Hybrid/Remote Replication Contract Job Trends

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 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 229 321
Rank change year-on-year -38 +92 +92
Contract jobs citing Replication 51 88 70
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.73% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 2.35% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 44 44
10th Percentile £329 £200 £373
25th Percentile £356 £372 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -8.84% +6.54%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £579
90th Percentile £640 £756 £586
UK median daily rate £520 £526 £510
% change year-on-year -1.14% +3.14% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £61.88
90th Percentile - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate £71.50 £23.59 £56.40
% change year-on-year +203.09% -58.17% -19.43%

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 3,570 3,750 5,369
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.05% 30.91% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,237 2,401 3,720
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £420 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £672
90th Percentile £750 £808 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 68 124
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.37 £19.99
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £40.00 £45.63
Median % change year-on-year +13.65% -12.34% -17.93%
75th Percentile £65.75 £66.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.28
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -20.00% +21.43%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Replication and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Replication job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Replication
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Replication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Replication

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Replication over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Replication daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Replication.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Replication

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (3.92%) CICS
1 2 (3.92%) Confluence
1 2 (3.92%) SAS
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.96%) IIS
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) nginx
2 1 (1.96%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.96%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) SAP Payroll
2 3 (5.88%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (29.41%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) AWS
3 7 (13.73%) Amazon S3
4 6 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (9.80%) Datadog
6 4 (7.84%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (5.88%) GCP
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.92%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) SAN
2 6 (11.76%) DNS
3 3 (5.88%) Kerberos
4 2 (3.92%) DHCP
4 2 (3.92%) Firewall
4 2 (3.92%) X.500
5 1 (1.96%) FTP
5 1 (1.96%) HTTP
5 1 (1.96%) IMAP
5 1 (1.96%) NAS
5 1 (1.96%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.96%) SMTP
5 1 (1.96%) SSH
5 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.96%) VLAN
5 1 (1.96%) VoIP
5 1 (1.96%) VSAN
5 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
3 6 (11.76%) MySQL
3 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 5 (9.80%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (9.80%) Oracle Database
5 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.88%) DB2
6 3 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.92%) MariaDB
7 2 (3.92%) Metadata
7 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (3.92%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.92%) GCC
2 2 (3.92%) GitLab
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.96%) Git
3 1 (1.96%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Automotive
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Police
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) DBA
2 7 (13.73%) Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Administrator
5 3 (5.88%) Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Lead
5 3 (5.88%) Mainframe Programmer
5 3 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Programmer
5 3 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) SAP HCM Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Senior
6 2 (3.92%) Storage Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (9.80%) XML
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (5.88%) Kafka
4 3 (5.88%) LDAP
4 3 (5.88%) SOAP
4 3 (5.88%) Web Services
5 2 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.92%) Flash
5 2 (3.92%) ISPF
5 2 (3.92%) JSON
5 2 (3.92%) REST
5 2 (3.92%) Ultra Messaging
6 1 (1.96%) Memcached
6 1 (1.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Clustering
2 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.84%) Mainframe
3 4 (7.84%) PKI
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Linux
2 9 (17.65%) Windows
3 4 (7.84%) VMS
4 3 (5.88%) zOS
5 2 (3.92%) OS/2
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (33.33%) High Availability
3 13 (25.49%) DevOps
3 13 (25.49%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (23.53%) Migration
5 10 (19.61%) CI/CD
6 9 (17.65%) Data Modelling
6 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (13.73%) Agile
8 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (11.76%) Microservices
8 6 (11.76%) Observability
8 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.80%) Data Migration
9 5 (9.80%) Event-Driven
9 5 (9.80%) ITIL
9 5 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (7.84%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
1 10 (19.61%) SQL
2 9 (17.65%) Python
3 4 (7.84%) Bash
3 4 (7.84%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) JCL
4 3 (5.88%) ABAP
5 2 (3.92%) Assembly Language
5 2 (3.92%) CLIST
5 2 (3.92%) COBOL
5 2 (3.92%) PL/1
5 2 (3.92%) REXX
6 1 (1.96%) AWK
6 1 (1.96%) Groovy
6 1 (1.96%) PHP
6 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.96%) sed
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.92%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.96%) MySQL Certification
5 1 (1.96%) OCP
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) GDPR
1 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.96%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Docker
1 6 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.84%) vSphere
4 3 (5.88%) GPFS
4 3 (5.88%) NFS
5 2 (3.92%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (3.92%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (3.92%) RACF
5 2 (3.92%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.96%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.96%) Firmware
6 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.96%) Postfix
6 1 (1.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Terraform
2 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.88%) Grafana
3 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (3.92%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Argo
4 2 (3.92%) Data Guard
4 2 (3.92%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (3.92%) Kibana
4 2 (3.92%) logstash
4 2 (3.92%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (3.92%) SCCM
4 2 (3.92%) Tivoli NetView
4 2 (3.92%) vRealize
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.96%) Nessus
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.96%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Oracle
2 6 (11.76%) IBM
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) VMware
3 4 (7.84%) SAP
3 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.88%) TIBCO
5 2 (3.92%) Cisco
5 2 (3.92%) Dell
5 2 (3.92%) Solace
5 2 (3.92%) Veeam
6 1 (1.96%) Citrix
6 1 (1.96%) Commvault
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) Informatica
6 1 (1.96%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.96%) NetApp
6 1 (1.96%) Percona
6 1 (1.96%) Talend
6 1 (1.96%) Zerto