Legacy Code Contracts in Edinburgh

Legacy Code
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 93 131
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 -16
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.24% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.76% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £401 - £515
25th Percentile £403 £406 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £413 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -24.31% -0.46%
75th Percentile £428 £419 £554
90th Percentile £434 - £586
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £545
% change year-on-year -5.56% -17.43% -

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Legacy Code 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 requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 300 397 698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.32% 37.35% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 223 452
10th Percentile £208 £166 £357
25th Percentile £343 £392 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £568
90th Percentile £635 £599 £639
Scotland median daily rate £460 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 5
10th Percentile £13.09 £13.47 £18.74
25th Percentile £17.31 £16.20 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.27 £17.72 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -55.14% +136.81%
75th Percentile £23.89 £26.73 £46.30
90th Percentile £24.18 £42.94 £50.02
Scotland median hourly rate £18.38 £19.18 £34.61
% change year-on-year -4.20% -44.58% +103.59%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in Edinburgh

Legacy Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Code in Edinburgh

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree