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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 701 702
Rank change year-on-year +60 +1 +296
Permanent jobs citing DFS Replication 4 12 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.022% 0.032%
As % of the System Software category 0.094% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 16
10th Percentile - £41,250 £30,500
25th Percentile - £44,063 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -21.74% +21.05%
75th Percentile - - £76,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £45,000 £27,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,260 6,766 8,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.22% 12.43% 16.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,035 4,084 6,983
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £74,631 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% +4.17% -1.03%

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 4 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 4 January 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
England +82 4 - - 3
UK excluding London +57 4 - - 3
Midlands - 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -

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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
1 4 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Route 53
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) FTP
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
1 4 (100.00%) IMAP
1 4 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (100.00%) SMTP
1 4 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (100.00%) VMS
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Groovy
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 4 (100.00%) Postfix
1 4 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Nessus
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow