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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 356 436
Rank change year-on-year +39 +80 +4
Contract jobs citing Replication 243 132 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% 1.52% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 76 66
10th Percentile £400 £353 £325
25th Percentile £456 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £609 £589 £588
90th Percentile £638 £674 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% +5.00%
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 11,538 8,682 11,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 33.05% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,382 5,235 7,845
10th Percentile £276 £268 £253
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £630 £673 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 245 740
10th Percentile £15.42 £18.51 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.58 £24.18 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.75 £37.00 £32.41
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% +14.16% +44.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.84 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -17.14% +8.98% +44.05%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -7 104 £580 +9.02% 9
South East +2 47 £525 +12.30% 10
Midlands -19 37 £402 +7.20% 11
West Midlands -9 35 £402 +0.50% 6
North of England -39 29 £460 +2.22% 12
North West -23 15 £458 +1.78% 7
Yorkshire -43 15 £481 +16.61% 5
South West -15 14 £508 -7.39% 3
East of England -19 10 £800 +71.38% 6
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 11 (4.53%) Confluence
2 7 (2.88%) nginx
3 6 (2.47%) Oracle Application Server
4 5 (2.06%) Apache
5 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
6 3 (1.23%) Smallworld
7 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.82%) Office Communications Server
7 2 (0.82%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.82%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.94%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.12%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.23%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.82%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (32.10%) Azure
2 67 (27.57%) AWS
3 29 (11.93%) Entra ID
4 17 (7.00%) Amazon S3
5 16 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (6.17%) SuccessFactors
6 15 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (5.76%) GitHub
8 13 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.53%) AWS KMS
9 11 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.53%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.53%) Serverless
9 11 (4.53%) Snowflake
10 10 (4.12%) Amazon ELB
11 9 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (24.69%) DNS
2 40 (16.46%) SAN
3 35 (14.40%) DHCP
4 32 (13.17%) Firewall
5 31 (12.76%) Kerberos
6 30 (12.35%) NAS
7 11 (4.53%) iSCSI
7 11 (4.53%) SSH
8 10 (4.12%) FTP
8 10 (4.12%) HTTP
8 10 (4.12%) SMTP
9 9 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (2.88%) IMAP
10 7 (2.88%) OpenLDAP
10 7 (2.88%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.06%) VPN
11 5 (2.06%) VSAN
12 4 (1.65%) IPv4
12 4 (1.65%) VLAN
13 3 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.93%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (5.76%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.94%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.53%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.88%) MySQL
8 7 (2.88%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.88%) Power BI
9 6 (2.47%) Couchbase
9 6 (2.47%) DB2
9 6 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.47%) Oracle ODI
9 6 (2.47%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.06%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (2.06%) Redis
10 5 (2.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.41%) Git
3 11 (4.53%) JIRA
4 10 (4.12%) Vagrant
5 6 (2.47%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.23%) GitLab
7 3 (1.23%) Subversion
7 3 (1.23%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) gulp
8 1 (0.41%) LSMW
8 1 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 58 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.17%) Finance
3 28 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (2.88%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.47%) Retail
7 5 (2.06%) Banking
7 5 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.82%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.41%) Front Office
9 1 (0.41%) Police
9 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
2 23 (9.47%) Architect
2 23 (9.47%) Consultant
3 21 (8.64%) Data Engineer
4 19 (7.82%) Analyst
5 18 (7.41%) Senior
6 16 (6.58%) Storage Analyst
7 14 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (4.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (4.53%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.70%) DBA
11 9 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.70%) SAP HCM Consultant
11 9 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.64%) LDAP
2 22 (9.05%) OAuth
2 22 (9.05%) SAML
3 20 (8.23%) Flash
4 17 (7.00%) Kafka
5 13 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (4.94%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 11 (4.53%) SOAP
7 11 (4.53%) XML
8 10 (4.12%) REST
9 8 (3.29%) Web Services
10 7 (2.88%) OpenID
11 6 (2.47%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (1.65%) JSON
12 4 (1.65%) Keycloak
12 4 (1.65%) Ultra Messaging
13 3 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
14 2 (0.82%) SAP ALE
15 1 (0.41%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.29%) Clustering
2 22 (9.05%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (5.35%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.29%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.47%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.06%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.65%) PKI
10 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.23%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.23%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.82%) EMC VMAX
12 2 (0.82%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 1 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 61 (25.10%) Linux
2 59 (24.28%) Windows
3 40 (16.46%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.76%) VMS
5 10 (4.12%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (4.12%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.70%) Unix
7 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.23%) Solaris
7 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.40%) High Availability
1 69 (28.40%) Migration
2 65 (26.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 53 (21.81%) Performance Tuning
4 45 (18.52%) DevOps
5 44 (18.11%) CI/CD
6 40 (16.46%) Agile
7 26 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (10.70%) RBAC
8 24 (9.88%) Capacity Planning
8 24 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (9.47%) Data Modelling
9 23 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (9.05%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (8.23%) Change Management
12 18 (7.41%) Analytics
13 17 (7.00%) Observability
13 17 (7.00%) Task Automation
13 17 (7.00%) Validation
14 16 (6.58%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (32.92%) PowerShell
2 49 (20.16%) Python
3 39 (16.05%) SQL
4 15 (6.17%) Bash
5 14 (5.76%) Groovy
6 9 (3.70%) ABAP
7 7 (2.88%) Java
7 7 (2.88%) Perl
7 7 (2.88%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.82%) PHP
11 1 (0.41%) Bicep
11 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.41%) Korn
11 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 93 (38.27%) Security Cleared
2 68 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (8.23%) Degree
5 17 (7.00%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.76%) AWS Certification
7 13 (5.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (4.94%) VCAP
9 11 (4.53%) Azure Certification
10 8 (3.29%) MCSA
10 8 (3.29%) MCSE
11 6 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.65%) OCP
12 4 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.82%) VCDX
15 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
15 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.29%) GDPR
2 18 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (6.17%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.65%) QA
5 3 (1.23%) SLA
6 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.82%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (25.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (23.05%) Active Directory
3 40 (16.46%) NFS
4 36 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
5 34 (13.99%) vSphere
6 28 (11.52%) Docker
7 20 (8.23%) GPFS
8 13 (5.35%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (4.12%) DFS Replication
10 7 (2.88%) Dovecot
10 7 (2.88%) Postfix
10 7 (2.88%) Squid
11 5 (2.06%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (2.06%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (1.23%) Veritas File System
13 3 (1.23%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 2 (0.82%) Brightmail
14 2 (0.82%) ISA Server
14 2 (0.82%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 38 (15.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 30 (12.35%) Terraform
3 22 (9.05%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.64%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (8.23%) Ansible
6 18 (7.41%) Grafana
6 18 (7.41%) Prometheus
7 17 (7.00%) vRealize
8 15 (6.17%) vCenter Server
9 9 (3.70%) SCCM
10 7 (2.88%) Nessus
10 7 (2.88%) Proxmox
11 6 (2.47%) Kibana
11 6 (2.47%) logstash
11 6 (2.47%) vMotion
12 5 (2.06%) Data Guard
12 5 (2.06%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (2.06%) SCOM
13 4 (1.65%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 73 (30.04%) VMware
2 71 (29.22%) Microsoft
3 38 (15.64%) ServiceNow
4 36 (14.81%) Oracle
5 32 (13.17%) Cisco
5 32 (13.17%) IBM
6 21 (8.64%) NetApp
7 19 (7.82%) SAP
8 14 (5.76%) Okta
9 11 (4.53%) EMC
10 10 (4.12%) Pure Storage
10 10 (4.12%) Veeam
11 8 (3.29%) Commvault
11 8 (3.29%) Dell
12 7 (2.88%) Jaspersoft
13 6 (2.47%) Confluent
13 6 (2.47%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.06%) Computacenter
15 4 (1.65%) Isilon
15 4 (1.65%) TIBCO