Legacy Systems Contracts in the South East

Legacy System
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 169 179 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 -21 -15
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 31 47 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.81% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.97% 2.37% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 82
10th Percentile £445 £374 £385
25th Percentile £463 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.54% +23.08% +1.04%
75th Percentile £584 £628 £569
90th Percentile £626 £746 £624
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - +238.24% -60.92%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -24.45%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,573 1,980 2,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.47% 33.97% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 1,340 1,705
10th Percentile £205 £213 £213
25th Percentile £359 £386 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 89 121
10th Percentile £11.72 £18.25 £16.11
25th Percentile £18.35 £20.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.19 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +144.19% -33.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +11 25 £501 -16.58% 7
Berkshire -3 20 £513 -12.72% 3
Hampshire +2 5 £503 +5.24% 3
Buckinghamshire +25 3 £595 -20.67% 4
Oxfordshire - 2 £365 -
Surrey +6 1 £800 +33.33% 3
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (16.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) AWS
1 2 (6.45%) Azure
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.23%) OCI
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (9.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) MariaDB
2 4 (12.90%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Analyst
2 8 (25.81%) Consultant
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Product Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) E-Commerce Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Supply Chain Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Data Migration Manager
7 1 (3.23%) ERP Manager
7 1 (3.23%) LAMP Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) LAMP
2 4 (12.90%) LDAP
3 1 (3.23%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) Migration
2 6 (19.35%) Agile
2 6 (19.35%) Project Management
2 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
2 6 (19.35%) SDLC
3 5 (16.13%) Backlog Refinement
3 5 (16.13%) CRM
3 5 (16.13%) Customer Service
3 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
3 5 (16.13%) Product Backlog
3 5 (16.13%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (12.90%) Change Management
5 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.45%) Database Migration
6 2 (6.45%) E-Commerce
6 2 (6.45%) ERP
6 2 (6.45%) PRINCE2
6 2 (6.45%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) PHP
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) PMP
3 1 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) EMC
1 1 (3.23%) Isilon
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle
1 1 (3.23%) Salesforce