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 23 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 351 423
Rank change year-on-year +13 +72 +19
Contract jobs citing Replication 235 136 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.53% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 1.59% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 80 68
10th Percentile £400 £324 £321
25th Percentile £456 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +3.90%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £591
90th Percentile £638 £660 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £502 £520
% change year-on-year +4.69% -3.46% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £60.13 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £64.31 £24.57 -
Median hourly rate £77.25 £25.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +199.48% -53.10% -21.43%
75th Percentile £79.38 £27.27 £55.70
90th Percentile £89.13 £28.01 £56.12
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £23.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year +227.47% -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 11,770 8,574 11,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.93% 33.41% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,485 5,282 7,677
10th Percentile £280 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £668 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 257 759
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.82 £24.18 £16.71
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +15.21% +42.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.15 £83.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £33.27 £31.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.62% +40.09%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -9 103 £580 +10.27% 17
South East +4 47 £525 +7.14% 16
Midlands -27 28 £401 +0.25% 14
North of England -39 28 £456 +1.33% 7
West Midlands -31 26 £401 -2.79% 9
Yorkshire -44 15 £481 +16.61% 1
North West -28 14 £456 +1.33% 6
South West -19 12 £525 -4.20% 3
East of England -26 10 £800 +71.38% 4
East Midlands -25 2 - - 5
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 5 (2.13%) Apache
1 5 (2.13%) Confluence
2 4 (1.70%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (1.28%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.28%) nginx
3 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.28%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.11%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.26%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.28%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.85%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.77%) Azure
2 58 (24.68%) AWS
3 28 (11.91%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.38%) GitHub
4 15 (6.38%) SuccessFactors
5 12 (5.11%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.68%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.26%) Serverless
8 9 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (3.83%) Snowflake
8 9 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.98%) OCI
11 6 (2.55%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (21.28%) DNS
2 36 (15.32%) SAN
3 33 (14.04%) DHCP
3 33 (14.04%) NAS
4 31 (13.19%) Kerberos
5 26 (11.06%) Firewall
6 10 (4.26%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (4.26%) iSCSI
7 6 (2.55%) VSAN
8 5 (2.13%) SSH
9 4 (1.70%) FTP
9 4 (1.70%) HTTP
9 4 (1.70%) IPv4
9 4 (1.70%) SMTP
10 3 (1.28%) IMAP
10 3 (1.28%) LAN
10 3 (1.28%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.28%) VPN
10 3 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.79%) Amazon RDS
1 23 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.11%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.68%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.40%) MySQL
6 8 (3.40%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.55%) Couchbase
8 6 (2.55%) Power BI
9 5 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.13%) DB2
9 5 (2.13%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.26%) Git
3 6 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (2.13%) JIRA
5 4 (1.70%) DBeaver
5 4 (1.70%) Vagrant
6 3 (1.28%) GitLab
7 2 (0.85%) Subversion
7 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.43%) gulp
8 1 (0.43%) LSMW
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 53 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.62%) Finance
3 27 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.81%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.40%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.55%) Retail
8 5 (2.13%) Banking
8 5 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.28%) Legal
9 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Police
10 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (10.21%) Architect
2 23 (9.79%) Consultant
3 19 (8.09%) Analyst
3 19 (8.09%) Data Engineer
3 19 (8.09%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (7.66%) Senior
5 16 (6.81%) DBA
5 16 (6.81%) Storage Analyst
6 12 (5.11%) SAP Consultant
7 11 (4.68%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (4.68%) SQL DBA
8 9 (3.83%) SAP HCM Consultant
8 9 (3.83%) Wintel Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) Developer
9 8 (3.40%) Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (2.55%) Azure Developer
10 6 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.55%) Subject Matter Expert
10 6 (2.55%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.47%) LDAP
2 22 (9.36%) OAuth
2 22 (9.36%) SAML
3 18 (7.66%) Flash
4 16 (6.81%) Kafka
5 11 (4.68%) SOAP
6 10 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 9 (3.83%) XML
8 8 (3.40%) Web Services
9 7 (2.98%) OpenID
9 7 (2.98%) REST
10 6 (2.55%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.28%) Keycloak
12 2 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.85%) JSON
12 2 (0.85%) SAP ALE
12 2 (0.85%) Ultra Messaging
13 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.91%) Clustering
2 20 (8.51%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.11%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.68%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.55%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.70%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.70%) PKI
9 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.28%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.28%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.85%) Life Science
10 2 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.28%) Linux
2 48 (20.43%) Windows
3 39 (16.60%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.26%) Unix
5 7 (2.98%) VMS
6 6 (2.55%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.85%) Solaris
10 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.77%) Migration
2 68 (28.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 68 (28.94%) High Availability
3 52 (22.13%) Performance Tuning
4 36 (15.32%) DevOps
5 35 (14.89%) Agile
6 34 (14.47%) CI/CD
7 28 (11.91%) Capacity Planning
8 26 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (10.64%) RBAC
10 23 (9.79%) Data Modelling
10 23 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (8.09%) Data Migration
12 19 (8.09%) Validation
13 17 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.81%) Analytics
14 16 (6.81%) Containerisation
14 16 (6.81%) Identity Access Management
14 16 (6.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (31.91%) PowerShell
2 41 (17.45%) SQL
3 39 (16.60%) Python
4 14 (5.96%) Bash
5 9 (3.83%) ABAP
5 9 (3.83%) T-SQL
6 7 (2.98%) Groovy
7 6 (2.55%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.13%) Java
8 5 (2.13%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.70%) Perl
10 2 (0.85%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) Bicep
11 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 89 (37.87%) Security Cleared
2 66 (28.09%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (6.81%) Degree
5 14 (5.96%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (5.11%) VCAP
8 10 (4.26%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.40%) MCSA
9 8 (3.40%) MCSE
10 7 (2.98%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.13%) OCP
11 5 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.85%) VCDX
14 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.64%) GDPR
2 17 (7.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 13 (5.53%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.98%) QA
5 4 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.28%) SLA
7 2 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.85%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.85%) NIST
8 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) COBIT
8 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (24.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (21.70%) Active Directory
3 39 (16.60%) NFS
4 34 (14.47%) VMware ESXi
5 32 (13.62%) vSphere
6 19 (8.09%) Docker
7 18 (7.66%) GPFS
8 13 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (2.13%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.70%) DFS Replication
10 4 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.28%) Dovecot
11 3 (1.28%) Postfix
11 3 (1.28%) Squid
11 3 (1.28%) SRDF
12 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (0.85%) Veritas File System
12 2 (0.85%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (16.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 23 (9.79%) Terraform
3 21 (8.94%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (7.66%) Ansible
4 18 (7.66%) Kubernetes
5 15 (6.38%) vRealize
6 12 (5.11%) vCenter Server
7 11 (4.68%) Grafana
7 11 (4.68%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.40%) SCCM
8 8 (3.40%) vMotion
9 6 (2.55%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (2.55%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (2.13%) Data Guard
10 5 (2.13%) SCOM
11 4 (1.70%) Kibana
11 4 (1.70%) logstash
11 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.28%) Nessus
12 3 (1.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 71 (30.21%) VMware
2 68 (28.94%) Microsoft
3 33 (14.04%) Oracle
4 29 (12.34%) IBM
4 29 (12.34%) ServiceNow
5 28 (11.91%) Cisco
6 19 (8.09%) SAP
7 18 (7.66%) NetApp
8 14 (5.96%) Okta
9 12 (5.11%) Pure Storage
10 11 (4.68%) EMC
11 10 (4.26%) Commvault
12 7 (2.98%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.98%) Veeam
13 6 (2.55%) Confluent
13 6 (2.55%) Dell
13 6 (2.55%) RedGate
14 5 (2.13%) Computacenter
15 4 (1.70%) Databricks
15 4 (1.70%) Isilon