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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 353 427
Rank change year-on-year +41 +74 +48
Contract jobs citing Replication 238 152 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.52% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 1.62% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 87 80
10th Percentile £373 £360 £349
25th Percentile £456 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +4.19% +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £568
90th Percentile £655 £690 £594
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £504
% change year-on-year -2.57% +4.37% +1.82%
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 11,229 9,362 11,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.70% 32.32% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,075 5,679 8,116
10th Percentile £281 £278 £269
25th Percentile £408 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 277 459
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £20.84
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +4 108 £550 - 16
South East +2 42 £525 +16.67% 25
Midlands -7 40 £475 +15.15% 15
West Midlands +1 37 £475 +18.75% 7
North of England -41 23 £475 +0.53% 20
South West -4 15 £513 -6.48% 6
North West -24 13 £465 -1.67% 10
East of England -10 11 £800 - 12
Yorkshire -34 10 £487 -11.45% 7
East Midlands -18 3 - - 8
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 23 (9.66%) Confluence
2 11 (4.62%) nginx
3 10 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.78%) SharePoint
5 8 (3.36%) Exchange Server 2003
5 8 (3.36%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (3.36%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (3.36%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (3.36%) Office Communications Server
5 8 (3.36%) Oracle Application Server
5 8 (3.36%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (3.36%) Skype for Business
6 5 (2.10%) Apache
7 3 (1.26%) CICS
7 3 (1.26%) GeoServer
7 3 (1.26%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.42%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 12 (5.04%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.20%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.84%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.84%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.42%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 74 (31.09%) AWS
2 63 (26.47%) Azure
3 26 (10.92%) Amazon S3
4 25 (10.50%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (10.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (9.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (8.40%) AWS KMS
8 18 (7.56%) Amazon ELB
8 18 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (6.72%) SuccessFactors
10 13 (5.46%) GitHub
10 13 (5.46%) Serverless
11 12 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.04%) Snowflake
12 11 (4.62%) Route 53
12 11 (4.62%) SaaS
13 8 (3.36%) Amazon Glacier
13 8 (3.36%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (24.79%) DNS
2 47 (19.75%) Firewall
3 43 (18.07%) SAN
4 22 (9.24%) DHCP
4 22 (9.24%) NAS
5 20 (8.40%) SSH
6 18 (7.56%) FTP
6 18 (7.56%) HTTP
6 18 (7.56%) SMTP
7 14 (5.88%) iSCSI
8 13 (5.46%) VPN
9 12 (5.04%) VLAN
10 11 (4.62%) TCP/IP
11 10 (4.20%) IMAP
11 10 (4.20%) OpenLDAP
12 9 (3.78%) Fibre Channel
12 9 (3.78%) WAN
13 8 (3.36%) DDNS
13 8 (3.36%) VSAN
14 7 (2.94%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.97%) Amazon RDS
1 38 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.98%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.46%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.46%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.62%) Oracle Database
6 10 (4.20%) DB2
7 9 (3.78%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (3.36%) Oracle Exadata
8 8 (3.36%) Oracle ODI
8 8 (3.36%) Power BI
8 8 (3.36%) Star Schema
9 7 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.94%) MySQL
10 6 (2.52%) Couchbase
10 6 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.10%) Redis
11 5 (2.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (15.97%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.76%) Git
3 25 (10.50%) JIRA
4 18 (7.56%) Vagrant
5 8 (3.36%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.68%) Subversion
6 4 (1.68%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.26%) GitLab
8 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.42%) CANoe
9 1 (0.42%) gulp
9 1 (0.42%) LabVIEW
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 67 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.55%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.87%) Finance
4 28 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.46%) Banking
6 13 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.52%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.52%) Retail
8 4 (1.68%) International Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) French Language
10 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 29 (12.18%) Architect
3 23 (9.66%) Consultant
4 22 (9.24%) Data Engineer
5 21 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (8.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 19 (7.98%) AWS DevOps
8 18 (7.56%) Senior
9 16 (6.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.46%) Storage Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) SAP Consultant
13 11 (4.62%) Administrator
13 11 (4.62%) DBA
13 11 (4.62%) Infrastructure Architect
14 10 (4.20%) Analyst
14 10 (4.20%) Support Engineer
15 9 (3.78%) SAP HCM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.66%) Kafka
2 17 (7.14%) LDAP
3 15 (6.30%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 13 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.04%) Flash
6 11 (4.62%) REST
6 11 (4.62%) SOAP
6 11 (4.62%) XML
7 8 (3.36%) OAuth
7 8 (3.36%) SAML
7 8 (3.36%) Web Services
8 7 (2.94%) Middleware
9 6 (2.52%) OpenID
10 5 (2.10%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.68%) JSON
11 4 (1.68%) Keycloak
11 4 (1.68%) TIBCO EMS
11 4 (1.68%) Ultra Messaging
12 3 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.66%) Clustering
2 22 (9.24%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.30%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.36%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (3.36%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.94%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.52%) Mainframe
8 6 (2.52%) PKI
8 6 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.10%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.26%) Equities
11 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.26%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.84%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 78 (32.77%) Linux
2 68 (28.57%) Windows
3 26 (10.92%) Windows Server
4 24 (10.08%) VMS
5 18 (7.56%) Amazon Linux
6 15 (6.30%) Ubuntu
7 11 (4.62%) Unix
8 8 (3.36%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (2.52%) Solaris
10 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.26%) AIX
11 3 (1.26%) zOS
12 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.42%) MVS
13 1 (0.42%) SUSE
13 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (26.47%) High Availability
2 56 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
3 54 (22.69%) DevOps
4 51 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 50 (21.01%) Disaster Recovery
6 48 (20.17%) Migration
7 40 (16.81%) Agile
8 34 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 33 (13.87%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (12.61%) Change Management
11 25 (10.50%) Configuration Management
11 25 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (10.50%) ITIL
12 22 (9.24%) Data Modelling
13 20 (8.40%) Analytics
13 20 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (7.98%) Cloud Security
14 19 (7.98%) Data Protection
14 19 (7.98%) Patch Management
15 17 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 61 (25.63%) Python
2 59 (24.79%) PowerShell
3 48 (20.17%) SQL
4 22 (9.24%) Groovy
5 18 (7.56%) Bash
6 17 (7.14%) Java
7 13 (5.46%) Perl
8 9 (3.78%) ABAP
9 8 (3.36%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.94%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Go
11 2 (0.84%) JCL
11 2 (0.84%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) AWK
12 1 (0.42%) CLIST
12 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.42%) REXX
12 1 (0.42%) sed
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (29.83%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.92%) Degree
4 21 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 18 (7.56%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.88%) Azure Certification
8 10 (4.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (3.78%) VCAP
10 4 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.68%) MCSA
10 4 (1.68%) MCSE
10 4 (1.68%) OCP
10 4 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.84%) CCNP
12 2 (0.84%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.46%) GDPR
3 6 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.68%) QA
5 3 (1.26%) 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%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (22.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 36 (15.13%) Docker
4 27 (11.34%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (10.92%) NFS
6 25 (10.50%) vSphere
7 18 (7.56%) DFS Replication
8 13 (5.46%) GPFS
9 11 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (4.20%) Dovecot
10 10 (4.20%) Postfix
10 10 (4.20%) Squid
11 8 (3.36%) Brightmail
11 8 (3.36%) ISA Server
11 8 (3.36%) VMware NSX
12 7 (2.94%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
14 4 (1.68%) Veritas File System
14 4 (1.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 4 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (16.39%) Terraform
2 26 (10.92%) Grafana
2 26 (10.92%) Prometheus
3 25 (10.50%) Kubernetes
4 18 (7.56%) Ansible
5 13 (5.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (5.04%) vCenter Server
6 12 (5.04%) vRealize
7 10 (4.20%) Nessus
7 10 (4.20%) Proxmox
8 9 (3.78%) SCCM
9 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (2.94%) Data Guard
10 7 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.52%) Kibana
11 6 (2.52%) logstash
11 6 (2.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 5 (2.10%) SCOM
13 4 (1.68%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 65 (27.31%) VMware
2 54 (22.69%) Microsoft
3 38 (15.97%) ServiceNow
4 35 (14.71%) Oracle
5 31 (13.03%) IBM
6 26 (10.92%) Cisco
6 26 (10.92%) NetApp
7 19 (7.98%) SAP
7 19 (7.98%) Veeam
8 14 (5.88%) Dell
9 12 (5.04%) EMC
10 10 (4.20%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (3.36%) TIBCO
12 6 (2.52%) Confluent
13 5 (2.10%) Computacenter
13 5 (2.10%) CyberArk
13 5 (2.10%) Google
13 5 (2.10%) Red Hat
13 5 (2.10%) Solace
13 5 (2.10%) SolarWinds