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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 354 368
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +38
Contract jobs citing Replication 260 125 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 1.50% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 81 98
10th Percentile £400 £363 £281
25th Percentile £456 £425 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £594 £597
90th Percentile £630 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £511 £500
% change year-on-year +2.69% +2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £56.83 £24.37 -
25th Percentile £60.31 £25.55 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +159.82% - -
75th Percentile £79.13 £53.60 -
90th Percentile £85.28 £68.66 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £23.59 -
% change year-on-year +208.39% - -

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 12,798 8,317 11,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.03% 34.13% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,139 5,454 7,584
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £674
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 639 312 804
10th Percentile £15.97 £16.67 £12.31
25th Percentile £20.31 £22.27 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.39% +22.32% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.42 £84.90 £67.26
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +36.92% +16.07% +24.53%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -11 98 £580 +11.54% 13
South East -15 54 £525 - 20
North of England -43 45 £465 +3.24% 18
Midlands -40 32 £402 -17.54% 11
West Midlands -32 30 £402 -17.54% 7
North West -25 24 £460 +2.22% 13
Yorkshire -45 20 £483 +6.04% 4
South West -27 15 £550 +0.36% 12
East of England -28 10 £800 +71.38% 3
North East -12 2 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £540 - 4
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 (1.92%) Apache
1 5 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.62%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (3.85%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.54%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.15%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 82 (31.54%) Azure
2 54 (20.77%) AWS
3 31 (11.92%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.46%) SuccessFactors
5 17 (6.54%) OpenShift
6 10 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.85%) GitHub
7 9 (3.46%) SaaS
8 8 (3.08%) Serverless
8 8 (3.08%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.31%) GCP
10 6 (2.31%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.92%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 49 (18.85%) SAN
2 48 (18.46%) DNS
2 48 (18.46%) NAS
3 34 (13.08%) DHCP
4 33 (12.69%) Kerberos
5 22 (8.46%) Firewall
6 18 (6.92%) Fibre Channel
7 14 (5.38%) iSCSI
7 14 (5.38%) VSAN
8 7 (2.69%) VLAN
9 4 (1.54%) IPv4
9 4 (1.54%) Network Security
9 4 (1.54%) VPN
10 3 (1.15%) LAN
11 2 (0.77%) X.500
12 1 (0.38%) FCoE
12 1 (0.38%) SSH
12 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
12 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.46%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.08%) MySQL
7 7 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.31%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.92%) Redis
9 5 (1.92%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.54%) DB2
10 4 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.54%) Power BI
11 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (3.46%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (1.92%) Git
4 3 (1.15%) JIRA
5 2 (0.77%) DBeaver
5 2 (0.77%) Flyway
5 2 (0.77%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) LSMW
General
1 58 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.08%) Finance
3 26 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.23%) Banking
6 10 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.31%) Legal
9 6 (2.31%) Retail
10 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (11.54%) Architect
1 30 (11.54%) Consultant
2 26 (10.00%) Senior
3 22 (8.46%) Analyst
3 22 (8.46%) SAP Consultant
4 19 (7.31%) DBA
4 19 (7.31%) Storage Analyst
5 15 (5.77%) Data Engineer
6 13 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 13 (5.00%) SQL DBA
7 10 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (3.85%) Storage Engineer
8 9 (3.46%) SAP HCM Consultant
8 9 (3.46%) Senior Consultant
8 9 (3.46%) Wintel Engineer
9 7 (2.69%) Administrator
9 7 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (2.69%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (2.69%) Senior SAP Consultant
9 7 (2.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.69%) LDAP
2 21 (8.08%) OAuth
2 21 (8.08%) SAML
3 20 (7.69%) Flash
4 12 (4.62%) SOAP
5 9 (3.46%) Kafka
6 8 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.08%) Web Services
7 7 (2.69%) OpenID
7 7 (2.69%) XML
8 6 (2.31%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.92%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.92%) REST
10 4 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.54%) FHIR
11 3 (1.15%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (1.15%) SAP ALE
11 3 (1.15%) SAP Basis
12 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.15%) Clustering
2 24 (9.23%) Enterprise Storage
3 23 (8.85%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (6.15%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.31%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.54%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.54%) PKI
9 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.15%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.15%) NHS
10 3 (1.15%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.77%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.69%) Windows
2 52 (20.00%) Linux
3 44 (16.92%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.69%) Unix
4 7 (2.69%) VMS
5 6 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.54%) SUSE
7 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.77%) AIX
8 2 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (32.31%) Migration
2 78 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 65 (25.00%) High Availability
4 51 (19.62%) Performance Tuning
5 44 (16.92%) Capacity Planning
6 35 (13.46%) ITIL
7 31 (11.92%) Agile
7 31 (11.92%) RBAC
8 30 (11.54%) DevOps
9 29 (11.15%) Data Modelling
9 29 (11.15%) Data Protection
10 28 (10.77%) Validation
11 27 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (10.38%) Performance Optimisation
12 25 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (8.85%) Runbook
14 21 (8.08%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (7.31%) CI/CD
16 18 (6.92%) Infrastructure as Code
16 18 (6.92%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 82 (31.54%) PowerShell
2 40 (15.38%) SQL
3 28 (10.77%) Python
4 14 (5.38%) Bash
5 12 (4.62%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.46%) ABAP
7 5 (1.92%) Groovy
8 3 (1.15%) Java
8 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) Perl
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 108 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 77 (29.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.31%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (4.62%) VCAP
6 11 (4.23%) Degree
7 8 (3.08%) MCSA
7 8 (3.08%) MCSE
8 7 (2.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.92%) NCDA
11 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.77%) PMP
12 2 (0.77%) VCDX
13 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.69%) GDPR
2 14 (5.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 9 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.92%) NIST
4 5 (1.92%) QA
5 4 (1.54%) DICOM
5 4 (1.54%) HL7
5 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.77%) GRC
6 2 (0.77%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (24.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (21.15%) Active Directory
3 42 (16.15%) VMware ESXi
4 41 (15.77%) NFS
5 40 (15.38%) vSphere
6 19 (7.31%) GPFS
7 15 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (4.62%) Docker
9 6 (2.31%) Firmware
9 6 (2.31%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.92%) Hyper-V
11 4 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (1.15%) SRDF
13 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (14.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 23 (8.85%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (8.08%) Ansible
4 20 (7.69%) Terraform
5 19 (7.31%) Kubernetes
5 19 (7.31%) vRealize
6 17 (6.54%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.46%) Grafana
7 9 (3.46%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.08%) vMotion
8 8 (3.08%) VxRail
9 7 (2.69%) SCCM
10 6 (2.31%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (2.31%) NetBackup
11 5 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (1.92%) Rancher
11 5 (1.92%) SCOM
12 4 (1.54%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 79 (30.38%) VMware
2 69 (26.54%) Microsoft
3 33 (12.69%) Cisco
4 32 (12.31%) SAP
5 31 (11.92%) ServiceNow
6 30 (11.54%) Oracle
7 27 (10.38%) NetApp
8 26 (10.00%) IBM
9 18 (6.92%) Pure Storage
10 16 (6.15%) EMC
11 14 (5.38%) Okta
11 14 (5.38%) Veeam
12 13 (5.00%) Commvault
12 13 (5.00%) Dell
13 9 (3.46%) Brocade
14 7 (2.69%) Zerto
15 6 (2.31%) RedGate
15 6 (2.31%) SolarWinds
16 5 (1.92%) Computacenter
16 5 (1.92%) Dynatrace
74 Replication jobs in England