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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 350 418
Rank change year-on-year +13 +68 +11
Contract jobs citing Replication 243 134 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.52% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 1.56% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 78 69
10th Percentile £400 £321 £323
25th Percentile £456 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £573 £588
90th Percentile £638 £626 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +5.00%
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 12,040 8,581 11,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.98% 33.38% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,668 5,315 7,613
10th Percentile £283 £275 £257
25th Percentile £409 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £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 593 265 752
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £16.47
Median hourly rate £33.50 £37.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +17.46% +40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.50 £83.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £32.81 £30.58
% change year-on-year -0.18% +7.29% +36.00%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -12 107 £585 +11.32% 11
South East +1 48 £525 +7.14% 8
Midlands -24 30 £401 +0.25% 13
North of England -50 29 £456 +1.33% 10
West Midlands -20 28 £401 -2.79% 9
Yorkshire -53 16 £481 +20.25% 2
North West -24 14 £456 +1.33% 8
South West -24 12 £525 -4.20% 2
East of England -27 10 £800 +71.38% 4
East Midlands -24 2 - - 4
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 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.06%) Apache
2 5 (2.06%) Confluence
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.23%) nginx
4 3 (1.23%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 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 80 (32.92%) Azure
2 61 (25.10%) AWS
3 28 (11.52%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.17%) GitHub
4 15 (6.17%) SuccessFactors
5 14 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (4.94%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.53%) Amazon S3
7 11 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.70%) Snowflake
8 9 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.29%) Serverless
10 7 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.47%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.47%) Route 53
11 6 (2.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.81%) DNS
2 37 (15.23%) SAN
3 34 (13.99%) NAS
4 33 (13.58%) DHCP
5 31 (12.76%) Kerberos
6 26 (10.70%) Firewall
7 11 (4.53%) Fibre Channel
8 10 (4.12%) iSCSI
9 7 (2.88%) VSAN
10 5 (2.06%) SSH
11 4 (1.65%) FTP
11 4 (1.65%) HTTP
11 4 (1.65%) IPv4
11 4 (1.65%) SMTP
12 3 (1.23%) IMAP
12 3 (1.23%) LAN
12 3 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.23%) VPN
12 3 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.52%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.94%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.70%) MySQL
6 9 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (3.29%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.47%) Power BI
10 5 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.06%) DB2
10 5 (2.06%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (2.06%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.65%) GIS
11 4 (1.65%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.12%) Git
3 6 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (2.06%) JIRA
5 4 (1.65%) DBeaver
5 4 (1.65%) Vagrant
6 3 (1.23%) GitLab
7 2 (0.82%) Subversion
7 2 (0.82%) 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 54 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.58%) Finance
3 27 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.29%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.47%) Retail
8 5 (2.06%) Banking
8 5 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.23%) Legal
9 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Front Office
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Police
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (11.52%) Architect
2 24 (9.88%) Consultant
3 20 (8.23%) Analyst
3 20 (8.23%) Senior
4 17 (7.00%) Data Engineer
4 17 (7.00%) DBA
4 17 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (7.00%) Storage Analyst
5 13 (5.35%) SAP Consultant
6 12 (4.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 12 (4.94%) SQL DBA
7 9 (3.70%) SAP HCM Consultant
7 9 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
8 8 (3.29%) Developer
8 8 (3.29%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (3.29%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (2.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.47%) Subject Matter Expert
10 6 (2.47%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.99%) LDAP
2 22 (9.05%) OAuth
2 22 (9.05%) SAML
3 19 (7.82%) Flash
4 14 (5.76%) Kafka
5 11 (4.53%) SOAP
6 10 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.12%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 9 (3.70%) XML
8 8 (3.29%) Web Services
9 7 (2.88%) OpenID
9 7 (2.88%) REST
10 6 (2.47%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (1.23%) Keycloak
12 2 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.82%) JSON
12 2 (0.82%) SAP ALE
12 2 (0.82%) Ultra Messaging
13 1 (0.41%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.35%) Clustering
2 21 (8.64%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (5.35%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.35%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.47%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.65%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.65%) PKI
8 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.23%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.23%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.23%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.82%) Life Science
9 2 (0.82%) SCADA
9 2 (0.82%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.58%) Linux
1 50 (20.58%) Windows
2 39 (16.05%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.29%) Unix
4 7 (2.88%) VMS
5 6 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.65%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.82%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.92%) Migration
2 74 (30.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 68 (27.98%) High Availability
4 53 (21.81%) Performance Tuning
5 36 (14.81%) Agile
5 36 (14.81%) DevOps
6 32 (13.17%) CI/CD
7 31 (12.76%) Capacity Planning
8 26 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (10.29%) RBAC
10 24 (9.88%) Data Modelling
11 19 (7.82%) Data Migration
11 19 (7.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (7.82%) Validation
12 18 (7.41%) Runbook
13 17 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (7.00%) Data Protection
13 17 (7.00%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (7.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (32.92%) PowerShell
2 44 (18.11%) SQL
3 39 (16.05%) Python
4 16 (6.58%) Bash
5 10 (4.12%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.70%) ABAP
7 7 (2.88%) Groovy
8 5 (2.06%) Java
8 5 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.65%) Perl
9 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
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 95 (39.09%) Security Cleared
2 71 (29.22%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (6.58%) Degree
4 16 (6.58%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (4.94%) VCAP
7 9 (3.70%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.29%) MCSA
8 8 (3.29%) MCSE
9 7 (2.88%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.06%) OCP
10 5 (2.06%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.82%) NCDA
12 2 (0.82%) VCDX
13 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.29%) GDPR
2 17 (7.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 13 (5.35%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.88%) QA
5 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
7 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.82%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.82%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.41%) COBIT
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (23.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (20.99%) Active Directory
3 40 (16.46%) NFS
4 35 (14.40%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (13.58%) vSphere
6 19 (7.82%) Docker
6 19 (7.82%) GPFS
7 13 (5.35%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.06%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (2.06%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.65%) DFS Replication
9 4 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.23%) Dovecot
10 3 (1.23%) Postfix
10 3 (1.23%) Squid
10 3 (1.23%) SRDF
11 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.82%) Firmware
11 2 (0.82%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 38 (15.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 24 (9.88%) Terraform
3 21 (8.64%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (7.41%) Ansible
4 18 (7.41%) Kubernetes
5 16 (6.58%) vRealize
6 12 (4.94%) vCenter Server
7 11 (4.53%) Grafana
7 11 (4.53%) Prometheus
8 8 (3.29%) SCCM
8 8 (3.29%) vMotion
9 6 (2.47%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (2.47%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (2.06%) Data Guard
10 5 (2.06%) SCOM
11 4 (1.65%) Kibana
11 4 (1.65%) logstash
11 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.23%) Nessus
12 3 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 73 (30.04%) VMware
2 71 (29.22%) Microsoft
3 34 (13.99%) Oracle
4 30 (12.35%) Cisco
4 30 (12.35%) ServiceNow
5 29 (11.93%) IBM
6 20 (8.23%) NetApp
6 20 (8.23%) SAP
7 14 (5.76%) Okta
8 12 (4.94%) Pure Storage
9 11 (4.53%) EMC
10 10 (4.12%) Commvault
11 9 (3.70%) Veeam
12 7 (2.88%) SolarWinds
13 6 (2.47%) Dell
13 6 (2.47%) RedGate
14 5 (2.06%) Computacenter
15 4 (1.65%) Confluent
15 4 (1.65%) Isilon
15 4 (1.65%) Zerto