Replication Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Replication
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 37 55
Rank change year-on-year -48 +18 +1
Contract jobs citing Replication 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.00% 1.10% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 2.19% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £424 £395 -
25th Percentile £463 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% - -
75th Percentile £488 £558 -
90th Percentile £495 £562 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £550 -
% change year-on-year -11.45% - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 378 137 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 47.01% 50.37% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 88 92
10th Percentile £317 £202 £388
25th Percentile £408 £228 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +4.44% -10.93%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £651
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £11.75 £10.97
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £12.73
Median % change year-on-year - +6.09% +29.85%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +121.43% +78.57%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Replication relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Replication job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Replication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in South Yorkshire

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Replication.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Replication

Replication
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Sheffield -46 8 £487 +18.06% 2
Replication
Yorkshire

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (25.00%) CICS
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (87.50%) iSCSI
1 7 (87.50%) NAS
1 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) FCoE
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) Multicast
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Solaris
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) MVS
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) High Availability
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (62.50%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
6 1 (12.50%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) NFS
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) KVM
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) SRDF
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (12.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) EMC
1 7 (87.50%) NetApp
2 6 (75.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Pure Storage
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Google