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 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 356 428
Rank change year-on-year +37 +72 +7
Contract jobs citing Replication 256 135 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.51% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 1.55% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 78 66
10th Percentile £397 £354 £325
25th Percentile £456 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £609 £592 £583
90th Percentile £638 £668 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £60.13 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £61.81 £24.57 -
Median hourly rate £71.50 £25.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +177.19% -53.10% -21.43%
75th Percentile £78.56 £27.27 £55.70
90th Percentile £88.88 £28.01 £56.12
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £23.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year +203.09% -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 11,458 8,735 11,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 32.87% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,315 5,259 7,813
10th Percentile £276 £268 £253
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -3.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 246 701
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.20 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.05 £37.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.86% +5.63% +57.88%
75th Percentile £63.43 £66.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.47 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.11 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% - +55.66%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +2 110 £580 +9.02% 8
South East +12 50 £525 +12.30% 16
Midlands -15 38 £414 +10.27% 11
West Midlands -2 36 £414 +3.38% 5
North of England -43 33 £460 +2.22% 9
North West -14 18 £456 +1.33% 4
Yorkshire -41 16 £481 +16.61% 5
South West -18 14 £508 -7.39% 2
East of England -13 10 £800 +71.38% 3
East Midlands -26 2 - - 6
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 15 (5.86%) Confluence
2 8 (3.13%) nginx
3 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.34%) Oracle Application Server
3 6 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.95%) Apache
5 4 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (1.56%) Office Communications Server
5 4 (1.56%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (1.56%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.17%) GeoServer
6 3 (1.17%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.78%) CICS
7 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.69%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (3.91%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.17%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.78%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.42%) Azure
2 71 (27.73%) AWS
3 29 (11.33%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.42%) Amazon S3
5 18 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (6.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (6.25%) GitHub
8 15 (5.86%) SuccessFactors
9 14 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.08%) AWS KMS
11 12 (4.69%) Amazon ELB
11 12 (4.69%) Serverless
12 11 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.30%) OpenShift
12 11 (4.30%) Snowflake
13 10 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (3.91%) SaaS
14 9 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 66 (25.78%) DNS
2 44 (17.19%) SAN
3 37 (14.45%) DHCP
4 36 (14.06%) Firewall
5 32 (12.50%) Kerberos
6 30 (11.72%) NAS
7 14 (5.47%) SSH
8 13 (5.08%) iSCSI
9 12 (4.69%) FTP
9 12 (4.69%) HTTP
9 12 (4.69%) SMTP
10 10 (3.91%) Fibre Channel
11 9 (3.52%) TCP/IP
12 8 (3.13%) IMAP
12 8 (3.13%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (2.73%) VPN
14 6 (2.34%) VLAN
15 5 (1.95%) VSAN
16 4 (1.56%) DDNS
16 4 (1.56%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.11%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (6.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (5.86%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.69%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.73%) DB2
7 7 (2.73%) MySQL
7 7 (2.73%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.73%) Power BI
8 6 (2.34%) Couchbase
8 6 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.34%) Oracle ODI
8 6 (2.34%) Star Schema
9 5 (1.95%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (1.95%) Redis
9 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (12.89%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.20%) Git
3 17 (6.64%) JIRA
4 12 (4.69%) Vagrant
5 6 (2.34%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.17%) GitLab
7 3 (1.17%) Subversion
7 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) gulp
9 1 (0.39%) LSMW
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
9 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 62 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.89%) Finance
3 32 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 30 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.64%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.73%) Banking
7 7 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.34%) Retail
9 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.78%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) International Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Police
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (11.33%) Platform Engineer
2 25 (9.77%) Architect
3 23 (8.98%) Consultant
4 21 (8.20%) Data Engineer
5 18 (7.03%) Analyst
5 18 (7.03%) Senior
6 16 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 15 (5.86%) Storage Analyst
8 14 (5.47%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.69%) SAP Consultant
9 12 (4.69%) Storage Engineer
10 11 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.91%) DBA
11 10 (3.91%) Infrastructure Architect
12 9 (3.52%) SAP HCM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.02%) LDAP
2 22 (8.59%) OAuth
2 22 (8.59%) SAML
3 21 (8.20%) Kafka
4 19 (7.42%) Flash
5 13 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (4.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 11 (4.30%) SOAP
7 11 (4.30%) XML
8 10 (3.91%) REST
9 8 (3.13%) Web Services
10 7 (2.73%) OpenID
11 6 (2.34%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.95%) Middleware
13 4 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
13 4 (1.56%) JSON
13 4 (1.56%) Keycloak
13 4 (1.56%) Ultra Messaging
14 3 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
15 2 (0.78%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.55%) Clustering
2 21 (8.20%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.52%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.34%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.56%) PKI
10 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.17%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.78%) EMC VMAX
12 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 69 (26.95%) Windows
2 68 (26.56%) Linux
3 41 (16.02%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.03%) VMS
5 12 (4.69%) Amazon Linux
6 11 (4.30%) Ubuntu
7 10 (3.91%) Unix
8 5 (1.95%) Solaris
9 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.78%) AIX
11 2 (0.78%) zOS
12 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.39%) MVS
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (28.52%) High Availability
2 69 (26.95%) Migration
3 65 (25.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 55 (21.48%) Performance Tuning
5 48 (18.75%) DevOps
6 47 (18.36%) CI/CD
7 41 (16.02%) Agile
8 29 (11.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (10.16%) RBAC
10 25 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (8.98%) Capacity Planning
11 23 (8.98%) Data Modelling
11 23 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (8.59%) Change Management
13 18 (7.03%) Analytics
13 18 (7.03%) Configuration Management
13 18 (7.03%) ITIL
13 18 (7.03%) Task Automation
14 17 (6.64%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.03%) PowerShell
2 53 (20.70%) Python
3 42 (16.41%) SQL
4 16 (6.25%) Groovy
5 15 (5.86%) Bash
6 11 (4.30%) Java
7 9 (3.52%) ABAP
8 8 (3.13%) Perl
8 8 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 1 (0.39%) Bicep
12 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 97 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 70 (27.34%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.59%) Degree
4 21 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (7.42%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.86%) AWS Certification
7 13 (5.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (4.69%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.69%) VCAP
9 8 (3.13%) MCSA
9 8 (3.13%) MCSE
10 6 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.56%) OCP
11 4 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.78%) VCDX
14 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.39%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.77%) GDPR
2 18 (7.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (5.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.56%) QA
5 3 (1.17%) SLA
6 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.39%) COBIT
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 62 (24.22%) Active Directory
3 39 (15.23%) NFS
4 36 (14.06%) VMware ESXi
5 34 (13.28%) vSphere
6 30 (11.72%) Docker
7 19 (7.42%) GPFS
8 14 (5.47%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (4.69%) DFS Replication
10 8 (3.13%) Dovecot
10 8 (3.13%) Postfix
10 8 (3.13%) Squid
11 5 (1.95%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (1.95%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.56%) Brightmail
12 4 (1.56%) ISA Server
12 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
13 3 (1.17%) SRDF
13 3 (1.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 38 (14.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 34 (13.28%) Terraform
3 26 (10.16%) Kubernetes
4 23 (8.98%) Ansible
5 21 (8.20%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (7.81%) Grafana
6 20 (7.81%) Prometheus
7 17 (6.64%) vRealize
8 16 (6.25%) vCenter Server
9 9 (3.52%) SCCM
10 8 (3.13%) Nessus
10 8 (3.13%) Proxmox
11 6 (2.34%) Kibana
11 6 (2.34%) logstash
12 5 (1.95%) Data Guard
12 5 (1.95%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.95%) SCOM
12 5 (1.95%) vMotion
13 4 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 76 (29.69%) VMware
2 74 (28.91%) Microsoft
3 39 (15.23%) ServiceNow
4 37 (14.45%) Oracle
5 35 (13.67%) Cisco
6 34 (13.28%) IBM
7 25 (9.77%) NetApp
8 19 (7.42%) SAP
9 14 (5.47%) Okta
10 13 (5.08%) EMC
10 13 (5.08%) Veeam
11 10 (3.91%) Dell
11 10 (3.91%) Pure Storage
12 8 (3.13%) Jaspersoft
13 7 (2.73%) Commvault
14 6 (2.34%) Confluent
14 6 (2.34%) SolarWinds
14 6 (2.34%) TIBCO
15 5 (1.95%) Computacenter
15 5 (1.95%) Solace
48 Replication jobs in England