Replication Contracts in the North West

Replication
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 136 137
Rank change year-on-year +21 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Replication 5 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.036% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 0.13% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 16
10th Percentile £320 - £425
25th Percentile £388 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.36%
75th Percentile £550 - £550
90th Percentile £685 - -
England median daily rate £545 £507 £505
% change year-on-year +7.50% +0.40% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 - £68.00
% change year-on-year - - +36.00%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Replication in the North West

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Replication in the North West

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the North West

Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Replication in the North West

Replication
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +20 4 £450 - 4
Cheshire - 1 £275 -
Replication
England

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DTS
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
1 1 (20.00%) MSDE
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) HPUX
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) Sun
2 1 (20.00%) Unisys