DFS Replication Contracts in the South East

Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring DFS Replication skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DFS 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 153 204 -
Rank change year-on-year +51 - -
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.018% -
As % of the System Software category 1.38% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £534 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.58% - -
75th Percentile £623 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £592 £475 £275
% change year-on-year +24.58% +72.73% -41.02%

All System Software Skills
South East

DFS Replication falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 435 781 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.45% 14.05% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 490 600
10th Percentile £250 £200 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £646 £675
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 48 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.26 £17.28
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

DFS Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DFS Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DFS Replication in the South East

DFS Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DFS Replication in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DFS Replication in the South East

DFS Replication
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DFS Replication within the South East 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
Kent - 6 £592 - 1
DFS Replication
England

DFS Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Support Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) SAN Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) Security Patching
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware