%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 57 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.62%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.90%) Finance
5 16 (7.62%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.76%) Banking
8 6 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.86%) Retail
9 4 (1.90%) International Banking
10 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Electronics
12 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.48%) French Language
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Legal
12 1 (0.48%) Police
12 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (16.19%) Platform Engineer
2 27 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (10.95%) Consultant
4 20 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 19 (9.05%) Architect
6 18 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (8.57%) Data Engineer
7 15 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.67%) DBA
8 14 (6.67%) Senior
9 13 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.71%) Administrator
10 12 (5.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
10 12 (5.71%) Support Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Exchange Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Exchange Support
11 10 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) SAP HCM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.43%) Kafka
2 15 (7.14%) LDAP
2 15 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 15 (7.14%) XML
3 11 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (4.76%) REST
4 10 (4.76%) Web Services
5 9 (4.29%) Flash
5 9 (4.29%) JSON
5 9 (4.29%) SOAP
6 7 (3.33%) Middleware
6 7 (3.33%) OAuth
6 7 (3.33%) SAML
7 6 (2.86%) OpenID
8 5 (2.38%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.90%) EDIFACT
9 4 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.90%) TIBCO EMS
9 4 (1.90%) Ultra Messaging
10 3 (1.43%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.05%) Clustering
3 12 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.81%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.33%) PKI
7 6 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.86%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.43%) Equities
9 3 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.95%) CMDB
10 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.48%) SCADA
11 1 (0.48%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 78 (37.14%) Linux
2 66 (31.43%) Windows
3 26 (12.38%) VMS
4 22 (10.48%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (8.57%) Windows Server
6 13 (6.19%) Ubuntu
7 11 (5.24%) Unix
8 10 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (2.86%) Solaris
11 3 (1.43%) AIX
11 3 (1.43%) zOS
12 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.48%) MVS
13 1 (0.48%) SUSE
13 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.19%) DevOps
2 52 (24.76%) High Availability
3 50 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 41 (19.52%) Performance Tuning
5 37 (17.62%) Disaster Recovery
5 37 (17.62%) Platform Engineering
6 31 (14.76%) Agile
6 31 (14.76%) Change Management
7 29 (13.81%) Configuration Management
7 29 (13.81%) Migration
8 25 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (10.95%) Cloud Security
10 22 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (10.48%) ITIL
10 22 (10.48%) Patch Management
11 18 (8.57%) Analytics
11 18 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (7.14%) Data Modelling
12 15 (7.14%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 62 (29.52%) Python
2 54 (25.71%) PowerShell
3 50 (23.81%) SQL
4 27 (12.86%) Groovy
5 25 (11.90%) Java
6 18 (8.57%) Bash
7 17 (8.10%) Perl
8 11 (5.24%) ABAP
9 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.33%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.95%) AWK
11 2 (0.95%) Go
11 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.95%) JCL
11 2 (0.95%) sed
11 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) CLIST
12 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.48%) PHP
12 1 (0.48%) REXX
Qualifications
1 67 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 42 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.43%) Degree
4 20 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 16 (7.62%) AWS Certification
6 15 (7.14%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.90%) OCP
8 4 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.43%) VCAP
10 2 (0.95%) CCNA
10 2 (0.95%) CCNP
10 2 (0.95%) MCSE
11 1 (0.48%) CCDP
11 1 (0.48%) CCIE
11 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 14 (6.67%) GDPR
2 5 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.90%) QA
4 3 (1.43%) SLA
5 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (25.71%) Active Directory
2 41 (19.52%) Docker
2 41 (19.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.48%) DFS Replication
4 17 (8.10%) NFS
5 16 (7.62%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (7.14%) vSphere
7 11 (5.24%) GPFS
8 10 (4.76%) Brightmail
8 10 (4.76%) Dovecot
8 10 (4.76%) ISA Server
8 10 (4.76%) Postfix
8 10 (4.76%) Squid
9 7 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (2.86%) Hyper-V
11 5 (2.38%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.90%) Veritas File System
12 4 (1.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (19.05%) Terraform
2 29 (13.81%) Grafana
2 29 (13.81%) Prometheus
3 22 (10.48%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.19%) Ansible
5 10 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
5 10 (4.76%) Nessus
5 10 (4.76%) Proxmox
6 9 (4.29%) vRealize
7 8 (3.81%) vCenter Server
8 7 (3.33%) Data Guard
8 7 (3.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (3.33%) SCCM
8 7 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.38%) Kibana
9 5 (2.38%) logstash
9 5 (2.38%) SCOM
10 4 (1.90%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 50 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 49 (23.33%) VMware
3 36 (17.14%) ServiceNow
4 33 (15.71%) Oracle
5 23 (10.95%) IBM
6 20 (9.52%) SAP
7 19 (9.05%) Cisco
8 15 (7.14%) NetApp
8 15 (7.14%) Veeam
9 11 (5.24%) Dell
10 10 (4.76%) Confluent
10 10 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (3.81%) TIBCO
12 6 (2.86%) Red Hat
13 5 (2.38%) Computacenter
13 5 (2.38%) CyberArk
13 5 (2.38%) EMC
13 5 (2.38%) Google
13 5 (2.38%) Solace
13 5 (2.38%) SolarWinds