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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 309 296
Rank change year-on-year +49 -13 +48
Contract jobs citing Replication 83 88 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 1.47% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 66 86
10th Percentile £363 £395 £391
25th Percentile £425 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £514 £509
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.98% +7.16%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £660 £661 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.72% +2.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 21
10th Percentile £78.83 - £60.00
25th Percentile £79.03 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £79.35 - £66.00
75th Percentile £79.68 - £75.00
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.35 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.81%

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 4,380 5,967 7,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.60% 28.80% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,659 3,572 4,919
10th Percentile £212 £208 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £610
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 744 413
10th Percentile £15.31 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £34.07 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +56.64% +2.35%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.30 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £34.21 £22.00
% change year-on-year -3.54% +55.50% -18.46%

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 31 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
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 31 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 +45 17 £540 -6.09% 14
South West +35 14 £547 -15.92% 13
Scotland +11 14 £589 +24.00% 8
North of England +6 14 £450 -12.45% 11
East of England +33 11 £467 -1.79% 6
West Midlands +10 10 £450 -26.53% 11
Midlands +8 10 £450 -25.00% 11
Yorkshire -2 9 £510 -0.78% 5
North West +14 5 £450 -10.00% 5
Wales +4 3 £183 -66.82% 3
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 5 (6.02%) Apache
2 4 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.61%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (3.61%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (3.61%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (3.61%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.61%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (3.61%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.61%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.20%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.69%) Azure
2 15 (18.07%) AWS
3 6 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.82%) IaaS
4 4 (4.82%) Nutanix
4 4 (4.82%) OCI
4 4 (4.82%) PaaS
5 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.61%) GCP
5 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.41%) GitHub
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.05%) Firewall
2 9 (10.84%) DNS
3 7 (8.43%) Kerberos
4 4 (4.82%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (3.61%) 5G
5 3 (3.61%) DDNS
5 3 (3.61%) DHCP
5 3 (3.61%) HTTP
5 3 (3.61%) LTE
5 3 (3.61%) SAN
5 3 (3.61%) VPN
6 2 (2.41%) VLAN
7 1 (1.20%) FTP
7 1 (1.20%) SMTP
7 1 (1.20%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.20%) SSH
7 1 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.51%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.43%) Oracle Exadata
2 7 (8.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.82%) GIS
5 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.41%) Big Data
7 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.41%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.41%) Metadata
7 2 (2.41%) NewSQL
7 2 (2.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Postman
2 2 (2.41%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) JMeter
2 2 (2.41%) Selenium
2 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.41%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.20%) tSQLt
3 1 (1.20%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.64%) Finance
3 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.82%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.61%) Banking
6 2 (2.41%) Automotive
6 2 (2.41%) Billing
7 1 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) Architect
2 14 (16.87%) DBA
3 10 (12.05%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (10.84%) Senior
5 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (8.43%) Consultant
7 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Database Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) SQL DBA
10 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Core Network Project Manager
10 3 (3.61%) Exchange Support
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) .NET
2 5 (6.02%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.82%) SOAP
4 2 (2.41%) FHIR
4 2 (2.41%) JWT
4 2 (2.41%) LDAP
4 2 (2.41%) Middleware
4 2 (2.41%) SAML
4 2 (2.41%) Software Packaging
4 2 (2.41%) Web Services
4 2 (2.41%) XML
5 1 (1.20%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.20%) Flash
5 1 (1.20%) JSON
5 1 (1.20%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Data Centre
2 14 (16.87%) Clustering
3 7 (8.43%) Mainframe
4 6 (7.23%) PKI
5 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.61%) LPAR
5 3 (3.61%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.61%) Oracle Licensing
5 3 (3.61%) SCADA
6 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (34.94%) Windows
2 19 (22.89%) Linux
3 12 (14.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (14.46%) Solaris
4 8 (9.64%) HPUX
5 7 (8.43%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.82%) AIX
7 3 (3.61%) OS/400
7 3 (3.61%) Unix
7 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.35%) Disaster Recovery
2 30 (36.14%) High Availability
3 25 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (25.30%) Migration
5 19 (22.89%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (21.69%) DevOps
7 15 (18.07%) ITIL
8 12 (14.46%) Agile
8 12 (14.46%) CI/CD
9 10 (12.05%) Analytics
9 10 (12.05%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (12.05%) Validation
10 9 (10.84%) Service Management
11 8 (9.64%) Problem Management
11 8 (9.64%) RBAC
12 7 (8.43%) Data Governance
12 7 (8.43%) Data Ingestion
12 7 (8.43%) ITSM
12 7 (8.43%) Proactive Maintenance
13 6 (7.23%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.33%) SQL
2 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
3 8 (9.64%) Python
4 5 (6.02%) Perl
4 5 (6.02%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.82%) Java
5 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.61%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.61%) RPG
7 2 (2.41%) Bicep
7 2 (2.41%) Go
7 2 (2.41%) Scala
7 2 (2.41%) VBScript
8 1 (1.20%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.20%) Bash
8 1 (1.20%) Groovy
8 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (26.51%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) Degree
5 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.61%) DBS Check
6 3 (3.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.20%) MCSE
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.20%) VCAP
7 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.02%) GDPR
2 3 (3.61%) NIST
3 2 (2.41%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.41%) HL7
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.20%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 13 (15.66%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.43%) Docker
2 7 (8.43%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.23%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.82%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.61%) Brightmail
5 3 (3.61%) ISA Server
5 3 (3.61%) PowerHA
5 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.61%) vSphere
6 1 (1.20%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (6.02%) Ansible
3 5 (6.02%) Grafana
3 5 (6.02%) Kibana
3 5 (6.02%) logstash
3 5 (6.02%) Terraform
4 4 (4.82%) Data Guard
4 4 (4.82%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (4.82%) Oracle Flashback
4 4 (4.82%) Podman
5 3 (3.61%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.41%) Puppet
6 2 (2.41%) SCCM
7 1 (1.20%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.05%) Oracle
3 9 (10.84%) IBM
3 9 (10.84%) Sun
4 7 (8.43%) Unisys
4 7 (8.43%) VMware
5 5 (6.02%) Dell
5 5 (6.02%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.82%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.82%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (3.61%) HP
7 3 (3.61%) SAP
7 3 (3.61%) Teradata
7 3 (3.61%) Veeam
8 2 (2.41%) ForgeRock
8 2 (2.41%) RedGate
8 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.41%) Splunk
9 1 (1.20%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.20%) Zerto