Replication Contract Job Trends in the South East

Replication
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 137 186
Rank change year-on-year -41 +49 -23
Contract jobs citing Replication 41 18 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.66% 0.59% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 1.82% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 14 9
10th Percentile £385 £469 £443
25th Percentile £488 £493 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -3.26% +27.78%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £588
90th Percentile £628 - £673
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,816 987 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.36% 32.49% 28.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 604 965
10th Percentile £280 £202 £211
25th Percentile £400 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% - -0.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £611
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 89 180
10th Percentile £18.08 £15.13 £11.79
25th Percentile £27.97 £16.95 £18.17
Median hourly rate £63.00 £33.89 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.92% -34.84% -0.95%
75th Percentile £85.40 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.81 £75.16
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.29%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Replication job vacancy trend in the South East

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Replication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in the South East over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the South East

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Replication.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Replication

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 Replication within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 June 2026. 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
Thames Valley -37 15 £403 -29.23% 1
Surrey - 12 £525 - 4
Hampshire -31 11 £600 +4.35% 1
Berkshire -26 8 £375 -34.07%
Buckinghamshire - 7 £494 -
West Sussex -16 2 - -
Replication
England

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.44%) SAP MM
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.44%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 13 (31.71%) Entra ID
3 7 (17.07%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (12.20%) AWS
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.44%) Matillion
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (31.71%) DNS
1 13 (31.71%) Kerberos
2 12 (29.27%) DHCP
3 7 (17.07%) NAS
3 7 (17.07%) SAN
4 2 (4.88%) VLAN
5 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.76%) MySQL
3 2 (4.88%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) Vitess
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Legal
3 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Senior
2 8 (19.51%) Consultant
3 7 (17.07%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (12.20%) DBA
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Consultant
4 5 (12.20%) Senior SAP Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.32%) SQL DBA
6 3 (7.32%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Defect Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Senior DBA
7 2 (4.88%) Senior SQL DBA
7 2 (4.88%) Testing Manager
8 1 (2.44%) Data Centre Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) LDAP
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (2.44%) SAP ALE
2 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Life Science
4 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Migration
2 12 (29.27%) Digital Identity
2 12 (29.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (24.39%) ITIL
4 8 (19.51%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
6 6 (14.63%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) High Availability
8 4 (9.76%) Runbook
9 3 (7.32%) BCP
9 3 (7.32%) Data Modelling
9 3 (7.32%) ETL
9 3 (7.32%) Impact Assessments
9 3 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (7.32%) Project Management
9 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (4.88%) RBAC
10 2 (4.88%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.32%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) Bash
3 2 (4.88%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (70.73%) Security Cleared
2 21 (51.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 6 (14.63%) DV Cleared
5 5 (12.20%) NCDA
6 2 (4.88%) Degree
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.44%) OCP
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.76%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (4.88%) Grafana
2 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) SAP
3 6 (14.63%) NetApp
3 6 (14.63%) Veeam
4 4 (9.76%) Oracle
4 4 (9.76%) VMware
4 4 (9.76%) Zerto
5 3 (7.32%) Rackspace
5 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.44%) Commvault
6 1 (2.44%) Databricks
6 1 (2.44%) EMC
6 1 (2.44%) Veritas
6 1 (2.44%) Wonderware