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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 169 176
Rank change year-on-year +41 +7 +41
Contract jobs citing Replication 31 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.90% 0.35% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.86% 1.19% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 12
10th Percentile £329 £363 £305
25th Percentile £410 £448 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +23.08% -33.67%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £456
90th Percentile £619 £672 £475
England median daily rate £516 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.14% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £74.69
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £73.25 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +42.11%

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 1,085 1,342 1,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.56% 29.24% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 774 1,229
10th Percentile £204 £229 £205
25th Percentile £350 £380 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £615
90th Percentile £664 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 113 102
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.64 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £35.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £53.94
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +6.33% +124.73%
75th Percentile £58.38 £70.00 £67.42
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £77.40
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Replication 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 2025.

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 2025. 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 +27 15 £600 -10.71% 6
Berkshire +18 8 £425 - 3
Thames Valley +14 8 £425 -10.53% 5
Kent +4 6 £333 -25.28% 2
Surrey +7 2 £450 -10.00% 3
Replication
England

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (41.94%) Exchange Server 2003
1 13 (41.94%) Exchange Server 2007
1 13 (41.94%) Exchange Server 2010
1 13 (41.94%) Exchange Server 2013
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (41.94%) Office Communications Server
1 13 (41.94%) SharePoint
1 13 (41.94%) SharePoint Server
1 13 (41.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) AWS
1 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (16.13%) OCI
1 5 (16.13%) Serverless
2 1 (3.23%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 20 (64.52%) SAN
2 13 (41.94%) DDNS
2 13 (41.94%) DHCP
2 13 (41.94%) DNS
2 13 (41.94%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) Firewall
3 1 (3.23%) NAS
3 1 (3.23%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (3.23%) VLAN
3 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (16.13%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (16.13%) Couchbase
1 5 (16.13%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.45%) GIS
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Banking
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Exchange Engineer
1 13 (41.94%) Exchange Support
1 13 (41.94%) Support Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Data Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) DBA
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (6.45%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Architect
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.23%) NetBackup Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (6.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.23%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Clustering
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (67.74%) Windows
2 13 (41.94%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (32.26%) Linux
4 5 (16.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) High Availability
2 15 (48.39%) ITIL
3 13 (41.94%) Architectural Design
3 13 (41.94%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (41.94%) Content Management
3 13 (41.94%) Enterprise Content Management
3 13 (41.94%) Enterprise Search
4 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Security Patching
7 3 (9.68%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (6.45%) Cartography
8 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (6.45%) System Testing
9 1 (3.23%) B2B
9 1 (3.23%) Change Management
9 1 (3.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) Python
1 5 (16.13%) Shell Script
2 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
2 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) Perl
4 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (45.16%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) VCAP
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Active Directory
1 13 (41.94%) Brightmail
1 13 (41.94%) ISA Server
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (16.13%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Data Guard
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) IBM
3 5 (16.13%) Confluent
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.23%) Brocade
5 1 (3.23%) NetApp
5 1 (3.23%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (3.23%) Sybase
5 1 (3.23%) Veeam