Replication Contracts

Replication
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Replication over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 425 485
Rank change year-on-year +39 +60 0
Contract jobs citing Replication 221 281 417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 1.52% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 176 283
10th Percentile £300 £381 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £584 £588
90th Percentile £703 £675 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -1.15% +9.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 24 6
10th Percentile - £60.45 £45.63
25th Percentile - £62.25 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.77
Median % change year-on-year - +21.17% -12.16%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £68.75 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +41.03% -25.62%

All Generic Skills
UK

Replication is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,984 18,455 29,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.97% 33.21% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 12,703 20,498
10th Percentile £274 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £444 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 608 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.58 £22.26 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -17.51% +7.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £59.06 £50.39
90th Percentile £71.44 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -4.44%

Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Replication in the UK

Replication
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Replication.

Daily rate trend for Replication in the UK

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Replication over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Replication in the UK

Replication
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Replication.

Hourly rate trend for Replication in the UK

Replication
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Replication within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +39 176 £525 +1.94% 75
Work from Home +69 96 £533 +6.50% 30
London +65 92 £513 +2.50% 22
UK excluding London +5 88 £514 -1.15% 53
North of England +34 26 £514 -2.10% 9
Yorkshire +33 25 £514 -6.55%
South West +16 23 £650 -3.70% 8
South East -18 17 £575 +27.78% 19
Midlands +17 15 £600 +34.83% 12
West Midlands +14 13 £613 +42.44% 8
Scotland +39 8 £458 -9.94% 1
East of England -6 3 £550 +5.77% 5
Wales +20 2 £550 - 2
North West +3 1 £500 +5.26% 8

Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.17%) Confluence
1 7 (3.17%) IIS
2 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 5.5
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.90%) WordPress
4 1 (0.45%) GemFire
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 13 (5.88%) Elite 3E
2 11 (4.98%) Teamcenter
3 10 (4.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (3.17%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (2.71%) SAP Travel Management
6 5 (2.26%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
8 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.51%) Azure
2 45 (20.36%) AWS
3 29 (13.12%) PaaS
4 17 (7.69%) GCP
5 15 (6.79%) GitHub
6 13 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.98%) IaaS
9 10 (4.52%) Serverless
10 9 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.62%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.17%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.17%) SaaS
13 6 (2.71%) Nutanix
14 5 (2.26%) OCI
14 5 (2.26%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.95%) Firewall
1 22 (9.95%) FTP
2 21 (9.50%) VLAN
3 19 (8.60%) SAN
4 13 (5.88%) DNS
4 13 (5.88%) Kerberos
5 9 (4.07%) NAS
6 7 (3.17%) DHCP
6 7 (3.17%) LAN
6 7 (3.17%) WAN
7 6 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.26%) SSL
9 3 (1.36%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (1.36%) VPN
10 2 (0.90%) BGP
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.90%) Internet
10 2 (0.90%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.90%) Skype
10 2 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 30 (13.57%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 25 (11.31%) Oracle Database
5 16 (7.24%) Hadoop
6 14 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.52%) Sybase ASE
8 9 (4.07%) DB2
9 8 (3.62%) Informix
10 7 (3.17%) MySQL
10 7 (3.17%) RDBMS
10 7 (3.17%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (2.26%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (1.81%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.81%) Oracle Database 11g
12 4 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (8.14%) Git
2 11 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.07%) GitLab
4 6 (2.71%) JIRA
5 5 (2.26%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) Hudson
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.45%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.74%) Public Sector
3 25 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.50%) Finance
5 10 (4.52%) Banking
5 10 (4.52%) Legal
6 7 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.71%) Billing
7 6 (2.71%) Electronics
7 6 (2.71%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.71%) Marketing
7 6 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.26%) Retail
9 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Front Office
10 2 (0.90%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (17.19%) DBA
2 31 (14.03%) Senior
3 24 (10.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (9.05%) Consultant
5 17 (7.69%) Implementation Specialist
6 16 (7.24%) Support Engineer
7 14 (6.33%) Architect
8 13 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
8 13 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 13 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
8 13 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.88%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 13 (5.88%) Senior Applications Support
8 13 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
8 13 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
9 12 (5.43%) Database Specialist
9 12 (5.43%) Senior DBA
10 11 (4.98%) Administrator
10 11 (4.98%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (4.52%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.57%) LDAP
2 11 (4.98%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 9 (4.07%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.71%) .NET
4 6 (2.71%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.71%) Angular 2
4 6 (2.71%) AngularJS
4 6 (2.71%) Blazor
4 6 (2.71%) Entity Framework
4 6 (2.71%) HTML
4 6 (2.71%) HTML5
4 6 (2.71%) Kafka
4 6 (2.71%) React
4 6 (2.71%) Redux
4 6 (2.71%) SAP TM
5 5 (2.26%) SAP ALE
6 3 (1.36%) IDoc
6 3 (1.36%) JSON
6 3 (1.36%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.36%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.86%) Clustering
2 22 (9.95%) Data Centre
2 22 (9.95%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (5.88%) Blog
4 8 (3.62%) PKI
5 4 (1.81%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.36%) EMC VNX
7 2 (0.90%) Blackberry
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.90%) Derivative
7 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.90%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.45%) IoT
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.45%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.45%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 99 (44.80%) Windows
2 84 (38.01%) Linux
3 34 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 33 (14.93%) Unix
5 20 (9.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (7.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.62%) Solaris
9 5 (2.26%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.81%) VMS
11 3 (1.36%) AIX
12 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.45%) Android
13 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (38.91%) Migration
2 83 (37.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 60 (27.15%) High Availability
4 34 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 33 (14.93%) Data Protection
5 33 (14.93%) Task Automation
6 28 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (12.22%) Agile
8 25 (11.31%) Change Management
9 24 (10.86%) Capacity Management
10 23 (10.41%) ETL
11 20 (9.05%) DevOps
11 20 (9.05%) Scrum
12 18 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (7.69%) ITIL
13 17 (7.69%) Service Delivery
14 16 (7.24%) Database Migration
15 15 (6.79%) Storage Management
16 14 (6.33%) Root Cause Analysis
17 13 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (30.32%) SQL
2 36 (16.29%) Python
3 24 (10.86%) Bash
4 20 (9.05%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 10 (4.52%) Perl
7 9 (4.07%) T-SQL
7 9 (4.07%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.71%) C#
9 5 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.81%) ABAP
11 3 (1.36%) Go
11 3 (1.36%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.90%) Java
12 2 (0.90%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) Bicep
13 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 61 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.05%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.26%) OSCP
4 5 (2.26%) SAP Certification
5 3 (1.36%) Degree
5 3 (1.36%) MCSE
6 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.45%) CISSP
7 1 (0.45%) OCP
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.45%) PMP
7 1 (0.45%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.17%) GDPR
2 6 (2.71%) QA
2 6 (2.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.36%) SLA
4 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 72 (32.58%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.24%) HDFS
3 16 (7.24%) NFS
4 12 (5.43%) vSphere
5 10 (4.52%) Docker
6 9 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.07%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.36%) SRDF
10 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.90%) PowerDNS
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.45%) Firmware
11 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.45%) vCloud
11 1 (0.45%) XenApp
11 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (19.91%) Ansible
2 18 (8.14%) Terraform
3 17 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (7.24%) Puppet
5 15 (6.79%) NetBackup
6 14 (6.33%) Kubernetes
7 12 (5.43%) Grafana
8 9 (4.07%) vCenter Server
9 8 (3.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (2.26%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (2.26%) Netcool
10 5 (2.26%) Tivoli
10 5 (2.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (1.81%) Packer
12 3 (1.36%) Argo
12 3 (1.36%) Backup Exec
12 3 (1.36%) EMC TimeFinder
12 3 (1.36%) SCCM
12 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.90%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 62 (28.05%) Oracle
2 38 (17.19%) SAP
3 37 (16.74%) Microsoft
4 35 (15.84%) VMware
5 25 (11.31%) Isilon
6 24 (10.86%) Veeam
7 22 (9.95%) Veritas
8 19 (8.60%) Dell
9 17 (7.69%) Cisco
10 16 (7.24%) IBM
11 14 (6.33%) Red Hat
12 12 (5.43%) Palo Alto
13 11 (4.98%) EMC
14 10 (4.52%) ServiceNow
14 10 (4.52%) Sybase
15 8 (3.62%) SolarWinds
16 7 (3.17%) CA
17 6 (2.71%) CheckPoint
17 6 (2.71%) Splunk
18 5 (2.26%) Intapp