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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 351 388
Rank change year-on-year -30 +37 +20
Contract jobs citing Replication 255 165 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.66% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 102 99
10th Percentile £363 £379 £310
25th Percentile £424 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -6.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £673 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £52.10 £68.34 -
25th Percentile £55.25 £72.23 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% - -
75th Percentile £78.25 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £88.30 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -13.60% - -

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 15,379 9,945 10,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.61% 35.84% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,371 6,299 6,425
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.20% -5.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 493 487
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £18.87 £20.88
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -37.70% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +7.54%

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 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 31 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 31 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 -36 104 £543 -1.36% 45
North of England -17 70 £491 +3.35% 13
North West -17 41 £485 +2.11% 9
Yorkshire -27 25 £519 -14.39% 3
South East -73 23 £550 -3.30% 18
Midlands -64 20 £456 -3.95% 6
South West -39 18 £574 +9.86% 5
West Midlands -60 18 £456 -3.95% 5
East of England -8 12 £600 +26.32% 5
North East - 4 £425 - 1
East Midlands -13 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 9 (3.53%) Confluence
2 5 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.78%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
5 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Actimize
3 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 80 (31.37%) Azure
2 78 (30.59%) AWS
3 24 (9.41%) Entra ID
4 20 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (7.06%) AWS KMS
7 16 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (5.88%) GCP
9 12 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (4.71%) OCI
10 11 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (4.31%) GitHub
11 10 (3.92%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.92%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.92%) SuccessFactors
12 9 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.53%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.75%) Serverless
14 6 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.90%) SAN
2 26 (10.20%) DNS
3 24 (9.41%) Firewall
4 22 (8.63%) NAS
5 19 (7.45%) VLAN
6 13 (5.10%) VPN
6 13 (5.10%) VSAN
7 11 (4.31%) DHCP
8 10 (3.92%) Network Security
9 9 (3.53%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (3.53%) Kerberos
10 8 (3.14%) SSL
11 6 (2.35%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
13 3 (1.18%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.18%) Multicast
13 3 (1.18%) SSH
14 2 (0.78%) FTP
14 2 (0.78%) HTTP
14 2 (0.78%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.86%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (15.69%) SQL Server
3 24 (9.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 24 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (8.24%) MySQL
5 19 (7.45%) Oracle Database
6 13 (5.10%) Redis
7 11 (4.31%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (3.92%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.14%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.14%) Power BI
9 8 (3.14%) SAP HANA
10 7 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.75%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.75%) Sybase ASE
11 6 (2.35%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.57%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 26 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.06%) JIRA
3 14 (5.49%) Git
4 5 (1.96%) GitLab
5 4 (1.57%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.18%) Toad
7 2 (0.78%) Flyway
7 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.78%) Selenium
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.16%) Finance
3 29 (11.37%) Documentation Skills
4 27 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.63%) Banking
6 12 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.96%) Marketing
9 3 (1.18%) Legal
9 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.78%) Military
10 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Billing
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (18.82%) DBA
2 45 (17.65%) Senior
3 31 (12.16%) Architect
4 26 (10.20%) Storage Engineer
5 25 (9.80%) Consultant
6 24 (9.41%) Administrator
7 22 (8.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (6.67%) Lead
9 15 (5.88%) SQL DBA
10 12 (4.71%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (4.31%) Active Directory Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (3.53%) Analyst
13 9 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.53%) Technical Specialist
13 9 (3.53%) Wintel Engineer
14 8 (3.14%) Data Architect
14 8 (3.14%) Senior DBA
15 7 (2.75%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (19.61%) Terraform
2 14 (5.49%) Kafka
3 13 (5.10%) LDAP
4 11 (4.31%) Flash
5 6 (2.35%) HTML
5 6 (2.35%) Middleware
5 6 (2.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 5 (1.96%) CSS
6 5 (1.96%) Keycloak
6 5 (1.96%) OAuth
7 4 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.57%) FHIR
7 4 (1.57%) REST
7 4 (1.57%) SAML
8 3 (1.18%) JSON
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle Streams
8 3 (1.18%) SAP Basis
8 3 (1.18%) Spring
8 3 (1.18%) XML
9 2 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.37%) Clustering
2 24 (9.41%) Data Centre
3 23 (9.02%) Enterprise Storage
4 15 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (4.71%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.75%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.96%) CMDB
8 5 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.96%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (1.96%) EMC VNX
8 5 (1.96%) PKI
9 4 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.57%) NHS
10 3 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.18%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.18%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 86 (33.73%) Linux
2 56 (21.96%) Windows
3 40 (15.69%) Windows Server
4 24 (9.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (6.67%) Unix
6 16 (6.27%) VMS
7 11 (4.31%) CentOS
8 10 (3.92%) Rocky
9 9 (3.53%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (2.35%) AIX
11 5 (1.96%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (1.96%) Ubuntu
12 4 (1.57%) SUSE
13 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.78%) zOS
14 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (32.94%) Performance Tuning
2 79 (30.98%) High Availability
3 78 (30.59%) Disaster Recovery
4 63 (24.71%) Migration
5 58 (22.75%) DevOps
6 44 (17.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (16.47%) CI/CD
7 42 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 41 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (15.69%) Data Modelling
10 38 (14.90%) Capacity Planning
11 31 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
12 30 (11.76%) Validation
13 29 (11.37%) Agile
13 29 (11.37%) ITIL
14 27 (10.59%) Performance Optimisation
14 27 (10.59%) RBAC
14 27 (10.59%) Runbook
15 25 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 59 (23.14%) SQL
3 46 (18.04%) Python
4 18 (7.06%) Bash
5 16 (6.27%) Groovy
5 16 (6.27%) Java
6 13 (5.10%) T-SQL
7 8 (3.14%) Perl
8 6 (2.35%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.57%) Bicep
9 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.18%) CQL
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) JCL
11 2 (0.78%) Rust
12 1 (0.39%) C#
12 1 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.39%) VBScript
12 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 109 (42.75%) Security Cleared
2 81 (31.76%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.84%) Azure Certification
4 19 (7.45%) Degree
4 19 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (7.06%) AWS Certification
6 14 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (4.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 10 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (3.92%) VCAP
10 8 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (3.14%) MCSA
10 8 (3.14%) MCSE
11 6 (2.35%) NCDA
12 4 (1.57%) OCP
12 4 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.18%) NCIE
14 2 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.31%) QA
2 8 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.35%) GDPR
3 6 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.96%) NIST
5 4 (1.57%) DICOM
5 4 (1.57%) HL7
5 4 (1.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (14.12%) vSphere
3 33 (12.94%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (11.37%) Active Directory
4 29 (11.37%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (9.41%) Docker
6 16 (6.27%) NFS
7 12 (4.71%) Oracle RAC
8 11 (4.31%) GPFS
9 9 (3.53%) Hyper-V
10 7 (2.75%) Firmware
11 4 (1.57%) SRDF
12 3 (1.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (1.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (1.18%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.78%) ACF2
13 2 (0.78%) Corosync
13 2 (0.78%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.78%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.78%) RACF
Systems Management
1 42 (16.47%) Ansible
2 24 (9.41%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.41%) Prometheus
3 23 (9.02%) Grafana
4 20 (7.84%) vCenter Server
5 16 (6.27%) NetBackup
6 11 (4.31%) Data Guard
6 11 (4.31%) Oracle RMAN
6 11 (4.31%) vRealize
7 9 (3.53%) VxRail
8 8 (3.14%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (2.75%) SCOM
10 5 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.57%) Argo
11 4 (1.57%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 4 (1.57%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (1.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 52 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 50 (19.61%) VMware
3 48 (18.82%) Oracle
4 36 (14.12%) ServiceNow
5 29 (11.37%) NetApp
6 28 (10.98%) Veeam
7 27 (10.59%) Cisco
8 22 (8.63%) Dell
8 22 (8.63%) SAP
9 18 (7.06%) IBM
10 11 (4.31%) Brocade
10 11 (4.31%) Google
11 9 (3.53%) EMC
11 9 (3.53%) Red Hat
12 8 (3.14%) Sybase
13 7 (2.75%) BMC
13 7 (2.75%) Pure Storage
13 7 (2.75%) Remedy
14 6 (2.35%) Confluent
14 6 (2.35%) Dynatrace