Replication Contract Job Trends 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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 +40
Contract jobs citing Replication 4 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.26% 0.72% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 2.00% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 9
10th Percentile £370 £423 £490
25th Percentile £400 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -8.82% +64.52%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £538
90th Percentile £510 £625 £550
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £501
% change year-on-year -2.57% +5.09% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £55.70
90th Percentile - - £56.12
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £23.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year +203.09% -57.11% -21.43%

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 586 599 866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.28% 35.78% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 330 505
10th Percentile £184 £192 £231
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £612 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 27
10th Percentile £14.87 £19.61 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.76 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.87 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +32.61% -8.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £25.07 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.60 £61.34 £60.60
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £32.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% -22.94% +21.43%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Replication job vacancy trend in Scotland

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in Scotland

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Replication

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 20 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
Edinburgh +2 2 £350 -24.73%
Glasgow 0 2 £475 +5.56% 1
Replication
UK

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Database Security
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Informatica
1 3 (75.00%) Talend
2 2 (50.00%) Greenplum
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Google