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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 130 166
Rank change year-on-year -86 +36 +18
Contract jobs citing Replication 8 35 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.12% 1.00% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 3.16% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 10
10th Percentile £317 £329 £358
25th Percentile £361 £410 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +16.92%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £544
90th Percentile £590 £611 £672
England median daily rate £525 £500 £532
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.02% +1.33%

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 1,945 1,108 1,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.72% 31.51% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 697 768
10th Percentile £300 £204 £242
25th Percentile £412 £354 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £610 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 93 93
10th Percentile £12.84 £15.13 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.95 £27.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.73% -42.37% +5.48%
75th Percentile £71.00 £58.00 £74.87
90th Percentile £93.90 £70.16 £75.16
England median hourly rate £35.11 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +17.03% -47.69% +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 28 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 28 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
Thames Valley -41 5 £400 -10.11% 10
Berkshire -34 2 £469 +5.34% 7
Oxfordshire - 2 £363 - 3
Surrey -19 1 £500 +11.11% 5
Hampshire -44 1 £550 -8.33% 6
West Sussex - 1 £400 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £563 -
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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ER Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Police
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) DBA
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage and Backup Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) iSeries
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (12.50%) Conceptual Models
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Data Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Domain Models
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Firmware
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Veeam
4 2 (25.00%) Google
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) Commvault
5 1 (12.50%) EMC
5 1 (12.50%) HP
5 1 (12.50%) IBM
5 1 (12.50%) NetApp
5 1 (12.50%) Splunk
5 1 (12.50%) Tenable