Replication Contracts in the West Midlands

Replication
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 91 103 127
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 +40
Contract jobs citing Replication 6 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.41% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 1.24% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 11
10th Percentile - £386 £363
25th Percentile £413 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +22.09% +38.71%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £484
90th Percentile £610 £1,000 £588
England median daily rate £545 £507 £505
% change year-on-year +7.50% +0.40% +1.00%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 647 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.08% 33.23% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 410 525
10th Percentile £197 £307 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Replication in the West Midlands

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Replication in the West Midlands

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the West Midlands

Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Replication in the West Midlands

Replication
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +12 2 £425 -26.09% 3
Coventry +9 2 - - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 1
Replication
England

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) logstash
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft