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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 358 425
Rank change year-on-year +28 +67 +56
Contract jobs citing Replication 224 151 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 1.55% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 86 85
10th Percentile £364 £369 £350
25th Percentile £458 £452 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +4.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £578
90th Percentile £673 £690 £683
UK median daily rate £520 £526 £510
% change year-on-year -1.14% +3.14% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £61.55 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £64.25 £24.57 £55.00
Median hourly rate £71.50 £25.80 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year +177.19% -54.26% -19.43%
75th Percentile £82.63 £27.27 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.30 £28.01 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £23.59 £56.40
% change year-on-year +203.09% -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 11,187 9,716 12,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.13% 32.04% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,048 5,852 8,375
10th Percentile £285 £294 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £748 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 306 460
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.82 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £23.59 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%
75th Percentile £57.63 £67.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +4 102 £550 - 13
South East +11 41 £550 +22.22% 14
Midlands +2 41 £475 +15.15% 13
West Midlands +8 38 £475 +18.75% 6
North of England -37 17 £475 +0.53% 18
South West -9 15 £520 -5.11% 10
East of England -3 11 £800 - 5
North West -16 9 £450 -4.76% 8
Yorkshire -35 8 £487 -11.45% 9
East Midlands -17 3 - - 7
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 25 (11.16%) Confluence
2 12 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.91%) nginx
3 11 (4.91%) SharePoint
4 10 (4.46%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (4.46%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (4.46%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (4.46%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (4.46%) Office Communications Server
4 10 (4.46%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (4.46%) Skype for Business
5 8 (3.57%) Oracle Application Server
6 4 (1.79%) MQSeries
7 3 (1.34%) Apache
7 3 (1.34%) CICS
7 3 (1.34%) GeoServer
7 3 (1.34%) Smallworld
8 2 (0.89%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 13 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.45%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 12 (5.36%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.46%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.45%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.48%) AWS
2 58 (25.89%) Azure
3 28 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 28 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 26 (11.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 26 (11.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 22 (9.82%) AWS KMS
6 20 (8.93%) Amazon ELB
7 18 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
9 13 (5.80%) Serverless
10 12 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.36%) GitHub
11 11 (4.91%) Route 53
11 11 (4.91%) SaaS
11 11 (4.91%) Snowflake
12 10 (4.46%) Amazon Glacier
13 8 (3.57%) Power Platform
14 7 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 61 (27.23%) DNS
2 47 (20.98%) Firewall
3 40 (17.86%) SAN
4 22 (9.82%) DHCP
4 22 (9.82%) SSH
5 20 (8.93%) FTP
5 20 (8.93%) HTTP
5 20 (8.93%) SMTP
6 17 (7.59%) NAS
7 14 (6.25%) VPN
8 12 (5.36%) iSCSI
8 12 (5.36%) VLAN
9 11 (4.91%) TCP/IP
10 10 (4.46%) DDNS
10 10 (4.46%) IMAP
10 10 (4.46%) OpenLDAP
11 8 (3.57%) WAN
12 7 (3.13%) LAN
13 6 (2.68%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (2.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.30%) Amazon RDS
1 41 (18.30%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 14 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.36%) Oracle Database
6 11 (4.91%) MongoDB
7 9 (4.02%) Oracle Exadata
7 9 (4.02%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (4.02%) Redis
8 8 (3.57%) DB2
8 8 (3.57%) Oracle ODI
8 8 (3.57%) Power BI
8 8 (3.57%) Star Schema
9 7 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.13%) MySQL
10 6 (2.68%) Couchbase
11 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.39%) Git
3 27 (12.05%) JIRA
4 20 (8.93%) Vagrant
5 8 (3.57%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.79%) Subversion
6 4 (1.79%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.34%) GitLab
8 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.45%) CANoe
9 1 (0.45%) gulp
9 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 61 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.41%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.29%) Finance
4 25 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.80%) Banking
6 13 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.68%) Retail
8 5 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.79%) International Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Electronics
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (15.18%) Platform Engineer
2 26 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (10.27%) Architect
4 22 (9.82%) Consultant
5 21 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (8.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 19 (8.48%) AWS DevOps
7 19 (8.48%) Data Engineer
8 16 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (6.25%) Senior
11 12 (5.36%) Administrator
11 12 (5.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.36%) DBA
11 12 (5.36%) SAP Consultant
11 12 (5.36%) Storage Engineer
11 12 (5.36%) Support Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Analyst
12 10 (4.46%) Exchange Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Exchange Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.61%) Kafka
2 15 (6.70%) LDAP
2 15 (6.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 15 (6.70%) XML
3 12 (5.36%) Flash
4 11 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.91%) REST
5 9 (4.02%) SOAP
6 8 (3.57%) JSON
6 8 (3.57%) Web Services
7 7 (3.13%) Middleware
7 7 (3.13%) OAuth
7 7 (3.13%) SAML
8 6 (2.68%) OpenID
9 5 (2.23%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.79%) EDIFACT
10 4 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.79%) Keycloak
10 4 (1.79%) TIBCO EMS
10 4 (1.79%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.82%) Data Centre
2 20 (8.93%) Clustering
3 15 (6.70%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.57%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.68%) Mainframe
8 6 (2.68%) PKI
8 6 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.23%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.34%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.34%) Equities
11 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.34%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.89%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 81 (36.16%) Linux
2 67 (29.91%) Windows
3 25 (11.16%) VMS
4 21 (9.38%) Windows Server
5 20 (8.93%) Amazon Linux
6 15 (6.70%) Ubuntu
7 11 (4.91%) Unix
8 10 (4.46%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (2.68%) Solaris
11 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.34%) AIX
12 3 (1.34%) zOS
13 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.45%) MVS
14 1 (0.45%) SUSE
14 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (25.89%) DevOps
2 57 (25.45%) High Availability
3 51 (22.77%) CI/CD
4 49 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
5 41 (18.30%) Disaster Recovery
5 41 (18.30%) Migration
6 40 (17.86%) Agile
7 35 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (14.29%) Change Management
8 32 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (12.05%) Configuration Management
10 26 (11.61%) ITIL
11 24 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (9.38%) Cloud Security
12 21 (9.38%) Patch Management
13 19 (8.48%) Data Protection
14 18 (8.04%) Analytics
14 18 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (7.59%) Data Modelling
15 17 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 62 (27.68%) Python
2 55 (24.55%) PowerShell
3 48 (21.43%) SQL
4 24 (10.71%) Groovy
5 23 (10.27%) Java
6 19 (8.48%) Bash
7 15 (6.70%) Perl
8 9 (4.02%) ABAP
9 8 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.13%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.89%) AWK
11 2 (0.89%) Go
11 2 (0.89%) JCL
11 2 (0.89%) PHP
11 2 (0.89%) sed
12 1 (0.45%) CLIST
12 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.45%) REXX
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (30.80%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.61%) Degree
4 20 (8.93%) DV Cleared
5 18 (8.04%) AWS Certification
6 15 (6.70%) Azure Certification
7 13 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.79%) OCP
9 4 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.79%) VCAP
10 3 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.89%) CCNA
11 2 (0.89%) CCNP
11 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.45%) CCDP
12 1 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.80%) Data Quality
1 13 (5.80%) GDPR
2 5 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.79%) QA
4 3 (1.34%) SLA
5 2 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (24.11%) Active Directory
2 48 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (18.30%) Docker
4 25 (11.16%) NFS
5 21 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (8.93%) DFS Replication
7 19 (8.48%) vSphere
8 14 (6.25%) GPFS
9 10 (4.46%) Brightmail
9 10 (4.46%) Dovecot
9 10 (4.46%) ISA Server
9 10 (4.46%) Postfix
9 10 (4.46%) Squid
10 7 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (2.68%) Hyper-V
11 6 (2.68%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.79%) Veritas File System
12 4 (1.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 4 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (17.86%) Terraform
2 27 (12.05%) Grafana
2 27 (12.05%) Prometheus
3 26 (11.61%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.80%) Ansible
5 12 (5.36%) vRealize
6 11 (4.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (4.46%) Nessus
7 10 (4.46%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.02%) SCCM
9 8 (3.57%) vCenter Server
10 7 (3.13%) Data Guard
10 7 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (3.13%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (2.23%) SCOM
13 4 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.79%) Kibana
13 4 (1.79%) logstash
Vendors
1 57 (25.45%) VMware
2 52 (23.21%) Microsoft
3 39 (17.41%) ServiceNow
4 36 (16.07%) Oracle
5 30 (13.39%) IBM
6 22 (9.82%) Cisco
7 21 (9.38%) NetApp
8 18 (8.04%) Veeam
9 17 (7.59%) SAP
10 13 (5.80%) Dell
11 10 (4.46%) Confluent
11 10 (4.46%) EMC
11 10 (4.46%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (3.57%) TIBCO
13 6 (2.68%) Red Hat
14 5 (2.23%) Computacenter
14 5 (2.23%) CyberArk
14 5 (2.23%) Google
14 5 (2.23%) Solace
14 5 (2.23%) SolarWinds