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 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 136 165
Rank change year-on-year -66 +29 +13
Contract jobs citing Replication 24 29 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.82% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 2.58% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 12
10th Percentile £330 £329 £371
25th Percentile £388 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +8.33% +29.23%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £588
90th Percentile £630 - £664
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 1,958 1,125 1,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.43% 31.68% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,213 706 795
10th Percentile £280 £204 £215
25th Percentile £413 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £615 £600 £624
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 98 133
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.39 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.57 £16.95 £25.99
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +47.56% -40.92% +9.24%
75th Percentile £82.68 £63.37 £67.02
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.95 £75.16
England median hourly rate £38.72 £32.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.37% -37.70% +14.50%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -32 12 £400 -28.89% 8
Hampshire -32 10 £613 +2.17% 4
Berkshire -18 6 £375 -33.33% 4
Buckinghamshire - 4 £536 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £363 - 4
West Sussex -22 1 £400 -14.71%
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 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.17%) SAP MM
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.50%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Google Workspace
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) NAS
1 5 (20.83%) SAN
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) VLAN
3 3 (12.50%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) DHCP
4 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.33%) VPN
5 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (8.33%) MySQL
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (8.33%) Vitess
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Consultant
2 7 (29.17%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (20.83%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Storage Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) LDAP
1 1 (4.17%) SAP ALE
1 1 (4.17%) SOAP
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) ITIL
2 8 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
4 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) BCP
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 2 (8.33%) Change Management
6 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Runbook
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (8.33%) Storage Management
7 1 (4.17%) Model Validation
7 1 (4.17%) RBAC
7 1 (4.17%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) NCDA
6 2 (8.33%) Degree
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
7 1 (4.17%) PMP
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.33%) vSphere
4 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Grafana
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) SAP
2 6 (25.00%) Veeam
3 5 (20.83%) NetApp
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle
5 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (8.33%) Google
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.33%) Zerto
7 1 (4.17%) Commvault
7 1 (4.17%) EMC
7 1 (4.17%) Rackspace
7 1 (4.17%) Splunk
7 1 (4.17%) Tenable
7 1 (4.17%) Veritas