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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 671 778
Rank change year-on-year +11 +107 +213
Permanent jobs citing DFS Replication 3 12 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.024% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.069% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 20
10th Percentile - £41,250 £34,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -28.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £47,500 - £76,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £27,000
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -1.82%

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 4,345 6,523 10,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.68% 12.78% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,020 3,970 9,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £51,251 £45,500
% change year-on-year -17.07% +12.64% -4.21%

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 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 6 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
UK excluding London +10 3 £45,000 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £45,000 - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £45,000 - 1
England +37 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) IMAP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Dovecot
2 1 (33.33%) Postfix
2 1 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow