Replication Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Replication
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 36 50
Rank change year-on-year -46 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing Replication 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.06% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 0.83% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £463 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% - -
75th Percentile £488 £469 -
90th Percentile £495 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £550 -
% change year-on-year -11.45% - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 351 120 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 46.68% 48.78% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 78 82
10th Percentile £326 £209 £388
25th Percentile £417 £250 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -3.60% +4.44% -10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £10.90
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year - -23.40% -7.24%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.50 £12.73
% change year-on-year - +6.09% +29.85%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Replication job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in Sheffield

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Replication

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (25.00%) CICS
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (87.50%) iSCSI
1 7 (87.50%) NAS
1 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) FCoE
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) Multicast
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Solaris
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) MVS
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) High Availability
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (62.50%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
6 1 (12.50%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) NFS
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) KVM
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) SRDF
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (12.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) EMC
1 7 (87.50%) NetApp
2 6 (75.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Pure Storage
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Google