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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 359 346
Rank change year-on-year -40 -13 +69
Contract jobs citing Replication 234 147 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.53% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.51% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 92 121
10th Percentile £375 £379 £300
25th Percentile £424 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £626
90th Percentile £665 £698 £703
UK median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £53.15 £78.83 -
25th Percentile £57.88 £79.03 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% - -
75th Percentile £73.50 £79.68 -
90th Percentile £77.10 £79.87 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -18.08% - -

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 15,148 9,746 10,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.40% 35.09% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,330 6,154 6,740
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 484 552
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.78 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.35% -33.11% +17.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £44.74
% change year-on-year +49.02% -34.06% +19.31%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -50 77 £529 -5.96% 49
North of England -14 72 £497 +4.59% 18
North West -11 46 £485 +2.11% 9
South East -63 31 £510 -11.30% 17
Yorkshire -34 22 £529 +3.22% 8
Midlands -48 22 £448 -5.79% 4
West Midlands -62 20 £448 -5.79% 4
South West -38 14 £574 +7.29% 7
East of England -11 11 £600 +37.14% 3
North East - 4 £425 - 1
East Midlands -15 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 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.14%) Confluence
3 4 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.43%) Actimize
3 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.48%) Azure
2 68 (29.06%) AWS
3 22 (9.40%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (4.70%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (4.27%) GCP
6 10 (4.27%) GitHub
6 10 (4.27%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.27%) SuccessFactors
7 9 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.42%) OCI
9 7 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.99%) Serverless
10 6 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.14%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.14%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.14%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.09%) SAN
2 28 (11.97%) NAS
3 22 (9.40%) DNS
4 19 (8.12%) Firewall
4 19 (8.12%) VLAN
5 15 (6.41%) VSAN
6 12 (5.13%) Fibre Channel
6 12 (5.13%) VPN
7 9 (3.85%) Network Security
8 8 (3.42%) SSL
9 7 (2.99%) DHCP
10 5 (2.14%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.71%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.71%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.28%) Multicast
12 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.43%) FCoE
13 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.43%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.38%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.69%) Oracle Database
4 16 (6.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (5.98%) MySQL
6 11 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.85%) Power BI
9 8 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.42%) SAP HANA
10 7 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (2.99%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.99%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.99%) Sybase ASE
11 6 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.14%) Oracle Exadata
12 5 (2.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (8.55%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.56%) JIRA
3 10 (4.27%) Git
4 3 (1.28%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.28%) Flyway
4 3 (1.28%) GitLab
4 3 (1.28%) Liquibase
4 3 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.28%) Toad
5 2 (0.85%) Selenium
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.39%) Finance
3 21 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.26%) Banking
4 17 (7.26%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.71%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.71%) Legal
7 2 (0.85%) Military
8 1 (0.43%) Advertising
8 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (17.95%) DBA
2 37 (15.81%) Senior
3 27 (11.54%) Architect
4 25 (10.68%) Storage Engineer
5 21 (8.97%) SQL DBA
6 20 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (7.26%) Administrator
7 17 (7.26%) Consultant
8 15 (6.41%) Lead
9 12 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.70%) Active Directory Engineer
10 11 (4.70%) SAP Consultant
11 9 (3.85%) Analyst
11 9 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.85%) Storage Analyst
11 9 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (3.42%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.99%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 7 (2.99%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (2.99%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.98%) Flash
2 10 (4.27%) Kafka
3 8 (3.42%) LDAP
4 6 (2.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 5 (2.14%) Middleware
6 4 (1.71%) FHIR
7 3 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.28%) JSON
7 3 (1.28%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle Streams
7 3 (1.28%) REST
7 3 (1.28%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.28%) Spring
7 3 (1.28%) XML
8 2 (0.85%) EDIFACT
8 2 (0.85%) OpenID
8 2 (0.85%) Snowpark
8 2 (0.85%) Web Services
9 1 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.24%) Clustering
2 24 (10.26%) Enterprise Storage
3 22 (9.40%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.84%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.70%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.99%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (2.14%) CMDB
8 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.71%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.71%) NHS
9 4 (1.71%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (31.62%) Linux
2 52 (22.22%) Windows
3 32 (13.68%) Windows Server
4 22 (9.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (8.12%) Unix
6 10 (4.27%) VMS
7 9 (3.85%) CentOS
7 9 (3.85%) Rocky
8 8 (3.42%) AIX
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (2.14%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (1.71%) SUSE
11 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.48%) Performance Tuning
2 71 (30.34%) High Availability
3 70 (29.91%) Disaster Recovery
4 69 (29.49%) Migration
5 53 (22.65%) DevOps
6 41 (17.52%) Capacity Planning
7 38 (16.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 32 (13.68%) ITIL
9 28 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (11.11%) Agile
10 26 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 26 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 26 (11.11%) Runbook
10 26 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (10.68%) Performance Optimisation
11 25 (10.68%) RBAC
12 24 (10.26%) Validation
13 22 (9.40%) Project Delivery
13 22 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 61 (26.07%) PowerShell
2 59 (25.21%) SQL
3 45 (19.23%) Python
4 21 (8.97%) Bash
5 17 (7.26%) T-SQL
6 14 (5.98%) Java
7 12 (5.13%) Groovy
8 6 (2.56%) Perl
8 6 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.71%) Bicep
11 2 (0.85%) Rust
12 1 (0.43%) C#
12 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.43%) Korn
12 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
12 1 (0.43%) VBScript
12 1 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 93 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 71 (30.34%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (6.84%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (5.13%) Degree
6 12 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (4.27%) VCAP
8 8 (3.42%) MCSA
8 8 (3.42%) MCSE
8 8 (3.42%) NCDA
9 6 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.14%) OCP
10 5 (2.14%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.28%) NCIE
12 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) QA
2 6 (2.56%) GDPR
2 6 (2.56%) NIST
3 5 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.71%) DICOM
4 4 (1.71%) HL7
5 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.85%) GRC
5 2 (0.85%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (18.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (15.38%) vSphere
3 31 (13.25%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (12.82%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (9.40%) Active Directory
6 20 (8.55%) NFS
7 17 (7.26%) Docker
8 13 (5.56%) GPFS
8 13 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (3.85%) Hyper-V
10 8 (3.42%) Firmware
11 5 (2.14%) SRDF
12 3 (1.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (1.28%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.85%) Corosync
14 1 (0.43%) ACF2
14 1 (0.43%) RACF
14 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (16.67%) Ansible
2 38 (16.24%) Terraform
3 21 (8.97%) Kubernetes
4 20 (8.55%) vCenter Server
5 17 (7.26%) NetBackup
6 16 (6.84%) Prometheus
7 15 (6.41%) Grafana
8 13 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (5.13%) Data Guard
9 12 (5.13%) vRealize
10 10 (4.27%) VxRail
11 9 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (2.56%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (2.56%) SCOM
13 5 (2.14%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (1.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 4 (1.71%) SnapMirror
14 4 (1.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (1.71%) vMotion
Vendors
1 54 (23.08%) VMware
2 50 (21.37%) Microsoft
3 45 (19.23%) Oracle
4 33 (14.10%) ServiceNow
5 31 (13.25%) Cisco
6 29 (12.39%) NetApp
7 23 (9.83%) Veeam
8 22 (9.40%) SAP
9 20 (8.55%) IBM
10 17 (7.26%) Dell
11 15 (6.41%) Brocade
12 11 (4.70%) Pure Storage
13 10 (4.27%) EMC
13 10 (4.27%) Red Hat
14 8 (3.42%) Sybase
15 7 (2.99%) BMC
15 7 (2.99%) Google
15 7 (2.99%) Remedy
16 6 (2.56%) Dynatrace
16 6 (2.56%) SolarWinds