Replication Contracts in the Midlands

Replication
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 117 123
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +86
Contract jobs citing Replication 24 15 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.97% 0.57% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.82% 1.86% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 24
10th Percentile £316 £375 £343
25th Percentile £416 £401 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +0.53% +8.00%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £544
90th Percentile £583 £672 £563
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 850 805 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.25% 30.41% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 512 649
10th Percentile £248 £272 £275
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £648 £738 £701
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 31
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.12 £19.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.78% -30.91% +44.74%
75th Percentile £38.82 £42.88 £59.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.00 £93.75
England median hourly rate £31.00 £45.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -31.11% +10.86% +56.12%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Replication in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Replication in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Replication in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
West Midlands +4 23 £475 - 11
East Midlands -3 1 - -
Replication
England

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (50.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.50%) nginx
3 2 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (4.17%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
2 13 (54.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 13 (54.17%) Amazon EC2
2 13 (54.17%) Amazon S3
2 13 (54.17%) AWS KMS
2 13 (54.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 12 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
4 9 (37.50%) Amazon Glacier
4 9 (37.50%) Azure
5 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (16.67%) Route 53
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) DNS
2 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 12 (50.00%) FTP
2 12 (50.00%) HTTP
2 12 (50.00%) SMTP
2 12 (50.00%) SSH
3 3 (12.50%) IMAP
3 3 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (8.33%) VLAN
4 2 (8.33%) VSAN
5 1 (4.17%) DHCP
5 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.17%) LAN
5 1 (4.17%) SSL
5 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Git
1 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (50.00%) JIRA
1 12 (50.00%) Vagrant
2 1 (4.17%) CANoe
2 1 (4.17%) LabVIEW
General
1 12 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Electronics
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (29.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) SCCM Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) IT Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) LDAP
2 2 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) Linux
3 12 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (50.00%) VMS
4 4 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.17%) SUSE
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 15 (62.50%) DevOps
3 14 (58.33%) Cloud Security
4 13 (54.17%) Change Management
5 12 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 12 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.67%) High Availability
7 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (12.50%) Identity Management
8 3 (12.50%) Migration
8 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 3 (12.50%) Validation
9 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 12 (50.00%) Groovy
2 12 (50.00%) Python
3 9 (37.50%) Java
3 9 (37.50%) Perl
4 6 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.33%) VBScript
6 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) Azure Certification
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
5 3 (12.50%) Degree
6 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 26262
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 12 (50.00%) DFS Replication
2 12 (50.00%) Docker
3 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (12.50%) Dovecot
4 3 (12.50%) Postfix
4 3 (12.50%) Squid
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) Terraform
2 12 (50.00%) Grafana
2 12 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.50%) Nessus
3 3 (12.50%) Proxmox
4 2 (8.33%) Kibana
4 2 (8.33%) logstash
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.33%) SCCM
5 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (8.33%) Veeam
4 2 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) Zerto