Replication Job Trends in the West Midlands

Replication
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Replication over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 190 146
Rank change year-on-year +15 -44 +99
Permanent jobs citing Replication 5 8 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% 0.18% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.51% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 27
10th Percentile - - £25,500
25th Percentile - £42,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £45,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +38.46% -35.00%
75th Percentile - £47,500 £38,000
90th Percentile - - £55,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,994 1,575 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.91% 36.32% 36.62%
Number of salaries quoted 693 640 1,046
10th Percentile £26,375 £32,500 £27,630
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,758 £77,500 £75,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Replication job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Replication
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Replication.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Replication

Replication
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Solihull - 3 - -
Birmingham +24 2 - - 2
Replication
England

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) Confluence
2 4 (80.00%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) FTP
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) SMTP
1 5 (100.00%) SSH
2 4 (80.00%) IMAP
2 4 (80.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Vagrant
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) VMS
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Change Management
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Groovy
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Dovecot
2 4 (80.00%) Postfix
2 4 (80.00%) Squid
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Nessus
2 4 (80.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (80.00%) Jaspersoft