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 24 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 361 380
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing Replication 263 121 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 1.44% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 81 100
10th Percentile £401 £363 £281
25th Percentile £456 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £507
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +6.51% -0.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £627
90th Percentile £630 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £56.30 £24.37 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £25.55 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +173.21% - -
75th Percentile £79.25 £53.60 -
90th Percentile £87.20 £68.66 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £23.59 -
% change year-on-year +224.29% - -

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 12,954 8,379 11,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.60% 34.06% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,217 5,479 7,537
10th Percentile £304 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% -0.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 659 321 822
10th Percentile £16.07 £16.37 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% +19.30% +26.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.30 £84.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.05 £28.13
% change year-on-year +41.84% +13.96% +25.00%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -20 99 £578 +2.67% 12
North of England -25 56 £475 +5.56% 18
South East -24 50 £525 - 9
North West -10 32 £465 +3.24% 13
Midlands -32 31 £407 -16.46% 3
West Midlands -34 29 £402 -17.54% 3
Yorkshire -38 22 £487 -4.51% 2
South West -39 11 £570 +4.01% 3
East of England -31 10 £800 +71.38% 2
North East - 3 £425 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £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 5 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.14%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.76%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.18%) SAP HCM
1 11 (4.18%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.52%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.14%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 84 (31.94%) Azure
2 57 (21.67%) AWS
3 33 (12.55%) Entra ID
4 21 (7.98%) SuccessFactors
5 18 (6.84%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.18%) GitHub
7 10 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.42%) Serverless
9 8 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.04%) SaaS
10 7 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.90%) GCP
12 5 (1.90%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.39%) SAN
2 50 (19.01%) NAS
3 42 (15.97%) DNS
4 34 (12.93%) DHCP
4 34 (12.93%) Kerberos
5 18 (6.84%) Fibre Channel
5 18 (6.84%) Firewall
6 16 (6.08%) VSAN
7 14 (5.32%) iSCSI
8 7 (2.66%) VLAN
9 5 (1.90%) VPN
10 4 (1.52%) Network Security
11 3 (1.14%) IPv4
11 3 (1.14%) LAN
12 2 (0.76%) X.500
13 1 (0.38%) FCoE
13 1 (0.38%) Multicast
13 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
13 1 (0.38%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.04%) MySQL
8 7 (2.66%) Redis
9 6 (2.28%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.28%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.14%) DB2
11 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (4.94%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.04%) Git
3 6 (2.28%) JIRA
3 6 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.76%) Flyway
4 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) LSMW
5 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.55%) Finance
3 25 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.56%) Banking
6 8 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.28%) Legal
8 5 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.14%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Military
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (11.79%) Architect
2 28 (10.65%) Consultant
3 25 (9.51%) Senior
4 21 (7.98%) SAP Consultant
5 20 (7.60%) Analyst
6 19 (7.22%) DBA
7 17 (6.46%) Storage Analyst
8 16 (6.08%) Wintel Engineer
9 14 (5.32%) Storage Engineer
10 13 (4.94%) SQL DBA
11 12 (4.56%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 9 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.42%) SAP HCM Consultant
13 9 (3.42%) Senior Consultant
14 8 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.66%) Administrator
15 7 (2.66%) Infrastructure Architect
15 7 (2.66%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.93%) LDAP
2 20 (7.60%) Flash
3 16 (6.08%) OAuth
3 16 (6.08%) SAML
4 11 (4.18%) SOAP
5 10 (3.80%) Kafka
6 9 (3.42%) XML
7 8 (3.04%) Web Services
8 7 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.90%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.90%) REST
10 4 (1.52%) FHIR
11 3 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.14%) SAP ALE
11 3 (1.14%) SAP Basis
12 2 (0.76%) EDIFACT
12 2 (0.76%) JSON
12 2 (0.76%) Middleware
12 2 (0.76%) OpenID
12 2 (0.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.45%) Clustering
2 26 (9.89%) Enterprise Storage
3 22 (8.37%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (6.46%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.28%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.28%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.52%) NHS
8 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.14%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.14%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.14%) PKI
9 3 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.76%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 58 (22.05%) Windows
2 54 (20.53%) Linux
3 45 (17.11%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.42%) Unix
5 8 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.66%) VMS
7 5 (1.90%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.52%) SUSE
8 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.76%) AIX
10 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (32.70%) Migration
2 85 (32.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 75 (28.52%) High Availability
4 55 (20.91%) Performance Tuning
5 54 (20.53%) Capacity Planning
6 37 (14.07%) DevOps
7 34 (12.93%) ITIL
8 31 (11.79%) Agile
8 31 (11.79%) Data Protection
9 28 (10.65%) Data Modelling
10 27 (10.27%) RBAC
11 26 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (9.51%) Validation
13 24 (9.13%) Project Delivery
13 24 (9.13%) Runbook
14 23 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (8.37%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
17 20 (7.60%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 85 (32.32%) PowerShell
2 36 (13.69%) SQL
3 30 (11.41%) Python
4 15 (5.70%) Bash
5 12 (4.56%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.42%) ABAP
7 8 (3.04%) Groovy
7 8 (3.04%) Java
8 3 (1.14%) Perl
8 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 118 (44.87%) Security Cleared
2 87 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (7.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (6.84%) VCAP
5 15 (5.70%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.32%) MCSA
6 14 (5.32%) MCSE
7 11 (4.18%) Degree
8 8 (3.04%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.28%) NCDA
11 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.76%) PMP
13 2 (0.76%) VCDX
14 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.38%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.60%) GDPR
2 14 (5.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.28%) NIST
4 6 (2.28%) QA
5 5 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.52%) DICOM
6 4 (1.52%) HL7
7 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.76%) GRC
7 2 (0.76%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.38%) COBIT
8 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (25.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (18.63%) Active Directory
2 49 (18.63%) VMware ESXi
3 47 (17.87%) vSphere
4 41 (15.59%) NFS
5 22 (8.37%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (7.22%) GPFS
7 17 (6.46%) Docker
8 6 (2.28%) Firmware
8 6 (2.28%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.90%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.52%) SRDF
10 4 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.76%) Corosync
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 33 (12.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 30 (11.41%) Ansible
3 26 (9.89%) Terraform
3 26 (9.89%) vCenter Server
4 22 (8.37%) Kubernetes
5 19 (7.22%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (6.46%) vRealize
7 12 (4.56%) Grafana
7 12 (4.56%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.42%) VxRail
9 8 (3.04%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (3.04%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.04%) vMotion
10 7 (2.66%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (2.28%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.28%) SCCM
12 5 (1.90%) Rancher
13 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.52%) SCOM
14 3 (1.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 80 (30.42%) VMware
2 68 (25.86%) Microsoft
3 40 (15.21%) Cisco
4 34 (12.93%) ServiceNow
5 33 (12.55%) SAP
6 29 (11.03%) NetApp
7 28 (10.65%) Oracle
8 26 (9.89%) IBM
9 19 (7.22%) Pure Storage
10 18 (6.84%) EMC
11 16 (6.08%) Veeam
12 14 (5.32%) Dell
12 14 (5.32%) Okta
13 13 (4.94%) Commvault
14 11 (4.18%) Brocade
15 7 (2.66%) SolarWinds
15 7 (2.66%) Zerto
16 6 (2.28%) RedGate
17 5 (1.90%) Computacenter
17 5 (1.90%) Dynatrace