Replication Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Replication
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 167 200
Rank change year-on-year +4 +33 +32
Permanent jobs citing Replication 5 10 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.30% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.88% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 21
10th Percentile - £38,250 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £57,500 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +57.14%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,122 1,131 1,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.04% 33.83% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 646 495 1,194
10th Percentile £27,894 £36,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +18.81% -8.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £76,875 £95,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Replication job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Replication
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Replication.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Replication

Replication
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 February 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
Berkshire 0 4 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Oxfordshire +11 1 - - 1
Replication
South East

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (40.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Airbyte
2 1 (20.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) NHS DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Sharing
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft