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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 359 366
Rank change year-on-year -33 +7 +43
Contract jobs citing Replication 243 154 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.55% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 1.56% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 97 116
10th Percentile £375 £375 £306
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -1.35% -1.05%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £667 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% +0.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £53.15 £68.34 -
25th Percentile £57.88 £72.23 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% - -
75th Percentile £77.38 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £87.95 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -12.33% - -

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 15,313 9,854 10,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.51% 35.45% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,390 6,209 6,628
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £682
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 915 498 528
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.68
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.31% -34.36% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +10.86%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -50 89 £550 +4.76% 61
North of England -19 70 £513 +7.89% 17
North West -5 43 £491 +9.09% 10
South East -57 30 £510 -11.30% 21
Yorkshire -21 23 £529 +3.22% 5
Midlands -54 21 £449 -5.53% 6
West Midlands -61 19 £449 -5.53% 5
South West -41 16 £574 +9.33% 13
East of England -13 11 £600 +26.32% 5
North East - 4 £425 - 2
East Midlands -16 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 6 (2.47%) Confluence
1 6 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.82%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Actimize
3 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 80 (32.92%) AWS
2 78 (32.10%) Azure
3 23 (9.47%) Entra ID
4 20 (8.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 17 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (6.17%) AWS KMS
8 12 (4.94%) GCP
9 11 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.53%) OCI
10 10 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.12%) GitHub
10 10 (4.12%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.12%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (3.70%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.88%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.88%) Serverless
13 5 (2.06%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.05%) SAN
2 26 (10.70%) NAS
3 25 (10.29%) DNS
4 21 (8.64%) Firewall
5 19 (7.82%) VLAN
6 14 (5.76%) VSAN
7 13 (5.35%) VPN
8 12 (4.94%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (3.70%) DHCP
9 9 (3.70%) Network Security
10 8 (3.29%) SSL
11 7 (2.88%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.65%) iSCSI
12 4 (1.65%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (1.23%) Multicast
13 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.41%) SSH
14 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
14 1 (0.41%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 40 (16.46%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (9.05%) MySQL
4 21 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (8.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (8.23%) Oracle Database
6 13 (5.35%) Redis
7 12 (4.94%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (3.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (3.29%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.29%) Power BI
10 8 (3.29%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.29%) SAP HANA
11 7 (2.88%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.88%) Sybase ASE
12 6 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (2.06%) Oracle Database 12c
13 5 (2.06%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 21 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.17%) JIRA
3 11 (4.53%) Git
4 3 (1.23%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.23%) Flyway
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
4 3 (1.23%) Liquibase
4 3 (1.23%) Toad
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
5 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.93%) Finance
3 28 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.23%) Documentation Skills
5 18 (7.41%) Banking
6 9 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (0.82%) Military
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (19.34%) DBA
2 42 (17.28%) Senior
3 32 (13.17%) Architect
4 26 (10.70%) Storage Engineer
5 25 (10.29%) Administrator
6 21 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (7.82%) Consultant
8 17 (7.00%) Lead
9 16 (6.58%) SQL DBA
10 13 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Active Directory Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) SAP Consultant
12 9 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.70%) Senior DBA
12 9 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
13 8 (3.29%) Analyst
13 8 (3.29%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.29%) Senior Consultant
13 8 (3.29%) Storage Analyst
14 7 (2.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.35%) Flash
2 12 (4.94%) Kafka
3 10 (4.12%) LDAP
4 6 (2.47%) Middleware
4 6 (2.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 4 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.65%) FHIR
5 4 (1.65%) OAuth
5 4 (1.65%) REST
6 3 (1.23%) JSON
6 3 (1.23%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Streams
6 3 (1.23%) SAML
6 3 (1.23%) SAP Basis
6 3 (1.23%) Spring
6 3 (1.23%) XML
7 2 (0.82%) EDIFACT
7 2 (0.82%) OpenID
7 2 (0.82%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.58%) Clustering
2 25 (10.29%) Enterprise Storage
3 24 (9.88%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.58%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.53%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.47%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (2.06%) CMDB
10 4 (1.65%) EMC VNX
10 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.65%) NHS
10 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.82%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 78 (32.10%) Linux
2 53 (21.81%) Windows
3 33 (13.58%) Windows Server
4 22 (9.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (7.41%) Unix
6 13 (5.35%) VMS
7 9 (3.70%) CentOS
7 9 (3.70%) Rocky
8 8 (3.29%) AIX
9 6 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (2.06%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (1.65%) SUSE
12 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (34.16%) Performance Tuning
2 78 (32.10%) High Availability
3 77 (31.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 67 (27.57%) Migration
5 54 (22.22%) DevOps
6 42 (17.28%) Capacity Planning
7 41 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 39 (16.05%) Data Modelling
9 38 (15.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (14.40%) CI/CD
11 34 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (13.17%) Validation
13 31 (12.76%) ITIL
14 28 (11.52%) Agile
14 28 (11.52%) Root Cause Analysis
14 28 (11.52%) Runbook
15 27 (11.11%) RBAC
16 25 (10.29%) Performance Optimisation
17 24 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
18 20 (8.23%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 63 (25.93%) SQL
2 61 (25.10%) PowerShell
3 46 (18.93%) Python
4 21 (8.64%) Bash
5 15 (6.17%) Java
6 14 (5.76%) T-SQL
7 13 (5.35%) Groovy
8 7 (2.88%) Perl
9 6 (2.47%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.06%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.65%) Bicep
12 2 (0.82%) CQL
12 2 (0.82%) Rust
13 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
13 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 103 (42.39%) Security Cleared
2 79 (32.51%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (7.00%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.76%) AWS Certification
5 14 (5.76%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.35%) Degree
6 13 (5.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (4.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (4.12%) VCAP
9 9 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.29%) MCSA
10 8 (3.29%) MCSE
10 8 (3.29%) NCDA
11 5 (2.06%) OCP
11 5 (2.06%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.23%) NCIE
13 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.53%) QA
2 7 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.47%) GDPR
3 6 (2.47%) NIST
3 6 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.65%) DICOM
5 4 (1.65%) HL7
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
7 2 (0.82%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.41%) NCSC
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 42 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (15.23%) vSphere
3 31 (12.76%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (12.76%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (10.29%) Active Directory
5 19 (7.82%) Docker
6 17 (7.00%) NFS
7 13 (5.35%) Oracle RAC
8 12 (4.94%) GPFS
9 9 (3.70%) Hyper-V
10 8 (3.29%) Firmware
11 4 (1.65%) SRDF
12 3 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (1.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.82%) Corosync
14 1 (0.41%) ACF2
14 1 (0.41%) RACF
14 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (20.58%) Terraform
2 39 (16.05%) Ansible
3 22 (9.05%) Kubernetes
4 20 (8.23%) vCenter Server
5 18 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 17 (7.00%) Grafana
6 17 (7.00%) NetBackup
7 13 (5.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (4.94%) Data Guard
8 12 (4.94%) vRealize
9 10 (4.12%) VxRail
10 9 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (2.47%) SCOM
12 5 (2.06%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.65%) Argo
13 4 (1.65%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
13 4 (1.65%) Kustomize
13 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 53 (21.81%) VMware
2 51 (20.99%) Microsoft
3 47 (19.34%) Oracle
4 34 (13.99%) ServiceNow
5 30 (12.35%) Cisco
5 30 (12.35%) NetApp
6 25 (10.29%) Veeam
7 22 (9.05%) SAP
8 19 (7.82%) Dell
8 19 (7.82%) IBM
9 14 (5.76%) Brocade
10 10 (4.12%) EMC
11 9 (3.70%) Pure Storage
11 9 (3.70%) Red Hat
12 8 (3.29%) Sybase
13 7 (2.88%) BMC
13 7 (2.88%) Google
13 7 (2.88%) Remedy
14 6 (2.47%) Confluent
14 6 (2.47%) Dynatrace