Replication Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Replication
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 114 137
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Replication 8 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.36% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 1.24% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +35.71% -42.86%
75th Percentile £569 £531 -
90th Percentile £580 £543 -
South East median daily rate £569 £500 £406
% change year-on-year +13.75% +23.08% -34.34%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 569 643 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.82% 28.87% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 365 583
10th Percentile £268 £250 £215
25th Percentile £375 £398 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -
75th Percentile £575 £608 £630
90th Percentile £650 £675 £735
South East median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.75% - -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 28 31
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £20.41 £22.80
Median hourly rate £40.44 £42.19 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% -29.68% +200.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.72 £69.88
90th Percentile £87.77 £69.84 £74.25
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £54.37
% change year-on-year -42.37% +5.48% +126.54%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Replication in the Thames Valley

Replication
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Replication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the Thames Valley

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Replication.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Replication

Replication
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Berkshire +23 8 £425 - 4
Replication
South East

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (62.50%) OCI
1 5 (62.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (62.50%) Couchbase
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) GIS
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (62.50%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Security Patching
2 2 (25.00%) Cartography
2 2 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) VCAP
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (12.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Confluent
1 5 (62.50%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) VMware