Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DFS Replication skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DFS Replication over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 965 1210
Rank change year-on-year +92 +245 -315
Permanent jobs citing DFS Replication 12 21 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.020% 0.008%
As % of the System Software category 0.098% 0.13% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 5
10th Percentile - £26,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £26,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £76,250 £45,000 £77,500
90th Percentile - £53,500 £79,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 -

All System Software Skills
UK

DFS Replication is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,269 15,980 28,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.48% 15.36% 18.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,741 10,518 15,775
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,915 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

DFS Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DFS Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DFS Replication.

Salary trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DFS Replication over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Top 6 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 29 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +84 11 £72,500 +81.25%
England +98 7 £72,500 +81.25% 1
London +128 6 £72,500 +31.82%
North of England +25 1 £40,000 -8.57% 1
North West +1 1 £40,000 -8.57% 1
UK excluding London -9 1 £40,000 - 1

DFS Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) AWS
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (50.00%) Rubrik
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) DHCP
1 12 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) SAN
3 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) SNMP
3 1 (8.33%) VSAN
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
General
1 5 (41.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Configuration Management
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 6 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) Data Management
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 6 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 6 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (41.67%) Cloud Enablement
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (8.33%) Project Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
1 6 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 6 (50.00%) Puppet
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
1 6 (50.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCOM
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 6 (50.00%) Citrix
3 6 (50.00%) Veeam
4 1 (8.33%) Aderant
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds