Replication Contract Job Trends in London

Replication
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 277 323
Rank change year-on-year +4 +46 +115
Contract jobs citing Replication 108 93 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.62% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.80% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 49 42
10th Percentile £444 £446 £400
25th Percentile £475 £513 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £586
90th Percentile £650 £760 £744
England median daily rate £513 £547 £525
% change year-on-year -6.31% +4.19% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.59 -
England median hourly rate £71.50 £25.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year +177.19% -53.10% -21.43%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,602 5,157 6,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.94% 34.22% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,589 3,296 4,547
10th Percentile £340 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 66 106
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.86
25th Percentile £19.95 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -12.82%
75th Percentile £46.15 £55.94 £49.68
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Replication relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Replication job vacancy trend in London

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Replication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in London

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Replication.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Replication

Replication
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Central London +6 13 £525 +0.72% 3
South London +8 11 £506 -8.20% 2
East London - 1 £200 - 1
Replication
England

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 14 (12.96%) Confluence
2 11 (10.19%) nginx
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) CICS
4 1 (0.93%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.93%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) Azure
2 27 (25.00%) AWS
3 16 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 13 (12.04%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (12.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (10.19%) AWS KMS
8 10 (9.26%) Amazon ELB
8 10 (9.26%) Route 53
9 9 (8.33%) GitHub
10 8 (7.41%) SaaS
11 6 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
12 5 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.63%) Serverless
13 4 (3.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 4 (3.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (25.93%) DNS
2 23 (21.30%) Firewall
3 12 (11.11%) SSH
4 10 (9.26%) DHCP
4 10 (9.26%) FTP
4 10 (9.26%) HTTP
4 10 (9.26%) IMAP
4 10 (9.26%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (9.26%) SMTP
5 9 (8.33%) SAN
6 7 (6.48%) NAS
7 5 (4.63%) LAN
7 5 (4.63%) TCP/IP
7 5 (4.63%) WAN
8 4 (3.70%) IPv4
8 4 (3.70%) Kerberos
8 4 (3.70%) VSAN
9 3 (2.78%) VPN
10 2 (1.85%) VLAN
10 2 (1.85%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.07%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 18 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (9.26%) DB2
4 7 (6.48%) Oracle Database
5 6 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.63%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (4.63%) Redis
7 4 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.70%) MySQL
8 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.85%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.93%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 20 (18.52%) Git
3 15 (13.89%) JIRA
4 10 (9.26%) Vagrant
5 4 (3.70%) Subversion
5 4 (3.70%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.93%) DBeaver
7 1 (0.93%) GitLab
7 1 (0.93%) gulp
7 1 (0.93%) Maven
7 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.52%) Finance
3 19 (17.59%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (8.33%) Banking
7 7 (6.48%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 6 (5.56%) Retail
9 4 (3.70%) International Banking
10 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.85%) Legal
12 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.93%) French Language
12 1 (0.93%) Police
12 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (16.67%) Architect
2 17 (15.74%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (11.11%) Senior
4 11 (10.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 10 (9.26%) Administrator
5 10 (9.26%) Consultant
6 9 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) DBA
9 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Database Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Linux Administrator
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Database Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.04%) Kafka
1 13 (12.04%) LDAP
2 9 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (8.33%) REST
3 5 (4.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (3.70%) JSON
4 4 (3.70%) Keycloak
4 4 (3.70%) Middleware
4 4 (3.70%) TIBCO EMS
4 4 (3.70%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (3.70%) XML
5 3 (2.78%) AWT
5 3 (2.78%) GWT
5 3 (2.78%) JMS
5 3 (2.78%) Rendezvous
6 2 (1.85%) OAuth
6 2 (1.85%) SAML
7 1 (0.93%) Ajax
7 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.48%) Clustering
2 7 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.78%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.78%) Equities
6 3 (2.78%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.78%) PKI
6 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) CMDB
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (35.19%) Linux
2 26 (24.07%) Windows
3 14 (12.96%) Ubuntu
3 14 (12.96%) VMS
4 10 (9.26%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (9.26%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.63%) Unix
6 4 (3.70%) Solaris
7 3 (2.78%) AIX
7 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (31.48%) DevOps
2 33 (30.56%) Performance Tuning
3 31 (28.70%) CI/CD
4 28 (25.93%) Migration
5 25 (23.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (23.15%) High Availability
6 18 (16.67%) Agile
7 16 (14.81%) Configuration Management
8 15 (13.89%) Change Management
8 15 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (12.04%) Observability
10 11 (10.19%) ITIL
10 11 (10.19%) Patch Management
11 10 (9.26%) Cloud Security
12 9 (8.33%) Change Data Capture
12 9 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (7.41%) Decision-Making
13 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (7.41%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.48%) Python
2 28 (25.93%) SQL
3 27 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 14 (12.96%) Bash
4 14 (12.96%) Groovy
5 4 (3.70%) Java
5 4 (3.70%) Perl
6 3 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.85%) Go
7 2 (1.85%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) ABAP
8 1 (0.93%) AWK
8 1 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.93%) CLIST
8 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.93%) JCL
8 1 (0.93%) REXX
8 1 (0.93%) sed
8 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.37%) Degree
3 19 (17.59%) SC Cleared
4 12 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.85%) CCNP
7 2 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.85%) VCAP
7 2 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.93%) CCDP
8 1 (0.93%) CISA
8 1 (0.93%) CISSP
8 1 (0.93%) OCP
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.93%) PMP
8 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) GDPR
2 5 (4.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
5 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (22.22%) Docker
2 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.26%) DFS Replication
3 10 (9.26%) Dovecot
3 10 (9.26%) Postfix
3 10 (9.26%) Squid
4 9 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.63%) NFS
5 5 (4.63%) vSphere
6 4 (3.70%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (3.70%) Veritas File System
6 4 (3.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (3.70%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.93%) Firmware
9 1 (0.93%) Samba
Systems Management
1 18 (16.67%) Terraform
2 15 (13.89%) Grafana
2 15 (13.89%) Prometheus
3 12 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 10 (9.26%) Nessus
4 10 (9.26%) Proxmox
5 7 (6.48%) Ansible
5 7 (6.48%) SCCM
6 5 (4.63%) SCOM
7 4 (3.70%) Data Guard
7 4 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (3.70%) Kibana
7 4 (3.70%) logstash
7 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.70%) NetBackup
7 4 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (3.70%) QRadar
7 4 (3.70%) Rancher
7 4 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 21 (19.44%) VMware
2 19 (17.59%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.81%) ServiceNow
4 10 (9.26%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (7.41%) Oracle
5 8 (7.41%) TIBCO
6 7 (6.48%) NetApp
6 7 (6.48%) SAP
6 7 (6.48%) Veeam
7 5 (4.63%) IBM
7 5 (4.63%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.63%) Solace
8 4 (3.70%) CyberArk
8 4 (3.70%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.70%) EMC
8 4 (3.70%) Qualys
8 4 (3.70%) SaltStack
8 4 (3.70%) Splunk
9 3 (2.78%) Databricks
9 3 (2.78%) Google