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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 367 372
Rank change year-on-year +24 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Replication 258 111 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 1.35% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 75 99
10th Percentile £400 £318 £281
25th Percentile £427 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +2.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £627
90th Percentile £624 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% -
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 12,955 8,212 11,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.14% 34.05% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,198 5,376 7,359
10th Percentile £312 £300 £268
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -4.14%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £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 659 321 819
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.00 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +36.23% +7.43% +42.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.52 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £31.91 £31.25
% change year-on-year +33.85% +2.10% +38.98%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -8 102 £575 +4.55% 15
North of England -28 60 £477 +6.00% 15
South East -24 46 £525 -1.41% 19
North West -5 35 £469 +4.27% 9
Midlands -30 32 £425 - 6
West Midlands -36 29 £425 - 4
Yorkshire -38 23 £487 -4.51% 5
South West -35 11 £543 -1.00% 5
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £540 - 2
East of England -36 1 £800 +71.38% 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 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.55%) Confluence
3 3 (1.16%) Apache
3 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.55%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.16%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.78%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 84 (32.56%) Azure
2 61 (23.64%) AWS
3 42 (16.28%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.36%) OpenShift
5 13 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (3.88%) GitHub
6 10 (3.88%) SuccessFactors
7 8 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.10%) Serverless
8 7 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.71%) SaaS
9 6 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.94%) AWS KMS
10 5 (1.94%) Azure Stack
10 5 (1.94%) Cohesity
10 5 (1.94%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 52 (20.16%) SAN
2 51 (19.77%) NAS
3 39 (15.12%) DNS
4 33 (12.79%) DHCP
5 32 (12.40%) Kerberos
6 20 (7.75%) Fibre Channel
7 17 (6.59%) VSAN
8 16 (6.20%) Firewall
9 14 (5.43%) iSCSI
10 13 (5.04%) VLAN
11 8 (3.10%) Network Security
12 6 (2.33%) VPN
13 3 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
14 2 (0.78%) IPv4
14 2 (0.78%) LAN
14 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
15 1 (0.39%) FCoE
15 1 (0.39%) Multicast
15 1 (0.39%) WAN
15 1 (0.39%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.10%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.10%) SAP HANA
7 7 (2.71%) MySQL
8 6 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.33%) Redis
8 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.94%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.16%) DB2
10 3 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (5.81%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.88%) JIRA
3 8 (3.10%) Git
4 6 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.78%) Flyway
5 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.39%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) LSMW
6 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.18%) Finance
3 19 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.26%) Banking
6 8 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.33%) Legal
8 5 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (11.63%) Architect
2 27 (10.47%) Senior
3 21 (8.14%) DBA
4 20 (7.75%) Analyst
5 17 (6.59%) Storage Analyst
6 16 (6.20%) Storage Engineer
6 16 (6.20%) Wintel Engineer
7 15 (5.81%) Consultant
8 14 (5.43%) SQL DBA
9 13 (5.04%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.65%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 10 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.49%) Administrator
14 8 (3.10%) Active Directory Engineer
14 8 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (2.71%) Developer
16 6 (2.33%) Database Developer
16 6 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.18%) LDAP
2 22 (8.53%) Flash
3 16 (6.20%) OAuth
3 16 (6.20%) SAML
4 8 (3.10%) Kafka
5 6 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.55%) FHIR
6 4 (1.55%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.55%) REST
7 3 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.16%) SAP ALE
7 3 (1.16%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.16%) SOAP
8 2 (0.78%) EDIFACT
8 2 (0.78%) JSON
8 2 (0.78%) Middleware
8 2 (0.78%) OpenID
8 2 (0.78%) Spring
8 2 (0.78%) XML
9 1 (0.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.12%) Clustering
2 27 (10.47%) Enterprise Storage
3 23 (8.91%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (7.36%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.10%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.55%) NHS
9 4 (1.55%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.16%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.78%) CMDB
11 2 (0.78%) EMC VNX
11 2 (0.78%) Life Science
11 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 55 (21.32%) Windows
2 53 (20.54%) Linux
3 41 (15.89%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.88%) Unix
5 9 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.71%) VMS
7 4 (1.55%) AIX
7 4 (1.55%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.55%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.55%) SUSE
7 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (35.66%) Migration
2 85 (32.95%) Disaster Recovery
3 82 (31.78%) High Availability
4 64 (24.81%) Performance Tuning
5 54 (20.93%) Capacity Planning
6 43 (16.67%) DevOps
7 35 (13.57%) RBAC
8 34 (13.18%) Agile
9 33 (12.79%) ITIL
10 28 (10.85%) Data Protection
11 27 (10.47%) Runbook
12 26 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (9.69%) Data Modelling
13 25 (9.69%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (9.30%) Project Delivery
14 24 (9.30%) Validation
15 22 (8.53%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (8.53%) Performance Optimisation
16 20 (7.75%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 85 (32.95%) PowerShell
2 39 (15.12%) SQL
3 36 (13.95%) Python
4 15 (5.81%) Bash
5 13 (5.04%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.26%) Groovy
7 10 (3.88%) Java
8 4 (1.55%) Perl
9 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.39%) ABAP
11 1 (0.39%) Bicep
11 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.39%) Korn
11 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.39%) PHP
11 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 115 (44.57%) Security Cleared
2 90 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (6.98%) VCAP
5 14 (5.43%) MCSA
5 14 (5.43%) MCSE
6 13 (5.04%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.10%) Degree
8 7 (2.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.33%) NCDA
10 5 (1.94%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.78%) PMP
12 2 (0.78%) VCDX
13 1 (0.39%) OCP
13 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.75%) GDPR
2 16 (6.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (4.26%) QA
4 7 (2.71%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.33%) NIST
6 5 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.55%) DICOM
7 4 (1.55%) HL7
8 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.78%) GRC
8 2 (0.78%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.39%) COBIT
9 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (24.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (18.99%) VMware ESXi
3 48 (18.60%) Active Directory
3 48 (18.60%) vSphere
4 43 (16.67%) NFS
5 27 (10.47%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (8.14%) GPFS
7 17 (6.59%) Docker
8 7 (2.71%) Firmware
8 7 (2.71%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.33%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.55%) SRDF
11 3 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.78%) Corosync
12 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (11.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (11.24%) Ansible
2 29 (11.24%) Terraform
3 26 (10.08%) vCenter Server
4 24 (9.30%) Kubernetes
5 19 (7.36%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (6.98%) vRealize
7 12 (4.65%) Grafana
7 12 (4.65%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.88%) VxRail
9 8 (3.10%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (3.10%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (3.10%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.10%) vMotion
10 5 (1.94%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (1.55%) Rancher
11 4 (1.55%) SCCM
11 4 (1.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (1.16%) Kustomize
12 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 79 (30.62%) VMware
2 69 (26.74%) Microsoft
3 43 (16.67%) Cisco
4 33 (12.79%) ServiceNow
5 30 (11.63%) IBM
5 30 (11.63%) Oracle
6 27 (10.47%) NetApp
7 23 (8.91%) SAP
8 20 (7.75%) Pure Storage
9 15 (5.81%) EMC
10 14 (5.43%) Okta
10 14 (5.43%) Veeam
11 13 (5.04%) Brocade
11 13 (5.04%) Commvault
11 13 (5.04%) Dell
12 7 (2.71%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.71%) Zerto
13 6 (2.33%) RedGate
14 5 (1.94%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.94%) Red Hat