Replication Contracts 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 369 386
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 +56
Contract jobs citing Replication 116 174 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 1.55% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 104 166
10th Percentile £333 £281 £400
25th Percentile £425 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +3.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £585
90th Percentile £675 £703 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.72% +2.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 22
10th Percentile £78.83 - £60.00
25th Percentile £79.03 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £79.35 - £68.00
75th Percentile £79.68 - £75.00
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.35 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.81%

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 8,236 11,252 16,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.26% 30.59% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,346 7,336 11,165
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £412 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 835 557
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.21 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +59.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £82.48 £71.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.91 £34.21 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.74% +55.50% -18.46%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Replication in England

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Replication in England.

Daily rate trend for Replication in England

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in England

Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Replication in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 May 2025. 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 +4 48 £550 +10.00% 31
South East +58 17 £540 -6.09% 9
North of England 0 14 £450 -12.45% 4
South West +33 13 £548 -15.69% 7
East of England +42 11 £467 -1.79% 6
West Midlands +13 10 £450 -26.53% 10
Midlands +12 10 £450 -25.00% 10
Yorkshire +3 9 £510 -0.78% 2
North West +14 5 £450 -10.00% 2
Replication
UK

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.31%) Apache
1 5 (4.31%) Confluence
1 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.59%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (2.59%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (2.59%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (2.59%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.59%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.59%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 2 (1.72%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 2 (1.72%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.24%) AWS
1 20 (17.24%) Azure
2 10 (8.62%) Nutanix
3 9 (7.76%) GitHub
4 6 (5.17%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.17%) GCP
4 6 (5.17%) Snowflake
5 5 (4.31%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (3.45%) IaaS
6 4 (3.45%) PaaS
6 4 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.59%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.52%) DNS
2 12 (10.34%) Firewall
3 9 (7.76%) Kerberos
4 7 (6.03%) SAN
4 7 (6.03%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.31%) DHCP
6 4 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (3.45%) SSH
7 3 (2.59%) 5G
7 3 (2.59%) DDNS
7 3 (2.59%) HTTP
7 3 (2.59%) LTE
7 3 (2.59%) Network Security
7 3 (2.59%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (2.59%) SNMP
7 3 (2.59%) Telnet
7 3 (2.59%) VLAN
7 3 (2.59%) VPN
7 3 (2.59%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.83%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.31%) MySQL
6 4 (3.45%) GIS
6 4 (3.45%) Metadata
6 4 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.59%) Big Data
7 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.59%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (1.72%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (1.72%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.72%) NewSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Git
2 8 (6.90%) TeamCity
3 7 (6.03%) Subversion
4 6 (5.17%) JIRA
5 3 (2.59%) GitLab
6 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.72%) JMeter
6 2 (1.72%) Postman
6 2 (1.72%) Selenium
7 1 (0.86%) Serena SBM
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.86%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.86%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Finance
3 13 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Banking
5 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.45%) Legal
7 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.72%) Automotive
8 2 (1.72%) Billing
8 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Retail
8 2 (1.72%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.86%) International Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Law
9 1 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (13.79%) DBA
2 13 (11.21%) Architect
3 10 (8.62%) Administrator
4 9 (7.76%) Consultant
5 8 (6.90%) Senior
5 8 (6.90%) SQL DBA
6 7 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Linux Administrator
8 5 (4.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Developer
9 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.45%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.59%) Migration Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (5.17%) .NET
2 6 (5.17%) REST
3 5 (4.31%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (4.31%) Kafka
3 5 (4.31%) SOAP
3 5 (4.31%) Web Services
4 4 (3.45%) JSON
4 4 (3.45%) LDAP
4 4 (3.45%) Middleware
5 3 (2.59%) XML
6 2 (1.72%) JWT
6 2 (1.72%) SAML
6 2 (1.72%) SAP BSP
6 2 (1.72%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.86%) FHIR
7 1 (0.86%) Flash
7 1 (0.86%) OAuth
7 1 (0.86%) ODBC
7 1 (0.86%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.83%) Clustering
2 15 (12.93%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.17%) PKI
4 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.59%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.59%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.59%) SCADA
5 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.72%) LPAR
5 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.86%) CMDB
6 1 (0.86%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.00%) Windows
2 27 (23.28%) Linux
3 13 (11.21%) Solaris
4 10 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (8.62%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.03%) Unix
6 5 (4.31%) HPUX
7 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.72%) OS/400
8 2 (1.72%) VMS
8 2 (1.72%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.86%) AIX
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.34%) Disaster Recovery
2 37 (31.90%) High Availability
3 31 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (20.69%) DevOps
5 23 (19.83%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (16.38%) Migration
7 18 (15.52%) CI/CD
8 16 (13.79%) ITIL
9 13 (11.21%) Validation
10 12 (10.34%) Database Security
11 11 (9.48%) Agile
11 11 (9.48%) Configuration Management
11 11 (9.48%) Data Modelling
11 11 (9.48%) Data Security
12 10 (8.62%) Analytics
12 10 (8.62%) Business Continuity
12 10 (8.62%) Data Ingestion
13 9 (7.76%) Data Governance
13 9 (7.76%) ITSM
13 9 (7.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.03%) SQL
2 24 (20.69%) Python
3 13 (11.21%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.48%) Perl
5 9 (7.76%) Bash
6 8 (6.90%) Java
7 7 (6.03%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.17%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.31%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.45%) ABAP
10 4 (3.45%) C#
11 3 (2.59%) Groovy
12 2 (1.72%) Bicep
12 2 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.72%) Go
12 2 (1.72%) RPG
12 2 (1.72%) Scala
12 2 (1.72%) VBScript
13 1 (0.86%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (2.59%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.86%) CISSP
7 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) Degree
7 1 (0.86%) GIAC
7 1 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.86%) VCAP
7 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.79%) GDPR
2 9 (7.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.17%) SLA
4 3 (2.59%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.59%) NIST
5 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.72%) QA
6 1 (0.86%) HL7
6 1 (0.86%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.86%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (16.38%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.48%) Docker
2 11 (9.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.76%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.17%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.59%) Brightmail
6 3 (2.59%) FreeRADIUS
6 3 (2.59%) iptables
6 3 (2.59%) ISA Server
6 3 (2.59%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.59%) vSphere
7 2 (1.72%) NFS
7 2 (1.72%) PowerHA
7 2 (1.72%) Veritas File System
7 2 (1.72%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.86%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.86%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 17 (14.66%) Ansible
2 11 (9.48%) Terraform
3 8 (6.90%) Grafana
4 7 (6.03%) QRadar
5 6 (5.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.17%) logstash
5 6 (5.17%) Puppet
5 6 (5.17%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (5.17%) Tivoli
5 6 (5.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (4.31%) Kibana
6 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.45%) Nagios
7 4 (3.45%) Netcool
7 4 (3.45%) Podman
8 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (16.38%) VMware
2 17 (14.66%) Microsoft
3 13 (11.21%) Splunk
4 11 (9.48%) IBM
5 10 (8.62%) Red Hat
5 10 (8.62%) ServiceNow
6 9 (7.76%) Oracle
6 9 (7.76%) Qualys
6 9 (7.76%) SAP
7 8 (6.90%) CyberArk
8 7 (6.03%) EMC
9 6 (5.17%) SaltStack
10 4 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (3.45%) Sun
10 4 (3.45%) Sybase
11 3 (2.59%) Cisco
11 3 (2.59%) Nokia
11 3 (2.59%) Teradata
11 3 (2.59%) Unisys
11 3 (2.59%) Veeam