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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 141 195
Rank change year-on-year -14 +54 -3
Contract jobs citing Replication 46 19 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.89% 0.63% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.97% 1.86% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 14 5
10th Percentile £401 £363 £375
25th Percentile £472 £411 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -16.52% +8.49%
75th Percentile £563 £539 £588
90th Percentile £615 £598 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year - -50.35% -19.43%
England median hourly rate £76.50 £25.80 £56.40
% change year-on-year +196.57% -54.26% -19.43%

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 1,551 1,021 1,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.12% 33.88% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 620 985
10th Percentile £250 £220 £205
25th Percentile £390 £384 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £499
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.21% -3.11%
75th Percentile £598 £620 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £679
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 47 135
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.95 £11.87
25th Percentile £20.79 £23.50 £18.43
Median hourly rate £58.50 £32.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% +4.84% -31.87%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile - £76.34 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +33.33%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -15 22 £495 +32.00% 7
Berkshire -18 16 £575 +53.33% 3
Surrey -2 14 £525 -3.45% 3
Hampshire -17 8 £550 +1.85% 2
Buckinghamshire -11 6 £480 +28.00% 3
West Sussex -12 3 £500 +6.61% 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 3 (6.52%) GeoServer
1 3 (6.52%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) SAP MDG
1 3 (6.52%) SAP SD
2 1 (2.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) Azure
2 14 (30.43%) Entra ID
3 7 (15.22%) AWS
4 2 (4.35%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.17%) Cohesity
5 1 (2.17%) Matillion
5 1 (2.17%) OCI
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.17%) Rubrik
5 1 (2.17%) SaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Serverless
5 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) DNS
2 14 (30.43%) Kerberos
3 13 (28.26%) DHCP
4 6 (13.04%) NAS
4 6 (13.04%) SAN
5 4 (8.70%) Firewall
6 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) MySQL
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.70%) GIS
3 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.52%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (6.52%) Metadata
4 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.52%) QGIS
4 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.17%) Power BI
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.52%) Finance
3 3 (6.52%) Legal
4 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Architect
2 4 (8.70%) DBA
2 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
2 4 (8.70%) Senior
3 3 (6.52%) GIS Architect
3 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (6.52%) SAP Architect
3 3 (6.52%) SAP MDG Architect
3 3 (6.52%) SQL DBA
3 3 (6.52%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Database Specialist
4 2 (4.35%) Defect Manager
4 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) SAP Functional Architect
4 2 (4.35%) Senior DBA
4 2 (4.35%) Senior SQL DBA
4 2 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
4 2 (4.35%) Testing Manager
5 1 (2.17%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) LDAP
2 4 (8.70%) SOAP
3 3 (6.52%) SAP ALE
4 2 (4.35%) OAuth
4 2 (4.35%) OpenID
4 2 (4.35%) SAML
5 1 (2.17%) Kafka
5 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Clustering
1 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.35%) SCADA
4 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Life Science
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) PKI
4 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Migration
2 12 (26.09%) Digital Identity
2 12 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (23.91%) High Availability
3 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.22%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (15.22%) Data Modelling
4 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (13.04%) Data Governance
5 6 (13.04%) Data Protection
5 6 (13.04%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (13.04%) Validation
6 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (8.70%) AI
7 4 (8.70%) Business Continuity
7 4 (8.70%) Database Security
7 4 (8.70%) Machine Learning
7 4 (8.70%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.04%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Python
4 4 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.52%) Degree
5 3 (6.52%) NCDA
5 3 (6.52%) OCP
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.52%) GDPR
1 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) ISO 22301
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) NFS
3 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.35%) vSphere
4 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) SnapMirror
3 1 (2.17%) SnapVault
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) VMware
3 7 (15.22%) NetApp
4 6 (13.04%) Veeam
5 4 (8.70%) Oracle
5 4 (8.70%) Zerto
6 3 (6.52%) ESRI
6 3 (6.52%) Intergraph
6 3 (6.52%) SAP
7 2 (4.35%) Commvault
7 2 (4.35%) Rackspace
7 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.17%) Alteryx
8 1 (2.17%) Confluent
8 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
8 1 (2.17%) Databricks
8 1 (2.17%) IBM
8 1 (2.17%) Wonderware