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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 370 363
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +58
Contract jobs citing Replication 250 135 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.49% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 1.42% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 87 116
10th Percentile £384 £408 £300
25th Percentile £425 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +1.17% -1.15%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £607
90th Percentile £630 £708 £703
UK median daily rate £519 £510 £514
% change year-on-year +1.72% -0.78% +0.98%
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 14,822 9,485 11,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.06% 34.76% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,215 6,041 7,273
10th Percentile £316 £305 £288
25th Percentile £419 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -0.24%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 462 790
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.92 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.05 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.01% -15.80% +22.66%
75th Percentile £71.87 £61.68 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.82 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +39.58% -13.71% +32.25%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -32 92 £575 - 28
North of England -18 72 £483 +0.63% 15
North West -11 45 £477 +6.00% 11
South East -51 41 £525 -7.69% 8
Yorkshire -37 25 £524 +2.65% 4
Midlands -44 24 £436 -8.16% 5
West Midlands -61 22 £430 -9.47% 4
South West -34 12 £543 +1.40% 11
East of England -26 5 £600 +28.62% 7
North East - 3 £425 -
East Midlands -14 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 7 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.00%) Confluence
3 4 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.80%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 94 (37.60%) Azure
2 66 (26.40%) AWS
3 42 (16.80%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.00%) OpenShift
6 14 (5.60%) GitHub
7 10 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.60%) SuccessFactors
9 8 (3.20%) GCP
9 8 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.80%) Serverless
11 6 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.00%) Azure Stack
12 5 (2.00%) Cohesity
12 5 (2.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 47 (18.80%) SAN
2 42 (16.80%) DNS
3 40 (16.00%) NAS
4 28 (11.20%) DHCP
4 28 (11.20%) Kerberos
5 16 (6.40%) Firewall
5 16 (6.40%) VLAN
5 16 (6.40%) VSAN
6 14 (5.60%) Fibre Channel
7 10 (4.00%) VPN
8 9 (3.60%) Network Security
9 7 (2.80%) iSCSI
10 6 (2.40%) SSL
11 4 (1.60%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.80%) Multicast
14 1 (0.40%) FCoE
14 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
14 1 (0.40%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.80%) SQL Server
2 25 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.40%) MySQL
5 10 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (3.20%) Power BI
7 8 (3.20%) SAP HANA
8 7 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.80%) Sybase ASE
9 6 (2.40%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.40%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.40%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (2.00%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.00%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.00%) Redis
11 4 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (8.40%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.40%) JIRA
3 10 (4.00%) Git
4 6 (2.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.20%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.80%) Flyway
6 2 (0.80%) GitLab
6 2 (0.80%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.80%) Finance
3 19 (7.60%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.40%) Banking
5 12 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.00%) Legal
8 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (14.00%) DBA
2 30 (12.00%) Senior
3 22 (8.80%) Architect
4 20 (8.00%) SQL DBA
5 18 (7.20%) Storage Engineer
6 15 (6.00%) Consultant
7 14 (5.60%) Administrator
7 14 (5.60%) Wintel Engineer
8 13 (5.20%) Analyst
9 12 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Lead
9 12 (4.80%) Storage Analyst
10 11 (4.40%) SAP Consultant
11 9 (3.60%) Active Directory Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.20%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 7 (2.80%) Developer
13 7 (2.80%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.80%) LDAP
2 17 (6.80%) Flash
3 14 (5.60%) OAuth
3 14 (5.60%) SAML
4 7 (2.80%) Kafka
5 4 (1.60%) FHIR
6 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.20%) JSON
6 3 (1.20%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.20%) Middleware
6 3 (1.20%) OpenID
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (1.20%) REST
6 3 (1.20%) SAP Basis
6 3 (1.20%) XML
7 2 (0.80%) EDIFACT
7 2 (0.80%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.80%) Spring
7 2 (0.80%) Web Services
8 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.80%) Clustering
2 24 (9.60%) Enterprise Storage
3 19 (7.60%) Data Centre
3 19 (7.60%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.80%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.40%) CMDB
8 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.60%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.60%) NHS
9 4 (1.60%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.20%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (26.00%) Linux
2 61 (24.40%) Windows
3 43 (17.20%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.80%) Unix
5 15 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.80%) VMS
7 6 (2.40%) AIX
8 5 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (2.00%) CentOS
8 5 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (2.00%) Rocky
9 4 (1.60%) SUSE
10 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.80%) Disaster Recovery
1 82 (32.80%) Migration
2 81 (32.40%) High Availability
3 67 (26.80%) Performance Tuning
4 50 (20.00%) DevOps
5 49 (19.60%) Capacity Planning
6 38 (15.20%) RBAC
7 31 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (12.00%) ITIL
9 29 (11.60%) Runbook
10 27 (10.80%) Agile
11 26 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (10.40%) Project Delivery
12 25 (10.00%) CI/CD
12 25 (10.00%) Validation
13 22 (8.80%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (8.40%) Task Automation
14 21 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (33.20%) PowerShell
2 51 (20.40%) SQL
3 44 (17.60%) Python
4 17 (6.80%) Bash
4 17 (6.80%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.80%) Groovy
6 11 (4.40%) Java
7 5 (2.00%) Perl
8 4 (1.60%) Bicep
8 4 (1.60%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.80%) Korn
10 2 (0.80%) Rust
11 1 (0.40%) C#
11 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
11 1 (0.40%) VBScript
11 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 113 (45.20%) Security Cleared
2 94 (37.60%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (6.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (5.60%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.60%) VCAP
6 12 (4.80%) MCSA
6 12 (4.80%) MCSE
7 10 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 8 (3.20%) NCDA
9 7 (2.80%) Degree
10 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.20%) NCIE
13 2 (0.80%) OCP
13 2 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.20%) GDPR
2 17 (6.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 12 (4.80%) QA
4 6 (2.40%) NIST
5 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.60%) DICOM
6 4 (1.60%) HL7
7 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 2 (0.80%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
9 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (21.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (16.80%) Active Directory
2 42 (16.80%) vSphere
3 40 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
4 32 (12.80%) NFS
5 30 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (6.40%) Docker
6 16 (6.40%) GPFS
7 8 (3.20%) Hyper-V
8 7 (2.80%) Firmware
9 5 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (2.00%) SRDF
10 3 (1.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.80%) Corosync
12 1 (0.40%) ACF2
12 1 (0.40%) RACF
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (15.60%) Ansible
2 36 (14.40%) Terraform
3 25 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 22 (8.80%) Kubernetes
5 17 (6.80%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (6.00%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.00%) vRealize
7 14 (5.60%) Grafana
7 14 (5.60%) NetBackup
8 11 (4.40%) VxRail
9 10 (4.00%) EMC VPLEX
10 8 (3.20%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (3.20%) vMotion
11 5 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (2.00%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.60%) Data Guard
12 4 (1.60%) SCOM
12 4 (1.60%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 70 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 67 (26.80%) VMware
3 40 (16.00%) Cisco
4 34 (13.60%) Oracle
4 34 (13.60%) ServiceNow
5 23 (9.20%) NetApp
6 22 (8.80%) IBM
7 21 (8.40%) SAP
8 19 (7.60%) Pure Storage
9 17 (6.80%) Veeam
10 16 (6.40%) Brocade
11 14 (5.60%) Dell
12 12 (4.80%) Okta
13 11 (4.40%) EMC
14 10 (4.00%) Commvault
15 8 (3.20%) SolarWinds
15 8 (3.20%) Sybase
16 7 (2.80%) Red Hat
17 6 (2.40%) Dynatrace
17 6 (2.40%) RedGate