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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 128 169
Rank change year-on-year -77 +41 +7
Contract jobs citing Replication 18 31 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.27% 0.90% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 2.85% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 11
10th Percentile £358 £329 £363
25th Percentile £428 £410 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £569 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% +13.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £569
90th Percentile £634 £619 £672
England median daily rate £525 £516 £550
% change year-on-year +1.69% -6.14% +4.76%

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 1,946 1,086 1,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.39% 31.59% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 680 774
10th Percentile £300 £204 £229
25th Percentile £413 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -0.75% -
75th Percentile £619 £588 £622
90th Percentile £700 £664 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 91 114
10th Percentile £12.84 £15.13 £13.84
25th Percentile £16.33 £16.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.16% -42.37% +6.33%
75th Percentile £71.00 £58.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.16 £75.16
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +25.00%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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
Hampshire -47 9 £626 +4.33% 13
Thames Valley -41 7 £400 -5.88% 13
Buckinghamshire - 3 £563 - 1
Berkshire -27 2 £356 -16.18% 8
Oxfordshire - 2 £363 - 4
West Sussex - 1 £400 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) VLAN
2 3 (16.67%) NAS
2 3 (16.67%) SAN
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.56%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) ER Studio
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Consultant
1 7 (38.89%) SAP Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Senior SAP Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Backup Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) DBA
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Runbook
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (5.56%) Architectural Design
5 1 (5.56%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (5.56%) Data Design
5 1 (5.56%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Transition
5 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.56%) Storage Management
5 1 (5.56%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (11.11%) NCDA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (11.11%) vSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) SAP
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) Veeam
4 3 (16.67%) NetApp
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (11.11%) Google
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) Zerto
6 1 (5.56%) Rackspace
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (5.56%) Tenable