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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 367 376
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Replication 260 113 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.97% 1.35% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 76 97
10th Percentile £395 £319 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £519 £514
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% +2.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £627
90th Percentile £623 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £508 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -0.98% -0.29% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £56.30 - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% - -
75th Percentile £79.25 - -
90th Percentile £87.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £51.15 -
% change year-on-year +34.91% - -

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 13,187 8,342 11,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.08% 34.10% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,328 5,459 7,315
10th Percentile £313 £300 £268
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.64%
75th Percentile £626 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 673 332 813
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.72 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.96 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -0.13% +51.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.90 £84.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year +33.50% +0.83% +40.09%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -4 101 £575 +4.55% 17
North of England -17 64 £476 +5.78% 10
South East -32 46 £525 -1.41% 19
North West -5 37 £469 +4.27% 3
Midlands -42 32 £425 - 5
West Midlands -38 30 £419 -1.47% 3
Yorkshire -42 25 £494 -3.24% 6
South West -36 11 £543 -1.00% 5
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £540 - 2
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 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.54%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (0.77%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.54%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.15%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.69%) Azure
2 64 (24.62%) AWS
3 42 (16.15%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.31%) OpenShift
5 14 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.85%) GitHub
7 9 (3.46%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.08%) Serverless
9 7 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.92%) AWS KMS
11 5 (1.92%) Azure Stack
11 5 (1.92%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.92%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.62%) SAN
2 50 (19.23%) NAS
3 39 (15.00%) DNS
4 32 (12.31%) Kerberos
5 31 (11.92%) DHCP
6 20 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
7 19 (7.31%) VSAN
8 15 (5.77%) Firewall
9 14 (5.38%) iSCSI
10 13 (5.00%) VLAN
11 10 (3.85%) Network Security
12 8 (3.08%) VPN
13 3 (1.15%) OpenLDAP
14 2 (0.77%) LAN
14 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
15 1 (0.38%) FCoE
15 1 (0.38%) Multicast
15 1 (0.38%) VXLAN
15 1 (0.38%) WAN
15 1 (0.38%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.08%) SAP HANA
7 7 (2.69%) MySQL
8 6 (2.31%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.31%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.31%) Redis
8 6 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.15%) DB2
9 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.85%) JIRA
3 8 (3.08%) Git
4 6 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.77%) Flyway
5 2 (0.77%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) LSMW
6 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.85%) Finance
3 19 (7.31%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.62%) Banking
6 8 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.31%) Legal
8 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.77%) 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 30 (11.54%) Architect
2 27 (10.38%) Senior
3 22 (8.46%) Analyst
4 21 (8.08%) DBA
5 19 (7.31%) Storage Analyst
6 17 (6.54%) Wintel Engineer
7 16 (6.15%) Storage Engineer
8 14 (5.38%) Consultant
8 14 (5.38%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.38%) SQL DBA
9 13 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.46%) Administrator
12 9 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.08%) Active Directory Engineer
14 7 (2.69%) Developer
15 6 (2.31%) Database Developer
15 6 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.08%) LDAP
2 24 (9.23%) Flash
3 16 (6.15%) OAuth
3 16 (6.15%) SAML
4 8 (3.08%) Kafka
5 6 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.54%) FHIR
6 4 (1.54%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.54%) REST
7 3 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.15%) SAP ALE
7 3 (1.15%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.15%) SOAP
8 2 (0.77%) EDIFACT
8 2 (0.77%) JSON
8 2 (0.77%) Middleware
8 2 (0.77%) OpenID
8 2 (0.77%) Spring
8 2 (0.77%) XML
9 1 (0.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.38%) Clustering
2 27 (10.38%) Enterprise Storage
3 25 (9.62%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (6.54%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.46%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.31%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.54%) NHS
9 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.77%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.77%) EMC VNX
11 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.77%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.15%) Linux
2 54 (20.77%) Windows
3 40 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.62%) Unix
5 9 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.69%) VMS
7 4 (1.54%) AIX
7 4 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.54%) SUSE
7 4 (1.54%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (35.77%) Migration
2 85 (32.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 83 (31.92%) High Availability
4 67 (25.77%) Performance Tuning
5 55 (21.15%) Capacity Planning
6 43 (16.54%) DevOps
7 36 (13.85%) Agile
8 35 (13.46%) RBAC
9 31 (11.92%) ITIL
10 28 (10.77%) Data Protection
10 28 (10.77%) Runbook
11 26 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 26 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (10.00%) Validation
12 25 (9.62%) Project Delivery
13 24 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (8.46%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (8.08%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 83 (31.92%) PowerShell
2 40 (15.38%) SQL
3 36 (13.85%) Python
4 15 (5.77%) Bash
5 13 (5.00%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.23%) Groovy
6 11 (4.23%) Java
7 4 (1.54%) Perl
8 3 (1.15%) Bicep
8 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.38%) ABAP
10 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 116 (44.62%) Security Cleared
2 91 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 19 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (7.31%) VCAP
5 15 (5.77%) MCSA
5 15 (5.77%) MCSE
6 13 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.31%) Degree
9 6 (2.31%) NCDA
10 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.77%) PMP
12 2 (0.77%) VCDX
13 1 (0.38%) OCP
13 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.69%) GDPR
2 17 (6.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (4.23%) QA
4 7 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.31%) NIST
6 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.54%) DICOM
7 4 (1.54%) HL7
8 2 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.77%) GRC
8 2 (0.77%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.38%) COBIT
9 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 51 (19.62%) vSphere
4 45 (17.31%) Active Directory
4 45 (17.31%) NFS
5 28 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (8.85%) GPFS
7 17 (6.54%) Docker
8 7 (2.69%) Firmware
8 7 (2.69%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.31%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.54%) SRDF
11 3 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.77%) Corosync
12 2 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (11.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (11.15%) Ansible
2 29 (11.15%) Terraform
3 27 (10.38%) vCenter Server
4 24 (9.23%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.69%) vRealize
6 19 (7.31%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (4.62%) Grafana
7 12 (4.62%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.62%) VxRail
8 8 (3.08%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (3.08%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (3.08%) NetBackup
8 8 (3.08%) vMotion
9 5 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (1.54%) Rancher
10 4 (1.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (1.15%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 81 (31.15%) VMware
2 71 (27.31%) Microsoft
3 45 (17.31%) Cisco
4 35 (13.46%) ServiceNow
5 32 (12.31%) IBM
5 32 (12.31%) Oracle
6 27 (10.38%) NetApp
7 22 (8.46%) SAP
8 20 (7.69%) Pure Storage
9 15 (5.77%) EMC
10 14 (5.38%) Okta
10 14 (5.38%) Veeam
11 13 (5.00%) Brocade
11 13 (5.00%) Commvault
11 13 (5.00%) Dell
12 7 (2.69%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.69%) Zerto
13 6 (2.31%) RedGate
14 5 (1.92%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.92%) Red Hat