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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 353 394
Rank change year-on-year -43 +41 +22
Contract jobs citing Replication 255 170 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.62% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 1.71% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 105 87
10th Percentile £358 £342 £370
25th Percentile £424 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £683 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £519 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +6.46% -11.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £63.95 £67.18 -
25th Percentile £69.13 £69.31 -
Median hourly rate £78.00 £73.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £86.63 £76.81 -
90th Percentile £91.65 £78.73 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 -
% change year-on-year +2.39% - -

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 15,584 9,946 10,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.80% 36.06% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,426 6,248 6,234
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,064 500 408
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.24 £15.12
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.72 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% -42.94% +25.08%
75th Percentile £69.87 £58.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £29.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +29.66% -41.00% +12.36%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -37 121 £534 -4.04% 122
North of England -11 71 £485 +2.11% 36
North West -15 42 £491 +9.09% 25
Yorkshire -20 26 £517 -14.80% 9
Midlands -66 17 £448 -5.79% 7
East of England -15 16 £600 +26.32% 7
South West -37 14 £665 +30.39% 10
West Midlands -67 14 £450 -5.26% 6
South East -88 9 £500 -9.09% 41
North East - 3 £425 - 2
East Midlands -14 2 £404 - 1
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 10 (3.92%) Confluence
2 9 (3.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.96%) CMS
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
5 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.39%) Actimize
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 84 (32.94%) Azure
2 78 (30.59%) AWS
3 24 (9.41%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (7.06%) AWS KMS
8 16 (6.27%) GCP
9 15 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (5.88%) GitHub
10 14 (5.49%) Amazon S3
11 13 (5.10%) OCI
12 12 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.71%) Power Platform
13 10 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.53%) Adobe Analytics
15 7 (2.75%) OpenShift
16 6 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
17 5 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.33%) SAN
2 27 (10.59%) DNS
3 25 (9.80%) Firewall
4 18 (7.06%) VLAN
5 16 (6.27%) NAS
6 14 (5.49%) VPN
7 13 (5.10%) SSL
8 12 (4.71%) DHCP
8 12 (4.71%) VSAN
9 11 (4.31%) Network Security
10 10 (3.92%) Kerberos
11 8 (3.14%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (2.75%) TCP/IP
13 6 (2.35%) OpenLDAP
14 3 (1.18%) Multicast
14 3 (1.18%) SSH
14 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (0.78%) FTP
15 2 (0.78%) HTTP
15 2 (0.78%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (17.25%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (14.90%) SQL Server
3 28 (10.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 26 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (9.41%) MySQL
6 19 (7.45%) Oracle Database
7 16 (6.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (5.49%) Redis
9 12 (4.71%) Power BI
10 10 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.53%) MongoDB
11 9 (3.53%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.14%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.75%) Sybase ASE
14 6 (2.35%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.35%) SAP HANA
15 5 (1.96%) Metadata
16 4 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (1.57%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 29 (11.37%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.84%) Git
3 18 (7.06%) JIRA
4 10 (3.92%) GitLab
5 4 (1.57%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.18%) MLflow
6 3 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.18%) Toad
7 2 (0.78%) Selenium
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.39%) Flyway
8 1 (0.39%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.39%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.39%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.73%) Documentation Skills
2 35 (13.73%) Finance
3 23 (9.02%) Banking
4 22 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.53%) Marketing
7 6 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.96%) Advertising
8 5 (1.96%) Publishing
9 4 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.78%) Billing
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 51 (20.00%) DBA
2 42 (16.47%) Senior
3 31 (12.16%) Architect
4 25 (9.80%) Storage Engineer
5 23 (9.02%) Administrator
5 23 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (8.24%) Lead
7 19 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (7.45%) SQL DBA
8 17 (6.67%) Consultant
9 13 (5.10%) Technical Specialist
10 10 (3.92%) Active Directory Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Analyst
11 9 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.53%) Senior DBA
11 9 (3.53%) Wintel Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Sybase DBA
12 7 (2.75%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.00%) Terraform
2 17 (6.67%) Kafka
3 13 (5.10%) LDAP
4 10 (3.92%) HTML
5 9 (3.53%) CSS
5 9 (3.53%) Flash
6 7 (2.75%) Keycloak
6 7 (2.75%) Middleware
7 6 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 5 (1.96%) OAuth
8 5 (1.96%) SAML
9 3 (1.18%) eBPF
9 3 (1.18%) JSON
9 3 (1.18%) Loki
9 3 (1.18%) Oracle Streams
9 3 (1.18%) Spring
9 3 (1.18%) XML
10 2 (0.78%) LangChain
10 2 (0.78%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.94%) Clustering
2 28 (10.98%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.84%) Enterprise Storage
4 14 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.53%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.75%) Mainframe
7 7 (2.75%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.35%) PKI
9 5 (1.96%) CMDB
9 5 (1.96%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (1.96%) EMC VNX
10 4 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.57%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 84 (32.94%) Linux
2 58 (22.75%) Windows
3 45 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 26 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (6.67%) Unix
6 16 (6.27%) VMS
7 12 (4.71%) CentOS
7 12 (4.71%) Rocky
8 9 (3.53%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (2.35%) AIX
9 6 (2.35%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.57%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (1.57%) SUSE
10 4 (1.57%) zOS
11 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
2 78 (30.59%) High Availability
3 74 (29.02%) Disaster Recovery
4 64 (25.10%) Migration
5 63 (24.71%) DevOps
6 48 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (18.43%) CI/CD
8 44 (17.25%) Data Modelling
8 44 (17.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (12.94%) Capacity Planning
11 31 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
12 30 (11.76%) Agile
12 30 (11.76%) Validation
13 26 (10.20%) Runbook
14 25 (9.80%) AI
14 25 (9.80%) RBAC
15 23 (9.02%) ITIL
15 23 (9.02%) Performance Optimisation
15 23 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (25.10%) SQL
2 63 (24.71%) PowerShell
3 53 (20.78%) Python
4 20 (7.84%) Bash
5 18 (7.06%) Groovy
6 17 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 16 (6.27%) Java
8 10 (3.92%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.92%) Perl
9 4 (1.57%) Bicep
9 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.18%) CQL
10 3 (1.18%) Go
10 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) ABAP
11 2 (0.78%) JCL
11 2 (0.78%) Rust
11 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 100 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 79 (30.98%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.20%) Degree
4 24 (9.41%) Azure Certification
5 23 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (7.84%) AWS Certification
7 15 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (5.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.92%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 10 (3.92%) VCAP
10 9 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (3.14%) MCSA
11 8 (3.14%) MCSE
12 4 (1.57%) OCP
12 4 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.18%) NCDA
13 3 (1.18%) NCIE
13 3 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.10%) QA
2 9 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.75%) GDPR
3 7 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.35%) SLA
5 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.96%) NIST
6 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (15.29%) Virtual Machines
2 37 (14.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (12.55%) vSphere
4 30 (11.76%) Docker
5 26 (10.20%) Active Directory
6 25 (9.80%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (5.10%) NFS
8 11 (4.31%) Hyper-V
8 11 (4.31%) Oracle RAC
9 10 (3.92%) Firmware
10 9 (3.53%) GPFS
11 4 (1.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (1.57%) SRDF
12 3 (1.18%) ACF2
12 3 (1.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (1.18%) RACF
13 2 (0.78%) Corosync
13 2 (0.78%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.78%) Postfix
13 2 (0.78%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (16.08%) Ansible
2 27 (10.59%) Prometheus
3 26 (10.20%) Grafana
3 26 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 19 (7.45%) vCenter Server
5 15 (5.88%) NetBackup
6 11 (4.31%) SCOM
7 10 (3.92%) Data Guard
7 10 (3.92%) Failover Clustering
7 10 (3.92%) Oracle RMAN
8 8 (3.14%) vRealize
8 8 (3.14%) VxRail
9 4 (1.57%) Argo
9 4 (1.57%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 4 (1.57%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (1.57%) Rancher
9 4 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.57%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 58 (22.75%) Microsoft
2 47 (18.43%) VMware
3 41 (16.08%) Oracle
4 36 (14.12%) ServiceNow
5 27 (10.59%) Veeam
6 25 (9.80%) Cisco
6 25 (9.80%) NetApp
7 23 (9.02%) Dell
8 21 (8.24%) IBM
9 14 (5.49%) SAP
10 11 (4.31%) Brocade
10 11 (4.31%) Google
11 9 (3.53%) Adobe
11 9 (3.53%) EMC
11 9 (3.53%) Red Hat
12 8 (3.14%) Databricks
12 8 (3.14%) Sybase
13 7 (2.75%) BMC
13 7 (2.75%) Confluent
13 7 (2.75%) Dynatrace
227 Replication jobs in England