Replication Contract Job Trends

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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 369 361
Rank change year-on-year -22 -8 +53
Contract jobs citing Replication 283 184 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.58% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 119 139
10th Percentile £375 £356 £300
25th Percentile £425 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% +0.78%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £594
90th Percentile £665 £675 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +1.00% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £54.20 £68.34 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £72.23 -
Median hourly rate £69.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -12.33% - -

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 17,941 11,637 11,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.53% 35.16% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,870 7,149 7,550
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,016 570 595
10th Percentile £14.86 £15.13 £12.33
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £18.27
Median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +10.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.62 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -33.33% +10.86%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Replication relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Replication job vacancy trend in the UK

Replication
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Replication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the UK

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Replication.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Replication

Replication
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Replication over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Replication in the UK

Replication
Top 16 Contract Job 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 17 August 2026. 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 -33 243 £525 +2.44% 63
UK excluding London -53 158 £505 +1.00% 41
London -50 89 £550 +4.76% 31
Work from Home -23 82 £513 +8.05% 31
North of England -19 70 £513 +7.89% 10
North West -5 43 £491 +9.09% 6
South East -57 30 £510 -11.30% 13
Yorkshire -21 23 £529 +3.22% 3
Midlands -54 21 £449 -5.53% 5
West Midlands -61 19 £449 -5.53% 4
South West -41 16 £574 +9.33% 7
East of England -13 11 £600 +26.32% 1
Scotland -15 8 £400 -32.09% 2
North East - 4 £425 - 1
Wales -14 2 £520 +86.55% 3
East Midlands -16 1 £540 - 1

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.12%) Confluence
2 6 (2.12%) IIS
3 5 (1.77%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.71%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.71%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.71%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.71%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.35%) Actimize
4 1 (0.35%) SAP CCM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.35%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.35%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 95 (33.57%) Azure
2 87 (30.74%) AWS
3 24 (8.48%) Entra ID
4 23 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (6.71%) GCP
7 17 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (5.30%) AWS KMS
10 12 (4.24%) OCI
10 12 (4.24%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (3.89%) GitHub
11 11 (3.89%) OpenShift
11 11 (3.89%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.47%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.47%) Serverless
13 7 (2.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.84%) SAN
2 26 (9.19%) DNS
2 26 (9.19%) NAS
3 21 (7.42%) Firewall
3 21 (7.42%) VLAN
4 16 (5.65%) VSAN
5 14 (4.95%) Fibre Channel
6 13 (4.59%) VPN
7 10 (3.53%) DHCP
7 10 (3.53%) Network Security
7 10 (3.53%) SSL
8 8 (2.83%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.77%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.06%) Multicast
12 2 (0.71%) SSH
13 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.35%) FCoE
13 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.73%) SQL Server
2 46 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (8.48%) Oracle Database
4 22 (7.77%) MySQL
5 21 (7.42%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (7.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (5.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (4.59%) Redis
9 12 (4.24%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (3.53%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.18%) SAP HANA
12 8 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (2.83%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.83%) Power BI
12 8 (2.83%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.47%) Oracle Database 12c
13 7 (2.47%) Sybase ASE
14 6 (2.12%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (2.12%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 26 (9.19%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.01%) Git
3 15 (5.30%) JIRA
4 7 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.12%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.06%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.06%) Flyway
6 3 (1.06%) GitLab
6 3 (1.06%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.06%) Toad
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.71%) Selenium
8 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 90 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.01%) Finance
2 34 (12.01%) Public Sector
3 26 (9.19%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (7.42%) Banking
5 13 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.12%) Legal
8 4 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (19.08%) DBA
2 45 (15.90%) Senior
3 36 (12.72%) Architect
4 29 (10.25%) Administrator
5 28 (9.89%) Storage Engineer
6 25 (8.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (8.83%) Lead
7 23 (8.13%) Consultant
8 18 (6.36%) SQL DBA
9 13 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.24%) SAP Consultant
11 11 (3.89%) Active Directory Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Developer
12 10 (3.53%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.18%) Senior DBA
13 9 (3.18%) Wintel Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) SC Cleared DBA
14 8 (2.83%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.36%) Kafka
2 13 (4.59%) Flash
3 11 (3.89%) JSON
3 11 (3.89%) LDAP
3 11 (3.89%) XML
4 7 (2.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 6 (2.12%) .NET
5 6 (2.12%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.12%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (2.12%) HTML
5 6 (2.12%) Middleware
5 6 (2.12%) WCF
5 6 (2.12%) WinForms
6 5 (1.77%) Apache FOP
6 5 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (1.77%) OAuth
6 5 (1.77%) XSLT
7 4 (1.41%) REST
7 4 (1.41%) SAML
7 4 (1.41%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.01%) Clustering
2 28 (9.89%) Enterprise Storage
3 26 (9.19%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (5.30%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.47%) EMC VMAX
7 7 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.77%) CMDB
8 5 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.41%) EMC VNX
9 4 (1.41%) NHS
9 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 85 (30.04%) Linux
2 64 (22.61%) Windows
3 36 (12.72%) Windows Server
4 23 (8.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (7.07%) Unix
6 16 (5.65%) VMS
7 9 (3.18%) CentOS
7 9 (3.18%) Rocky
8 8 (2.83%) AIX
9 7 (2.47%) Data ONTAP
10 6 (2.12%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (1.41%) SUSE
12 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (33.57%) Performance Tuning
2 85 (30.04%) High Availability
3 83 (29.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 79 (27.92%) Migration
5 64 (22.61%) DevOps
6 46 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 44 (15.55%) Capacity Planning
7 44 (15.55%) Data Modelling
8 42 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (14.13%) CI/CD
10 38 (13.43%) Validation
11 37 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (12.01%) ITIL
13 32 (11.31%) Root Cause Analysis
13 32 (11.31%) Runbook
14 29 (10.25%) Agile
14 29 (10.25%) RBAC
15 28 (9.89%) Performance Optimisation
16 26 (9.19%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (8.13%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 76 (26.86%) SQL
2 66 (23.32%) PowerShell
3 56 (19.79%) Python
4 24 (8.48%) Bash
5 20 (7.07%) T-SQL
6 18 (6.36%) Java
7 13 (4.59%) Groovy
8 11 (3.89%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.83%) Perl
9 8 (2.83%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.12%) C#
10 6 (2.12%) VB.NET
10 6 (2.12%) VBA
11 5 (1.77%) Bicep
11 5 (1.77%) VBScript
11 5 (1.77%) XPath
12 2 (0.71%) CQL
12 2 (0.71%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 120 (42.40%) Security Cleared
2 93 (32.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (6.01%) Azure Certification
5 16 (5.65%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (4.95%) AWS Certification
7 14 (4.95%) Degree
7 14 (4.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (4.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 10 (3.53%) VCAP
10 8 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.83%) MCSA
10 8 (2.83%) MCSE
10 8 (2.83%) NCDA
11 5 (1.77%) OCP
11 5 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.06%) NCIE
14 2 (0.71%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.24%) QA
2 9 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.47%) GDPR
4 6 (2.12%) NIST
4 6 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.41%) DICOM
6 4 (1.41%) HL7
6 4 (1.41%) SLA
7 3 (1.06%) GRC
8 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.35%) NCSC
9 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 47 (16.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (13.43%) vSphere
3 33 (11.66%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (11.66%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (10.25%) Active Directory
5 22 (7.77%) Docker
6 19 (6.71%) NFS
7 14 (4.95%) Oracle RAC
8 12 (4.24%) GPFS
8 12 (4.24%) Hyper-V
9 8 (2.83%) Firmware
10 5 (1.77%) SRDF
11 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (1.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.71%) ACF2
13 2 (0.71%) Corosync
13 2 (0.71%) RACF
14 1 (0.35%) OpenSSH
14 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (18.73%) Terraform
2 43 (15.19%) Ansible
3 25 (8.83%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.07%) vCenter Server
5 19 (6.71%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.36%) Grafana
6 18 (6.36%) NetBackup
7 15 (5.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 14 (4.95%) Data Guard
9 12 (4.24%) vRealize
10 10 (3.53%) Failover Clustering
10 10 (3.53%) VxRail
11 6 (2.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (2.12%) SCOM
11 6 (2.12%) SnapMirror
12 5 (1.77%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.41%) Argo
13 4 (1.41%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 63 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 60 (21.20%) VMware
3 56 (19.79%) Oracle
4 34 (12.01%) NetApp
4 34 (12.01%) ServiceNow
5 31 (10.95%) Cisco
6 27 (9.54%) SAP
6 27 (9.54%) Veeam
7 22 (7.77%) Dell
8 20 (7.07%) IBM
9 15 (5.30%) Brocade
10 11 (3.89%) EMC
10 11 (3.89%) Google
10 11 (3.89%) Red Hat
11 10 (3.53%) Pure Storage
12 8 (2.83%) Sybase
13 7 (2.47%) BMC
13 7 (2.47%) Confluent
13 7 (2.47%) Remedy
14 6 (2.12%) Dynatrace