Replication Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Replication
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 457 477
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +62
Permanent jobs citing Replication 121 69 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.24% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 0.57% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 86 46 203
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £48,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% +13.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £53,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £56,800 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.29% +13.60% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,973 12,144 23,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.95% 41.54% 34.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,854 5,332 15,168
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,763 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,090 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Replication job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Replication
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Replication
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Replication in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Replication in the UK excluding London

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 Replication within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
North of England -23 30 £42,500 +30.77% 11
South East -10 28 £60,000 +24.35% 18
South West -43 17 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Midlands -32 16 £56,000 -13.85% 5
Yorkshire -38 14 £42,500 +30.77% 6
East of England -1 13 £40,000 -5.88% 1
North West +10 10 £45,000 -10.00% 4
East Midlands -18 10 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Isle of Man +4 6 £45,000 +30.43%
West Midlands -49 6 £56,000 -1.43% 4
North East - 6 £45,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland -6 3 - - 2
Wales - 3 - - 1
Replication
UK

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 26 (21.49%) SharePoint
2 24 (19.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.79%) FactoryTalk
4 5 (4.13%) IIS
5 3 (2.48%) Confluence
6 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.13%) SAP MDG
2 5 (4.13%) SAP MDG-BP
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.83%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.83%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (40.50%) Azure
2 34 (28.10%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (21.49%) AWS
4 8 (6.61%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.61%) IaaS
5 7 (5.79%) OneDrive
6 6 (4.96%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.13%) Nutanix
7 5 (4.13%) PaaS
7 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.31%) GCP
8 4 (3.31%) SaaS
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.48%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (33.06%) Firewall
2 22 (18.18%) DNS
3 19 (15.70%) VPN
4 16 (13.22%) LAN
4 16 (13.22%) WAN
5 14 (11.57%) VLAN
6 13 (10.74%) TCP/IP
7 10 (8.26%) DHCP
8 9 (7.44%) Unified Communications
9 7 (5.79%) Ethernet
9 7 (5.79%) Profibus
9 7 (5.79%) WebEx
10 6 (4.96%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (4.96%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (4.13%) SAN
11 5 (4.13%) Wireless
12 4 (3.31%) BGP
12 4 (3.31%) IPsec
12 4 (3.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (33.06%) SQL Server
2 29 (23.97%) MySQL
3 12 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.61%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (5.79%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.96%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (4.13%) Power BI
8 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (3.31%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.31%) SAP HANA
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.48%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) Subversion
2 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (16.53%) Law
2 18 (14.88%) Finance
2 18 (14.88%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.57%) Retail
4 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.26%) Manufacturing
5 9 (7.44%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.96%) Banking
7 6 (4.96%) Marketing
7 6 (4.96%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.31%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Aviation
10 1 (0.83%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (23.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (22.31%) Administrator
3 22 (18.18%) DBA
4 15 (12.40%) Senior
5 13 (10.74%) SQL DBA
5 13 (10.74%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) IT Support
7 8 (6.61%) Consultant
8 7 (5.79%) Collaboration Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Control Systems Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Database Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (4.96%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) IT Manager
9 6 (4.96%) IT Operations Manager
9 6 (4.96%) Operations Manager
10 5 (4.13%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (4.13%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (4.13%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.79%) XMPP
2 5 (4.13%) SAP ALE
2 5 (4.13%) Web Dynpro
3 3 (2.48%) Kafka
3 3 (2.48%) Node.js
4 1 (0.83%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Data Centre
2 12 (9.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (8.26%) Enterprise Storage
4 9 (7.44%) iSeries
5 8 (6.61%) Onboarding
5 8 (6.61%) SCADA
6 7 (5.79%) FlexPod
6 7 (5.79%) Management Information System
6 7 (5.79%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (4.96%) Clustering
7 6 (4.96%) Driving Licence
8 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (2.48%) IoT
10 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (34.71%) Windows
2 38 (31.40%) Linux
3 31 (25.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.96%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.48%) Android
5 3 (2.48%) Unix
6 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.83%) VMS
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (25.62%) Disaster Recovery
4 30 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (22.31%) High Availability
6 19 (15.70%) ITIL
7 15 (12.40%) Service Delivery
8 13 (10.74%) Data Management
9 12 (9.92%) Data Modelling
9 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (9.09%) Storage Management
11 10 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (7.44%) Business Continuity
12 9 (7.44%) Customer Service
12 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (7.44%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (6.61%) ETL
13 8 (6.61%) Performance Monitoring
13 8 (6.61%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.06%) SQL
2 12 (9.92%) Python
2 12 (9.92%) Shell Script
3 11 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.44%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.13%) ABAP
6 4 (3.31%) Java
7 3 (2.48%) Bash
8 1 (0.83%) C
8 1 (0.83%) C++
8 1 (0.83%) Perl
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.92%) Degree
1 12 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.79%) HNC
3 7 (5.79%) HND
4 6 (4.96%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (4.13%) CCNP
5 5 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) MCSE
5 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.79%) HAZOP
4 6 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.31%) ISO 22301
7 3 (2.48%) GDPR
8 2 (1.65%) QA
8 2 (1.65%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (28.93%) Active Directory
2 31 (25.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (19.01%) Hyper-V
4 11 (9.09%) vSphere
5 9 (7.44%) Firmware
5 9 (7.44%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (7.44%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (4.96%) DFS Replication
6 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (4.13%) KVM
8 4 (3.31%) Docker
9 3 (2.48%) iptables
Systems Management
1 14 (11.57%) Terraform
2 11 (9.09%) Grafana
3 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (8.26%) vCenter Server
4 7 (5.79%) Ansible
4 7 (5.79%) Cisco CUCM
4 7 (5.79%) Wonderware InTouch
5 4 (3.31%) Backup Exec
5 4 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.48%) Data Guard
6 3 (2.48%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.48%) Galera Cluster
6 3 (2.48%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (2.48%) systemd
7 2 (1.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.83%) Graylog
8 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.83%) Nagios
8 1 (0.83%) SCCM
8 1 (0.83%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 49 (40.50%) Microsoft
2 39 (32.23%) VMware
3 29 (23.97%) Veeam
4 13 (10.74%) Cisco
5 10 (8.26%) Commvault
5 10 (8.26%) SAP
6 9 (7.44%) EMC
6 9 (7.44%) Fortinet
6 9 (7.44%) HP
6 9 (7.44%) IBM
7 8 (6.61%) NetApp
7 8 (6.61%) Oracle
8 7 (5.79%) Allen-Bradley
8 7 (5.79%) Palo Alto
8 7 (5.79%) Rockwell
8 7 (5.79%) Splunk
8 7 (5.79%) Wonderware
9 6 (4.96%) Zerto
10 5 (4.13%) Ariba
11 4 (3.31%) Google