Replication Contracts with Work from Home Options

Replication
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Replication in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 246 320 417
Rank change year-on-year +74 +97 -35
Contract jobs citing Replication 96 137 213
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.65% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 1.82% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 82 155
10th Percentile £306 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £620 £571 £592
90th Percentile £725 £599 £625
UK median daily rate £520 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +1.86% -2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 6
10th Percentile - £66.00 £45.63
25th Percentile - £66.25 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £57.77
Median % change year-on-year - +25.50% -11.86%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.77
% change year-on-year - +21.17% -12.16%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Replication falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Replication
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Replication trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Replication.

Replication daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Replication
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Replication over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Replication daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Replication
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Replication hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) Apache
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Elite 3E
2 10 (10.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (7.29%) Teamcenter
4 6 (6.25%) SAP Travel Management
5 4 (4.17%) SAP MDG
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.38%) Azure
2 25 (26.04%) AWS
3 14 (14.58%) PaaS
4 10 (10.42%) Amazon S3
4 10 (10.42%) GCP
5 9 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (8.33%) Serverless
7 7 (7.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 7 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.25%) IaaS
8 6 (6.25%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.21%) Nutanix
9 5 (5.21%) Rubrik
9 5 (5.21%) SaaS
10 3 (3.13%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (3.13%) AWS CodeCommit
10 3 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.46%) VLAN
2 9 (9.38%) Firewall
3 8 (8.33%) SAN
4 7 (7.29%) DNS
4 7 (7.29%) FTP
5 6 (6.25%) Kerberos
6 5 (5.21%) DHCP
6 5 (5.21%) NAS
6 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.08%) SSL
8 1 (1.04%) AMQP
8 1 (1.04%) BGP
8 1 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.04%) LAN
8 1 (1.04%) VPN
8 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.58%) MongoDB
3 13 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 11 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (7.29%) Hadoop
6 7 (7.29%) Informix
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.13%) InfluxDB
8 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.13%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.08%) DB2
9 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (2.08%) Power BI
9 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Git
1 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.21%) JIRA
2 5 (5.21%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.08%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.04%) JMeter
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Finance
4 7 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Billing
5 6 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Legal
7 2 (2.08%) Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Senior
2 20 (20.83%) DBA
3 14 (14.58%) Support Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) Applications Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) Applications Support
4 13 (13.54%) Applications Support Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) Senior Applications Support
4 13 (13.54%) Senior Support Engineer
5 12 (12.50%) Senior DBA
6 11 (11.46%) Data Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Consultant
7 10 (10.42%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (9.38%) Architect
9 7 (7.29%) Implementation Specialist
9 7 (7.29%) Oracle Architect
10 6 (6.25%) Management Consultant
10 6 (6.25%) SQL DBA
10 6 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) LDAP
2 8 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 6 (6.25%) SAP TM
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (4.17%) SAP ALE
5 3 (3.13%) Kafka
6 2 (2.08%) Apache Beam
6 2 (2.08%) BAPI
6 2 (2.08%) IDoc
6 2 (2.08%) Middleware
6 2 (2.08%) OpenID
6 2 (2.08%) SAML
6 2 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (2.08%) Web Dynpro
7 1 (1.04%) JMS
7 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.38%) Clustering
3 7 (7.29%) Blog
4 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (41.67%) Windows
2 31 (32.29%) Linux
3 9 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (9.38%) Unix
4 7 (7.29%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.21%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (5.21%) Solaris
6 1 (1.04%) Android
6 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.75%) Migration
2 40 (41.67%) High Availability
3 38 (39.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (22.92%) ETL
5 16 (16.67%) Agile
6 14 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (13.54%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 10 (10.42%) DevOps
10 9 (9.38%) Scrum
11 8 (8.33%) Kanban
11 8 (8.33%) Task Automation
12 7 (7.29%) Capacity Management
12 7 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.29%) Decision-Making
12 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (7.29%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.29%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (7.29%) Security Management
12 7 (7.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.67%) SQL
2 17 (17.71%) Python
3 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
4 9 (9.38%) Bash
4 9 (9.38%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.13%) ABAP
6 3 (3.13%) Perl
7 2 (2.08%) Go
8 1 (1.04%) Java
8 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.04%) R
8 1 (1.04%) Scala
8 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Degree
4 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.04%) MCSE
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.04%) OCP
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.04%) OSCP
4 1 (1.04%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (5.21%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.04%) IFRS
3 1 (1.04%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.04%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (26.04%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.29%) HDFS
2 7 (7.29%) NFS
2 7 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.25%) Docker
4 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.04%) PowerDNS
5 1 (1.04%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.04%) vCloud
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.04%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (20.83%) Ansible
2 8 (8.33%) Grafana
2 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.25%) NetBackup
3 6 (6.25%) Puppet
3 6 (6.25%) Terraform
4 5 (5.21%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (5.21%) Netcool
4 5 (5.21%) Tivoli
4 5 (5.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.04%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.04%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (29.17%) Oracle
2 20 (20.83%) SAP
3 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
4 12 (12.50%) Isilon
5 9 (9.38%) IBM
6 8 (8.33%) Cisco
6 8 (8.33%) Dell
6 8 (8.33%) VMware
7 7 (7.29%) Veritas
8 6 (6.25%) EMC
9 5 (5.21%) CyberArk
9 5 (5.21%) HP
9 5 (5.21%) Intapp
9 5 (5.21%) Qualys
9 5 (5.21%) Serena
9 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
9 5 (5.21%) Splunk
10 3 (3.13%) Commvault
10 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
10 3 (3.13%) Sybase