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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 157 199
Rank change year-on-year +20 +42 +23
Contract jobs citing Replication 40 19 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.01% 0.46% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.24% 1.48% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 13 4
10th Percentile £329 £409 -
25th Percentile £413 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -24.17%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £475
90th Percentile £638 £674 -
England median daily rate £520 £547 £525
% change year-on-year -4.94% +4.19% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile - £27.50 £55.35
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £58.20
Median % change year-on-year - -51.89% -13.78%
75th Percentile - £28.50 £66.56
90th Percentile - - £69.38
England median hourly rate £71.50 £25.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year +177.19% -57.01% -14.29%

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 1,236 1,285 1,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.12% 31.03% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 728 1,079
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £358 £395 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.75% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £611
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 74 103
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.84 £18.59
25th Percentile £15.56 £26.25 £24.17
Median hourly rate £23.00 £51.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.12% -2.38% +40.00%
75th Percentile £53.00 £71.42 £64.15
90th Percentile £70.06 £75.16 £77.31
England median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.37% +3.78% +50.85%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +8 17 £600 -10.71% 2
Berkshire +13 15 £550 - 2
Thames Valley +12 15 £550 +22.22% 3
Kent +9 6 £333 -25.28%
Surrey -4 2 £450 -17.24% 2
West Sussex - 1 £500 -
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 10 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 10 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 10 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 10 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (25.00%) Office Communications Server
1 10 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 10 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
1 10 (25.00%) Skype for Business
2 3 (7.50%) GeoServer
2 3 (7.50%) Smallworld
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (15.00%) OCI
3 6 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
4 2 (5.00%) Rubrik
5 1 (2.50%) Cohesity
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (50.00%) SAN
2 12 (30.00%) DNS
3 11 (27.50%) DHCP
4 10 (25.00%) DDNS
4 10 (25.00%) VPN
5 5 (12.50%) Firewall
6 4 (10.00%) NAS
7 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.50%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (2.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (15.00%) Couchbase
3 4 (10.00%) GIS
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.50%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (7.50%) Metadata
4 3 (7.50%) QGIS
5 2 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 10 (25.00%) Exchange Support
1 10 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) GIS Architect
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Database Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) DBA
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) NetBackup Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) OAuth
2 2 (5.00%) OpenID
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (5.00%) SAML
3 1 (2.50%) Flash
3 1 (2.50%) LDAP
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.50%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Clustering
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Windows
2 14 (35.00%) Linux
3 10 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (15.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) High Availability
2 12 (30.00%) ITIL
3 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 10 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (25.00%) Content Management
4 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Content Management
4 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Search
4 10 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (17.50%) Migration
5 7 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (15.00%) Security Patching
6 6 (15.00%) Validation
7 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.50%) Data Governance
7 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
9 3 (7.50%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 5 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (32.50%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.00%) OCP
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
1 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (25.00%) Brightmail
2 10 (25.00%) ISA Server
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.50%) NFS
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (5.00%) Data Guard
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) IBM
3 6 (15.00%) Confluent
3 6 (15.00%) VMware
4 4 (10.00%) NetApp
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle
5 3 (7.50%) ESRI
5 3 (7.50%) Intergraph
6 1 (2.50%) 3PAR
6 1 (2.50%) Brocade
6 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.50%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.50%) Sybase
6 1 (2.50%) Veeam