Replication Contracts in the UK excluding London

Replication
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 320 327
Rank change year-on-year +68 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing Replication 84 79 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.38% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 1.29% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 60 91
10th Percentile £374 £389 £400
25th Percentile £463 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £514 £505
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% +1.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £660 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £543 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 20
10th Percentile £32.62 - £55.85
25th Percentile £40.30 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £53.35 - £68.00
75th Percentile £66.15 - £75.00
90th Percentile £73.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.59 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.84%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Replication in the UK excluding London

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Replication in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Replication in the UK excluding London

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the UK excluding London

Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Replication in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Replication in the UK excluding London

Replication
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Replication in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Replication in the UK excluding London

Replication
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +57 21 £540 -6.09% 65
South West +43 19 £548 -12.32% 34
Scotland +19 14 £589 +24.00% 12
North of England +7 14 £450 -12.45% 48
Yorkshire -8 9 £510 -0.78% 18
East of England +36 8 £467 -1.79% 25
Midlands +18 6 £488 -15.22% 40
West Midlands +12 6 £488 -7.14% 24
North West +21 5 £450 - 23
Wales +2 2 £271 - 6
Replication
UK

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (4.76%) Apache
1 4 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.57%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (3.57%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) Azure
2 12 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 4 (4.76%) IaaS
3 4 (4.76%) Nutanix
3 4 (4.76%) OCI
3 4 (4.76%) PaaS
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.57%) GCP
5 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.38%) GitHub
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.19%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.05%) DNS
1 16 (19.05%) Firewall
2 15 (17.86%) Kerberos
3 4 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (3.57%) DDNS
4 3 (3.57%) DHCP
4 3 (3.57%) SAN
4 3 (3.57%) VPN
5 2 (2.38%) 5G
5 2 (2.38%) HTTP
5 2 (2.38%) LTE
6 1 (1.19%) VLAN
6 1 (1.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.76%) GIS
4 4 (4.76%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.38%) Big Data
6 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.38%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.38%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.38%) Metadata
6 2 (2.38%) NewSQL
6 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) JMeter
1 2 (2.38%) Postman
1 2 (2.38%) Selenium
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.19%) tSQLt
General
1 28 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Finance
4 9 (10.71%) Aerospace
5 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.57%) Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Billing
8 1 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Architect
2 18 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (16.67%) DBA
4 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
5 7 (8.33%) Consultant
5 7 (8.33%) Senior
6 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Database Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Administrator
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) SQL DBA
9 3 (3.57%) Exchange Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.57%) Senior Database Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.86%) .NET
2 4 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.57%) SOAP
4 2 (2.38%) JWT
4 2 (2.38%) LDAP
4 2 (2.38%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) SAML
5 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.19%) FHIR
5 1 (1.19%) JSON
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) Web Services
5 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.38%) Data Centre
2 13 (15.48%) Clustering
3 12 (14.29%) PKI
4 7 (8.33%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.57%) LPAR
5 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.57%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.57%) Oracle Licensing
5 3 (3.57%) SCADA
6 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.38%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.95%) Windows
2 18 (21.43%) Linux
3 12 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (14.29%) Solaris
4 8 (9.52%) HPUX
5 7 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.76%) AIX
7 3 (3.57%) OS/400
7 3 (3.57%) Unix
7 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.14%) High Availability
2 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (29.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (23.81%) Migration
5 16 (19.05%) ITIL
5 16 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (17.86%) DevOps
7 14 (16.67%) RBAC
8 11 (13.10%) Agile
8 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
9 10 (11.90%) Capacity Planning
10 9 (10.71%) Analytics
10 9 (10.71%) ITSM
10 9 (10.71%) Problem Management
10 9 (10.71%) Service Management
10 9 (10.71%) Validation
11 7 (8.33%) Proactive Maintenance
12 6 (7.14%) DevSecOps
12 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (7.14%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.00%) SQL
2 9 (10.71%) Python
3 6 (7.14%) Perl
4 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.57%) Java
6 3 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.57%) RPG
6 3 (3.57%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.38%) Bicep
7 2 (2.38%) Go
7 2 (2.38%) Scala
8 1 (1.19%) Bash
8 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) Degree
5 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.57%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.19%) VCAP
8 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.76%) GDPR
2 3 (3.57%) NIST
3 2 (2.38%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.19%) HL7
4 1 (1.19%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (13.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 5 (5.95%) Docker
5 4 (4.76%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.57%) Brightmail
6 3 (3.57%) ISA Server
6 3 (3.57%) PowerHA
6 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.57%) vSphere
7 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (9.52%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (8.33%) Ansible
2 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (4.76%) Data Guard
3 4 (4.76%) Kibana
3 4 (4.76%) logstash
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle Flashback
3 4 (4.76%) Podman
3 4 (4.76%) Terraform
4 3 (3.57%) Grafana
4 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (2.38%) Foglight
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.38%) Puppet
6 1 (1.19%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.29%) Oracle
3 9 (10.71%) Sun
4 8 (9.52%) IBM
5 7 (8.33%) Unisys
5 7 (8.33%) VMware
6 5 (5.95%) Dell
6 5 (5.95%) Red Hat
7 4 (4.76%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (4.76%) Splunk
8 3 (3.57%) HP
8 3 (3.57%) SAP
8 3 (3.57%) Sybase
8 3 (3.57%) Veeam
9 2 (2.38%) ForgeRock
9 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.19%) NetApp
10 1 (1.19%) RedGate
10 1 (1.19%) SolarWinds