Replication Contracts in Scotland

Replication
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 120 153
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 +26
Contract jobs citing Replication 13 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.81% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 1.10% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 10
10th Percentile £495 £412 £434
25th Percentile £567 £425 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £475 £503
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -5.47% -8.64%
75th Percentile £675 £497 £519
90th Percentile £695 £515 £520
UK median daily rate £545 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.00% - -4.76%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 613 730 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.98% 32.88% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 424 712
10th Percentile £208 £202 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Replication in Scotland

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Replication in Scotland

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Replication in Scotland

Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Replication in Scotland

Replication
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Edinburgh +9 8 £650 +49.60% 2
Glasgow +6 4 £582 +16.35% 2
Replication
UK

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) OCI
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Exadata
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) DB2
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Database Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) DBA
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Database Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Sybase DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Clustering
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Licensing
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (61.54%) Solaris
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) AIX
2 4 (30.77%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) High Availability
2 8 (61.54%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (61.54%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) Service Management
4 5 (38.46%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (30.77%) Database Tuning
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
6 3 (23.08%) ITSM
6 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Perl
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Data Guard
1 4 (30.77%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Clustering
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Flashback
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Sun
3 4 (30.77%) Dell
3 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
3 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 4 (30.77%) Unisys
4 2 (15.38%) HP
5 1 (7.69%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Sybase
5 1 (7.69%) Workday