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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 351 413
Rank change year-on-year +4 +62 -3
Contract jobs citing Replication 243 134 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 1.60% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 82 90
10th Percentile £400 £351 £281
25th Percentile £453 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +1.15% -
75th Percentile £600 £568 £588
90th Percentile £635 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £56.83 £24.37 -
25th Percentile £60.31 £25.55 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £28.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year +159.82% -50.35% -19.43%
75th Percentile £79.13 £53.60 -
90th Percentile £85.28 £68.66 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £23.59 £56.40
% change year-on-year +208.39% -58.17% -19.43%

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 12,406 8,364 11,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.69% 33.85% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,870 5,375 7,646
10th Percentile £297 £285 £258
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £663
90th Percentile £749 £785 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 293 789
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.95 £12.69
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +20.35% +25.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.80 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +16.07% +24.53%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -23 99 £580 +10.48% 15
South East -20 48 £525 +7.14% 25
North of England -45 35 £456 +4.23% 14
Midlands -34 28 £402 -5.41% 15
West Midlands -41 27 £402 -5.41% 11
North West -24 18 £456 +1.33% 9
Yorkshire -43 17 £475 +18.75% 4
South West -28 16 £533 -2.83% 9
East of England -24 10 £800 +71.38% 3
North East -13 1 £425 - 1
East Midlands -30 1 - - 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 6 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.06%) Apache
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.23%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Confluence
6 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.94%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.12%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.65%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.23%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (30.04%) Azure
2 54 (22.22%) AWS
3 29 (11.93%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.17%) SuccessFactors
5 13 (5.35%) OpenShift
6 12 (4.94%) GitHub
7 10 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.12%) Snowflake
8 9 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.29%) Serverless
10 7 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.88%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.88%) SaaS
11 6 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 48 (19.75%) DNS
2 40 (16.46%) SAN
3 39 (16.05%) NAS
4 33 (13.58%) DHCP
5 32 (13.17%) Kerberos
6 20 (8.23%) Firewall
7 15 (6.17%) Fibre Channel
8 11 (4.53%) iSCSI
9 8 (3.29%) VSAN
10 4 (1.65%) IPv4
11 3 (1.23%) LAN
11 3 (1.23%) VPN
11 3 (1.23%) WAN
12 2 (0.82%) X.500
13 1 (0.41%) FCoE
13 1 (0.41%) Network Security
13 1 (0.41%) SSH
13 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.41%) VLAN
13 1 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.93%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.12%) MySQL
6 9 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.88%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.47%) Power BI
8 6 (2.47%) Star Schema
9 5 (2.06%) DB2
9 5 (2.06%) Redis
9 5 (2.06%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.65%) GIS
10 4 (1.65%) Oracle ODI
10 4 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.65%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (2.06%) Git
4 4 (1.65%) DBeaver
5 3 (1.23%) JIRA
6 2 (0.82%) GitLab
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.41%) Flyway
7 1 (0.41%) gulp
7 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.41%) LSMW
7 1 (0.41%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 51 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.81%) Finance
3 26 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.29%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.47%) Retail
8 5 (2.06%) Banking
9 4 (1.65%) Legal
10 2 (0.82%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Police
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (12.76%) Architect
2 27 (11.11%) Consultant
3 22 (9.05%) Analyst
4 20 (8.23%) Senior
5 19 (7.82%) Storage Analyst
6 17 (7.00%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.17%) SAP Consultant
8 13 (5.35%) DBA
8 13 (5.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.53%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.70%) SAP HCM Consultant
10 9 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (3.29%) Developer
11 8 (3.29%) Storage Engineer
12 7 (2.88%) Infrastructure Architect
13 6 (2.47%) Database Developer
13 6 (2.47%) SAP Functional Consultant
13 6 (2.47%) SQL Database Developer
13 6 (2.47%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.17%) LDAP
2 22 (9.05%) OAuth
2 22 (9.05%) SAML
3 20 (8.23%) Flash
4 12 (4.94%) SOAP
5 10 (4.12%) Kafka
6 9 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.29%) Web Services
7 8 (3.29%) XML
8 7 (2.88%) OpenID
9 6 (2.47%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.47%) REST
10 5 (2.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (1.65%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.65%) Keycloak
12 3 (1.23%) FHIR
12 3 (1.23%) SAP ALE
12 3 (1.23%) SAP Basis
13 1 (0.41%) Ajax
13 1 (0.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.70%) Clustering
2 20 (8.23%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 16 (6.58%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.47%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.06%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.65%) EMC VMAX
8 4 (1.65%) PKI
9 3 (1.23%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.23%) NHS
9 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.23%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.23%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.82%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.75%) Windows
2 45 (18.52%) Linux
3 39 (16.05%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.47%) Unix
5 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.82%) AIX
6 2 (0.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (32.51%) Migration
2 71 (29.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 63 (25.93%) High Availability
4 46 (18.93%) Performance Tuning
5 36 (14.81%) Agile
6 35 (14.40%) Capacity Planning
7 31 (12.76%) DevOps
8 29 (11.93%) Data Modelling
9 27 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (11.11%) RBAC
10 26 (10.70%) Data Protection
11 25 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (10.29%) Validation
12 23 (9.47%) CI/CD
13 22 (9.05%) Analytics
13 22 (9.05%) ITIL
14 21 (8.64%) Performance Optimisation
15 20 (8.23%) Data Migration
16 19 (7.82%) Data Governance
16 19 (7.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 76 (31.28%) PowerShell
2 39 (16.05%) SQL
3 27 (11.11%) Python
4 13 (5.35%) Bash
5 10 (4.12%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.70%) ABAP
7 4 (1.65%) Groovy
8 3 (1.23%) Java
9 2 (0.82%) PHP
9 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) Korn
10 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (40.33%) Security Cleared
2 71 (29.22%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (7.00%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.17%) Degree
6 13 (5.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (4.94%) VCAP
8 8 (3.29%) MCSA
8 8 (3.29%) MCSE
9 6 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.06%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.23%) NCDA
12 3 (1.23%) OCP
12 3 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.64%) GDPR
2 15 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.47%) QA
5 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.23%) DICOM
6 3 (1.23%) HL7
7 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.82%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.82%) NIST
7 2 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) COBIT
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (23.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (21.40%) Active Directory
3 38 (15.64%) NFS
4 34 (13.99%) VMware ESXi
4 34 (13.99%) vSphere
5 19 (7.82%) GPFS
6 14 (5.76%) Docker
7 12 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.47%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.23%) Firmware
10 3 (1.23%) SRDF
11 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 39 (16.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 22 (9.05%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (8.23%) Terraform
4 17 (7.00%) vRealize
5 16 (6.58%) Ansible
5 16 (6.58%) Kubernetes
6 13 (5.35%) vCenter Server
7 8 (3.29%) Grafana
7 8 (3.29%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.29%) vMotion
8 7 (2.88%) SCCM
9 6 (2.47%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (2.47%) NetBackup
10 5 (2.06%) SCOM
11 4 (1.65%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.65%) Rancher
11 4 (1.65%) VxRail
12 3 (1.23%) Kibana
12 3 (1.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 73 (30.04%) VMware
2 69 (28.40%) Microsoft
3 30 (12.35%) Cisco
3 30 (12.35%) Oracle
4 29 (11.93%) ServiceNow
5 27 (11.11%) IBM
6 25 (10.29%) SAP
7 23 (9.47%) NetApp
8 15 (6.17%) EMC
8 15 (6.17%) Pure Storage
9 14 (5.76%) Okta
10 13 (5.35%) Commvault
11 12 (4.94%) Veeam
12 7 (2.88%) Dell
13 6 (2.47%) Brocade
13 6 (2.47%) RedGate
13 6 (2.47%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.06%) Computacenter
14 5 (2.06%) Isilon
14 5 (2.06%) Zerto