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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 563 667
Rank change year-on-year +30 +104 +178
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 19 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the System Software category 0.49% 0.022% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £275
Median % change year-on-year - +72.73% -32.52%
75th Percentile £608 - £419
90th Percentile £623 - £498
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 -

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 3,872 4,470 6,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 11.43% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,489 3,092 4,768
10th Percentile £225 £217 £200
25th Percentile £384 £375 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £499 £475
% change year-on-year -4.81% +5.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 147 251
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.94 £15.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £32.77 £23.80 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.69% -52.40% +132.56%
75th Percentile £79.35 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £24.18 £27.00
% change year-on-year +154.34% -10.44% +35.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DFS Replication over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 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 6 August 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 +24 19 £475 - 1
England +23 19 £475 - 1
Midlands - 12 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 12 £475 - 1
South East +27 7 £615 +29.47%
Work from Home +31 3 £569 +19.68% 1
London - 3 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (63.16%) Confluence
2 3 (15.79%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 12 (63.16%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (63.16%) Amazon ELB
1 12 (63.16%) Amazon S3
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
1 12 (63.16%) AWS KMS
1 12 (63.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 10 (52.63%) Azure
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon Glacier
4 7 (36.84%) IaaS
5 4 (21.05%) PaaS
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (15.79%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) DNS
1 19 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (63.16%) FTP
2 12 (63.16%) HTTP
2 12 (63.16%) SMTP
2 12 (63.16%) SSH
3 7 (36.84%) DHCP
3 7 (36.84%) SAN
4 4 (21.05%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (15.79%) IMAP
5 3 (15.79%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Git
1 12 (63.16%) Jenkins
1 12 (63.16%) JIRA
1 12 (63.16%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (63.16%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (63.16%) Linux
2 12 (63.16%) VMS
3 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) Change Management
2 12 (63.16%) Cloud Security
2 12 (63.16%) Configuration Management
2 12 (63.16%) Patch Management
2 12 (63.16%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (31.58%) ITIL
4 6 (31.58%) Security Patching
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Groovy
1 12 (63.16%) PowerShell
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 9 (47.37%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) Perl
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (84.21%) Active Directory
2 12 (63.16%) Docker
3 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (36.84%) vSphere
4 3 (15.79%) Dovecot
4 3 (15.79%) Postfix
4 3 (15.79%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Terraform
2 12 (63.16%) Grafana
2 12 (63.16%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Nessus
3 3 (15.79%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) ServiceNow
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) Jaspersoft