DFS Replication Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DFS Replication skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DFS Replication over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 452 -
Rank change year-on-year +112 - -
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.021% -
As % of the System Software category 0.070% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% - -
UK median daily rate £475 £275 £525
% change year-on-year +72.73% -47.62% +23.53%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

DFS Replication falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,433 2,944 5,279
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.71% 12.33% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,065 2,081 3,926
10th Percentile £293 £285 £319
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £633 £625
90th Percentile £686 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 113 87
10th Percentile - £18.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £18.55
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +136.36% +13.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £59.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.60 £66.40
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

DFS Replication
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DFS Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DFS Replication trend for jobs with a WFH option

DFS Replication
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DFS Replication.

DFS Replication daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DFS Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware