Replication Contracts

Replication
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 383 426
Rank change year-on-year -3 +43 +77
Contract jobs citing Replication 165 217 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 1.65% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 129 165
10th Percentile £374 £300 £370
25th Percentile £463 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £514
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% - -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £703 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £514 £507
% change year-on-year -0.78% +1.48% +6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 22
10th Percentile £78.83 - £60.15
25th Percentile £79.03 - £61.75
Median hourly rate £79.35 - £68.75
75th Percentile £79.68 - £75.00
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.35 - £66.75
% change year-on-year - - +36.92%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,952 13,139 18,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 30.25% 32.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,792 8,337 12,690
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 918 570
10th Percentile £15.49 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.27 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +55.51% -13.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.44
90th Percentile £78.10 £72.50 £75.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £23.90
% change year-on-year -16.26% +49.93% +11.14%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Replication in the UK

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Replication in the UK

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the UK

Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Replication in the UK

Replication
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 July 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
England +24 134 £525 +2.14% 408
UK excluding London +39 94 £510 -0.78% 210
London -3 54 £580 +16.00% 211
Work from Home -10 43 £483 -5.85% 173
South East +42 19 £563 -2.17% 42
Midlands +9 18 £475 -17.39% 43
West Midlands +15 17 £475 -22.45% 30
South West +32 16 £545 -16.15% 31
Scotland +7 15 £589 +28.74% 11
North of England -6 14 £480 -6.61% 42
East of England +30 10 £467 -15.18% 35
Yorkshire -11 10 £510 -0.78% 20
North West +6 4 £450 -10.00% 20
Wales +5 2 £279 -49.32% 5
East Midlands +3 1 - - 13

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 9 (5.45%) Confluence
2 7 (4.24%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (4.24%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (4.24%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (4.24%) Exchange Server 2013
2 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.24%) Office Communications Server
2 7 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.24%) SharePoint Server
2 7 (4.24%) Skype for Business
3 5 (3.03%) Apache
4 4 (2.42%) MQSeries
5 3 (1.82%) CICS
5 3 (1.82%) OpenEdge
6 2 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.21%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (1.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 2 (1.21%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 2 (1.21%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) Endur
3 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.61%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.82%) AWS
2 30 (18.18%) Azure
3 17 (10.30%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (10.30%) Amazon S3
4 14 (8.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (5.45%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.85%) Nutanix
7 8 (4.85%) Snowflake
8 7 (4.24%) AWS KMS
9 6 (3.64%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (3.64%) Amazon Glacier
9 6 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.64%) IaaS
9 6 (3.64%) PaaS
10 5 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (3.03%) GCP
10 5 (3.03%) GitHub
10 5 (3.03%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 29 (17.58%) DNS
2 20 (12.12%) Firewall
3 14 (8.48%) DHCP
3 14 (8.48%) SAN
4 9 (5.45%) SSH
5 8 (4.85%) HTTP
5 8 (4.85%) VPN
6 7 (4.24%) DDNS
6 7 (4.24%) Kerberos
6 7 (4.24%) VLAN
7 6 (3.64%) FTP
7 6 (3.64%) SMTP
8 5 (3.03%) NAS
8 5 (3.03%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.03%) VSAN
9 4 (2.42%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (2.42%) WAN
10 3 (1.82%) LAN
10 3 (1.82%) SNMP
10 3 (1.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 10 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
6 8 (4.85%) MySQL
7 7 (4.24%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.64%) DB2
8 6 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (3.03%) MariaDB
9 5 (3.03%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.03%) Power BI
9 5 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.42%) GIS
10 4 (2.42%) Metadata
10 4 (2.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (8.48%) Git
2 10 (6.06%) JIRA
3 7 (4.24%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.64%) Vagrant
5 4 (2.42%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.82%) GitLab
6 3 (1.82%) Postman
6 3 (1.82%) Subversion
7 2 (1.21%) DBeaver
7 2 (1.21%) GCC
7 2 (1.21%) JMeter
7 2 (1.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) CANoe
8 1 (0.61%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.76%) Finance
3 23 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.45%) Banking
6 4 (2.42%) Legal
7 3 (1.82%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.21%) Automotive
8 2 (1.21%) Billing
8 2 (1.21%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.61%) French Language
9 1 (0.61%) International Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Local Government
9 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (16.36%) DBA
2 21 (12.73%) Architect
3 16 (9.70%) Administrator
4 14 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (8.48%) Senior
5 12 (7.27%) Consultant
6 11 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (4.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (4.85%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.24%) Exchange Engineer
9 7 (4.24%) Exchange Support
10 6 (3.64%) Database Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.03%) Mainframe Programmer
11 5 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (5.45%) JSON
1 9 (5.45%) Kafka
2 8 (4.85%) XML
3 7 (4.24%) SOAP
4 6 (3.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 5 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (3.03%) Web Services
6 4 (2.42%) .NET
6 4 (2.42%) EDIFACT
6 4 (2.42%) Middleware
7 3 (1.82%) LDAP
7 3 (1.82%) REST
8 2 (1.21%) ISPF
8 2 (1.21%) JWT
8 2 (1.21%) SAML
8 2 (1.21%) SAP BSP
8 2 (1.21%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.61%) ADO
9 1 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.36%) Clustering
2 22 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.88%) Mainframe
4 7 (4.24%) PKI
5 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.42%) LPAR
6 4 (2.42%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.42%) SCADA
7 3 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.82%) CMDB
7 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.82%) Oracle Licensing
7 3 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (27.27%) Windows
2 42 (25.45%) Linux
3 18 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (10.30%) Solaris
5 9 (5.45%) HPUX
5 9 (5.45%) Windows Server
6 7 (4.24%) Unix
6 7 (4.24%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (3.64%) AIX
7 6 (3.64%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (3.64%) VMS
8 4 (2.42%) OS/400
9 3 (1.82%) zOS
10 2 (1.21%) OS/2
10 2 (1.21%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.61%) SUSE
11 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.97%) High Availability
2 57 (34.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 42 (25.45%) DevOps
3 42 (25.45%) Performance Tuning
4 33 (20.00%) Migration
4 33 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (15.15%) ITIL
6 23 (13.94%) CI/CD
7 19 (11.52%) Agile
8 17 (10.30%) Configuration Management
9 16 (9.70%) Data Protection
9 16 (9.70%) Database Tuning
10 15 (9.09%) Analytics
10 15 (9.09%) Validation
11 14 (8.48%) Database Security
12 13 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (7.88%) Data Modelling
13 12 (7.27%) ITSM
14 11 (6.67%) Change Management
14 11 (6.67%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.88%) SQL
2 34 (20.61%) Python
3 24 (14.55%) PowerShell
4 19 (11.52%) Java
5 14 (8.48%) Perl
6 11 (6.67%) Bash
7 8 (4.85%) Groovy
8 6 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.03%) ABAP
9 5 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.03%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.42%) JCL
10 4 (2.42%) RPG
11 3 (1.82%) C#
11 3 (1.82%) CLIST
11 3 (1.82%) REXX
12 2 (1.21%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.21%) COBOL
12 2 (1.21%) PL/1
12 2 (1.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (23.03%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.03%) Degree
5 4 (2.42%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.82%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.21%) CCNP
7 2 (1.21%) MCSE
7 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.21%) VCAP
7 2 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.61%) CCDP
8 1 (0.61%) CCNA
8 1 (0.61%) CISSP
8 1 (0.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.09%) GDPR
2 8 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.64%) SLA
4 5 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.42%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.82%) NIST
7 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.21%) QA
8 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.61%) HL7
8 1 (0.61%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.61%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.61%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (19.39%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.52%) Docker
3 11 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.24%) Brightmail
4 7 (4.24%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.24%) ISA Server
4 7 (4.24%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (4.24%) VMware NSX
5 6 (3.64%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.42%) PowerHA
8 3 (1.82%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (1.82%) iptables
8 3 (1.82%) vSphere
9 2 (1.21%) GPFS
9 2 (1.21%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (1.21%) RACF
9 2 (1.21%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 18 (10.91%) Terraform
2 15 (9.09%) Ansible
3 13 (7.88%) Grafana
4 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
5 10 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 10 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.24%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (3.64%) logstash
7 6 (3.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 6 (3.64%) Puppet
8 5 (3.03%) Kibana
9 4 (2.42%) Data Guard
9 4 (2.42%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.42%) Nagios
9 4 (2.42%) Netcool
9 4 (2.42%) Oracle Flashback
9 4 (2.42%) Tivoli
9 4 (2.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.82%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 35 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.15%) Oracle
3 20 (12.12%) VMware
4 17 (10.30%) IBM
5 13 (7.88%) ServiceNow
6 11 (6.67%) Red Hat
7 10 (6.06%) SAP
8 9 (5.45%) Dell
8 9 (5.45%) Splunk
8 9 (5.45%) Sun
9 7 (4.24%) Unisys
9 7 (4.24%) Veeam
10 6 (3.64%) Confluent
11 5 (3.03%) Dynatrace
11 5 (3.03%) EMC
11 5 (3.03%) HP
11 5 (3.03%) Qualys
12 4 (2.42%) Cisco
12 4 (2.42%) CyberArk
12 4 (2.42%) Sybase