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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 411 480
Rank change year-on-year +42 +69 -7
Contract jobs citing Replication 213 299 431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.52% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 1.57% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 192 290
10th Percentile £294 £400 £374
25th Percentile £411 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £590
90th Percentile £703 £675 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £509 £475
% change year-on-year +0.98% +7.16% -
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% -0.35%
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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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 20 May 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +30 168 £514 +2.80% 95
London +77 91 £500 - 31
Work from Home +58 90 £540 +8.00% 39
UK excluding London -7 83 £514 +0.98% 71
North of England +32 26 £514 +2.80% 11
Yorkshire +40 25 £514 -6.55% 3
South West +7 21 £638 +2.00% 12
South East -17 13 £575 +27.78% 26
Midlands +8 10 £575 +29.21% 12
Scotland +39 8 £475 -6.22% 4
West Midlands +17 8 £525 +22.09% 10
Wales +22 3 £550 - 4
East of England -1 2 £475 -5.00% 4
North West -1 1 £500 +2.56% 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 8 (3.76%) Confluence
2 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.41%) IIS
3 3 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.41%) WordPress
4 2 (0.94%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.94%) Exchange Server 5.5
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.94%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.47%) GemFire
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 12 (5.63%) Elite 3E
2 11 (5.16%) Teamcenter
3 10 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (3.29%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (2.82%) SAP Travel Management
6 5 (2.35%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG-BP
8 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.11%) Azure
2 43 (20.19%) AWS
3 29 (13.62%) PaaS
4 18 (8.45%) GCP
5 13 (6.10%) GitHub
6 12 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (5.16%) IaaS
8 9 (4.23%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.23%) Serverless
9 8 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.29%) Nutanix
10 7 (3.29%) SaaS
11 6 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.82%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.82%) Rubrik
12 5 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.80%) Firewall
2 22 (10.33%) FTP
2 22 (10.33%) VLAN
3 20 (9.39%) SAN
4 15 (7.04%) DNS
5 11 (5.16%) NAS
6 8 (3.76%) DHCP
7 7 (3.29%) Kerberos
7 7 (3.29%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.82%) LAN
8 6 (2.82%) WAN
9 4 (1.88%) VPN
10 3 (1.41%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.41%) iSCSI
10 3 (1.41%) SSL
10 3 (1.41%) Wireless
11 2 (0.94%) BGP
11 2 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.94%) Skype
12 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (26.76%) SQL Server
2 29 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (12.68%) Oracle Database
4 23 (10.80%) MongoDB
5 16 (7.51%) Hadoop
6 13 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.69%) Sybase ASE
8 9 (4.23%) DB2
9 7 (3.29%) MySQL
9 7 (3.29%) RDBMS
9 7 (3.29%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.82%) Informix
11 5 (2.35%) Oracle Exadata
11 5 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.88%) Oracle Database 11g
12 4 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (7.98%) Git
2 10 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.23%) GitLab
4 7 (3.29%) JIRA
5 6 (2.82%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.94%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.47%) Hudson
7 1 (0.47%) JMeter
7 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.47%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.47%) tSQLt
General
1 48 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.31%) Public Sector
3 24 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.33%) Finance
5 10 (4.69%) Banking
6 9 (4.23%) Legal
7 7 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.82%) Billing
8 6 (2.82%) Electronics
8 6 (2.82%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.82%) Marketing
8 6 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.88%) Retail
10 2 (0.94%) Front Office
10 2 (0.94%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (17.84%) DBA
2 29 (13.62%) Senior
3 25 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (8.45%) Consultant
5 17 (7.98%) Implementation Specialist
6 14 (6.57%) Architect
6 14 (6.57%) Support Engineer
7 13 (6.10%) Data Engineer
7 13 (6.10%) Storage Engineer
8 12 (5.63%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (5.63%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.63%) Applications Support Engineer
8 12 (5.63%) Database Specialist
8 12 (5.63%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 12 (5.63%) Senior Applications Support
8 12 (5.63%) Senior DBA
8 12 (5.63%) Senior Support Engineer
9 11 (5.16%) Administrator
9 11 (5.16%) Network Engineer
9 11 (5.16%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.21%) LDAP
2 11 (5.16%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 8 (3.76%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.82%) .NET
4 6 (2.82%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.82%) Angular 2
4 6 (2.82%) AngularJS
4 6 (2.82%) Blazor
4 6 (2.82%) Entity Framework
4 6 (2.82%) HTML
4 6 (2.82%) HTML5
4 6 (2.82%) React
4 6 (2.82%) Redux
4 6 (2.82%) SAP TM
5 5 (2.35%) SAP ALE
6 3 (1.41%) JSON
6 3 (1.41%) Kafka
6 3 (1.41%) LAMP
6 3 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.41%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.21%) Clustering
2 23 (10.80%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (9.39%) Data Centre
4 13 (6.10%) Blog
5 4 (1.88%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.41%) EMC VNX
7 2 (0.94%) Blackberry
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) Derivative
7 2 (0.94%) IoT
7 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.94%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.94%) PKI
7 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.47%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.47%) NHS
8 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 98 (46.01%) Windows
2 83 (38.97%) Linux
3 39 (18.31%) Windows Server
4 31 (14.55%) Unix
5 24 (11.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (9.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (4.23%) Solaris
9 7 (3.29%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (2.35%) VMS
11 3 (1.41%) AIX
11 3 (1.41%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.47%) Android
12 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.85%) Migration
2 80 (37.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 59 (27.70%) High Availability
4 35 (16.43%) Performance Tuning
5 33 (15.49%) Data Protection
5 33 (15.49%) Task Automation
6 29 (13.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 28 (13.15%) Agile
8 24 (11.27%) Capacity Management
8 24 (11.27%) Change Management
9 22 (10.33%) ETL
10 20 (9.39%) Scrum
11 18 (8.45%) DevOps
11 18 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (7.98%) Database Migration
12 17 (7.98%) Service Delivery
13 16 (7.51%) Storage Management
14 15 (7.04%) ITIL
15 14 (6.57%) Root Cause Analysis
16 13 (6.10%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (30.99%) SQL
2 35 (16.43%) Python
3 25 (11.74%) Bash
4 20 (9.39%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.10%) PL/SQL
6 10 (4.69%) Perl
6 10 (4.69%) T-SQL
7 8 (3.76%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.82%) C#
9 4 (1.88%) ABAP
9 4 (1.88%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) Go
11 2 (0.94%) Java
11 2 (0.94%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.80%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.35%) SAP Certification
5 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.94%) Degree
6 2 (0.94%) MCSE
7 1 (0.47%) CISSP
7 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.47%) OCP
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.76%) GDPR
2 7 (3.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (2.82%) QA
4 2 (0.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.47%) IFRS
5 1 (0.47%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 68 (31.92%) Active Directory
2 24 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.51%) HDFS
3 16 (7.51%) NFS
4 13 (6.10%) vSphere
5 9 (4.23%) Docker
5 9 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (4.23%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.41%) SRDF
9 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.94%) PowerDNS
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.47%) vCloud
10 1 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.47%) XenApp
10 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (19.25%) Ansible
2 21 (9.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (7.98%) Terraform
4 16 (7.51%) Puppet
5 15 (7.04%) NetBackup
6 12 (5.63%) Kubernetes
7 8 (3.76%) Grafana
7 8 (3.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 8 (3.76%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (2.82%) Netcool
8 6 (2.82%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.88%) SCCM
10 3 (1.41%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.94%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.94%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.94%) Packer
11 2 (0.94%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 62 (29.11%) Oracle
2 38 (17.84%) SAP
3 36 (16.90%) VMware
4 33 (15.49%) Microsoft
5 28 (13.15%) Veeam
6 26 (12.21%) Isilon
7 21 (9.86%) Veritas
8 20 (9.39%) Dell
9 17 (7.98%) Cisco
9 17 (7.98%) IBM
10 13 (6.10%) Palo Alto
11 11 (5.16%) EMC
11 11 (5.16%) Red Hat
11 11 (5.16%) ServiceNow
12 10 (4.69%) Sybase
13 8 (3.76%) SolarWinds
14 7 (3.29%) Splunk
15 6 (2.82%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.82%) CyberArk
15 6 (2.82%) HP