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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 360 361
Rank change year-on-year -30 +1 +56
Contract jobs citing Replication 241 152 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.55% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.55% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 97 120
10th Percentile £380 £375 £300
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £600 £600 £607
90th Percentile £666 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +1.94%
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 15,219 9,815 10,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.41% 35.27% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,335 6,198 6,651
10th Percentile £325 £307 £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 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 487 541
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -33.68% +17.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +18.42%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -64 85 £550 - 50
North of England -6 72 £497 +4.59% 14
North West -3 46 £485 +7.78% 7
South East -65 31 £510 -11.30% 17
Yorkshire -29 22 £529 +3.22% 6
Midlands -54 21 £449 -5.53% 5
West Midlands -57 19 £449 -5.53% 4
South West -42 14 £574 +7.29% 12
East of England -13 11 £600 +37.14% 1
North East - 4 £425 - 1
East Midlands -8 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 6 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.07%) Confluence
3 4 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.83%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Actimize
3 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 75 (31.12%) AWS
1 75 (31.12%) Azure
2 22 (9.13%) Entra ID
3 17 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (5.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (4.98%) AWS KMS
7 11 (4.56%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (4.56%) OCI
7 11 (4.56%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.15%) GCP
8 10 (4.15%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.15%) SuccessFactors
9 9 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (3.73%) GitHub
10 7 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.90%) Serverless
11 5 (2.07%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.07%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.18%) SAN
2 27 (11.20%) NAS
3 22 (9.13%) DNS
4 19 (7.88%) Firewall
4 19 (7.88%) VLAN
5 15 (6.22%) VSAN
6 12 (4.98%) Fibre Channel
6 12 (4.98%) VPN
7 9 (3.73%) Network Security
8 8 (3.32%) SSL
9 7 (2.90%) DHCP
10 5 (2.07%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.66%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.66%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.24%) Multicast
12 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.41%) FCoE
13 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.41%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.50%) SQL Server
2 37 (15.35%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (8.30%) MySQL
3 20 (8.30%) Oracle Database
4 18 (7.47%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (7.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (6.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (4.56%) Redis
8 10 (4.15%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.73%) Power BI
10 8 (3.32%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (3.32%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.32%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.32%) SAP HANA
11 7 (2.90%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.90%) Sybase ASE
12 6 (2.49%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (2.07%) Oracle Database 12c
13 5 (2.07%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (8.30%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.39%) JIRA
3 10 (4.15%) Git
4 3 (1.24%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.24%) Flyway
4 3 (1.24%) GitLab
4 3 (1.24%) Liquibase
4 3 (1.24%) Toad
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.83%) Selenium
5 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.03%) Finance
3 27 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.47%) Banking
4 18 (7.47%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.66%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.66%) Legal
7 2 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.41%) Advertising
8 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (19.92%) DBA
2 41 (17.01%) Senior
3 30 (12.45%) Architect
4 25 (10.37%) Storage Engineer
5 23 (9.54%) Administrator
6 20 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (8.30%) SQL DBA
7 17 (7.05%) Consultant
8 15 (6.22%) Lead
9 12 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.56%) Active Directory Engineer
10 11 (4.56%) SAP Consultant
11 9 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Senior DBA
11 9 (3.73%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) Analyst
12 8 (3.32%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) Storage Analyst
13 7 (2.90%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (2.90%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.39%) Flash
2 10 (4.15%) Kafka
3 8 (3.32%) LDAP
4 6 (2.49%) Middleware
4 6 (2.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 4 (1.66%) FHIR
6 3 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.24%) JSON
6 3 (1.24%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle Streams
6 3 (1.24%) REST
6 3 (1.24%) SAP Basis
6 3 (1.24%) Spring
6 3 (1.24%) XML
7 2 (0.83%) EDIFACT
7 2 (0.83%) OpenID
7 2 (0.83%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.83%) Web Services
8 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.41%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.35%) Clustering
2 24 (9.96%) Enterprise Storage
3 22 (9.13%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.22%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.56%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.90%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.07%) CMDB
10 4 (1.66%) EMC VNX
10 4 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.66%) NHS
10 4 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.24%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.83%) PKI
12 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (30.71%) Linux
2 52 (21.58%) Windows
3 32 (13.28%) Windows Server
4 22 (9.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (7.47%) Unix
6 10 (4.15%) VMS
7 9 (3.73%) CentOS
7 9 (3.73%) Rocky
8 8 (3.32%) AIX
9 5 (2.07%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (2.07%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (1.66%) SUSE
11 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (34.44%) Performance Tuning
2 77 (31.95%) Disaster Recovery
2 77 (31.95%) High Availability
3 69 (28.63%) Migration
4 52 (21.58%) DevOps
5 43 (17.84%) Capacity Planning
6 40 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 37 (15.35%) Data Modelling
8 35 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (13.69%) CI/CD
9 33 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (13.28%) ITIL
11 30 (12.45%) Validation
12 26 (10.79%) Agile
12 26 (10.79%) Runbook
13 25 (10.37%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (10.37%) RBAC
14 23 (9.54%) Root Cause Analysis
14 23 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (9.13%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 64 (26.56%) SQL
2 61 (25.31%) PowerShell
3 45 (18.67%) Python
4 21 (8.71%) Bash
5 15 (6.22%) T-SQL
6 14 (5.81%) Java
7 12 (4.98%) Groovy
8 6 (2.49%) Perl
8 6 (2.49%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.66%) Bicep
11 2 (0.83%) CQL
11 2 (0.83%) Rust
12 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
12 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.41%) VBA
12 1 (0.41%) VBScript
12 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 102 (42.32%) Security Cleared
2 80 (33.20%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (6.64%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.39%) Degree
5 13 (5.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 11 (4.56%) AWS Certification
8 10 (4.15%) VCAP
9 9 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.32%) MCSA
10 8 (3.32%) MCSE
10 8 (3.32%) NCDA
11 6 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.07%) OCP
12 5 (2.07%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.24%) NCIE
14 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.98%) QA
2 7 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.49%) GDPR
3 6 (2.49%) NIST
4 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.66%) DICOM
5 4 (1.66%) HL7
6 2 (0.83%) GRC
6 2 (0.83%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 42 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (14.94%) vSphere
3 31 (12.86%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (12.45%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (9.13%) Active Directory
6 18 (7.47%) NFS
7 17 (7.05%) Docker
8 13 (5.39%) Oracle RAC
9 12 (4.98%) GPFS
10 9 (3.73%) Hyper-V
11 8 (3.32%) Firmware
12 5 (2.07%) SRDF
13 3 (1.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (1.24%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.83%) Corosync
15 1 (0.41%) ACF2
15 1 (0.41%) RACF
15 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
15 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (18.67%) Terraform
2 39 (16.18%) Ansible
3 21 (8.71%) Kubernetes
4 20 (8.30%) vCenter Server
5 17 (7.05%) NetBackup
6 16 (6.64%) Prometheus
7 15 (6.22%) Grafana
8 13 (5.39%) Oracle RMAN
9 12 (4.98%) Data Guard
9 12 (4.98%) vRealize
10 10 (4.15%) VxRail
11 9 (3.73%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (2.49%) SCOM
13 5 (2.07%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (2.07%) EMC VPLEX
14 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (1.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 4 (1.66%) SnapMirror
14 4 (1.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 52 (21.58%) VMware
2 49 (20.33%) Microsoft
3 47 (19.50%) Oracle
4 32 (13.28%) ServiceNow
5 31 (12.86%) Cisco
6 29 (12.03%) NetApp
7 23 (9.54%) Veeam
8 22 (9.13%) SAP
9 19 (7.88%) IBM
10 17 (7.05%) Dell
11 15 (6.22%) Brocade
12 10 (4.15%) EMC
12 10 (4.15%) Pure Storage
12 10 (4.15%) Red Hat
13 8 (3.32%) Sybase
14 7 (2.90%) BMC
14 7 (2.90%) Google
14 7 (2.90%) Remedy
15 6 (2.49%) Dynatrace
15 6 (2.49%) SolarWinds