Legacy Applications Contracts in Scotland

Legacy Application
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 157 165
Rank change year-on-year +41 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 15 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 0.77% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 5
10th Percentile £424 £618 £448
25th Percentile £431 £663 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +42.11% -
75th Percentile £488 £700 £513
90th Percentile £573 £700 £528
UK median daily rate £550 £614 £591
% change year-on-year -10.39% +3.89% +7.41%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Legacy Applications 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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 721 1,036 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.67% 36.24% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 712 814
10th Percentile £204 £250 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £13.75 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £18.90
Median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £38.25 £28.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.38 £52.55 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in Scotland

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in Scotland

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in Scotland

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Edinburgh - 14 £451 - 2
Glasgow -4 1 £700 +0.07% 1
Legacy Applications
UK

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 12 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 12 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) .NET Developer
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) React Developer
2 9 (60.00%) Senior
3 8 (53.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 8 (53.33%) Senior Developer
4 7 (46.67%) Senior React Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Lead .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Ruby Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) .NET
2 11 (73.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (86.67%) Wiki
2 12 (80.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 12 (80.00%) Code Quality
2 12 (80.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 12 (80.00%) User Experience
3 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) Elixir
1 1 (6.67%) Go
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle