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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 345 416
Rank change year-on-year +19 +71 +14
Contract jobs citing Replication 240 134 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.53% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 1.58% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 79 69
10th Percentile £400 £323 £323
25th Percentile £456 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £660 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £60.13 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £64.31 £24.57 -
Median hourly rate £77.25 £25.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +199.48% -53.10% -21.43%
75th Percentile £79.38 £27.27 £55.70
90th Percentile £89.13 £28.01 £56.12
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £23.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year +227.47% -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 11,899 8,493 11,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.02% 33.46% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,578 5,252 7,655
10th Percentile £283 £275 £256
25th Percentile £408 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 255 755
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.17 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.82 £24.18 £16.54
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +17.46% +40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.05 £83.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £33.77 £30.58
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.43% +36.00%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -15 106 £583 +10.74% 16
South East +2 48 £525 +7.14% 18
North of England -51 29 £456 +1.33% 8
Midlands -32 28 £401 +0.25% 14
West Midlands -31 26 £401 -2.79% 9
Yorkshire -41 16 £481 +5.71% 1
North West -28 14 £456 +1.33% 7
South West -20 12 £525 -4.20% 2
East of England -18 10 £800 +71.38% 4
East Midlands -28 2 - - 5
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 (2.08%) Apache
1 5 (2.08%) Confluence
1 5 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.67%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (1.25%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.25%) nginx
3 3 (1.25%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.00%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.17%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.25%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.83%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (32.92%) Azure
2 61 (25.42%) AWS
3 28 (11.67%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.25%) GitHub
4 15 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
5 13 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (4.58%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.17%) Serverless
9 9 (3.75%) Snowflake
9 9 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.92%) OCI
12 6 (2.50%) Datadog
12 6 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 52 (21.67%) DNS
2 37 (15.42%) SAN
3 34 (14.17%) NAS
4 33 (13.75%) DHCP
5 31 (12.92%) Kerberos
6 26 (10.83%) Firewall
7 11 (4.58%) Fibre Channel
8 10 (4.17%) iSCSI
9 6 (2.50%) VSAN
10 5 (2.08%) SSH
11 4 (1.67%) FTP
11 4 (1.67%) HTTP
11 4 (1.67%) IPv4
11 4 (1.67%) SMTP
12 3 (1.25%) IMAP
12 3 (1.25%) LAN
12 3 (1.25%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.25%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.25%) VPN
12 3 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.83%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.58%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (3.33%) MySQL
7 8 (3.33%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.50%) Couchbase
9 6 (2.50%) Power BI
10 5 (2.08%) DB2
10 5 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (2.08%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.67%) Metadata
11 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.17%) Git
3 6 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (2.08%) JIRA
5 4 (1.67%) DBeaver
5 4 (1.67%) Vagrant
6 3 (1.25%) GitLab
7 2 (0.83%) Subversion
7 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.42%) gulp
8 1 (0.42%) LSMW
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 54 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.33%) Finance
3 27 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.50%) Retail
8 5 (2.08%) Banking
8 5 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.25%) Legal
9 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (11.25%) Architect
2 23 (9.58%) Consultant
3 19 (7.92%) Analyst
3 19 (7.92%) Data Engineer
3 19 (7.92%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (7.92%) Senior
4 16 (6.67%) DBA
4 16 (6.67%) Storage Analyst
5 12 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
6 11 (4.58%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 11 (4.58%) SQL DBA
7 9 (3.75%) SAP HCM Consultant
7 9 (3.75%) Wintel Engineer
8 8 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (3.33%) Developer
8 8 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (2.92%) Storage Engineer
10 6 (2.50%) Database Developer
10 6 (2.50%) SAP Functional Consultant
10 6 (2.50%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.17%) LDAP
2 22 (9.17%) OAuth
2 22 (9.17%) SAML
3 18 (7.50%) Flash
4 16 (6.67%) Kafka
5 11 (4.58%) SOAP
6 10 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 9 (3.75%) XML
8 8 (3.33%) Web Services
9 7 (2.92%) OpenID
9 7 (2.92%) REST
10 6 (2.50%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.25%) Keycloak
12 2 (0.83%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.83%) JSON
12 2 (0.83%) SAP ALE
12 2 (0.83%) Ultra Messaging
13 1 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.08%) Clustering
2 20 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (5.42%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.50%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.67%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.67%) PKI
10 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.25%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.25%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.83%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.83%) Linux
1 50 (20.83%) Windows
2 39 (16.25%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.17%) Unix
4 7 (2.92%) VMS
5 6 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.67%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.83%) Solaris
9 1 (0.42%) AIX
9 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (32.92%) Migration
2 71 (29.58%) Disaster Recovery
3 68 (28.33%) High Availability
4 54 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
5 36 (15.00%) DevOps
6 35 (14.58%) Agile
7 34 (14.17%) CI/CD
8 29 (12.08%) Capacity Planning
9 26 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (10.42%) RBAC
11 24 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (9.58%) Data Modelling
13 21 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (7.92%) Data Migration
14 19 (7.92%) Validation
15 17 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (7.08%) Runbook
16 16 (6.67%) Analytics
16 16 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
16 16 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 42 (17.50%) SQL
3 40 (16.67%) Python
4 15 (6.25%) Bash
5 9 (3.75%) ABAP
5 9 (3.75%) T-SQL
6 7 (2.92%) Groovy
7 6 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.08%) Java
8 5 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.67%) Perl
10 2 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.42%) Bicep
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) Korn
11 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 93 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 69 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (6.67%) Degree
5 15 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (5.00%) VCAP
8 10 (4.17%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.33%) MCSA
9 8 (3.33%) MCSE
10 7 (2.92%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.08%) OCP
11 5 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.25%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.83%) VCDX
14 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.42%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.42%) GDPR
2 17 (7.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 13 (5.42%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.92%) QA
5 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.25%) SLA
7 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.83%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.83%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.42%) COBIT
8 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (23.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (21.25%) Active Directory
3 39 (16.25%) NFS
4 34 (14.17%) VMware ESXi
5 32 (13.33%) vSphere
6 19 (7.92%) Docker
7 18 (7.50%) GPFS
8 13 (5.42%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (2.08%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.67%) DFS Replication
10 4 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.25%) Dovecot
11 3 (1.25%) Postfix
11 3 (1.25%) Squid
11 3 (1.25%) SRDF
12 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (0.83%) Firmware
12 2 (0.83%) Veritas File System
12 2 (0.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 38 (15.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 25 (10.42%) Terraform
3 21 (8.75%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (7.50%) Ansible
4 18 (7.50%) Kubernetes
5 15 (6.25%) vRealize
6 12 (5.00%) vCenter Server
7 11 (4.58%) Grafana
7 11 (4.58%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.33%) SCCM
8 8 (3.33%) vMotion
9 6 (2.50%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (2.08%) Data Guard
10 5 (2.08%) SCOM
11 4 (1.67%) Kibana
11 4 (1.67%) logstash
11 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.25%) Nessus
12 3 (1.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 72 (30.00%) VMware
2 70 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 33 (13.75%) Oracle
4 30 (12.50%) IBM
5 29 (12.08%) Cisco
5 29 (12.08%) ServiceNow
6 19 (7.92%) NetApp
6 19 (7.92%) SAP
7 14 (5.83%) Okta
8 12 (5.00%) Pure Storage
9 11 (4.58%) EMC
10 10 (4.17%) Commvault
11 8 (3.33%) Veeam
12 7 (2.92%) SolarWinds
13 6 (2.50%) Confluent
13 6 (2.50%) Dell
13 6 (2.50%) RedGate
14 5 (2.08%) Computacenter
15 4 (1.67%) Databricks
15 4 (1.67%) Isilon