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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 337 392
Rank change year-on-year 0 +55 +39
Contract jobs citing Replication 237 136 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 1.64% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 83 90
10th Percentile £400 £353 £281
25th Percentile £456 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £548 £588
90th Percentile £637 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +1.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £60.20 £23.98 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £24.57 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £25.80 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year +196.57% -54.26% -19.43%
75th Percentile £79.25 £27.27 -
90th Percentile £87.20 £28.01 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £23.59 £56.40
% change year-on-year +224.29% -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 12,155 8,316 11,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.59% 33.59% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,717 5,311 7,674
10th Percentile £290 £288 £256
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £674 £662
90th Percentile £750 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 285 805
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.83 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.06 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.76 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +33.42%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -8 98 £583 +10.85% 14
South East -14 46 £525 +9.38% 21
North of England -38 35 £456 +4.23% 13
Midlands -42 28 £401 -2.79% 13
West Midlands -37 26 £401 -5.65% 8
North West -23 18 £456 +1.33% 10
Yorkshire -43 17 £475 +18.75% 3
South West -31 12 £525 -4.20% 7
East of England -29 10 £800 +71.38% 8
East Midlands -30 2 - - 5
North East -13 1 £425 -
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 6 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.27%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.27%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.06%) SAP Payroll
2 10 (4.22%) SAP HCM
3 4 (1.69%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.27%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (29.96%) Azure
2 55 (23.21%) AWS
3 29 (12.24%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.33%) SuccessFactors
5 14 (5.91%) GitHub
6 13 (5.49%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.22%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.95%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.95%) SaaS
10 6 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.53%) Datadog
10 6 (2.53%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.53%) Serverless
11 5 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (20.68%) DNS
2 39 (16.46%) SAN
3 38 (16.03%) NAS
4 33 (13.92%) DHCP
5 32 (13.50%) Kerberos
6 21 (8.86%) Firewall
7 15 (6.33%) Fibre Channel
8 11 (4.64%) iSCSI
9 8 (3.38%) VSAN
10 4 (1.69%) IPv4
11 3 (1.27%) LAN
11 3 (1.27%) VPN
11 3 (1.27%) WAN
12 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.84%) X.500
13 1 (0.42%) FCoE
13 1 (0.42%) Network Security
13 1 (0.42%) SSH
13 1 (0.42%) VLAN
13 1 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.22%) MySQL
6 9 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.95%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.53%) Power BI
9 5 (2.11%) DB2
9 5 (2.11%) Redis
9 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.69%) GIS
10 4 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
10 4 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.69%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.53%) Git
2 6 (2.53%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.69%) DBeaver
4 3 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) Flyway
5 1 (0.42%) gulp
5 1 (0.42%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.42%) LSMW
5 1 (0.42%) Maven
5 1 (0.42%) Subversion
5 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 51 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.77%) Finance
3 25 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.53%) Retail
8 5 (2.11%) Banking
9 4 (1.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Police
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (11.81%) Architect
2 26 (10.97%) Consultant
3 22 (9.28%) Analyst
4 19 (8.02%) Senior
4 19 (8.02%) Storage Analyst
5 15 (6.33%) Data Engineer
6 14 (5.91%) SAP Consultant
7 13 (5.49%) DBA
7 13 (5.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 11 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.64%) SQL DBA
9 9 (3.80%) SAP HCM Consultant
9 9 (3.80%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Developer
10 8 (3.38%) Storage Engineer
11 7 (2.95%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (2.53%) Database Developer
12 6 (2.53%) SAP Functional Consultant
12 6 (2.53%) SQL Database Developer
12 6 (2.53%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.50%) LDAP
2 22 (9.28%) OAuth
2 22 (9.28%) SAML
3 20 (8.44%) Flash
4 12 (5.06%) SOAP
5 11 (4.64%) Kafka
6 10 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.38%) Web Services
7 8 (3.38%) XML
8 7 (2.95%) OpenID
9 6 (2.53%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (2.11%) REST
11 4 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.69%) Keycloak
12 3 (1.27%) SAP ALE
13 2 (0.84%) SAP Basis
14 1 (0.42%) Ajax
14 1 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
14 1 (0.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.39%) Clustering
2 21 (8.86%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (7.59%) Enterprise Storage
4 16 (6.75%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.53%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
8 4 (1.69%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.69%) PKI
9 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) SCADA
10 2 (0.84%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.41%) Windows
2 44 (18.57%) Linux
3 39 (16.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.53%) Unix
5 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.84%) AIX
6 2 (0.84%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Solaris
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.91%) Migration
2 71 (29.96%) Disaster Recovery
3 65 (27.43%) High Availability
4 47 (19.83%) Performance Tuning
5 36 (15.19%) Agile
6 34 (14.35%) Capacity Planning
7 32 (13.50%) DevOps
8 27 (11.39%) Data Modelling
9 26 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (10.55%) Data Protection
10 25 (10.55%) RBAC
11 24 (10.13%) CI/CD
11 24 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 22 (9.28%) Validation
13 20 (8.44%) Data Migration
14 19 (8.02%) Analytics
14 19 (8.02%) ITIL
15 18 (7.59%) Data Governance
15 18 (7.59%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (32.49%) PowerShell
2 37 (15.61%) SQL
3 29 (12.24%) Python
4 14 (5.91%) Bash
5 10 (4.22%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.80%) ABAP
7 4 (1.69%) Groovy
7 4 (1.69%) Java
8 2 (0.84%) Perl
8 2 (0.84%) PHP
8 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.42%) Bicep
9 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.42%) Korn
9 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 95 (40.08%) Security Cleared
2 69 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (7.17%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.91%) Degree
6 13 (5.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (5.06%) VCAP
8 8 (3.38%) MCSA
8 8 (3.38%) MCSE
9 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.11%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.27%) NCDA
12 3 (1.27%) OCP
12 3 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.84%) VCDX
14 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.28%) GDPR
2 15 (6.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 13 (5.49%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.95%) QA
5 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.27%) SLA
7 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.84%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.84%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) COBIT
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (24.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (21.52%) Active Directory
3 39 (16.46%) NFS
4 34 (14.35%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (13.92%) vSphere
6 19 (8.02%) GPFS
7 15 (6.33%) Docker
8 12 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.27%) Firmware
11 3 (1.27%) SRDF
12 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.42%) Veritas File System
13 1 (0.42%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (16.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 22 (9.28%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (8.02%) Terraform
4 18 (7.59%) Ansible
5 17 (7.17%) Kubernetes
6 16 (6.75%) vRealize
7 12 (5.06%) vCenter Server
8 9 (3.80%) Grafana
8 9 (3.80%) Prometheus
9 8 (3.38%) SCCM
9 8 (3.38%) vMotion
10 6 (2.53%) EMC VPLEX
11 5 (2.11%) NetBackup
11 5 (2.11%) SCOM
12 4 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.69%) Rancher
12 4 (1.69%) VxRail
13 3 (1.27%) Kibana
13 3 (1.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 74 (31.22%) VMware
2 69 (29.11%) Microsoft
3 31 (13.08%) Cisco
4 29 (12.24%) Oracle
5 27 (11.39%) IBM
5 27 (11.39%) ServiceNow
6 23 (9.70%) SAP
7 22 (9.28%) NetApp
8 15 (6.33%) Pure Storage
9 14 (5.91%) EMC
9 14 (5.91%) Okta
10 12 (5.06%) Commvault
11 11 (4.64%) Veeam
12 7 (2.95%) Dell
13 6 (2.53%) Brocade
13 6 (2.53%) RedGate
13 6 (2.53%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.11%) Computacenter
14 5 (2.11%) Isilon
15 4 (1.69%) Zerto