Legacy Systems Contracts in Scotland

Legacy System
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 84 110
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 30 88 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.36% 3.08% 1.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.16% 8.49% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 74 45
10th Percentile £415 £437 £406
25th Percentile £438 £456 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +0.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £550
90th Percentile £539 £554 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +11.11%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Legacy Systems 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 1,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.67% 36.30% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 711 819
10th Percentile £204 £250 £240
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 £557 £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 £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Scotland

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Scotland

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Scotland

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Scotland

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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 +4 16 £454 -5.27% 3
Glasgow -6 5 £483 -8.00% 1
Perthshire - 3 £475 -
Lanarkshire - 2 £443 -
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) AWS
2 20 (66.67%) Serverless
3 19 (63.33%) Amazon S3
4 17 (56.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (53.33%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
7 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (10.00%) OCI
8 3 (10.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (56.67%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (46.67%) Oracle Database
4 8 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (23.33%) MongoDB
6 4 (13.33%) GIS
7 3 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (6.67%) Data Mining
8 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
9 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.67%) ER Studio
3 2 (6.67%) ERwin
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 16 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) IT Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) IT Support
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Support Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 19 (63.33%) React
3 14 (46.67%) CSS
3 14 (46.67%) HTML
4 11 (36.67%) Node.js
5 6 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 5 (16.67%) Spring
7 4 (13.33%) OAuth
7 4 (13.33%) OAuth2
7 4 (13.33%) PostGIS
7 4 (13.33%) Spring Security
8 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (10.00%) Tandem
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
1 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Microservices
2 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
3 13 (43.33%) Human-Centred Design
4 11 (36.67%) Inclusive Design
5 9 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 9 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Analytics
6 8 (26.67%) DevOps
6 8 (26.67%) Pair Programming
6 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 8 (26.67%) TDD
7 7 (23.33%) Architecture Roadmap
7 7 (23.33%) Product Roadmap
7 7 (23.33%) User Experience
8 6 (20.00%) Coaching
9 5 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 19 (63.33%) JavaScript
3 12 (40.00%) Java
4 11 (36.67%) Bash
4 11 (36.67%) Python
5 10 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 5 (16.67%) SQL
7 1 (3.33%) C
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Grafana
2 3 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) IDERA
2 2 (6.67%) Informatica
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft