DFS Replication Job Trends

Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring DFS Replication skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 747 710
Rank change year-on-year +116 -37 +373
Permanent jobs citing DFS Replication 22 9 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.013% 0.029%
As % of the System Software category 0.46% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 14
10th Percentile - £41,250 £28,700
25th Percentile £71,250 - £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -21.74% +24.32%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £71,875
90th Percentile - - £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £45,000 £27,000
% change year-on-year +61.11% +66.67% -40.00%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,767 7,459 8,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.01% 11.12% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,436 4,345 7,226
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,600 £28,563
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.14% -4.89%

DFS Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DFS Replication job vacancy trend in the UK

DFS Replication
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DFS Replication

DFS Replication
Top 5 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 November 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
England +123 22 £72,500 +61.11%
UK excluding London +101 22 £72,500 +61.11%
Midlands - 22 £72,500 -
West Midlands - 22 £72,500 -
South East - 2 - -

DFS Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 22 (100.00%) Confluence
2 7 (31.82%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 22 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 22 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 22 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
1 22 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 22 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 15 (68.18%) Amazon Glacier
3 11 (50.00%) Azure
4 7 (31.82%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (31.82%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (50.00%) DNS
2 11 (50.00%) FTP
2 11 (50.00%) HTTP
2 11 (50.00%) SMTP
2 11 (50.00%) SSH
3 7 (31.82%) IMAP
3 7 (31.82%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (100.00%) Git
1 22 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 22 (100.00%) JIRA
1 22 (100.00%) Vagrant
2 5 (22.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 12 (54.55%) Presentation Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (40.91%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (36.36%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
1 22 (100.00%) VMS
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 22 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (95.45%) Change Management
3 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (50.00%) Patch Management
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Servant Leadership
5 5 (22.73%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
7 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
8 1 (4.55%) Asset Management
8 1 (4.55%) Log Aggregation
8 1 (4.55%) Validation
8 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Groovy
1 22 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 20 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) Degree
3 11 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 11 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (50.00%) Docker
3 7 (31.82%) Dovecot
3 7 (31.82%) Postfix
3 7 (31.82%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (100.00%) Grafana
1 22 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 22 (100.00%) Terraform
2 11 (50.00%) Ansible
3 7 (31.82%) Nessus
3 7 (31.82%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 11 (50.00%) Juniper
3 7 (31.82%) Jaspersoft