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 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 372 367
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +44
Contract jobs citing Replication 247 131 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.37% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 83 124
10th Percentile £380 £413 £300
25th Percentile £424 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £627
90th Percentile £633 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £516 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.24% -0.48% +3.14%
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 14,861 9,561 11,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.11% 34.86% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,219 6,063 7,183
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 471 716
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -17.78% +10.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £61.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +46.53% -23.57% +12.14%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -40 86 £550 -6.38% 11
North of England -13 74 £483 -5.76% 18
North West -4 47 £480 -36.00% 11
South East -45 42 £525 -8.70% 7
Yorkshire -36 25 £524 +2.40% 5
Midlands -42 21 £449 -5.53% 6
West Midlands -61 19 £449 -5.53% 4
South West -39 11 £556 +3.97% 3
East of England -16 8 £600 +30.93% 5
North East - 3 £425 - 2
East Midlands -13 1 £540 - 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 7 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.02%) Confluence
3 4 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.81%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.81%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 88 (35.63%) Azure
2 64 (25.91%) AWS
3 34 (13.77%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (5.67%) GitHub
6 13 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (3.64%) GCP
7 9 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.64%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.83%) Serverless
10 6 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.02%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.02%) AWS KMS
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.02%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.62%) SAN
2 38 (15.38%) NAS
3 34 (13.77%) DNS
4 20 (8.10%) DHCP
5 19 (7.69%) Kerberos
6 18 (7.29%) VLAN
7 17 (6.88%) Firewall
8 15 (6.07%) VSAN
9 12 (4.86%) Fibre Channel
9 12 (4.86%) VPN
10 9 (3.64%) Network Security
11 6 (2.43%) SSL
12 5 (2.02%) iSCSI
13 4 (1.62%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (1.62%) TCP/IP
14 3 (1.21%) Multicast
15 1 (0.40%) FCoE
15 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
15 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
15 1 (0.40%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (18.22%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.45%) MySQL
5 9 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.64%) Oracle Database
6 8 (3.24%) SAP HANA
7 7 (2.83%) Power BI
7 7 (2.83%) Sybase ASE
8 6 (2.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.43%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (2.43%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.02%) Oracle Database 12c
9 5 (2.02%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (8.50%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.45%) JIRA
3 10 (4.05%) Git
4 6 (2.43%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.21%) ER Studio
5 3 (1.21%) Toad
6 2 (0.81%) Flyway
6 2 (0.81%) GitLab
6 2 (0.81%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.81%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.96%) Finance
3 18 (7.29%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.48%) Banking
5 13 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.02%) Legal
8 4 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (15.79%) DBA
2 31 (12.55%) Senior
3 22 (8.91%) Architect
4 21 (8.50%) SQL DBA
4 21 (8.50%) Storage Engineer
5 16 (6.48%) Administrator
6 15 (6.07%) Consultant
6 15 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.67%) Wintel Engineer
8 12 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.86%) Lead
9 11 (4.45%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (4.05%) Analyst
11 9 (3.64%) Active Directory Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Storage Analyst
12 8 (3.24%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.83%) Developer
13 7 (2.83%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 7 (2.83%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.31%) LDAP
2 14 (5.67%) Flash
3 9 (3.64%) Kafka
4 4 (1.62%) FHIR
4 4 (1.62%) Middleware
4 4 (1.62%) OAuth
4 4 (1.62%) SAML
5 3 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.21%) JSON
5 3 (1.21%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.21%) Oracle Streams
5 3 (1.21%) REST
5 3 (1.21%) SAP Basis
5 3 (1.21%) XML
6 2 (0.81%) EDIFACT
6 2 (0.81%) OpenID
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (0.81%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.81%) Spring
6 2 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.41%) Clustering
2 25 (10.12%) Enterprise Storage
3 22 (8.91%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.48%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.05%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.83%) EMC VMAX
6 7 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.43%) CMDB
8 5 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.62%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.62%) NHS
9 4 (1.62%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.21%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (27.94%) Linux
2 54 (21.86%) Windows
3 34 (13.77%) Windows Server
4 19 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (7.69%) Unix
5 9 (3.64%) VMS
6 6 (2.43%) AIX
6 6 (2.43%) CentOS
6 6 (2.43%) Rocky
7 5 (2.02%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (2.02%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (1.62%) SUSE
9 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (33.60%) Migration
2 77 (31.17%) High Availability
3 75 (30.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 72 (29.15%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (20.65%) DevOps
6 48 (19.43%) Capacity Planning
7 32 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (12.15%) ITIL
9 29 (11.74%) Runbook
10 28 (11.34%) RBAC
11 26 (10.53%) CI/CD
11 26 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (10.53%) Project Delivery
12 25 (10.12%) Agile
13 24 (9.72%) Validation
14 22 (8.91%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (8.50%) Data Protection
15 21 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (8.10%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 77 (31.17%) PowerShell
2 58 (23.48%) SQL
3 46 (18.62%) Python
4 20 (8.10%) Bash
5 17 (6.88%) T-SQL
6 13 (5.26%) Java
7 12 (4.86%) Groovy
8 6 (2.43%) Perl
8 6 (2.43%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.62%) Bicep
9 4 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.81%) Korn
10 2 (0.81%) Rust
11 1 (0.40%) C#
11 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
11 1 (0.40%) VBScript
11 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 108 (43.72%) Security Cleared
2 87 (35.22%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (6.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (5.67%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.67%) VCAP
6 12 (4.86%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.86%) MCSA
6 12 (4.86%) MCSE
7 10 (4.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 8 (3.24%) NCDA
9 7 (2.83%) Degree
10 4 (1.62%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.21%) NCIE
12 2 (0.81%) OCP
12 2 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.86%) QA
2 9 (3.64%) GDPR
3 8 (3.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.43%) NIST
5 5 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.62%) DICOM
6 4 (1.62%) HL7
7 3 (1.21%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.81%) GRC
8 2 (0.81%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
9 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 54 (21.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (16.60%) vSphere
3 37 (14.98%) VMware ESXi
4 33 (13.36%) Active Directory
5 32 (12.96%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (10.93%) NFS
7 17 (6.88%) Docker
8 13 (5.26%) GPFS
9 9 (3.64%) Oracle RAC
10 8 (3.24%) Hyper-V
11 7 (2.83%) Firmware
12 5 (2.02%) SRDF
13 3 (1.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.81%) Corosync
15 1 (0.40%) ACF2
15 1 (0.40%) RACF
15 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
15 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (16.19%) Ansible
2 36 (14.57%) Terraform
3 25 (10.12%) vCenter Server
4 22 (8.91%) Kubernetes
5 15 (6.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (6.07%) NetBackup
5 15 (6.07%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.67%) Grafana
7 12 (4.86%) vRealize
8 10 (4.05%) EMC VPLEX
8 10 (4.05%) VxRail
9 9 (3.64%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (3.24%) Data Guard
10 8 (3.24%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (3.24%) vMotion
11 7 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (2.02%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (1.62%) SCOM
13 4 (1.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 68 (27.53%) VMware
2 62 (25.10%) Microsoft
3 37 (14.98%) Cisco
4 34 (13.77%) Oracle
5 31 (12.55%) ServiceNow
6 27 (10.93%) NetApp
7 21 (8.50%) SAP
8 19 (7.69%) IBM
8 19 (7.69%) Veeam
9 17 (6.88%) Pure Storage
10 16 (6.48%) Brocade
10 16 (6.48%) Dell
11 11 (4.45%) EMC
12 10 (4.05%) Commvault
12 10 (4.05%) Red Hat
13 8 (3.24%) SolarWinds
13 8 (3.24%) Sybase
14 7 (2.83%) Google
15 6 (2.43%) Dynatrace
15 6 (2.43%) RedGate