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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 358 364
Rank change year-on-year +25 +6 +56
Contract jobs citing Replication 262 117 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.48% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.41% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 79 97
10th Percentile £400 £363 £281
25th Percentile £456 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £627
90th Percentile £630 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
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 12,871 8,316 11,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.65% 33.95% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,159 5,460 7,540
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% -0.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 312 822
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.06 £22.72 £15.14
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.95 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% +29.53% +23.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £58.70
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%

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 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 18 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 18 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 +4 98 £580 +7.91% 15
South East -10 52 £525 - 10
North of England -33 49 £469 +4.27% 20
Midlands -39 33 £402 -17.54% 5
West Midlands -39 31 £402 -17.54% 5
North West -26 25 £460 +2.22% 13
Yorkshire -43 22 £487 -4.51% 4
South West -28 15 £550 +0.36% 7
East of England -30 10 £800 +71.38% 1
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 (1.91%) Apache
1 5 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.76%) MQSeries
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 13 (4.96%) SAP Payroll
2 11 (4.20%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.53%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.15%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 82 (31.30%) Azure
2 55 (20.99%) AWS
3 31 (11.83%) Entra ID
4 23 (8.78%) SuccessFactors
5 18 (6.87%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.20%) GitHub
7 10 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.44%) SaaS
8 9 (3.44%) Serverless
9 7 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.29%) GCP
10 6 (2.29%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.47%) SAN
2 50 (19.08%) NAS
3 47 (17.94%) DNS
4 34 (12.98%) DHCP
5 33 (12.60%) Kerberos
6 22 (8.40%) Firewall
7 18 (6.87%) Fibre Channel
8 16 (6.11%) VSAN
9 14 (5.34%) iSCSI
10 7 (2.67%) VLAN
11 4 (1.53%) IPv4
11 4 (1.53%) Network Security
11 4 (1.53%) VPN
12 3 (1.15%) LAN
13 2 (0.76%) X.500
14 1 (0.38%) FCoE
14 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
14 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.05%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.05%) MySQL
6 7 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.67%) Redis
7 6 (2.29%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (1.91%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.53%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.15%) DB2
10 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (1.91%) Git
4 3 (1.15%) JIRA
5 2 (0.76%) Flyway
5 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) LSMW
6 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.74%) Finance
3 26 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.58%) Banking
6 9 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.29%) Legal
8 6 (2.29%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
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 (11.83%) Architect
2 29 (11.07%) Consultant
3 25 (9.54%) Senior
4 23 (8.78%) Analyst
5 22 (8.40%) SAP Consultant
6 20 (7.63%) Storage Analyst
7 19 (7.25%) DBA
8 14 (5.34%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 13 (4.96%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.96%) SQL DBA
10 12 (4.58%) Storage Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.44%) SAP HCM Consultant
12 9 (3.44%) Senior Consultant
12 9 (3.44%) Wintel Engineer
13 7 (2.67%) Administrator
13 7 (2.67%) Developer
13 7 (2.67%) Infrastructure Architect
13 7 (2.67%) Senior SAP Consultant
13 7 (2.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.60%) LDAP
2 21 (8.02%) Flash
2 21 (8.02%) OAuth
2 21 (8.02%) SAML
3 11 (4.20%) SOAP
4 10 (3.82%) Kafka
5 9 (3.44%) XML
6 8 (3.05%) Web Services
7 7 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (2.67%) OpenID
8 6 (2.29%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.91%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.91%) REST
10 4 (1.53%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.53%) FHIR
11 3 (1.15%) SAP ALE
11 3 (1.15%) SAP Basis
12 2 (0.76%) EDIFACT
12 2 (0.76%) JSON
12 2 (0.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.83%) Clustering
2 26 (9.92%) Enterprise Storage
3 23 (8.78%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (6.87%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.29%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.29%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.29%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.53%) NHS
8 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.53%) PKI
8 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.15%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.15%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.76%) Life Science
10 2 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.76%) Windows
2 51 (19.47%) Linux
3 44 (16.79%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.05%) Unix
5 7 (2.67%) VMS
6 5 (1.91%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.53%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.53%) SUSE
7 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.76%) AIX
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (32.82%) Migration
2 78 (29.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 67 (25.57%) High Availability
4 51 (19.47%) Performance Tuning
5 46 (17.56%) Capacity Planning
6 35 (13.36%) ITIL
7 34 (12.98%) DevOps
8 32 (12.21%) RBAC
9 31 (11.83%) Agile
10 29 (11.07%) Data Modelling
10 29 (11.07%) Data Protection
11 28 (10.69%) Validation
12 27 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (10.31%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (9.16%) Runbook
15 21 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (7.63%) Data Migration
17 19 (7.25%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 81 (30.92%) PowerShell
2 36 (13.74%) SQL
3 26 (9.92%) Python
4 15 (5.73%) Bash
5 12 (4.58%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.44%) ABAP
7 5 (1.91%) Groovy
7 5 (1.91%) Java
8 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.38%) Korn
9 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.38%) PHP
9 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 114 (43.51%) Security Cleared
2 80 (30.53%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.25%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (4.58%) VCAP
6 11 (4.20%) Degree
7 8 (3.05%) MCSA
7 8 (3.05%) MCSE
8 7 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.29%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.29%) NCDA
10 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.76%) PMP
11 2 (0.76%) VCDX
12 1 (0.38%) OCP
12 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.63%) GDPR
2 14 (5.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.29%) QA
5 5 (1.91%) NIST
6 4 (1.53%) DICOM
6 4 (1.53%) HL7
6 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 65 (24.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (20.61%) Active Directory
3 45 (17.18%) VMware ESXi
4 43 (16.41%) NFS
4 43 (16.41%) vSphere
5 20 (7.63%) GPFS
6 15 (5.73%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (5.34%) Docker
8 6 (2.29%) Firmware
8 6 (2.29%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.91%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.53%) SRDF
10 4 (1.53%) 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 38 (14.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 24 (9.16%) Ansible
3 23 (8.78%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (8.78%) Terraform
4 22 (8.40%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.63%) vRealize
6 19 (7.25%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.44%) Grafana
7 9 (3.44%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.44%) VxRail
8 8 (3.05%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (3.05%) NetBackup
8 8 (3.05%) vMotion
9 7 (2.67%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (2.67%) SCCM
10 6 (2.29%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (1.91%) Rancher
11 5 (1.91%) SCOM
12 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 81 (30.92%) VMware
2 67 (25.57%) Microsoft
3 36 (13.74%) Cisco
4 35 (13.36%) SAP
5 32 (12.21%) ServiceNow
6 29 (11.07%) NetApp
6 29 (11.07%) Oracle
7 27 (10.31%) IBM
8 19 (7.25%) Pure Storage
9 18 (6.87%) EMC
10 16 (6.11%) Veeam
11 14 (5.34%) Dell
11 14 (5.34%) Okta
12 13 (4.96%) Commvault
13 11 (4.20%) Brocade
14 7 (2.67%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.67%) Zerto
15 6 (2.29%) RedGate
16 5 (1.91%) Dynatrace
16 5 (1.91%) Isilon
55 Replication jobs in England