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 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 147 174
Rank change year-on-year -43 +27 -1
Contract jobs citing Replication 43 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.65% 0.53% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 1.65% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 14 10
10th Percentile £375 £479 £358
25th Percentile £482 £529 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +27.78%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £588
90th Percentile £627 - £672
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +3.85%

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 1,978 1,092 1,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.12% 31.89% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 666 941
10th Percentile £270 £204 £213
25th Percentile £408 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% - -
75th Percentile £600 £593 £625
90th Percentile £700 £658 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 100 153
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.13 £11.97
25th Percentile £27.94 £16.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £33.47 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +79.28% -41.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £85.40 £60.56 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.50 £75.16
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.21% -17.50% +13.48%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 17 £400 -30.43% 1
Hampshire -36 12 £600 - 3
Surrey - 11 £525 - 1
Berkshire -24 8 £375 -34.78% 1
Buckinghamshire - 7 £494 -
West Sussex -22 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 2 £363 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.33%) SAP MM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) Entra ID
3 7 (16.28%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (11.63%) AWS
5 2 (4.65%) Google Workspace
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.33%) Matillion
6 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (32.56%) DNS
2 13 (30.23%) DHCP
3 12 (27.91%) Kerberos
4 7 (16.28%) NAS
4 7 (16.28%) SAN
5 4 (9.30%) VLAN
6 3 (6.98%) Firewall
7 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) MySQL
3 2 (4.65%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Vitess
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) JIRA
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Legal
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Senior
2 8 (18.60%) Consultant
3 7 (16.28%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (11.63%) DBA
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Consultant
4 5 (11.63%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 5 (11.63%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.98%) SQL DBA
7 2 (4.65%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Defect Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
7 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior DBA
7 2 (4.65%) Senior SQL DBA
7 2 (4.65%) Testing Manager
8 1 (2.33%) Platform Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) LDAP
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (2.33%) SAP ALE
2 1 (2.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.65%) Clustering
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Life Science
4 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) Migration
2 13 (30.23%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (25.58%) Digital Identity
4 10 (23.26%) ITIL
5 8 (18.60%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (16.28%) Data Protection
6 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (9.30%) High Availability
8 4 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (9.30%) Runbook
9 3 (6.98%) BCP
9 3 (6.98%) Data Modelling
9 3 (6.98%) ETL
9 3 (6.98%) Impact Assessments
9 3 (6.98%) Project Management
9 3 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (4.65%) Defect Management
10 2 (4.65%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.98%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) Bash
3 2 (4.65%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (67.44%) Security Cleared
2 21 (48.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
5 5 (11.63%) NCDA
6 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.65%) Degree
8 1 (2.33%) OCP
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (39.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (9.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.60%) SAP
2 8 (18.60%) Veeam
3 7 (16.28%) NetApp
3 7 (16.28%) VMware
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle
4 4 (9.30%) Zerto
5 3 (6.98%) Rackspace
5 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.65%) Google
7 1 (2.33%) Alteryx
7 1 (2.33%) Commvault
7 1 (2.33%) Databricks
7 1 (2.33%) EMC
7 1 (2.33%) Veritas
7 1 (2.33%) Wonderware