Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DFS Replication skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DFS Replication over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 880 959 1229
Rank change year-on-year +79 +270 -331
Permanent jobs citing DFS Replication 10 18 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.018% 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.083% 0.12% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 8
10th Percentile £52,500 £26,125 £41,350
25th Percentile £61,250 £33,765 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £41,250 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.76% -22.17% +17.78%
75th Percentile £76,250 £45,625 £63,625
90th Percentile - £66,250 £78,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.86%

All System Software Skills
UK

DFS Replication is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,980 15,379 29,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.51% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,464 10,075 15,564
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,860 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

DFS Replication
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DFS Replication.

Salary trend for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DFS Replication over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DFS Replication in the UK

DFS Replication
Top 7 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 18 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +76 9 £72,500 +75.76% 1
England +79 7 £72,500 +75.76% 2
London +112 5 £72,500 -9.38% 1
UK excluding London -42 2 £40,000 - 1
North of England +47 1 £40,000 -8.57%
North West 0 1 £40,000 -8.57%
South West - 1 - - 1

DFS 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 (70.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (50.00%) Rubrik
4 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) SNMP
3 1 (10.00%) VSAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (50.00%) Unix
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (10.00%) Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 5 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (50.00%) Data Management
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 5 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Cloud Enablement
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 1 (10.00%) Project Roadmap
6 1 (10.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 5 (50.00%) Puppet
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
1 5 (50.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) SCOM
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) Citrix
3 5 (50.00%) Veeam
4 1 (10.00%) Aderant
4 1 (10.00%) Draytek
4 1 (10.00%) Sage
4 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) WatchGuard