Replication
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 560 521
Rank change year-on-year -36 -39 +77
Permanent jobs citing Replication 179 121 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.60% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 124 85 276
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,375 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -10.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,594 20,149 34,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 40.92% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 16,314 9,967 21,906
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,918
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,577 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% +4.55% -14.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,730 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% - -9.09%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Replication job vacancy trend in the UK

Replication
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Replication.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Replication

Replication
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Replication over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Replication in the UK

Replication
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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 -19 155 £56,000 -8.57% 70
UK excluding London -20 145 £50,000 -9.09% 49
Work from Home +14 55 £60,000 - 28
North of England -5 37 £42,500 +30.77% 15
South East -12 35 £60,000 +30.43% 8
London -21 28 £78,750 +8.62% 28
South West -49 18 £52,500 -12.50% 11
East of England -2 17 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Midlands -53 17 £56,000 -22.76% 5
North West -1 16 £42,500 - 11
Yorkshire -33 13 £42,500 +30.77% 4
West Midlands -44 9 £56,000 -22.76% 4
East Midlands -28 8 £57,500 -11.54% 1
North East - 8 £42,500 -
Isle of Man +5 6 £45,000 +30.43%
Scotland +1 6 - - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales - 4 £50,000 - 1

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 23 (12.85%) SharePoint
2 22 (12.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.59%) FactoryTalk
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.12%) Confluence
5 2 (1.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.56%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.35%) SAP MDG
3 5 (2.79%) SAP MDG-BP
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.25%) Azure
2 35 (19.55%) AWS
2 35 (19.55%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.15%) Entra ID
3 11 (6.15%) IaaS
3 11 (6.15%) PaaS
4 10 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.47%) GCP
6 6 (3.35%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (3.35%) Nutanix
6 6 (3.35%) SaaS
7 5 (2.79%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (1.68%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (26.82%) Firewall
2 31 (17.32%) DNS
3 25 (13.97%) VPN
4 18 (10.06%) WAN
5 16 (8.94%) DHCP
5 16 (8.94%) LAN
6 15 (8.38%) VLAN
7 14 (7.82%) SAN
8 13 (7.26%) TCP/IP
9 10 (5.59%) Ethernet
9 10 (5.59%) Profibus
10 9 (5.03%) Unified Communications
11 7 (3.91%) BGP
11 7 (3.91%) WebEx
11 7 (3.91%) Wireless
12 6 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (3.35%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (3.35%) NAS
13 4 (2.23%) LoRaWAN
13 4 (2.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (34.64%) SQL Server
2 39 (21.79%) MySQL
3 17 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (8.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (7.26%) MongoDB
6 12 (6.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (6.70%) Relational Database
7 11 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.59%) Power BI
8 10 (5.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (3.91%) RDBMS
11 6 (3.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (2.23%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (2.23%) Neo4j
12 4 (2.23%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.23%) SAP HANA
12 4 (2.23%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Git
2 4 (2.23%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Subversion
3 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.11%) Finance
3 33 (18.44%) Law
4 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.38%) Manufacturing
5 15 (8.38%) Retail
6 11 (6.15%) Legal
7 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (4.47%) Banking
10 7 (3.91%) Telecoms
11 6 (3.35%) Marketing
12 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.12%) Local Government
14 1 (0.56%) Aviation
14 1 (0.56%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (25.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (19.55%) Administrator
3 33 (18.44%) DBA
4 26 (14.53%) Senior
5 21 (11.73%) Systems Engineer
6 18 (10.06%) Database Engineer
6 18 (10.06%) SQL DBA
7 12 (6.70%) IT Engineer
8 10 (5.59%) Control Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (5.03%) Consultant
10 8 (4.47%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Collaboration Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) IT Support
11 7 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.91%) XMPP
2 6 (3.35%) Kafka
3 5 (2.79%) SAP ALE
3 5 (2.79%) Web Dynpro
4 3 (1.68%) .NET
4 3 (1.68%) Node.js
5 2 (1.12%) JSON
6 1 (0.56%) Celery
6 1 (0.56%) JDBC
6 1 (0.56%) LDAP
6 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.56%) Ray
6 1 (0.56%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.38%) Enterprise Storage
3 13 (7.26%) Clustering
3 13 (7.26%) SCADA
4 12 (6.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (6.15%) iSeries
6 9 (5.03%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.47%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (4.47%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.91%) FlexPod
8 7 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.91%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (3.35%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.79%) IoT
11 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (31.28%) Linux
1 56 (31.28%) Windows
2 38 (21.23%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.91%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.23%) Unix
5 3 (1.68%) VMS
5 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.12%) CentOS
6 2 (1.12%) Rocky
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (32.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (31.84%) High Availability
3 52 (29.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 50 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (15.08%) ITIL
7 22 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (11.17%) Performance Tuning
9 18 (10.06%) CI/CD
9 18 (10.06%) Data Modelling
10 17 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (8.94%) Service Delivery
12 15 (8.38%) Data Management
13 14 (7.82%) Migration
14 13 (7.26%) Analytics
14 13 (7.26%) Database Security
14 13 (7.26%) DevOps
14 13 (7.26%) ETL
14 13 (7.26%) Mentoring
15 12 (6.70%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.43%) SQL
2 22 (12.29%) PowerShell
3 20 (11.17%) Python
4 19 (10.61%) Shell Script
5 11 (6.15%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.79%) ABAP
6 5 (2.79%) Java
7 4 (2.23%) Bash
7 4 (2.23%) C#
8 2 (1.12%) C
9 1 (0.56%) Bicep
9 1 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Perl
9 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (13.41%) Degree
2 20 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.70%) HNC
4 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.59%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (5.59%) HND
6 7 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.91%) MCSE
7 6 (3.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (2.79%) CCNA
8 5 (2.79%) CCNP
8 5 (2.79%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.12%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (1.12%) MCSA
11 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.59%) Accessibility
1 10 (5.59%) HAZOP
2 9 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.47%) SLA
4 7 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.35%) GDPR
6 5 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (2.79%) QA
7 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 45 (25.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (22.35%) Active Directory
3 29 (16.20%) Hyper-V
4 17 (9.50%) vSphere
5 13 (7.26%) Firmware
6 12 (6.70%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (5.59%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (4.47%) Docker
9 6 (3.35%) DFS Replication
9 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (2.79%) KVM
11 3 (1.68%) iptables
11 3 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (11.73%) Terraform
2 12 (6.70%) Ansible
2 12 (6.70%) Grafana
2 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.70%) vCenter Server
3 10 (5.59%) Wonderware InTouch
4 7 (3.91%) Cisco CUCM
4 7 (3.91%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.23%) Backup Exec
6 4 (2.23%) Galera Cluster
6 4 (2.23%) SCCM
7 3 (1.68%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.68%) systemd
7 3 (1.68%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.12%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 2 (1.12%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 73 (40.78%) Microsoft
2 54 (30.17%) VMware
3 43 (24.02%) Veeam
4 17 (9.50%) Cisco
5 14 (7.82%) Commvault
5 14 (7.82%) NetApp
6 13 (7.26%) EMC
6 13 (7.26%) HP
6 13 (7.26%) SAP
7 12 (6.70%) Oracle
8 11 (6.15%) IBM
9 10 (5.59%) Allen-Bradley
9 10 (5.59%) Rockwell
9 10 (5.59%) Wonderware
10 9 (5.03%) Fortinet
11 8 (4.47%) Splunk
12 7 (3.91%) Dell
12 7 (3.91%) Palo Alto
13 6 (3.35%) Meraki
13 6 (3.35%) Zerto