DFS Replication Contracts

Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DFS Replication skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DFS 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 514 581 712
Rank change year-on-year +67 +131 +133
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 6 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.002% 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.16% 0.021% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £534 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £475 £275
Median % change year-on-year +24.58% +72.73% -41.02%
75th Percentile £623 - £330
90th Percentile - - £447
UK excluding London median daily rate £592 £475 -
% change year-on-year +24.58% - -

All System Software Skills
UK

DFS Replication falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,652 4,662 7,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.47% 10.70% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,487 3,188 5,625
10th Percentile £215 £199 £205
25th Percentile £400 £333 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +4.13% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £15.49 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +27.27% -47.46% +131.16%

DFS Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DFS Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DFS Replication.

Daily rate trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DFS Replication.

Hourly rate trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DFS Replication within the UK 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
UK excluding London +68 6 £592 +24.58% 1
England +62 6 £592 +24.58% 1
South East +51 6 £592 +24.58% 1
Work from Home +43 3 £569 +19.68% 1

DFS Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Support Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) SAN Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) Security Patching
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware