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

6 months to
24 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 361 369
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Replication 252 112 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 1.36% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 74 100
10th Percentile £394 £328 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £519 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +0.92% +2.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £627
90th Percentile £624 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £514
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.78% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £56.30 £78.83 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £79.03 -
Median hourly rate £69.00 £79.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £79.25 £79.68 -
90th Percentile £87.20 £79.87 -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -

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 13,329 8,220 11,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 34.26% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,401 5,373 7,334
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 685 330 825
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.61 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.73 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.71 £34.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% -1.43% +56.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.98 £32.05 £32.12
% change year-on-year +27.86% -0.20% +45.98%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -13 93 £575 +4.55% 18
North of England -26 65 £477 +6.00% 10
South East -28 46 £525 -2.78% 18
North West -7 38 £471 +4.58% 4
Midlands -49 31 £425 - 5
West Midlands -43 29 £419 -1.47% 4
Yorkshire -42 25 £494 -3.24% 5
South West -33 11 £543 -1.00% 4
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £540 - 1
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 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.59%) Confluence
3 3 (1.19%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.59%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.19%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 84 (33.33%) Azure
2 60 (23.81%) AWS
3 42 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.54%) OpenShift
5 13 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.97%) GitHub
7 9 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.78%) Serverless
10 6 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.98%) Azure Stack
11 5 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.98%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.98%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.59%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 49 (19.44%) SAN
2 48 (19.05%) NAS
3 39 (15.48%) DNS
4 32 (12.70%) Kerberos
5 31 (12.30%) DHCP
6 20 (7.94%) Fibre Channel
7 19 (7.54%) VSAN
8 14 (5.56%) iSCSI
9 13 (5.16%) Firewall
9 13 (5.16%) VLAN
10 10 (3.97%) Network Security
11 8 (3.17%) VPN
12 3 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.40%) FCoE
14 1 (0.40%) LAN
14 1 (0.40%) Multicast
14 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.40%) WAN
14 1 (0.40%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.49%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.17%) SAP HANA
6 7 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.38%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.98%) MySQL
8 5 (1.98%) Redis
9 4 (1.59%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.19%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.19%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.97%) JIRA
3 8 (3.17%) Git
4 6 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.79%) Flyway
5 2 (0.79%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) LSMW
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.10%) Finance
3 18 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.16%) Banking
6 7 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.98%) Legal
8 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.79%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.40%) Front Office
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (9.92%) Architect
1 25 (9.92%) Senior
2 23 (9.13%) DBA
3 21 (8.33%) Analyst
4 18 (7.14%) Storage Analyst
4 18 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
5 16 (6.35%) Storage Engineer
6 15 (5.95%) SQL DBA
7 14 (5.56%) Consultant
8 13 (5.16%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (4.37%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) Administrator
12 9 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.17%) Active Directory Engineer
14 7 (2.78%) Developer
15 6 (2.38%) Database Developer
15 6 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.49%) LDAP
2 23 (9.13%) Flash
3 16 (6.35%) OAuth
3 16 (6.35%) SAML
4 6 (2.38%) Kafka
5 5 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.59%) FHIR
6 4 (1.59%) REST
7 3 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.19%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.19%) SAP ALE
7 3 (1.19%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.19%) SOAP
8 2 (0.79%) EDIFACT
8 2 (0.79%) JSON
8 2 (0.79%) Middleware
8 2 (0.79%) OpenID
8 2 (0.79%) Spring
8 2 (0.79%) XML
9 1 (0.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.87%) Clustering
2 27 (10.71%) Enterprise Storage
3 24 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (6.75%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.17%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.38%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.59%) NHS
9 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.19%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.79%) EMC VNX
11 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.79%) Symmetrix
11 2 (0.79%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.43%) Linux
1 54 (21.43%) Windows
2 40 (15.87%) Windows Server
3 13 (5.16%) Unix
4 10 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.78%) VMS
6 4 (1.59%) AIX
6 4 (1.59%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.59%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.59%) SUSE
7 3 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.92%) Migration
2 86 (34.13%) Disaster Recovery
3 84 (33.33%) High Availability
4 66 (26.19%) Performance Tuning
5 56 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
6 39 (15.48%) DevOps
7 34 (13.49%) RBAC
8 31 (12.30%) Agile
9 30 (11.90%) ITIL
10 29 (11.51%) Runbook
11 27 (10.71%) Data Protection
12 26 (10.32%) Project Delivery
12 26 (10.32%) Validation
13 25 (9.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (9.92%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (8.73%) Data Modelling
15 22 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (8.73%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.54%) PowerShell
2 40 (15.87%) SQL
3 35 (13.89%) Python
4 15 (5.95%) Bash
5 13 (5.16%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.97%) Groovy
6 10 (3.97%) Java
7 4 (1.59%) Perl
8 3 (1.19%) Bicep
8 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.79%) Korn
9 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.40%) ABAP
10 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 114 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 91 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 20 (7.94%) VCAP
5 19 (7.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (6.35%) MCSA
6 16 (6.35%) MCSE
7 12 (4.76%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.17%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (2.38%) Degree
10 6 (2.38%) NCDA
11 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.79%) VCDX
14 1 (0.40%) NCIE
14 1 (0.40%) OCP
14 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.14%) GDPR
2 17 (6.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (3.97%) QA
4 6 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.38%) NIST
5 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.59%) DICOM
6 4 (1.59%) HL7
7 2 (0.79%) GRC
7 2 (0.79%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 62 (24.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (20.24%) vSphere
3 50 (19.84%) VMware ESXi
4 44 (17.46%) NFS
5 43 (17.06%) Active Directory
6 29 (11.51%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (8.73%) GPFS
8 15 (5.95%) Docker
9 7 (2.78%) Firmware
9 7 (2.78%) Hyper-V
10 6 (2.38%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.59%) SRDF
12 2 (0.79%) Corosync
12 2 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (11.90%) Ansible
2 29 (11.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 28 (11.11%) Terraform
3 28 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 23 (9.13%) Kubernetes
5 19 (7.54%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (7.54%) vRealize
6 12 (4.76%) VxRail
7 11 (4.37%) Grafana
7 11 (4.37%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.17%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (3.17%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (3.17%) NetBackup
8 8 (3.17%) vMotion
9 5 (1.98%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (1.19%) Data Guard
11 3 (1.19%) SnapMirror
11 3 (1.19%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 78 (30.95%) VMware
2 70 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 45 (17.86%) Cisco
4 33 (13.10%) ServiceNow
5 32 (12.70%) Oracle
6 31 (12.30%) IBM
7 25 (9.92%) NetApp
8 22 (8.73%) SAP
9 20 (7.94%) Pure Storage
10 15 (5.95%) EMC
11 14 (5.56%) Okta
12 13 (5.16%) Brocade
12 13 (5.16%) Commvault
12 13 (5.16%) Dell
12 13 (5.16%) Veeam
13 7 (2.78%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.78%) Zerto
14 6 (2.38%) RedGate
15 5 (1.98%) CyberArk
15 5 (1.98%) Red Hat
56 Replication jobs in England