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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 345 400
Rank change year-on-year -45 +55 +29
Contract jobs citing Replication 257 173 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 1.73% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 106 82
10th Percentile £358 £344 £364
25th Percentile £424 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.02% +1.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £688 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £526
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.70% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £63.95 £67.18 -
25th Percentile £69.13 £69.31 -
Median hourly rate £78.00 £73.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £86.63 £76.81 -
90th Percentile £91.65 £78.73 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 -
% change year-on-year +2.39% - -

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 15,715 10,023 10,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 36.13% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,478 6,288 6,128
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £412 £415
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 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.53% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 511 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.11 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% -47.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.43 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +12.36%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -35 124 £550 - 81
North of England -11 70 £485 +2.11% 34
North West -23 40 £485 +7.78% 22
Yorkshire -18 27 £519 -14.39% 9
East of England -8 17 £600 +26.32% 5
South West -35 15 £665 +33.00% 7
Midlands -64 15 £448 -5.79% 8
West Midlands -67 12 £450 -5.26% 5
South East -86 8 £450 -18.18% 27
North East - 3 £425 - 3
East Midlands -15 2 £404 - 3
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 11 (4.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (3.89%) Confluence
3 7 (2.72%) CMS
4 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.78%) Apache
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
6 2 (0.78%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.78%) nginx
6 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.56%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.17%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.78%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.39%) Actimize
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.96%) Azure
2 76 (29.57%) AWS
3 22 (8.56%) Entra ID
3 22 (8.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 20 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (7.00%) AWS KMS
7 17 (6.61%) GCP
8 15 (5.84%) GitHub
9 14 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.06%) OCI
11 12 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (4.67%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.28%) Adobe Analytics
13 10 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.72%) OpenShift
15 6 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (1.95%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.84%) SAN
2 27 (10.51%) DNS
3 21 (8.17%) Firewall
4 14 (5.45%) NAS
5 13 (5.06%) SSL
5 13 (5.06%) VLAN
6 11 (4.28%) DHCP
6 11 (4.28%) VPN
7 9 (3.50%) Kerberos
7 9 (3.50%) Network Security
8 8 (3.11%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (3.11%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (2.33%) VSAN
10 4 (1.56%) SSH
10 4 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.17%) Broadband
11 3 (1.17%) IPv4
11 3 (1.17%) IPv6
11 3 (1.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.51%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (14.79%) SQL Server
3 28 (10.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 26 (10.12%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (9.34%) MySQL
6 19 (7.39%) Oracle Database
7 15 (5.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (5.45%) Redis
9 12 (4.67%) Power BI
10 10 (3.89%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (3.89%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.50%) MongoDB
12 8 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.11%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.72%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.72%) Sybase ASE
14 6 (2.33%) SAP HANA
15 5 (1.95%) Metadata
16 4 (1.56%) Delta Lake
16 4 (1.56%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 29 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.17%) Git
3 19 (7.39%) JIRA
4 11 (4.28%) GitLab
5 4 (1.56%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.17%) MLflow
6 3 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.17%) Toad
7 2 (0.78%) Selenium
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.39%) Flyway
8 1 (0.39%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.39%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.39%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.40%) Finance
3 36 (14.01%) Documentation Skills
4 24 (9.34%) Banking
5 22 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.28%) Marketing
8 7 (2.72%) Advertising
8 7 (2.72%) Publishing
9 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.78%) Billing
12 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (19.84%) DBA
2 44 (17.12%) Senior
3 31 (12.06%) Architect
4 26 (10.12%) Storage Engineer
5 24 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (8.95%) Administrator
7 21 (8.17%) Lead
8 19 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.00%) Consultant
9 18 (7.00%) SQL DBA
10 14 (5.45%) Technical Specialist
11 10 (3.89%) Senior DBA
12 9 (3.50%) Analyst
12 9 (3.50%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.50%) Web Specialist
12 9 (3.50%) Wintel Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Active Directory Engineer
14 7 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (2.72%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.72%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.62%) Terraform
2 17 (6.61%) Kafka
3 13 (5.06%) LDAP
4 12 (4.67%) HTML
5 11 (4.28%) CSS
6 9 (3.50%) Flash
7 7 (2.72%) Keycloak
7 7 (2.72%) Middleware
7 7 (2.72%) SAML
8 6 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.33%) OAuth
8 6 (2.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 4 (1.56%) REST
9 4 (1.56%) Web Services
10 3 (1.17%) eBPF
10 3 (1.17%) JSON
10 3 (1.17%) Loki
10 3 (1.17%) Oracle Streams
10 3 (1.17%) Spring
10 3 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.67%) Clustering
2 27 (10.51%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.78%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (4.28%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.28%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.72%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.72%) PKI
7 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) CMDB
8 5 (1.95%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (1.95%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.17%) IoT
10 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 81 (31.52%) Linux
2 52 (20.23%) Windows
3 41 (15.95%) Windows Server
4 20 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (7.39%) Unix
6 12 (4.67%) CentOS
6 12 (4.67%) Rocky
7 11 (4.28%) VMS
8 9 (3.50%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (2.33%) AIX
10 4 (1.56%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (1.56%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.56%) zOS
11 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (33.46%) Performance Tuning
2 74 (28.79%) High Availability
3 72 (28.02%) Disaster Recovery
4 64 (24.90%) DevOps
5 59 (22.96%) Migration
6 49 (19.07%) CI/CD
6 49 (19.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 45 (17.51%) Data Modelling
8 44 (17.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (11.67%) Agile
10 30 (11.67%) Capacity Planning
10 30 (11.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 26 (10.12%) AI
12 25 (9.73%) Runbook
12 25 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (9.73%) Validation
13 24 (9.34%) Analytics
14 23 (8.95%) RBAC
14 23 (8.95%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (24.90%) SQL
2 59 (22.96%) PowerShell
3 55 (21.40%) Python
4 19 (7.39%) Groovy
5 18 (7.00%) Bash
6 16 (6.23%) Java
6 16 (6.23%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.67%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.89%) Perl
9 4 (1.56%) ABAP
9 4 (1.56%) Bicep
9 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.17%) CQL
10 3 (1.17%) Go
10 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) JCL
11 2 (0.78%) Rust
11 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 1 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 101 (39.30%) Security Cleared
2 79 (30.74%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.51%) Degree
4 23 (8.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (8.17%) Azure Certification
6 20 (7.78%) AWS Certification
7 15 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (4.67%) DV Cleared
9 11 (4.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (3.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (3.11%) MCSA
12 8 (3.11%) MCSE
12 8 (3.11%) VCAP
13 4 (1.56%) OCP
13 4 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (1.17%) NCDA
14 3 (1.17%) NCIE
14 3 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.06%) QA
2 9 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.33%) SLA
5 5 (1.95%) GDPR
6 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.78%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (13.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (12.84%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (11.67%) Docker
4 26 (10.12%) Active Directory
4 26 (10.12%) vSphere
5 19 (7.39%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (5.06%) NFS
7 12 (4.67%) Oracle RAC
8 9 (3.50%) GPFS
9 8 (3.11%) Firmware
9 8 (3.11%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (1.56%) SRDF
11 3 (1.17%) ACF2
11 3 (1.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (1.17%) RACF
12 2 (0.78%) Corosync
12 2 (0.78%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.78%) Postfix
12 2 (0.78%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (15.95%) Ansible
2 28 (10.89%) Prometheus
3 26 (10.12%) Grafana
3 26 (10.12%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.84%) NetBackup
5 13 (5.06%) vCenter Server
6 11 (4.28%) SCOM
7 10 (3.89%) Data Guard
7 10 (3.89%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (2.72%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (2.33%) vRealize
10 4 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.56%) Argo
10 4 (1.56%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 4 (1.56%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.56%) Rancher
10 4 (1.56%) SnapMirror
10 4 (1.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 61 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 43 (16.73%) VMware
3 42 (16.34%) Oracle
4 36 (14.01%) ServiceNow
5 28 (10.89%) Veeam
6 26 (10.12%) NetApp
7 25 (9.73%) Cisco
8 21 (8.17%) IBM
9 20 (7.78%) Dell
10 18 (7.00%) SAP
11 11 (4.28%) Adobe
11 11 (4.28%) Brocade
11 11 (4.28%) Google
12 10 (3.89%) EMC
13 9 (3.50%) Red Hat
14 8 (3.11%) Databricks
14 8 (3.11%) Dynatrace
14 8 (3.11%) Sybase
15 7 (2.72%) Confluent
16 6 (2.33%) CyberArk
168 Replication jobs in England