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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 342 397
Rank change year-on-year -3 +55 +18
Contract jobs citing Replication 257 133 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.59% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 82 94
10th Percentile £400 £363 £281
25th Percentile £456 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £609 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £627 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +4.84% +0.15% -
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 12,608 8,369 11,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.62% 33.93% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,009 5,430 7,607
10th Percentile £300 £300 £257
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -0.46% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £663
90th Percentile £741 £786 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 309 792
10th Percentile £15.62 £16.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.39
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +25.45% +15.59%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.12 £84.20 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -7 100 £580 +10.48% 14
South East -13 55 £525 +7.14% 18
North of England -53 39 £456 +1.33% 17
Midlands -34 29 £402 -5.41% 10
West Midlands -44 27 £402 -5.41% 6
North West -16 20 £456 +1.33% 14
Yorkshire -44 18 £481 +20.25% 3
South West -35 16 £545 -0.55% 11
East of England -20 10 £800 +71.38% 3
North East -13 2 £425 -
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 (1.95%) Apache
1 5 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.56%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (1.17%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.17%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.67%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (3.89%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.56%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.17%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (28.79%) Azure
2 56 (21.79%) AWS
3 27 (10.51%) Entra ID
4 21 (8.17%) SuccessFactors
5 14 (5.45%) OpenShift
6 12 (4.67%) GitHub
7 10 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.89%) Serverless
7 10 (3.89%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.11%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.11%) SaaS
9 7 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.33%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.33%) GCP
10 6 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (18.29%) DNS
2 43 (16.73%) SAN
3 42 (16.34%) NAS
4 32 (12.45%) DHCP
5 31 (12.06%) Kerberos
6 20 (7.78%) Firewall
7 16 (6.23%) Fibre Channel
8 12 (4.67%) iSCSI
9 8 (3.11%) VSAN
10 4 (1.56%) IPv4
11 3 (1.17%) LAN
11 3 (1.17%) VPN
11 3 (1.17%) WAN
12 2 (0.78%) VLAN
12 2 (0.78%) X.500
13 1 (0.39%) FCoE
13 1 (0.39%) Network Security
13 1 (0.39%) SSH
13 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.11%) MySQL
7 7 (2.72%) Star Schema
8 6 (2.33%) Power BI
8 6 (2.33%) Redis
9 5 (1.95%) DB2
9 5 (1.95%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.56%) GIS
10 4 (1.56%) Metadata
10 4 (1.56%) Oracle ODI
10 4 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.28%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.33%) Git
2 6 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.56%) DBeaver
3 4 (1.56%) JIRA
4 2 (0.78%) Flyway
4 2 (0.78%) GitLab
4 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.39%) gulp
5 1 (0.39%) LSMW
5 1 (0.39%) Maven
5 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 57 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.01%) Finance
3 29 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.11%) Banking
6 8 (3.11%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.33%) Retail
9 5 (1.95%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Police
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (12.84%) Architect
2 31 (12.06%) Consultant
3 26 (10.12%) Senior
4 22 (8.56%) Analyst
5 21 (8.17%) SAP Consultant
6 19 (7.39%) Storage Analyst
7 18 (7.00%) Data Engineer
8 16 (6.23%) DBA
9 13 (5.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.28%) SQL DBA
11 10 (3.89%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (3.50%) SAP HCM Consultant
12 9 (3.50%) Senior Consultant
12 9 (3.50%) Wintel Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Developer
14 7 (2.72%) Administrator
14 7 (2.72%) Infrastructure Architect
14 7 (2.72%) Senior SAP Consultant
15 6 (2.33%) SAP Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.06%) LDAP
2 21 (8.17%) OAuth
2 21 (8.17%) SAML
3 20 (7.78%) Flash
4 12 (4.67%) SOAP
5 11 (4.28%) Kafka
6 10 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.11%) Web Services
7 8 (3.11%) XML
8 7 (2.72%) REST
9 6 (2.33%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.33%) OpenID
10 5 (1.95%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.56%) FHIR
12 3 (1.17%) SAP ALE
12 3 (1.17%) SAP Basis
13 1 (0.39%) Ajax
13 1 (0.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.34%) Clustering
2 21 (8.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 20 (7.78%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (6.61%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.33%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.56%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (1.56%) PKI
9 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.17%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.17%) NHS
10 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.17%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.17%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 50 (19.46%) Windows
2 49 (19.07%) Linux
3 39 (15.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.11%) Unix
5 3 (1.17%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.78%) AIX
6 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.78%) VMS
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.74%) Migration
2 74 (28.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 66 (25.68%) High Availability
4 46 (17.90%) Performance Tuning
5 39 (15.18%) Capacity Planning
6 37 (14.40%) Agile
7 35 (13.62%) DevOps
8 30 (11.67%) ITIL
9 29 (11.28%) Data Protection
10 28 (10.89%) RBAC
11 27 (10.51%) Data Modelling
11 27 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (10.12%) Validation
13 24 (9.34%) CI/CD
13 24 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (8.95%) Analytics
14 23 (8.95%) Performance Optimisation
15 20 (7.78%) Data Migration
15 20 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (7.78%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 74 (28.79%) PowerShell
2 42 (16.34%) SQL
3 30 (11.67%) Python
4 13 (5.06%) Bash
5 10 (3.89%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.50%) ABAP
7 5 (1.95%) Groovy
8 3 (1.17%) Java
8 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.78%) PHP
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) Bicep
10 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.39%) Korn
10 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 109 (42.41%) Security Cleared
2 79 (30.74%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (5.06%) Degree
4 13 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (4.67%) VCAP
6 8 (3.11%) MCSA
6 8 (3.11%) MCSE
7 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (1.95%) NCDA
9 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.78%) PMP
10 2 (0.78%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.61%) GDPR
2 15 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.33%) QA
5 4 (1.56%) DICOM
5 4 (1.56%) HL7
6 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.78%) GRC
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) COBIT
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (22.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (19.84%) Active Directory
3 39 (15.18%) NFS
4 35 (13.62%) VMware ESXi
4 35 (13.62%) vSphere
5 19 (7.39%) GPFS
6 15 (5.84%) Docker
7 12 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.33%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.17%) Firmware
10 3 (1.17%) SRDF
11 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (14.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 22 (8.56%) Single Sign-On
2 22 (8.56%) Terraform
3 19 (7.39%) Ansible
4 18 (7.00%) Kubernetes
5 17 (6.61%) vRealize
6 13 (5.06%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.50%) Grafana
7 9 (3.50%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.11%) vMotion
9 7 (2.72%) SCCM
10 6 (2.33%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (2.33%) NetBackup
11 5 (1.95%) Rancher
11 5 (1.95%) SCOM
12 4 (1.56%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.56%) VxRail
13 3 (1.17%) Kibana
13 3 (1.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 74 (28.79%) VMware
2 66 (25.68%) Microsoft
3 32 (12.45%) Oracle
4 31 (12.06%) SAP
4 31 (12.06%) ServiceNow
5 30 (11.67%) Cisco
6 27 (10.51%) IBM
7 26 (10.12%) NetApp
8 16 (6.23%) Pure Storage
9 15 (5.84%) EMC
10 14 (5.45%) Okta
10 14 (5.45%) Veeam
11 13 (5.06%) Commvault
12 7 (2.72%) Dell
13 6 (2.33%) Brocade
13 6 (2.33%) RedGate
13 6 (2.33%) SolarWinds
13 6 (2.33%) Zerto
14 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
14 5 (1.95%) Isilon
70 Replication jobs in England