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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 367 371
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +44
Contract jobs citing Replication 238 130 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.47% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 87 111
10th Percentile £392 £408 £300
25th Percentile £425 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £627
90th Percentile £630 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £519 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -0.24% +1.17% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £53.15 £78.83 -
25th Percentile £57.88 £79.03 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% - -
75th Percentile £73.50 £79.68 -
90th Percentile £77.10 £79.87 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -18.08% - -

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 14,311 8,837 11,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.83% 34.70% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,910 5,651 7,356
10th Percentile £313 £305 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £820
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 781 421 844
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +56.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £31.63 £36.00
% change year-on-year +34.39% -12.15% +60.00%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -26 90 £586 +1.96% 16
North of England -18 65 £482 +0.31% 9
South East -38 41 £525 -5.62% 6
North West -6 40 £475 +5.44% 6
Midlands -47 25 £425 -10.53% 4
Yorkshire -35 23 £528 +3.53% 2
West Midlands -50 23 £413 -13.16% 4
South West -39 12 £543 -0.46% 3
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East Midlands -12 1 £540 -
East of England -35 1 £600 +28.62% 4
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 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.68%) Confluence
3 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.84%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 87 (36.55%) Azure
2 62 (26.05%) AWS
3 43 (18.07%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.30%) OpenShift
5 13 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.04%) GitHub
7 9 (3.78%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.36%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.94%) Serverless
10 6 (2.52%) GCP
11 5 (2.10%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.10%) Cohesity
11 5 (2.10%) Nutanix
11 5 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.07%) SAN
2 40 (16.81%) DNS
2 40 (16.81%) NAS
3 30 (12.61%) Kerberos
4 29 (12.18%) DHCP
5 16 (6.72%) VSAN
6 14 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
7 13 (5.46%) VLAN
8 12 (5.04%) Firewall
9 9 (3.78%) Network Security
10 8 (3.36%) VPN
11 7 (2.94%) iSCSI
12 4 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (1.26%) SSL
14 2 (0.84%) Multicast
14 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
15 1 (0.42%) FCoE
15 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
15 1 (0.42%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.97%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (3.36%) MySQL
5 8 (3.36%) SAP HANA
6 6 (2.52%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.52%) Power BI
6 6 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.52%) Sybase ASE
7 5 (2.10%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.10%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.10%) Redis
8 4 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (7.56%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.20%) JIRA
3 8 (3.36%) Git
4 5 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.26%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.84%) Flyway
6 2 (0.84%) GitLab
6 2 (0.84%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.03%) Finance
3 17 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.30%) Banking
5 13 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.10%) Legal
8 4 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.84%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Advertising
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (12.61%) DBA
2 27 (11.34%) Senior
3 22 (9.24%) Architect
4 18 (7.56%) SQL DBA
5 16 (6.72%) Analyst
6 15 (6.30%) Consultant
6 15 (6.30%) Storage Engineer
7 14 (5.88%) Storage Analyst
7 14 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) Administrator
9 11 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.62%) SAP Consultant
10 9 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.36%) Active Directory Engineer
11 8 (3.36%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.36%) Lead
12 6 (2.52%) Migration Engineer
12 6 (2.52%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.29%) LDAP
2 19 (7.98%) Flash
3 15 (6.30%) OAuth
3 15 (6.30%) SAML
4 6 (2.52%) Kafka
5 4 (1.68%) FHIR
6 3 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.26%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.26%) Middleware
6 3 (1.26%) OpenID
6 3 (1.26%) REST
6 3 (1.26%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.84%) EDIFACT
7 2 (0.84%) JSON
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 2 (0.84%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.84%) Spring
7 2 (0.84%) Web Services
7 2 (0.84%) XML
8 1 (0.42%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.81%) Clustering
2 23 (9.66%) Enterprise Storage
3 21 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (7.98%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.94%) EMC VMAX
7 7 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.52%) CMDB
9 5 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.68%) EMC VNX
10 4 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.68%) NHS
10 4 (1.68%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.26%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (25.21%) Linux
2 53 (22.27%) Windows
3 37 (15.55%) Windows Server
4 17 (7.14%) Unix
5 11 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.52%) VMS
7 5 (2.10%) AIX
7 5 (2.10%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.68%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.68%) SUSE
9 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.42%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) Rocky
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (34.03%) Disaster Recovery
2 80 (33.61%) Migration
3 78 (32.77%) High Availability
4 62 (26.05%) Performance Tuning
5 48 (20.17%) Capacity Planning
6 43 (18.07%) DevOps
7 39 (16.39%) RBAC
8 29 (12.18%) Runbook
9 28 (11.76%) ITIL
10 27 (11.34%) Agile
11 25 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (10.50%) Validation
12 24 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (10.08%) Project Delivery
13 22 (9.24%) CI/CD
14 21 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (8.82%) Task Automation
15 20 (8.40%) Data Protection
16 19 (7.98%) Performance Optimisation
16 19 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 78 (32.77%) PowerShell
2 46 (19.33%) SQL
3 41 (17.23%) Python
4 17 (7.14%) Bash
5 14 (5.88%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.62%) Groovy
7 10 (4.20%) Java
8 4 (1.68%) Perl
8 4 (1.68%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.26%) Bicep
10 2 (0.84%) Korn
10 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.84%) Rust
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 107 (44.96%) Security Cleared
2 89 (37.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 16 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.88%) VCAP
6 12 (5.04%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.04%) MCSA
6 12 (5.04%) MCSE
7 10 (4.20%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (3.36%) NCDA
10 7 (2.94%) Degree
11 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.26%) NCIE
12 1 (0.42%) OCP
12 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.42%) PMP
12 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.98%) GDPR
2 18 (7.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (4.62%) QA
4 6 (2.52%) NIST
5 5 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.68%) DICOM
6 4 (1.68%) HL7
7 3 (1.26%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.84%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) COBIT
9 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (21.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (17.65%) vSphere
3 41 (17.23%) Active Directory
3 41 (17.23%) VMware ESXi
4 34 (14.29%) NFS
5 27 (11.34%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (7.56%) GPFS
7 15 (6.30%) Docker
8 8 (3.36%) Hyper-V
9 7 (2.94%) Firmware
10 5 (2.10%) SRDF
11 4 (1.68%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (1.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (1.26%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.84%) Corosync
14 1 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (13.45%) Ansible
1 32 (13.45%) Terraform
2 27 (11.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 25 (10.50%) vCenter Server
4 21 (8.82%) Kubernetes
5 18 (7.56%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (6.72%) vRealize
7 13 (5.46%) Prometheus
8 12 (5.04%) Grafana
9 11 (4.62%) VxRail
10 10 (4.20%) EMC VPLEX
10 10 (4.20%) NetBackup
11 8 (3.36%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (3.36%) vMotion
12 5 (2.10%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.68%) Kustomize
13 4 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (1.68%) SnapMirror
13 4 (1.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (1.26%) Argo
Vendors
1 67 (28.15%) Microsoft
2 66 (27.73%) VMware
3 41 (17.23%) Cisco
4 33 (13.87%) Oracle
4 33 (13.87%) ServiceNow
5 23 (9.66%) IBM
6 21 (8.82%) SAP
7 19 (7.98%) Pure Storage
8 18 (7.56%) NetApp
9 16 (6.72%) Brocade
10 13 (5.46%) Dell
10 13 (5.46%) Okta
11 12 (5.04%) Veeam
12 11 (4.62%) EMC
13 10 (4.20%) Commvault
14 8 (3.36%) SolarWinds
15 7 (2.94%) Red Hat
15 7 (2.94%) Sybase
16 6 (2.52%) RedGate
17 5 (2.10%) 3PAR