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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 415 480
Rank change year-on-year +51 +65 +2
Contract jobs citing Replication 220 290 417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 1.55% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 183 280
10th Percentile £300 £400 £375
25th Percentile £411 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -3.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £578 £590
90th Percentile £703 £675 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -1.15% +9.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 23 7
10th Percentile - £60.00 £45.75
25th Percentile - £61.50 £48.13
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +6.81% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +35.38% -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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 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 1 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 +16 175 £525 +2.94% 72
Work from Home +63 93 £533 +6.50% 30
London +69 91 £500 - 15
UK excluding London -2 89 £514 -1.15% 60
North of England +29 26 £514 -2.10% 8
Yorkshire +39 25 £514 -6.55% 1
South West +8 24 £650 - 11
South East -20 17 £575 +27.78% 20
Midlands +18 15 £600 +34.83% 9
West Midlands +15 13 £613 +42.44% 7
Scotland +35 8 £475 -6.22% 5
East of England -3 3 £550 +7.84% 7
Wales +19 2 £550 - 3
North West +8 1 £500 +1.27% 7

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 (3.18%) Confluence
1 7 (3.18%) IIS
2 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.91%) Exchange Server 5.5
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.91%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.91%) WordPress
4 1 (0.45%) GemFire
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 13 (5.91%) Elite 3E
2 11 (5.00%) Teamcenter
3 10 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (3.18%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (2.73%) SAP Travel Management
6 5 (2.27%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
8 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 64 (29.09%) Azure
2 43 (19.55%) AWS
3 29 (13.18%) PaaS
4 17 (7.73%) GCP
5 14 (6.36%) GitHub
6 12 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (5.00%) IaaS
8 10 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.09%) Entra ID
9 9 (4.09%) Serverless
10 7 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.18%) SaaS
11 6 (2.73%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.27%) OCI
12 5 (2.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.00%) Firewall
1 22 (10.00%) FTP
2 21 (9.55%) VLAN
3 19 (8.64%) SAN
4 13 (5.91%) DNS
5 12 (5.45%) Kerberos
6 9 (4.09%) NAS
7 7 (3.18%) DHCP
7 7 (3.18%) LAN
7 7 (3.18%) WAN
8 6 (2.73%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.82%) SSL
10 3 (1.36%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.36%) VPN
11 2 (0.91%) BGP
11 2 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.91%) Internet
11 2 (0.91%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.91%) Skype
11 2 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (24.09%) SQL Server
2 29 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (12.27%) Oracle Database
4 23 (10.45%) MongoDB
5 16 (7.27%) Hadoop
6 13 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.55%) Sybase ASE
8 9 (4.09%) DB2
9 7 (3.18%) MySQL
9 7 (3.18%) RDBMS
9 7 (3.18%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.73%) Informix
11 5 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
12 4 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (7.73%) Git
2 10 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.09%) GitLab
4 6 (2.73%) JIRA
5 5 (2.27%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.91%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.91%) 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 50 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.82%) Public Sector
3 25 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.55%) Finance
5 10 (4.55%) Banking
5 10 (4.55%) Legal
6 7 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.18%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.73%) Billing
7 6 (2.73%) Electronics
7 6 (2.73%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.73%) Marketing
7 6 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Retail
9 4 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Front Office
10 2 (0.91%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (17.27%) DBA
2 31 (14.09%) Senior
3 22 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (9.09%) Consultant
5 17 (7.73%) Implementation Specialist
6 16 (7.27%) Support Engineer
7 14 (6.36%) Architect
8 13 (5.91%) Applications Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Applications Support
8 13 (5.91%) Applications Support Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Senior Applications Support
8 13 (5.91%) Senior Support Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Storage Engineer
9 12 (5.45%) Database Specialist
9 12 (5.45%) Senior DBA
10 11 (5.00%) Administrator
10 11 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (4.55%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.64%) LDAP
2 11 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 8 (3.64%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.73%) .NET
4 6 (2.73%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.73%) Angular 2
4 6 (2.73%) AngularJS
4 6 (2.73%) Blazor
4 6 (2.73%) Entity Framework
4 6 (2.73%) HTML
4 6 (2.73%) HTML5
4 6 (2.73%) React
4 6 (2.73%) Redux
4 6 (2.73%) SAP TM
5 5 (2.27%) SAP ALE
6 4 (1.82%) Kafka
7 3 (1.36%) IDoc
7 3 (1.36%) JSON
7 3 (1.36%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (1.36%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.91%) Clustering
2 22 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 22 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (5.91%) Blog
4 8 (3.64%) PKI
5 4 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.36%) EMC VNX
7 2 (0.91%) Blackberry
7 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.91%) Derivative
7 2 (0.91%) IoT
7 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.91%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Driving Licence
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
1 101 (45.91%) Windows
2 83 (37.73%) Linux
3 35 (15.91%) Windows Server
4 32 (14.55%) Unix
5 22 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (7.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.64%) Solaris
9 6 (2.73%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.82%) VMS
11 3 (1.36%) AIX
12 2 (0.91%) 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 88 (40.00%) Migration
2 83 (37.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 58 (26.36%) High Availability
4 34 (15.45%) Performance Tuning
5 33 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 33 (15.00%) Task Automation
6 26 (11.82%) Agile
6 26 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (11.36%) Change Management
8 24 (10.91%) Capacity Management
9 23 (10.45%) ETL
10 19 (8.64%) Scrum
11 18 (8.18%) DevOps
12 17 (7.73%) Database Migration
12 17 (7.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (7.73%) ITIL
12 17 (7.73%) Service Delivery
13 15 (6.82%) Storage Management
14 14 (6.36%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (5.91%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (30.00%) SQL
2 35 (15.91%) Python
3 24 (10.91%) Bash
4 20 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.91%) PL/SQL
6 10 (4.55%) Perl
7 9 (4.09%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.73%) C#
10 4 (1.82%) ABAP
10 4 (1.82%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.91%) Go
11 2 (0.91%) Java
11 2 (0.91%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.55%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.27%) OSCP
4 5 (2.27%) SAP Certification
5 3 (1.36%) Degree
5 3 (1.36%) MCSE
6 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.91%) 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 (3.18%) GDPR
2 6 (2.73%) QA
2 6 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.36%) SLA
4 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) IFRS
5 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (33.18%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.27%) HDFS
3 16 (7.27%) NFS
4 12 (5.45%) vSphere
5 9 (4.09%) Docker
5 9 (4.09%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (4.09%) VMware NSX
6 7 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.36%) SRDF
9 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.91%) PowerDNS
9 2 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.45%) vCloud
10 1 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.45%) XenApp
10 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (18.64%) Ansible
2 19 (8.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (7.73%) Terraform
4 16 (7.27%) Puppet
5 15 (6.82%) NetBackup
6 12 (5.45%) Kubernetes
7 9 (4.09%) Grafana
7 9 (4.09%) vCenter Server
8 8 (3.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 5 (2.27%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (2.27%) Netcool
9 5 (2.27%) Tivoli
9 5 (2.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.36%) Backup Exec
10 3 (1.36%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (1.36%) Packer
10 3 (1.36%) SCCM
10 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.91%) Argo
11 2 (0.91%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 61 (27.73%) Oracle
2 38 (17.27%) SAP
3 37 (16.82%) Microsoft
4 35 (15.91%) VMware
5 25 (11.36%) Isilon
5 25 (11.36%) Veeam
6 22 (10.00%) Veritas
7 19 (8.64%) Dell
8 17 (7.73%) Cisco
9 16 (7.27%) IBM
10 12 (5.45%) Palo Alto
10 12 (5.45%) Red Hat
11 11 (5.00%) EMC
12 10 (4.55%) ServiceNow
12 10 (4.55%) Sybase
13 8 (3.64%) SolarWinds
14 7 (3.18%) CA
15 6 (2.73%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.73%) Splunk
16 5 (2.27%) CyberArk