Legacy Systems Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legacy System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 237 231
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -34
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 164 224 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.95% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.75% 2.94% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 168 271
10th Percentile £415 £398 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £581 £551 £588
90th Percentile £685 £623 £668
UK median daily rate £506 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.64% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 2
10th Percentile - £35.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £15.39 £56.25 £21.66
Median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
Median % change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -6.52%
75th Percentile £16.20 £65.00 £33.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £66.20 £36.99
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -6.52%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,968 7,613 9,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.45% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 5,131 6,667
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 433 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England +39 39 £500 -4.76% 26
Scotland -7 34 £460 -3.97% 9
North West +36 33 £500 -4.76% 12
South East +6 32 £513 -6.77% 12
Midlands +40 24 £613 +25.64% 21
East of England +15 23 £550 +2.33% 6
West Midlands +35 22 £613 +11.36% 14
South West +3 12 £526 +13.17% 11
East Midlands +19 4 £565 +50.67% 7
North East +13 4 £850 +78.95% 4
Yorkshire +8 2 £500 -4.76% 10
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.05%) Apache
2 3 (1.83%) GeoServer
2 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (4.88%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (9.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.83%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.22%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.22%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.61%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.46%) AWS
2 18 (10.98%) Dynamics 365
3 17 (10.37%) Serverless
4 16 (9.76%) Amazon S3
4 16 (9.76%) Azure
5 14 (8.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.27%) GCP
8 7 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.05%) OCI
11 4 (2.44%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 3 (1.83%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.83%) SaaS
13 2 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 1 (0.61%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.83%) HTTP
2 3 (1.83%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.15%) Oracle Database
2 14 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (6.71%) Data Mining
5 8 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.05%) MariaDB
7 5 (3.05%) MySQL
7 5 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (3.05%) Power BI
8 4 (2.44%) GIS
8 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.83%) SAP BW
9 3 (1.83%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.22%) Metadata
10 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.61%) MS Access
11 1 (0.61%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.05%) GitLab
2 5 (3.05%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.44%) Git
4 3 (1.83%) JIRA
4 3 (1.83%) LSMW
4 3 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (1.22%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.22%) ERwin
6 1 (0.61%) Appium
6 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.61%) Maven
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 39 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.73%) Public Sector
3 28 (17.07%) Finance
4 20 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.32%) Marketing
6 11 (6.71%) Banking
6 11 (6.71%) Local Government
7 7 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.05%) Law
8 5 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Billing
9 3 (1.83%) Legal
9 3 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Automotive
11 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.61%) Games
11 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (20.73%) Developer
2 29 (17.68%) Consultant
3 26 (15.85%) Architect
4 23 (14.02%) Analyst
5 13 (7.93%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 10 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.88%) Data Architect
8 8 (4.88%) Lead
9 7 (4.27%) Performance Analyst
9 7 (4.27%) Senior
10 6 (3.66%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) Programme Manager
10 6 (3.66%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.05%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.05%) Data Centre Manager
11 5 (3.05%) IT Manager
11 5 (3.05%) Product Analyst
11 5 (3.05%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.05%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.59%) React
2 17 (10.37%) AWS CDK
3 15 (9.15%) CSS
4 14 (8.54%) HTML
5 13 (7.93%) Node.js
6 8 (4.88%) .NET
7 7 (4.27%) REST
8 6 (3.66%) SOAP
8 6 (3.66%) Spring
8 6 (3.66%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.05%) LAMP
9 5 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.44%) LDAP
10 4 (2.44%) OAuth
10 4 (2.44%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.44%) Playwright
10 4 (2.44%) PostGIS
10 4 (2.44%) Spring Security
10 4 (2.44%) WinForms
10 4 (2.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.27%) Management Information System
1 7 (4.27%) Operational Technology
2 5 (3.05%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (2.44%) Tandem
4 3 (1.83%) DataPower
4 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.22%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.22%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.61%) FMCG
6 1 (0.61%) Life Science
6 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.61%) Social Media
6 1 (0.61%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.32%) Linux
2 7 (4.27%) Windows
3 4 (2.44%) Unix
4 3 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (48.17%) Migration
2 43 (26.22%) Agile
3 41 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 39 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (15.85%) CRM
6 23 (14.02%) DevOps
6 23 (14.02%) Roadmaps
7 21 (12.80%) Project Management
8 17 (10.37%) CI/CD
8 17 (10.37%) ERP
9 16 (9.76%) Data Protection
9 16 (9.76%) Microservices
9 16 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (9.15%) Computer Science
10 15 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (7.32%) Translating Business Requirements
12 11 (6.71%) Customer Experience
12 11 (6.71%) End-to-End Testing
12 11 (6.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.46%) SQL
2 20 (12.20%) JavaScript
3 19 (11.59%) Java
4 18 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.71%) Bash
5 11 (6.71%) Python
6 10 (6.10%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.88%) C#
8 5 (3.05%) PHP
9 4 (2.44%) VB
9 4 (2.44%) VB6
10 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.61%) C
10 1 (0.61%) Perl
10 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (9.76%) Degree
2 15 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (1.83%) PMP
7 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.59%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.71%) QA
3 10 (6.10%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.66%) GDPR
5 4 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.83%) PMO
7 1 (0.61%) GAMP
System Software
1 4 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.49%) Grafana
2 4 (2.44%) Ansible
2 4 (2.44%) Prometheus
2 4 (2.44%) Terraform
3 3 (1.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (15.85%) Oracle
2 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.10%) SAP
4 7 (4.27%) Google
4 7 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.44%) Infragistics
5 4 (2.44%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.83%) IBM
6 3 (1.83%) Liquidlogic
6 3 (1.83%) Workday
7 2 (1.22%) IDERA
7 2 (1.22%) Informatica
8 1 (0.61%) Adobe
8 1 (0.61%) EMC
8 1 (0.61%) Isilon
8 1 (0.61%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) VMware