DFS Replication Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DFS Replication skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 555 538
Rank change year-on-year +45 -17 +230
Permanent jobs citing DFS Replication 5 12 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.032% 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.18% 0.27% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 2
10th Percentile - £41,250 -
25th Percentile - £44,063 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £45,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -40.00%
75th Percentile - - £28,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary - £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -21.74% +21.05%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

DFS Replication falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,845 4,504 5,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.78% 12.03% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,999 2,608 4,373
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.14% -1.94%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.90%

DFS Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DFS Replication relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DFS Replication job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DFS Replication
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DFS Replication.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DFS Replication

DFS Replication
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DFS Replication within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 5 - -
West Midlands - 5 - -
DFS Replication
UK

DFS Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (100.00%) Confluence
2 4 (80.00%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) FTP
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) SMTP
1 5 (100.00%) SSH
2 4 (80.00%) IMAP
2 4 (80.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Vagrant
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) VMS
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Change Management
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Groovy
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Dovecot
2 4 (80.00%) Postfix
2 4 (80.00%) Squid
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Nessus
2 4 (80.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (80.00%) Jaspersoft