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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 341 380
Rank change year-on-year -2 +39 +12
Contract jobs citing Replication 262 132 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.06% 1.60% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 81 98
10th Percentile £400 £363 £281
25th Percentile £457 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £607 £594 £597
90th Percentile £635 £628 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -
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 12,712 8,266 11,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.48% 34.08% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,069 5,420 7,571
10th Percentile £300 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £670
90th Percentile £748 £775 £780
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 312 798
10th Percentile £15.77 £16.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.75 £22.66 £15.19
Median hourly rate £43.60 £34.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% +26.36% +20.88%
75th Percentile £69.99 £68.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.75 £84.90 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -5 103 £580 +10.48% 13
South East -19 54 £525 - 20
North of England -40 42 £460 +5.14% 18
Midlands -50 31 £402 -5.41% 11
West Midlands -34 29 £402 -5.41% 7
North West -22 23 £460 +2.22% 13
Yorkshire -43 18 £481 +20.25% 4
South West -27 15 £550 +0.36% 12
East of England -28 10 £800 +71.38% 3
North East -9 2 £425 - 1
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 (1.91%) Apache
1 5 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Confluence
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 12 (4.58%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (3.82%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.53%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.15%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 82 (31.30%) Azure
2 59 (22.52%) AWS
3 31 (11.83%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.40%) SuccessFactors
5 14 (5.34%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.20%) GitHub
7 10 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.82%) Serverless
8 8 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.05%) SaaS
8 8 (3.05%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.29%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.29%) GCP
10 6 (2.29%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (18.70%) DNS
2 46 (17.56%) SAN
3 45 (17.18%) NAS
4 34 (12.98%) DHCP
5 33 (12.60%) Kerberos
6 23 (8.78%) Firewall
7 16 (6.11%) Fibre Channel
8 14 (5.34%) VSAN
9 12 (4.58%) iSCSI
10 7 (2.67%) VLAN
11 5 (1.91%) VPN
12 4 (1.53%) IPv4
12 4 (1.53%) Network Security
13 3 (1.15%) LAN
14 2 (0.76%) WAN
14 2 (0.76%) X.500
15 1 (0.38%) FCoE
15 1 (0.38%) SSH
15 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
15 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.21%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.82%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (3.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.05%) MySQL
8 6 (2.29%) Redis
9 5 (1.91%) DB2
9 5 (1.91%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.91%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.53%) Power BI
10 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (4.20%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (1.91%) Git
4 4 (1.53%) JIRA
5 2 (0.76%) DBeaver
5 2 (0.76%) Flyway
5 2 (0.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.38%) LSMW
General
1 58 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.12%) Finance
3 27 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.05%) Banking
6 8 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.29%) Legal
8 6 (2.29%) Retail
9 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.76%) Military
10 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.38%) Front Office
10 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (11.83%) Architect
1 31 (11.83%) Consultant
2 26 (9.92%) Senior
3 22 (8.40%) Analyst
3 22 (8.40%) SAP Consultant
4 19 (7.25%) Storage Analyst
5 17 (6.49%) DBA
6 16 (6.11%) Data Engineer
7 13 (4.96%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (4.58%) SQL DBA
9 11 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (3.44%) SAP HCM Consultant
11 9 (3.44%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (3.44%) Wintel Engineer
12 7 (2.67%) Administrator
12 7 (2.67%) Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Infrastructure Architect
12 7 (2.67%) Senior SAP Consultant
12 7 (2.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.60%) LDAP
2 21 (8.02%) OAuth
2 21 (8.02%) SAML
3 20 (7.63%) Flash
4 12 (4.58%) SOAP
5 11 (4.20%) Kafka
6 10 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.05%) Web Services
7 8 (3.05%) XML
8 7 (2.67%) OpenID
9 6 (2.29%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.29%) REST
10 5 (1.91%) Keycloak
11 4 (1.53%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.53%) FHIR
12 3 (1.15%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 3 (1.15%) SAP ALE
12 3 (1.15%) SAP Basis
13 1 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
13 1 (0.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.69%) Clustering
2 23 (8.78%) Linux Command Line
3 22 (8.40%) Enterprise Storage
4 17 (6.49%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.29%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.53%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (1.53%) PKI
9 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.15%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.15%) NHS
10 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.15%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 58 (22.14%) Windows
2 54 (20.61%) Linux
3 44 (16.79%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.05%) Unix
5 7 (2.67%) VMS
6 6 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.91%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.53%) SUSE
9 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.76%) AIX
10 2 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (31.30%) Migration
2 78 (29.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 67 (25.57%) High Availability
4 50 (19.08%) Performance Tuning
5 42 (16.03%) Capacity Planning
6 34 (12.98%) ITIL
7 33 (12.60%) DevOps
8 31 (11.83%) Agile
8 31 (11.83%) RBAC
9 28 (10.69%) Data Modelling
9 28 (10.69%) Data Protection
9 28 (10.69%) Validation
10 27 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (9.54%) Performance Optimisation
12 22 (8.40%) Runbook
13 21 (8.02%) CI/CD
14 20 (7.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (7.25%) Project Delivery
15 19 (7.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 82 (31.30%) PowerShell
2 41 (15.65%) SQL
3 30 (11.45%) Python
4 15 (5.73%) Bash
5 11 (4.20%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.44%) ABAP
7 5 (1.91%) Groovy
8 3 (1.15%) Java
8 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.76%) PHP
9 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 110 (41.98%) Security Cleared
2 79 (30.15%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.25%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (4.96%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.91%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.91%) NCDA
11 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.76%) PMP
12 2 (0.76%) VCDX
13 1 (0.38%) OCP
13 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.63%) GDPR
2 14 (5.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (3.82%) 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
7 2 (0.76%) SLA
8 1 (0.38%) COBIT
8 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (24.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (20.99%) Active Directory
3 42 (16.03%) VMware ESXi
4 41 (15.65%) vSphere
5 39 (14.89%) NFS
6 19 (7.25%) GPFS
7 16 (6.11%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (5.73%) Docker
9 7 (2.67%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.29%) Firmware
11 5 (1.91%) Hyper-V
12 4 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (1.15%) SRDF
14 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 2 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (14.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 23 (8.78%) Single Sign-On
3 22 (8.40%) Terraform
4 21 (8.02%) Ansible
5 19 (7.25%) vRealize
6 18 (6.87%) Kubernetes
6 18 (6.87%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.44%) Grafana
7 9 (3.44%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.44%) vMotion
8 8 (3.05%) VxRail
9 7 (2.67%) SCCM
10 6 (2.29%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (2.29%) NetBackup
11 5 (1.91%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (1.91%) Rancher
11 5 (1.91%) SCOM
12 4 (1.53%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 80 (30.53%) VMware
2 66 (25.19%) Microsoft
3 32 (12.21%) SAP
4 31 (11.83%) ServiceNow
5 30 (11.45%) Cisco
5 30 (11.45%) Oracle
6 27 (10.31%) IBM
7 26 (9.92%) NetApp
8 16 (6.11%) Pure Storage
9 15 (5.73%) EMC
10 14 (5.34%) Okta
10 14 (5.34%) Veeam
11 13 (4.96%) Commvault
12 11 (4.20%) Dell
13 7 (2.67%) Zerto
14 6 (2.29%) Brocade
14 6 (2.29%) RedGate
14 6 (2.29%) SolarWinds
15 5 (1.91%) Computacenter
15 5 (1.91%) Isilon
74 Replication jobs in England