Hybrid/Remote Replication Job Trends

Replication
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 395 464
Rank change year-on-year +29 +69 +9
Permanent jobs citing Replication 52 32 121
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.21% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 0.48% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 39 27 101
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £41,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,822 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% +8.23% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.20% +22.50% -6.98%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,888 6,717 11,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.60% 45.12% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,242 3,397 9,282
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,536
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Replication and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Replication job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Replication
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Replication.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Replication

Replication
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Replication over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Replication salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Replication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.92%) IIS
4 1 (1.92%) Site Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 31 (59.62%) Azure
2 17 (32.69%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (23.08%) AWS
4 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.77%) PaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.85%) Datadog
6 2 (3.85%) IaaS
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 22 (42.31%) Firewall
2 13 (25.00%) DNS
3 9 (17.31%) WAN
4 8 (15.38%) VLAN
5 7 (13.46%) LAN
5 7 (13.46%) Unified Communications
6 6 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (11.54%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (11.54%) WebEx
7 5 (9.62%) DHCP
8 4 (7.69%) SAN
9 3 (5.77%) SD-WAN
10 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
10 2 (3.85%) VPN
10 2 (3.85%) Wireless
11 1 (1.92%) Broadband
11 1 (1.92%) NAS
11 1 (1.92%) Network Security
11 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.62%) MySQL
3 5 (9.62%) Power BI
4 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.85%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.92%) Metadata
6 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.92%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.92%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (17.31%) Retail
1 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Marketing
4 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Legal
6 4 (7.69%) Law
7 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Advertising
8 1 (1.92%) Back Office
8 1 (1.92%) Finance
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) DBA
3 9 (17.31%) Administrator
4 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Collaboration Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) Database Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) IT Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) MySQL DBA
7 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior DBA
8 2 (3.85%) Architect
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) XMPP
2 2 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) Celery
3 1 (1.92%) JDBC
3 1 (1.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.92%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 12 (23.08%) Enterprise Storage
2 11 (21.15%) iSeries
3 6 (11.54%) FlexPod
3 6 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 6 (11.54%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (7.69%) Clustering
4 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.92%) NHS
7 1 (1.92%) PMI
7 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (34.62%) Windows
2 12 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 11 (21.15%) Linux
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (21.15%) High Availability
4 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (15.38%) Analytics
6 7 (13.46%) Migration
6 7 (13.46%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (11.54%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (11.54%) Data Management
7 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (11.54%) Performance Management
7 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.62%) Data Modelling
8 5 (9.62%) Database Security
8 5 (9.62%) Incident Response
8 5 (9.62%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.92%) SQL
2 9 (17.31%) Python
3 5 (9.62%) T-SQL
4 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 22 (42.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
4 11 (21.15%) Firmware
5 9 (17.31%) vSphere
6 6 (11.54%) DFS Replication
6 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (11.54%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Terraform
2 7 (13.46%) Grafana
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (13.46%) vCenter Server
3 6 (11.54%) Ansible
3 6 (11.54%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (3.85%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.85%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.92%) Argo
6 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.92%) Graylog
6 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.92%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.92%) SCCM
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 30 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 28 (53.85%) VMware
3 15 (28.85%) Veeam
4 13 (25.00%) EMC
5 11 (21.15%) Commvault
5 11 (21.15%) HP
5 11 (21.15%) IBM
6 9 (17.31%) Cisco
7 6 (11.54%) Fortinet
7 6 (11.54%) NetApp
7 6 (11.54%) Palo Alto
7 6 (11.54%) Splunk
8 4 (7.69%) SAP
9 3 (5.77%) Oracle
9 3 (5.77%) Sophos
10 2 (3.85%) Broadcom
10 2 (3.85%) Dynatrace
10 2 (3.85%) Meraki
10 2 (3.85%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds