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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 370 362
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 +30
Contract jobs citing Replication 258 117 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 1.41% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 76 104
10th Percentile £397 £338 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -1.59% +3.90%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £626 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.72% +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 13,584 8,305 11,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.35% 34.29% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,539 5,391 7,330
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.09% -3.76%
75th Percentile £635 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 345 833
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.27 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.01 £15.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £34.50 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +23.19% -3.23% +59.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.30 £83.33 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.96 £33.05 £34.21
% change year-on-year +23.93% -3.39% +55.50%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -24 97 £575 +4.55% 22
North of England -23 68 £479 +6.44% 7
South East -29 45 £525 -2.78% 16
North West -10 38 £471 +4.58% 5
Midlands -36 29 £425 -5.56% 1
Yorkshire -39 28 £519 +1.67% 2
West Midlands -42 27 £419 -6.94% 1
South West -33 12 £543 -0.73% 3
North East - 3 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £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 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.55%) Confluence
3 3 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.55%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.16%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.72%) Azure
2 60 (23.26%) AWS
3 44 (17.05%) Entra ID
4 21 (8.14%) OpenShift
5 14 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.65%) GitHub
7 9 (3.49%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.71%) Serverless
10 6 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.94%) Azure Stack
11 5 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.94%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.94%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 52 (20.16%) SAN
2 50 (19.38%) NAS
3 41 (15.89%) DNS
4 32 (12.40%) Kerberos
5 31 (12.02%) DHCP
6 21 (8.14%) Fibre Channel
7 20 (7.75%) VSAN
8 14 (5.43%) iSCSI
9 13 (5.04%) Firewall
9 13 (5.04%) VLAN
10 10 (3.88%) Network Security
11 8 (3.10%) VPN
12 4 (1.55%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.39%) FCoE
14 1 (0.39%) LAN
14 1 (0.39%) Multicast
14 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.39%) WAN
14 1 (0.39%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.10%) SAP HANA
7 7 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.94%) MySQL
9 5 (1.94%) Redis
10 4 (1.55%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.55%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.55%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.16%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (6.59%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.88%) JIRA
3 8 (3.10%) Git
4 6 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.78%) Flyway
5 2 (0.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.39%) LSMW
6 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.79%) Finance
3 19 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.81%) Banking
6 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.94%) Legal
8 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.78%) Military
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.39%) Front Office
10 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (10.47%) Senior
2 26 (10.08%) Architect
3 23 (8.91%) DBA
4 20 (7.75%) Analyst
5 18 (6.98%) Storage Engineer
5 18 (6.98%) Wintel Engineer
6 17 (6.59%) Storage Analyst
7 16 (6.20%) Consultant
8 15 (5.81%) SQL DBA
9 12 (4.65%) Data Engineer
10 11 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (4.26%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.49%) Administrator
12 9 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.10%) Active Directory Engineer
14 7 (2.71%) Developer
15 6 (2.33%) Senior Consultant
15 6 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.95%) LDAP
2 22 (8.53%) Flash
3 16 (6.20%) OAuth
3 16 (6.20%) SAML
4 6 (2.33%) Kafka
5 5 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.55%) FHIR
7 3 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.16%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.16%) OpenID
7 3 (1.16%) REST
7 3 (1.16%) SAP ALE
7 3 (1.16%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.16%) SOAP
8 2 (0.78%) EDIFACT
8 2 (0.78%) JSON
8 2 (0.78%) Middleware
8 2 (0.78%) Spring
8 2 (0.78%) XML
9 1 (0.39%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.89%) Clustering
2 30 (11.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 24 (9.30%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (7.75%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.49%) EMC VMAX
7 7 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.55%) CMDB
9 4 (1.55%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.55%) NHS
9 4 (1.55%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.16%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.78%) Life Science
11 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Symmetrix
11 2 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.09%) Linux
2 56 (21.71%) Windows
3 40 (15.50%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.04%) Unix
5 10 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.10%) VMS
7 6 (2.33%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (1.94%) AIX
9 4 (1.55%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (1.55%) SUSE
10 3 (1.16%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (35.66%) Disaster Recovery
2 91 (35.27%) Migration
3 85 (32.95%) High Availability
4 69 (26.74%) Performance Tuning
5 58 (22.48%) Capacity Planning
6 44 (17.05%) DevOps
7 38 (14.73%) RBAC
8 33 (12.79%) Runbook
9 29 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (11.24%) ITIL
10 28 (10.85%) Agile
11 27 (10.47%) Project Delivery
11 27 (10.47%) Validation
12 26 (10.08%) Data Protection
12 26 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (9.69%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (8.53%) CI/CD
15 22 (8.53%) Network Virtualisation
16 21 (8.14%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 84 (32.56%) PowerShell
2 41 (15.89%) SQL
3 37 (14.34%) Python
4 16 (6.20%) Bash
5 13 (5.04%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.26%) Groovy
7 10 (3.88%) Java
8 4 (1.55%) Bicep
8 4 (1.55%) Perl
9 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.78%) Korn
10 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.39%) ABAP
11 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 114 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 92 (35.66%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 20 (7.75%) VCAP
5 19 (7.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (6.20%) MCSA
6 16 (6.20%) MCSE
7 12 (4.65%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.26%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.10%) NCDA
10 7 (2.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (2.33%) Degree
12 5 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.16%) NCIE
14 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.78%) VCDX
15 1 (0.39%) OCP
15 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.98%) GDPR
2 17 (6.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (4.26%) QA
4 6 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.33%) NIST
5 5 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.55%) DICOM
6 4 (1.55%) HL7
7 2 (0.78%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) COBIT
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (24.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (19.77%) vSphere
3 50 (19.38%) VMware ESXi
4 44 (17.05%) Active Directory
4 44 (17.05%) NFS
5 29 (11.24%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (8.14%) GPFS
7 17 (6.59%) Docker
8 8 (3.10%) Hyper-V
9 7 (2.71%) Firmware
9 7 (2.71%) SRDF
10 6 (2.33%) VMware NSX
11 3 (1.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.78%) Corosync
12 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (12.40%) Terraform
2 31 (12.02%) Ansible
3 29 (11.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 29 (11.24%) vCenter Server
4 27 (10.47%) Kubernetes
5 19 (7.36%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (6.98%) vRealize
7 12 (4.65%) Grafana
7 12 (4.65%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.65%) VxRail
8 10 (3.88%) EMC VPLEX
9 9 (3.49%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.10%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (3.10%) vMotion
11 5 (1.94%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (1.94%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.55%) Kustomize
12 4 (1.55%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.55%) SnapVault
12 4 (1.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 80 (31.01%) VMware
2 71 (27.52%) Microsoft
3 47 (18.22%) Cisco
4 33 (12.79%) ServiceNow
5 32 (12.40%) Oracle
6 31 (12.02%) IBM
7 27 (10.47%) NetApp
8 22 (8.53%) SAP
9 21 (8.14%) Pure Storage
10 18 (6.98%) EMC
11 16 (6.20%) Brocade
12 15 (5.81%) Dell
13 14 (5.43%) Okta
14 13 (5.04%) Veeam
15 12 (4.65%) Commvault
16 8 (3.10%) SolarWinds
17 7 (2.71%) Red Hat
18 6 (2.33%) RedGate
18 6 (2.33%) Zerto
19 5 (1.94%) CyberArk