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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 350 419
Rank change year-on-year +26 +69 +10
Contract jobs citing Replication 237 131 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 1.52% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 75 67
10th Percentile £400 £353 £325
25th Percentile £457 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +7.00%
75th Percentile £612 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £60.13 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £61.81 £24.57 -
Median hourly rate £71.50 £25.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +177.19% -53.10% -21.43%
75th Percentile £78.56 £27.27 £55.70
90th Percentile £88.88 £28.01 £56.12
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £23.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year +203.09% -57.11% -21.43%

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 11,460 8,620 11,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 33.13% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,325 5,201 7,854
10th Percentile £273 £270 £255
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £548 £546
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +0.23% -5.00%
75th Percentile £626 £670 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 245 751
10th Percentile £15.34 £18.51 £13.06
25th Percentile £18.66 £24.18 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.65 £39.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% +20.00% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.98% +42.83%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -12 103 £580 +10.27% 9
South East +5 45 £525 +12.30% 12
Midlands -15 34 £402 +7.20% 12
West Midlands -17 32 £402 +0.50% 6
North of England -41 28 £460 +2.22% 9
Yorkshire -46 15 £481 +16.61% 4
South West -16 14 £508 -7.39% 3
North West -19 14 £460 +2.22% 5
East of England -13 10 £800 +71.38% 5
East Midlands -26 2 - - 6
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 (3.80%) Confluence
2 6 (2.53%) nginx
2 6 (2.53%) Oracle Application Server
3 5 (2.11%) Apache
4 3 (1.27%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.27%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.42%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.06%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.22%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.27%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.84%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.49%) Azure
2 64 (27.00%) AWS
3 29 (12.24%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.33%) Amazon S3
4 15 (6.33%) SuccessFactors
5 14 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (5.49%) GitHub
6 13 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.64%) OpenShift
8 11 (4.64%) Serverless
8 11 (4.64%) Snowflake
9 9 (3.80%) AWS KMS
9 9 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.38%) Amazon ELB
11 7 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.63%) DNS
2 38 (16.03%) SAN
3 34 (14.35%) DHCP
4 31 (13.08%) Kerberos
4 31 (13.08%) NAS
5 30 (12.66%) Firewall
6 11 (4.64%) iSCSI
7 9 (3.80%) Fibre Channel
7 9 (3.80%) SSH
8 8 (3.38%) FTP
8 8 (3.38%) HTTP
8 8 (3.38%) SMTP
9 6 (2.53%) IMAP
9 6 (2.53%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (2.53%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.11%) VSAN
11 4 (1.69%) IPv4
11 4 (1.69%) VLAN
11 4 (1.69%) VPN
12 3 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.39%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (10.97%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (5.91%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.64%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.95%) MySQL
8 7 (2.95%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.95%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.95%) Power BI
9 6 (2.53%) Couchbase
9 6 (2.53%) DB2
9 6 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.53%) Oracle ODI
9 6 (2.53%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.11%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (2.11%) Redis
10 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.33%) Git
3 9 (3.80%) JIRA
4 8 (3.38%) Vagrant
5 6 (2.53%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.27%) GitLab
8 2 (0.84%) Subversion
8 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.42%) gulp
9 1 (0.42%) LSMW
9 1 (0.42%) Maven
9 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 56 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.50%) Finance
3 28 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.97%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.75%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.95%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.53%) Retail
8 5 (2.11%) Banking
8 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (10.55%) Platform Engineer
2 23 (9.70%) Architect
2 23 (9.70%) Consultant
3 21 (8.86%) Data Engineer
4 19 (8.02%) Analyst
5 18 (7.59%) Senior
6 16 (6.75%) Storage Analyst
7 12 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (5.06%) SAP Consultant
8 11 (4.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 10 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) DBA
10 9 (3.80%) SAP HCM Consultant
10 9 (3.80%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (3.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.38%) Infrastructure Architect
11 8 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.61%) LDAP
2 22 (9.28%) OAuth
2 22 (9.28%) SAML
3 19 (8.02%) Flash
4 17 (7.17%) Kafka
5 13 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (5.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 11 (4.64%) SOAP
7 11 (4.64%) XML
8 9 (3.80%) REST
9 8 (3.38%) Web Services
10 7 (2.95%) OpenID
11 6 (2.53%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (1.69%) JSON
12 4 (1.69%) Keycloak
12 4 (1.69%) Ultra Messaging
13 3 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
14 2 (0.84%) SAP ALE
15 1 (0.42%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.13%) Clustering
2 21 (8.86%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.06%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.06%) Enterprise Storage
3 12 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.95%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.53%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.69%) PKI
9 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.27%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (0.84%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 57 (24.05%) Linux
2 55 (23.21%) Windows
3 40 (16.88%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.06%) VMS
5 9 (3.80%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.80%) Unix
6 8 (3.38%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.84%) Solaris
9 1 (0.42%) AIX
9 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.54%) Migration
2 67 (28.27%) High Availability
3 63 (26.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 52 (21.94%) Performance Tuning
5 42 (17.72%) CI/CD
5 42 (17.72%) DevOps
6 39 (16.46%) Agile
7 26 (10.97%) RBAC
8 25 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (10.13%) Capacity Planning
9 24 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (9.70%) Data Modelling
10 23 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (8.44%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (7.59%) Analytics
12 18 (7.59%) Change Management
12 18 (7.59%) Validation
13 17 (7.17%) Data Migration
13 17 (7.17%) Observability
13 17 (7.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (32.91%) PowerShell
2 46 (19.41%) Python
3 38 (16.03%) SQL
4 14 (5.91%) Bash
5 12 (5.06%) Groovy
6 9 (3.80%) ABAP
7 7 (2.95%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.53%) Java
9 5 (2.11%) Perl
9 5 (2.11%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.69%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.84%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
12 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.42%) Korn
12 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 91 (38.40%) Security Cleared
2 67 (28.27%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.02%) Degree
5 16 (6.75%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.49%) AWS Certification
6 13 (5.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (5.06%) VCAP
8 10 (4.22%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.38%) MCSA
9 8 (3.38%) MCSE
10 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.69%) OCP
11 4 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.84%) VCDX
14 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.13%) GDPR
2 17 (7.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (6.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.69%) QA
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.84%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.42%) COBIT
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (24.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (22.78%) Active Directory
3 39 (16.46%) NFS
4 34 (14.35%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (13.92%) vSphere
6 26 (10.97%) Docker
7 19 (8.02%) GPFS
8 13 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.38%) DFS Replication
10 6 (2.53%) Dovecot
10 6 (2.53%) Postfix
10 6 (2.53%) Squid
11 5 (2.11%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.84%) SRDF
13 2 (0.84%) Veritas File System
13 2 (0.84%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (16.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 28 (11.81%) Terraform
3 22 (9.28%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.86%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (8.02%) Ansible
6 16 (6.75%) Grafana
6 16 (6.75%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.75%) vRealize
7 14 (5.91%) vCenter Server
8 9 (3.80%) SCCM
9 7 (2.95%) vMotion
10 6 (2.53%) Kibana
10 6 (2.53%) logstash
10 6 (2.53%) Nessus
10 6 (2.53%) Proxmox
11 5 (2.11%) Data Guard
11 5 (2.11%) EMC VPLEX
11 5 (2.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (2.11%) SCOM
12 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 71 (29.96%) VMware
2 70 (29.54%) Microsoft
3 35 (14.77%) Oracle
3 35 (14.77%) ServiceNow
4 31 (13.08%) Cisco
4 31 (13.08%) IBM
5 20 (8.44%) NetApp
6 19 (8.02%) SAP
7 14 (5.91%) Okta
8 11 (4.64%) EMC
8 11 (4.64%) Pure Storage
9 9 (3.80%) Commvault
9 9 (3.80%) Veeam
10 7 (2.95%) Dell
11 6 (2.53%) Confluent
11 6 (2.53%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (2.53%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.11%) Computacenter
13 4 (1.69%) Solace
13 4 (1.69%) TIBCO