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 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 365 365
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 +40
Contract jobs citing Replication 266 121 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.45% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 82 99
10th Percentile £400 £364 £281
25th Percentile £450 £425 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +8.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £627
90th Percentile £638 £675 £681
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +8.50% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £57.35 £24.37 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £25.55 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +159.82% - -
75th Percentile £79.13 £53.60 -
90th Percentile £85.28 £68.66 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £23.59 -
% change year-on-year +208.39% - -

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 13,037 8,342 11,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.46% 34.11% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,261 5,463 7,445
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 325 821
10th Percentile £16.07 £16.49 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% +13.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.45 £83.76 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year +39.88% +13.04% +27.86%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -13 101 £585 +4.00% 18
North of England -31 58 £475 +5.56% 15
South East -32 50 £525 -1.41% 14
North West -4 34 £465 +3.24% 11
Midlands -40 32 £413 -15.38% 5
West Midlands -37 29 £402 -17.54% 5
Yorkshire -48 22 £487 -4.51% 2
South West -44 10 £548 -0.09% 6
East of England -30 9 £800 +71.38% 2
North East - 3 £425 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £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 5 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.50%) Apache
3 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.13%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.76%) SAP HCM
1 10 (3.76%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (1.50%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.13%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.20%) Azure
2 61 (22.93%) AWS
3 33 (12.41%) Entra ID
4 20 (7.52%) SuccessFactors
5 18 (6.77%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (4.14%) GitHub
7 8 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.01%) SaaS
7 8 (3.01%) Serverless
8 7 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.88%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.88%) Azure Stack
10 5 (1.88%) GCP
10 5 (1.88%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.17%) SAN
2 50 (18.80%) NAS
3 40 (15.04%) DNS
4 34 (12.78%) DHCP
5 32 (12.03%) Kerberos
6 18 (6.77%) Fibre Channel
6 18 (6.77%) Firewall
7 17 (6.39%) VSAN
8 14 (5.26%) iSCSI
9 7 (2.63%) VLAN
10 5 (1.88%) VPN
11 4 (1.50%) Network Security
12 3 (1.13%) IPv4
12 3 (1.13%) LAN
12 3 (1.13%) OpenLDAP
13 1 (0.38%) FCoE
13 1 (0.38%) Multicast
13 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
13 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.01%) MySQL
7 7 (2.63%) SAP HANA
8 6 (2.26%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.26%) Redis
8 6 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.50%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.13%) DB2
10 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (5.64%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.63%) Git
3 6 (2.26%) JIRA
3 6 (2.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.75%) Flyway
4 2 (0.75%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) LSMW
5 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.16%) Finance
3 24 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.89%) Banking
5 8 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.26%) Legal
7 5 (1.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.13%) Retail
9 2 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.38%) Front Office
10 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (11.65%) Architect
2 27 (10.15%) Consultant
3 26 (9.77%) Senior
4 22 (8.27%) Analyst
5 20 (7.52%) DBA
5 20 (7.52%) SAP Consultant
6 19 (7.14%) Storage Analyst
7 16 (6.02%) Wintel Engineer
8 15 (5.64%) Storage Engineer
9 14 (5.26%) SQL DBA
10 13 (4.89%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.89%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.01%) SAP HCM Consultant
13 8 (3.01%) Senior Consultant
14 7 (2.63%) Developer
14 7 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.63%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.78%) LDAP
2 22 (8.27%) Flash
3 16 (6.02%) OAuth
3 16 (6.02%) SAML
4 10 (3.76%) SOAP
5 9 (3.38%) Kafka
6 8 (3.01%) XML
7 7 (2.63%) Web Services
8 6 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.88%) REST
10 4 (1.50%) FHIR
10 4 (1.50%) Keycloak
11 3 (1.13%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.13%) SAP ALE
11 3 (1.13%) SAP Basis
12 2 (0.75%) EDIFACT
12 2 (0.75%) JSON
12 2 (0.75%) Middleware
12 2 (0.75%) OpenID
12 2 (0.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.66%) Clustering
2 26 (9.77%) Enterprise Storage
3 23 (8.65%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (6.39%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.63%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.26%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.50%) NHS
9 4 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.13%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.13%) EMC VNX
10 3 (1.13%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.75%) CMDB
11 2 (0.75%) Life Science
11 2 (0.75%) Symmetrix
11 2 (0.75%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 58 (21.80%) Windows
2 55 (20.68%) Linux
3 44 (16.54%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.76%) Unix
5 8 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.63%) VMS
7 5 (1.88%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.50%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.50%) SUSE
8 4 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.75%) AIX
10 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (33.08%) Migration
2 86 (32.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 78 (29.32%) High Availability
4 60 (22.56%) Performance Tuning
5 54 (20.30%) Capacity Planning
6 40 (15.04%) DevOps
7 34 (12.78%) ITIL
8 32 (12.03%) Agile
9 31 (11.65%) Data Protection
10 30 (11.28%) Data Modelling
10 30 (11.28%) RBAC
11 26 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (9.40%) Validation
13 24 (9.02%) Project Delivery
13 24 (9.02%) Runbook
13 24 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (8.27%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (8.27%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (7.89%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 85 (31.95%) PowerShell
2 38 (14.29%) SQL
3 33 (12.41%) Python
4 14 (5.26%) Bash
5 13 (4.89%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.76%) Groovy
7 9 (3.38%) Java
8 8 (3.01%) ABAP
9 3 (1.13%) Perl
9 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.38%) Bicep
11 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.38%) Korn
11 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 119 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 88 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 19 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (6.77%) VCAP
6 15 (5.64%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.26%) MCSA
7 14 (5.26%) MCSE
8 11 (4.14%) Degree
9 8 (3.01%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.26%) NCDA
12 4 (1.50%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.75%) PMP
14 2 (0.75%) VCDX
15 1 (0.38%) OCP
15 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.52%) GDPR
2 15 (5.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.26%) NIST
4 6 (2.26%) QA
5 5 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.50%) DICOM
6 4 (1.50%) HL7
7 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.75%) GRC
7 2 (0.75%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.38%) COBIT
8 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (25.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (18.80%) VMware ESXi
3 48 (18.05%) vSphere
4 46 (17.29%) Active Directory
5 43 (16.17%) NFS
6 22 (8.27%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (7.89%) GPFS
8 19 (7.14%) Docker
9 6 (2.26%) Firmware
9 6 (2.26%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.88%) Hyper-V
11 4 (1.50%) SRDF
11 4 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.75%) Corosync
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (11.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 30 (11.28%) Ansible
2 28 (10.53%) Terraform
3 26 (9.77%) vCenter Server
4 24 (9.02%) Kubernetes
5 19 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (6.77%) vRealize
7 11 (4.14%) Grafana
7 11 (4.14%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.76%) VxRail
9 8 (3.01%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (3.01%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.01%) vMotion
10 7 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (2.26%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.26%) SCCM
12 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.50%) Rancher
12 4 (1.50%) SCOM
13 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 81 (30.45%) VMware
2 68 (25.56%) Microsoft
3 41 (15.41%) Cisco
4 34 (12.78%) ServiceNow
5 33 (12.41%) SAP
6 30 (11.28%) Oracle
7 29 (10.90%) NetApp
8 28 (10.53%) IBM
9 19 (7.14%) Pure Storage
10 18 (6.77%) EMC
11 16 (6.02%) Veeam
12 14 (5.26%) Dell
12 14 (5.26%) Okta
13 13 (4.89%) Commvault
14 11 (4.14%) Brocade
15 7 (2.63%) SolarWinds
15 7 (2.63%) Zerto
16 6 (2.26%) RedGate
17 5 (1.88%) Isilon
18 4 (1.50%) Dynatrace
55 Replication jobs in England