Replication Job Trends in Scotland

Replication
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 135 221
Rank change year-on-year +3 +86 -39
Permanent jobs citing Replication 6 13 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.18% 0.52% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 1.79% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 15
10th Percentile - - £44,500
25th Percentile - £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% -23.49%
75th Percentile - £55,625 £52,500
90th Percentile - £60,000 -
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Replication falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 902 726 2,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.97% 28.94% 45.06%
Number of salaries quoted 513 295 814
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £29,087
25th Percentile £31,500 £43,425 £39,913
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £69,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Replication job vacancy trend in Scotland

Replication
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Replication.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Replication

Replication
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +21 3 - -
Edinburgh +12 3 - - 1
Replication
UK

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Broadband
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Sharing
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) FinOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Presales
2 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Siemens