Replication Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Replication
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 263 261 325
Rank change year-on-year -2 +64 +119
Contract jobs citing Replication 41 84 154
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 1.91% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 97
10th Percentile £310 £300 £370
25th Percentile £363 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £545 £627 £575
90th Percentile £578 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £543 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 14
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile - - £67.00
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.59 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.84%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Replication
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Replication trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Replication
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Replication.

Replication daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Replication over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Replication daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Replication.

Replication hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Endur
1 1 (2.44%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) AWS
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (7.32%) Nutanix
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.88%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) IaaS
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.88%) PaaS
4 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Firewall
1 5 (12.20%) Kerberos
2 4 (9.76%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) VLAN
4 1 (2.44%) DHCP
4 1 (2.44%) HTTP
4 1 (2.44%) NAS
4 1 (2.44%) SAN
4 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.44%) VoIP
4 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.32%) Couchbase
4 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.32%) OLTP
4 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.88%) CockroachDB
5 2 (4.88%) MySQL
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) JMeter
3 1 (2.44%) Postman
3 1 (2.44%) Selenium
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.44%) tSQLt
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.88%) Legal
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) DBA
2 5 (12.20%) Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Consultant
3 4 (9.76%) Database Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Administrator
4 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.32%) SQL DBA
5 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Design Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) SAP Payroll Consultant
6 1 (2.44%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Kafka
2 4 (9.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.88%) LDAP
3 2 (4.88%) Middleware
4 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.44%) FHIR
4 1 (2.44%) JWT
4 1 (2.44%) SAML
4 1 (2.44%) SOAP
4 1 (2.44%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Clustering
2 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.76%) LPAR
3 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.32%) iPad
3 3 (7.32%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.88%) PKI
4 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Licensing
5 1 (2.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
1 7 (17.07%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) OS/400
2 4 (9.76%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Solaris
5 1 (2.44%) AIX
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (24.39%) Migration
3 9 (21.95%) High Availability
3 9 (21.95%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (19.51%) DevOps
4 8 (19.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (14.63%) Database Security
6 5 (12.20%) Agile
6 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
7 4 (9.76%) Containerisation
8 3 (7.32%) Business Continuity
8 3 (7.32%) Configuration Management
8 3 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (7.32%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (7.32%) Data Protection
8 3 (7.32%) Database Tuning
8 3 (7.32%) E-Commerce
8 3 (7.32%) ITIL
8 3 (7.32%) SDLC
8 3 (7.32%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) SQL
2 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.76%) RPG
3 3 (7.32%) Java
3 3 (7.32%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) Scala
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) Go
5 1 (2.44%) Perl
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
1 8 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GDPR
1 2 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.44%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
1 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.76%) PowerHA
3 4 (9.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Ansible
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.44%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.44%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.44%) Netcool
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.44%) Rancher
3 1 (2.44%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.07%) Oracle
2 7 (17.07%) VMware
3 3 (7.32%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.88%) Confluent
4 2 (4.88%) Qualys
4 2 (4.88%) Sybase
4 2 (4.88%) Veeam
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Dell
5 1 (2.44%) EMC
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) Isilon
5 1 (2.44%) MKS
5 1 (2.44%) NetApp
5 1 (2.44%) Remedy
5 1 (2.44%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Serena
5 1 (2.44%) Sophos