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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 350 421
Rank change year-on-year +30 +71 +11
Contract jobs citing Replication 237 135 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.51% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 1.55% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 76 66
10th Percentile £400 £353 £338
25th Percentile £455 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £595 £579
90th Percentile £638 £674 £619
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 11,268 8,698 11,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.90% 32.64% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,195 5,221 7,700
10th Percentile £281 £270 £258
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 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £538
% change year-on-year -6.19% -0.93% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 249 615
10th Percentile £15.20 £18.43 £14.38
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +57.88%
75th Percentile £61.50 £68.75 £61.38
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.56 £72.65
UK median hourly rate £27.63 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.07% - +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +1 104 £580 +9.02% 12
South East +1 41 £488 +8.33% 47
Midlands -10 40 £425 +6.25% 30
West Midlands -3 38 £425 +3.03% 8
North of England -35 28 £472 +7.91% 38
North West -26 17 £460 +2.22% 17
South West -12 14 £508 -7.39% 27
Yorkshire -42 11 £487 +19.88% 16
East of England -12 10 £800 +71.38% 28
East Midlands -28 2 - - 20
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 17 (7.17%) Confluence
2 10 (4.22%) nginx
3 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.53%) Oracle Application Server
4 6 (2.53%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.11%) Apache
5 5 (2.11%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (2.11%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (2.11%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (2.11%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (2.11%) Office Communications Server
5 5 (2.11%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (2.11%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.27%) GeoServer
6 3 (1.27%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.84%) CICS
7 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (5.06%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.22%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.27%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.84%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.38%) AWS
2 70 (29.54%) Azure
3 21 (8.86%) Amazon S3
4 20 (8.44%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (8.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (7.17%) Entra ID
8 15 (6.33%) AWS KMS
8 15 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (6.33%) SuccessFactors
9 14 (5.91%) Amazon ELB
10 13 (5.49%) GitHub
11 12 (5.06%) Serverless
12 11 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.64%) SaaS
12 11 (4.64%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.80%) Route 53
14 8 (3.38%) OpenShift
15 7 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 59 (24.89%) DNS
2 38 (16.03%) Firewall
2 38 (16.03%) SAN
3 26 (10.97%) DHCP
4 21 (8.86%) NAS
5 19 (8.02%) Kerberos
6 16 (6.75%) SSH
7 14 (5.91%) FTP
7 14 (5.91%) HTTP
7 14 (5.91%) iSCSI
7 14 (5.91%) SMTP
8 10 (4.22%) Fibre Channel
8 10 (4.22%) TCP/IP
9 9 (3.80%) IMAP
9 9 (3.80%) OpenLDAP
10 8 (3.38%) VPN
11 7 (2.95%) VLAN
12 5 (2.11%) DDNS
12 5 (2.11%) VSAN
13 4 (1.69%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.92%) Amazon RDS
1 33 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.59%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (5.49%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.64%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.80%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.95%) DB2
7 7 (2.95%) MySQL
7 7 (2.95%) Oracle Exadata
7 7 (2.95%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.95%) Power BI
8 6 (2.53%) Couchbase
8 6 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.53%) Oracle ODI
8 6 (2.53%) Star Schema
9 5 (2.11%) Redis
9 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (14.35%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.13%) Git
3 19 (8.02%) JIRA
4 14 (5.91%) Vagrant
5 6 (2.53%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.69%) Subversion
6 4 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.27%) GitLab
8 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.42%) gulp
9 1 (0.42%) LSMW
9 1 (0.42%) Maven
9 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 63 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.35%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.08%) Finance
4 27 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.17%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.80%) Banking
6 9 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.95%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.53%) Retail
9 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) International Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (13.08%) Platform Engineer
2 25 (10.55%) Architect
3 23 (9.70%) Consultant
4 21 (8.86%) Data Engineer
5 18 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (7.59%) Senior
6 17 (7.17%) Analyst
6 17 (7.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 17 (7.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.75%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (6.33%) Storage Analyst
9 13 (5.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.49%) Storage Engineer
10 12 (5.06%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (4.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.22%) DBA
12 10 (4.22%) Infrastructure Architect
13 9 (3.80%) SAP HCM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.24%) LDAP
2 21 (8.86%) Kafka
2 21 (8.86%) OAuth
2 21 (8.86%) SAML
3 19 (8.02%) Flash
4 14 (5.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 13 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.64%) REST
6 11 (4.64%) SOAP
6 11 (4.64%) XML
7 8 (3.38%) Web Services
8 7 (2.95%) OpenID
9 6 (2.53%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.11%) Middleware
11 4 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.69%) JSON
11 4 (1.69%) Keycloak
11 4 (1.69%) Ultra Messaging
12 3 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
13 2 (0.84%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.97%) Clustering
2 21 (8.86%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (6.33%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.22%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.80%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.95%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.69%) PKI
9 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.84%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.84%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 72 (30.38%) Linux
2 71 (29.96%) Windows
3 40 (16.88%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.44%) VMS
5 14 (5.91%) Amazon Linux
6 13 (5.49%) Ubuntu
7 10 (4.22%) Unix
8 6 (2.53%) Solaris
9 5 (2.11%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.84%) AIX
12 2 (0.84%) zOS
13 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.42%) MVS
13 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (29.96%) High Availability
2 61 (25.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 55 (23.21%) Performance Tuning
4 49 (20.68%) DevOps
5 48 (20.25%) CI/CD
6 46 (19.41%) Migration
7 41 (17.30%) Agile
8 31 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (10.55%) Change Management
10 25 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (10.55%) RBAC
11 23 (9.70%) Data Modelling
12 21 (8.86%) Capacity Planning
13 20 (8.44%) Configuration Management
13 20 (8.44%) ITIL
13 20 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (7.59%) Analytics
15 17 (7.17%) Task Automation
16 16 (6.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.54%) PowerShell
2 54 (22.78%) Python
3 40 (16.88%) SQL
4 18 (7.59%) Groovy
5 16 (6.75%) Bash
6 12 (5.06%) Java
7 10 (4.22%) Perl
8 9 (3.80%) ABAP
9 8 (3.38%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.95%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Go
11 2 (0.84%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
12 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (34.18%) Security Cleared
2 53 (22.36%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.70%) Degree
4 20 (8.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (8.02%) DV Cleared
6 16 (6.75%) AWS Certification
7 13 (5.49%) Azure Certification
8 12 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (4.64%) VCAP
10 7 (2.95%) MCSA
10 7 (2.95%) MCSE
11 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.69%) OCP
12 4 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.84%) VCDX
15 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
15 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.55%) GDPR
2 18 (7.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 14 (5.91%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.69%) QA
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.84%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (24.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 53 (22.36%) Active Directory
3 35 (14.77%) VMware ESXi
4 34 (14.35%) NFS
5 32 (13.50%) Docker
5 32 (13.50%) vSphere
6 19 (8.02%) GPFS
7 14 (5.91%) DFS Replication
8 13 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (3.80%) Dovecot
9 9 (3.80%) Postfix
9 9 (3.80%) Squid
10 7 (2.95%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (2.11%) Brightmail
11 5 (2.11%) ISA Server
11 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.69%) Veritas File System
12 4 (1.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 35 (14.77%) Terraform
2 26 (10.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (10.55%) Kubernetes
4 22 (9.28%) Grafana
4 22 (9.28%) Prometheus
5 21 (8.86%) Ansible
6 20 (8.44%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (7.17%) vRealize
8 15 (6.33%) vCenter Server
9 9 (3.80%) Nessus
9 9 (3.80%) Proxmox
9 9 (3.80%) SCCM
10 7 (2.95%) Data Guard
10 7 (2.95%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (2.53%) Kibana
11 6 (2.53%) logstash
12 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (2.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (2.11%) SCOM
13 4 (1.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 68 (28.69%) VMware
2 62 (26.16%) Microsoft
3 41 (17.30%) ServiceNow
4 39 (16.46%) Oracle
5 34 (14.35%) Cisco
5 34 (14.35%) IBM
6 24 (10.13%) NetApp
7 19 (8.02%) SAP
8 14 (5.91%) Veeam
9 13 (5.49%) Okta
10 12 (5.06%) EMC
11 11 (4.64%) Dell
12 9 (3.80%) Jaspersoft
13 6 (2.53%) Confluent
13 6 (2.53%) TIBCO
14 5 (2.11%) Computacenter
14 5 (2.11%) CyberArk
14 5 (2.11%) Pure Storage
14 5 (2.11%) Solace
14 5 (2.11%) SolarWinds