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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 136 201
Rank change year-on-year -18 +65 -20
Contract jobs citing Replication 54 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.96% 0.67% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.20% 1.98% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 16 6
10th Percentile £385 £363 £406
25th Percentile £488 £451 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +8.49%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £588
90th Percentile £634 £600 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +159.82% - -

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 1,686 1,011 1,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.94% 33.80% 29.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 636 938
10th Percentile £256 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £369 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £700 £662 £688
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 61 157
10th Percentile £15.72 £16.95 £11.79
25th Percentile £21.14 £23.50 £18.95
Median hourly rate £70.00 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.38% -23.53% -11.07%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile - £85.50 £63.29
England median hourly rate £45.46 £34.50 £28.13
% change year-on-year +31.77% +22.67% +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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -33 23 £495 +31.87% 8
Berkshire -20 15 £550 +46.67% 3
Surrey -3 14 £525 -3.45% 5
Hampshire -22 14 £600 +9.09% 3
Buckinghamshire -16 8 £494 +31.73% 3
West Sussex -11 3 £500 +6.61%
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) SAP MDG
1 3 (5.56%) SAP SD
2 1 (1.85%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) Entra ID
3 7 (12.96%) SuccessFactors
4 6 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (3.70%) Nutanix
5 2 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.85%) Cohesity
6 1 (1.85%) Matillion
6 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.85%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.93%) DNS
2 13 (24.07%) Kerberos
3 12 (22.22%) DHCP
4 11 (20.37%) NAS
4 11 (20.37%) SAN
5 5 (9.26%) Firewall
6 2 (3.70%) VLAN
7 1 (1.85%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.41%) MySQL
3 2 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.85%) GIS
4 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Legal
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Senior
2 8 (14.81%) Consultant
3 7 (12.96%) Architect
3 7 (12.96%) SAP Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) DBA
4 5 (9.26%) Senior Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
6 3 (5.56%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.56%) SAP Architect
6 3 (5.56%) SAP MDG Architect
6 3 (5.56%) SQL DBA
6 3 (5.56%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) SAP Functional Architect
7 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) LDAP
2 4 (7.41%) SOAP
3 3 (5.56%) SAP ALE
4 1 (1.85%) OAuth
4 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.85%) OpenID
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
1 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (3.70%) Clustering
2 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.70%) SCADA
3 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Life Science
3 1 (1.85%) PKI
3 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.85%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) Migration
2 15 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (24.07%) ITIL
4 12 (22.22%) Digital Identity
5 10 (18.52%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (14.81%) Data Protection
6 8 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (11.11%) Runbook
7 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (9.26%) Data Modelling
8 5 (9.26%) High Availability
9 4 (7.41%) Business Continuity
9 4 (7.41%) Change Management
9 4 (7.41%) Impact Assessments
9 4 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (7.41%) Validation
10 3 (5.56%) RBAC
10 3 (5.56%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.41%) SQL
3 3 (5.56%) Python
4 2 (3.70%) Bash
4 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Perl
5 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (9.26%) NCDA
6 2 (3.70%) Degree
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.85%) OCP
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) ISO 22301
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.41%) vSphere
4 2 (3.70%) NFS
5 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (3.70%) Grafana
2 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.85%) SnapMirror
3 1 (1.85%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 17 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) NetApp
2 10 (18.52%) SAP
2 10 (18.52%) VMware
3 9 (16.67%) Veeam
4 6 (11.11%) Zerto
5 5 (9.26%) ServiceNow
6 4 (7.41%) Oracle
7 3 (5.56%) Commvault
7 3 (5.56%) Rackspace
8 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.85%) Databricks
8 1 (1.85%) EMC
8 1 (1.85%) Veritas
8 1 (1.85%) Wonderware