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 27 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 368 440
Rank change year-on-year +44 +72 +42
Contract jobs citing Replication 220 156 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.97% 1.58% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 89 86
10th Percentile £362 £375 £350
25th Percentile £459 £461 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +4.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £576
90th Percentile £675 £699 £681
UK median daily rate £520 £526 £510
% change year-on-year -1.14% +3.14% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £60.95 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £62.75 £24.57 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £25.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.80% -57.01% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73.25 £27.27 £66.88
90th Percentile £75.65 £28.01 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £23.59 £60.00
% change year-on-year +181.90% -60.68% -14.29%

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 11,192 9,871 12,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.39% 31.62% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,010 5,893 8,373
10th Percentile £285 £300 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 317 459
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.83 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.27 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £42.88 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.37% -3.64% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.19 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -22.26% -20.90% +26.43%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +7 102 £550 - 18
Midlands +4 41 £475 +11.76% 9
South East +14 40 £550 +10.00% 14
West Midlands +1 38 £475 +11.76% 2
South West +1 16 £520 -5.11% 4
North of England -37 13 £450 -4.76% 7
East of England -3 12 £800 +45.36% 2
North West -22 9 £450 -4.76% 3
Yorkshire -37 4 - - 4
East Midlands -11 3 - - 7
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 26 (11.82%) Confluence
2 12 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.00%) nginx
3 11 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (4.55%) Office Communications Server
4 10 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (4.55%) Skype for Business
5 8 (3.64%) Oracle Application Server
6 4 (1.82%) MQSeries
7 3 (1.36%) Apache
7 3 (1.36%) CICS
7 3 (1.36%) GeoServer
7 3 (1.36%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 12 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.45%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 12 (5.45%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.55%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.91%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.45%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 76 (34.55%) AWS
2 55 (25.00%) Azure
3 30 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (13.18%) Amazon S3
5 28 (12.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (12.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 23 (10.45%) AWS KMS
8 21 (9.55%) Amazon ELB
9 18 (8.18%) SuccessFactors
10 17 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (5.91%) Serverless
12 12 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.45%) GitHub
13 11 (5.00%) Amazon Glacier
13 11 (5.00%) Route 53
13 11 (5.00%) SaaS
13 11 (5.00%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.64%) Power Platform
15 7 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 62 (28.18%) DNS
2 48 (21.82%) Firewall
3 35 (15.91%) SAN
4 23 (10.45%) SSH
5 22 (10.00%) DHCP
6 21 (9.55%) FTP
6 21 (9.55%) HTTP
6 21 (9.55%) SMTP
7 14 (6.36%) VPN
8 12 (5.45%) NAS
9 11 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 11 (5.00%) VLAN
10 10 (4.55%) DDNS
10 10 (4.55%) IMAP
10 10 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (3.64%) WAN
12 7 (3.18%) iSCSI
13 6 (2.73%) LAN
14 4 (1.82%) IPv4
14 4 (1.82%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (19.55%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (7.27%) SQL Server
5 15 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.45%) Oracle Database
7 11 (5.00%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.55%) Oracle Exadata
9 9 (4.09%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (4.09%) Redis
10 8 (3.64%) DB2
10 8 (3.64%) Oracle ODI
10 8 (3.64%) Power BI
10 8 (3.64%) Star Schema
11 7 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (3.18%) MySQL
12 6 (2.73%) Couchbase
13 5 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 32 (14.55%) Git
3 28 (12.73%) JIRA
4 21 (9.55%) Vagrant
5 8 (3.64%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.82%) Subversion
6 4 (1.82%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.36%) GitLab
8 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.45%) CANoe
9 1 (0.45%) gulp
9 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 60 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.73%) Finance
4 26 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.73%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.00%) Banking
8 6 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.73%) Retail
9 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.82%) International Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Electronics
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (15.45%) Platform Engineer
2 27 (12.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (10.45%) Architect
4 22 (10.00%) Consultant
5 21 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 19 (8.64%) AWS DevOps
8 18 (8.18%) Data Engineer
9 16 (7.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) DBA
10 14 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) Senior
11 12 (5.45%) Administrator
11 12 (5.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.45%) SAP Consultant
11 12 (5.45%) Support Engineer
12 10 (4.55%) Analyst
12 10 (4.55%) Exchange Engineer
12 10 (4.55%) Exchange Support
12 10 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.82%) Kafka
2 15 (6.82%) LDAP
2 15 (6.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 15 (6.82%) XML
3 11 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.00%) Flash
3 11 (5.00%) REST
4 10 (4.55%) Web Services
5 9 (4.09%) JSON
5 9 (4.09%) SOAP
6 7 (3.18%) Middleware
6 7 (3.18%) OAuth
6 7 (3.18%) SAML
7 6 (2.73%) OpenID
8 5 (2.27%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.82%) EDIFACT
9 4 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.82%) Keycloak
9 4 (1.82%) TIBCO EMS
9 4 (1.82%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.55%) Data Centre
2 20 (9.09%) Clustering
3 14 (6.36%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.64%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.18%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.73%) Mainframe
8 6 (2.73%) PKI
8 6 (2.73%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.36%) Equities
10 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.91%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.91%) CMDB
12 1 (0.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 80 (36.36%) Linux
2 67 (30.45%) Windows
3 25 (11.36%) VMS
4 21 (9.55%) Amazon Linux
5 20 (9.09%) Windows Server
6 14 (6.36%) Ubuntu
7 11 (5.00%) Unix
8 10 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (2.73%) Solaris
11 3 (1.36%) AIX
11 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.36%) zOS
12 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.45%) MVS
13 1 (0.45%) SUSE
13 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (25.91%) DevOps
2 54 (24.55%) High Availability
3 51 (23.18%) CI/CD
4 43 (19.55%) Performance Tuning
5 39 (17.73%) Agile
6 38 (17.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 36 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
8 35 (15.91%) Migration
9 31 (14.09%) Change Management
10 28 (12.73%) Configuration Management
11 27 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (10.91%) ITIL
13 23 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (10.00%) Cloud Security
15 21 (9.55%) Patch Management
16 19 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
17 18 (8.18%) Data Modelling
18 17 (7.73%) Analytics
19 15 (6.82%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.18%) Python
2 55 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 50 (22.73%) SQL
4 27 (12.27%) Groovy
5 25 (11.36%) Java
6 19 (8.64%) Bash
7 16 (7.27%) Perl
8 11 (5.00%) ABAP
9 8 (3.64%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.18%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.91%) AWK
11 2 (0.91%) Go
11 2 (0.91%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.91%) JCL
11 2 (0.91%) PHP
11 2 (0.91%) sed
11 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) CLIST
12 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.45%) REXX
Qualifications
1 69 (31.36%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.36%) Degree
4 20 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 18 (8.18%) AWS Certification
6 15 (6.82%) Azure Certification
7 13 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.82%) OCP
8 4 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.36%) VCAP
10 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.91%) CCNA
10 2 (0.91%) CCNP
10 2 (0.91%) MCSE
11 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.27%) GDPR
2 13 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.27%) QA
3 5 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (24.55%) Active Directory
2 45 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (18.64%) Docker
4 21 (9.55%) DFS Replication
5 19 (8.64%) NFS
5 19 (8.64%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (7.73%) vSphere
7 13 (5.91%) GPFS
8 10 (4.55%) Brightmail
8 10 (4.55%) Dovecot
8 10 (4.55%) ISA Server
8 10 (4.55%) Postfix
8 10 (4.55%) Squid
9 7 (3.18%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (2.73%) Hyper-V
11 5 (2.27%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.82%) Veritas File System
12 4 (1.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 4 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (18.18%) Terraform
2 28 (12.73%) Grafana
2 28 (12.73%) Prometheus
3 22 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.91%) Ansible
5 11 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (5.00%) vRealize
6 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (4.55%) Nessus
6 10 (4.55%) Proxmox
7 8 (3.64%) SCCM
7 8 (3.64%) vCenter Server
8 7 (3.18%) Data Guard
8 7 (3.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (3.18%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.27%) SCOM
11 4 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.82%) Kibana
11 4 (1.82%) logstash
Vendors
1 53 (24.09%) VMware
2 51 (23.18%) Microsoft
3 39 (17.73%) ServiceNow
4 35 (15.91%) Oracle
5 25 (11.36%) IBM
6 21 (9.55%) Cisco
7 19 (8.64%) SAP
8 17 (7.73%) Veeam
9 16 (7.27%) NetApp
10 12 (5.45%) Dell
11 10 (4.55%) Confluent
11 10 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (3.64%) TIBCO
13 6 (2.73%) Red Hat
14 5 (2.27%) Computacenter
14 5 (2.27%) CyberArk
14 5 (2.27%) EMC
14 5 (2.27%) Google
14 5 (2.27%) Solace
14 5 (2.27%) SolarWinds