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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 344 388
Rank change year-on-year -45 +44 +42
Contract jobs citing Replication 263 176 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.63% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.73% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 109 84
10th Percentile £358 £352 £366
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.94% +0.19%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £607
90th Percentile £688 £675 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £63.95 £67.18 -
25th Percentile £69.13 £69.31 -
Median hourly rate £78.00 £73.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £86.63 £76.81 -
90th Percentile £91.65 £78.73 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 -
% change year-on-year +2.39% - -

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 15,836 10,154 10,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.34% 36.36% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,511 6,358 6,064
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.27% -1.32%
75th Percentile £644 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £527
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.28% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,155 528 372
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.13 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +24.59%
75th Percentile £67.77 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.32 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.13 £49.75
% change year-on-year +28.00% -43.47% +11.17%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -37 130 £550 -1.12% 111
North of England -13 69 £485 +2.11% 38
North West -12 40 £485 +7.78% 28
Yorkshire -12 26 £517 -26.21% 8
East of England -10 17 £600 +26.32% 7
South West -35 15 £665 +33.00% 6
Midlands -62 15 £448 -5.79% 6
West Midlands -70 11 £449 -5.53% 4
South East -83 9 £521 +1.71% 32
East Midlands -9 3 £404 - 2
North East - 3 £425 - 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 11 (4.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (3.80%) Confluence
3 7 (2.66%) CMS
4 5 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.76%) Apache
6 2 (0.76%) IIS
6 2 (0.76%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.76%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 8 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.90%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.14%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.76%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.76%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.38%) Actimize
6 1 (0.38%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.38%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.80%) AWS
2 79 (30.04%) Azure
3 24 (9.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 22 (8.37%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (7.60%) AWS KMS
6 20 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.22%) GCP
8 15 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (5.32%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.32%) GitHub
10 13 (4.94%) OCI
11 12 (4.56%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (4.56%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.18%) Adobe Analytics
13 10 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (2.28%) SuccessFactors
16 5 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.79%) SAN
2 27 (10.27%) DNS
3 21 (7.98%) Firewall
4 13 (4.94%) SSL
4 13 (4.94%) VLAN
5 12 (4.56%) NAS
6 11 (4.18%) DHCP
6 11 (4.18%) VPN
7 10 (3.80%) Network Security
8 9 (3.42%) Kerberos
9 8 (3.04%) TCP/IP
10 6 (2.28%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (2.28%) OpenLDAP
10 6 (2.28%) VSAN
11 4 (1.52%) SSH
11 4 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.14%) Broadband
12 3 (1.14%) IPv4
12 3 (1.14%) IPv6
12 3 (1.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (19.39%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (16.35%) SQL Server
3 31 (11.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 30 (11.41%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (10.27%) MySQL
6 20 (7.60%) Oracle Database
7 15 (5.70%) Redis
7 15 (5.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (4.94%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.56%) Power BI
10 11 (4.18%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.80%) Relational Database
12 9 (3.42%) NoSQL
13 8 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (3.04%) SAP HANA
14 7 (2.66%) RDBMS
14 7 (2.66%) Sybase ASE
15 6 (2.28%) Db2
16 5 (1.90%) Metadata
17 4 (1.52%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 28 (10.65%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.98%) Git
3 19 (7.22%) JIRA
4 11 (4.18%) GitLab
5 4 (1.52%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.14%) MLflow
6 3 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.14%) Toad
7 2 (0.76%) Selenium
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.76%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.38%) Flyway
8 1 (0.38%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.38%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 100 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.83%) Finance
3 36 (13.69%) Documentation Skills
4 24 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.37%) Banking
6 15 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.18%) Marketing
8 7 (2.66%) Advertising
8 7 (2.66%) Publishing
9 6 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.76%) Billing
12 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 55 (20.91%) DBA
2 44 (16.73%) Senior
3 31 (11.79%) Architect
4 26 (9.89%) Administrator
4 26 (9.89%) Storage Engineer
5 24 (9.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (8.37%) Lead
7 20 (7.60%) Consultant
8 19 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (6.84%) SQL DBA
10 14 (5.32%) Technical Specialist
11 12 (4.56%) Senior DBA
12 9 (3.42%) Analyst
12 9 (3.42%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.42%) Web Specialist
12 9 (3.42%) Wintel Engineer
13 8 (3.04%) Active Directory Engineer
13 8 (3.04%) SC Cleared DBA
14 7 (2.66%) AWS DevOps
14 7 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.91%) Terraform
2 17 (6.46%) Kafka
3 13 (4.94%) LDAP
4 12 (4.56%) HTML
5 11 (4.18%) CSS
6 9 (3.42%) Flash
7 8 (3.04%) Middleware
8 7 (2.66%) Keycloak
8 7 (2.66%) SAML
9 6 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.28%) OAuth
9 6 (2.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.90%) REST
10 5 (1.90%) Web Services
11 3 (1.14%) eBPF
11 3 (1.14%) JSON
11 3 (1.14%) Loki
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Streams
11 3 (1.14%) Spring
11 3 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.41%) Clustering
2 27 (10.27%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.60%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (4.18%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.66%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.66%) PKI
7 6 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.90%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (1.90%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.52%) CMDB
9 4 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 83 (31.56%) Linux
2 55 (20.91%) Windows
3 43 (16.35%) Windows Server
4 21 (7.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (7.60%) Unix
6 12 (4.56%) CentOS
6 12 (4.56%) Rocky
7 11 (4.18%) VMS
8 9 (3.42%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (2.28%) AIX
10 5 (1.90%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.52%) zOS
12 1 (0.38%) SUSE
12 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.22%) Performance Tuning
2 79 (30.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 77 (29.28%) High Availability
4 64 (24.33%) DevOps
5 57 (21.67%) Migration
6 52 (19.77%) CI/CD
6 52 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (18.63%) Data Modelling
8 42 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (15.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (12.17%) Root Cause Analysis
11 30 (11.41%) Agile
12 29 (11.03%) Capacity Planning
12 29 (11.03%) Validation
13 27 (10.27%) AI
14 26 (9.89%) Analytics
15 25 (9.51%) Business Continuity
15 25 (9.51%) Secrets Management
16 24 (9.13%) Runbook
16 24 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.62%) SQL
2 62 (23.57%) PowerShell
3 55 (20.91%) Python
4 19 (7.22%) Groovy
5 18 (6.84%) Bash
6 16 (6.08%) Java
6 16 (6.08%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.56%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.80%) Perl
9 5 (1.90%) ABAP
10 4 (1.52%) Bicep
10 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.14%) CQL
11 3 (1.14%) Go
11 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.76%) JCL
12 2 (0.76%) Rust
12 2 (0.76%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 106 (40.30%) Security Cleared
2 84 (31.94%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.65%) Degree
4 23 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (7.98%) AWS Certification
5 21 (7.98%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.94%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (4.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (3.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 8 (3.04%) MCSA
10 8 (3.04%) MCSE
10 8 (3.04%) VCAP
11 4 (1.52%) OCP
11 4 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.14%) NCDA
12 3 (1.14%) NCIE
12 3 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.94%) QA
2 10 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.28%) SLA
5 5 (1.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.76%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (13.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (12.55%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (11.41%) Docker
4 26 (9.89%) Active Directory
4 26 (9.89%) vSphere
5 19 (7.22%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (4.56%) Oracle RAC
7 11 (4.18%) NFS
8 9 (3.42%) GPFS
9 8 (3.04%) Firmware
9 8 (3.04%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (1.52%) SRDF
11 3 (1.14%) ACF2
11 3 (1.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (1.14%) RACF
12 2 (0.76%) Corosync
12 2 (0.76%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.76%) Postfix
12 2 (0.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 42 (15.97%) Ansible
2 27 (10.27%) Prometheus
3 25 (9.51%) Grafana
4 23 (8.75%) Kubernetes
5 15 (5.70%) NetBackup
6 13 (4.94%) vCenter Server
7 11 (4.18%) SCOM
8 10 (3.80%) Data Guard
8 10 (3.80%) Oracle RMAN
9 7 (2.66%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (2.28%) vRealize
11 4 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.52%) Argo
11 4 (1.52%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 4 (1.52%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (1.52%) Rancher
11 4 (1.52%) SnapMirror
11 4 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 61 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.49%) Oracle
3 44 (16.73%) VMware
4 36 (13.69%) ServiceNow
5 28 (10.65%) Veeam
6 27 (10.27%) NetApp
7 23 (8.75%) IBM
8 22 (8.37%) Cisco
8 22 (8.37%) SAP
9 18 (6.84%) Dell
10 13 (4.94%) Google
11 11 (4.18%) Adobe
12 9 (3.42%) EMC
12 9 (3.42%) Red Hat
13 8 (3.04%) Brocade
13 8 (3.04%) Databricks
13 8 (3.04%) Dynatrace
14 7 (2.66%) Confluent
14 7 (2.66%) Sybase
15 6 (2.28%) BMC
205 Replication jobs in England