Legacy Systems Contracts

Legacy System
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies. 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 335 292 309
Rank change year-on-year -43 +17 -63
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 282 539 795
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.90% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 2.71% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 399 618
10th Percentile £413 £400 £385
25th Percentile £456 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £675
90th Percentile £763 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 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 £44.36 £65.00 £33.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £66.20 £36.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -6.52%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England +3 230 £540 -4.00% 122
UK excluding London +16 160 £500 - 85
Work from Home +17 110 £500 - 66
London -30 91 £563 -6.25% 41
North of England +42 38 £500 -4.76% 23
North West +36 32 £500 -4.76% 14
South East +10 31 £513 -14.54% 16
Scotland -17 30 £466 -2.71% 7
Midlands +29 25 £600 +26.32% 23
West Midlands +44 23 £600 +14.29% 12
East of England +24 23 £525 -2.33% 5
South West +11 13 £465 - 8
North East +20 4 £850 +78.95% 6
East Midlands +13 4 £565 +50.67% 11
Yorkshire +9 2 £500 -4.76% 3

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (2.84%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.77%) Apache
4 3 (1.06%) CMS
4 3 (1.06%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.84%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.77%) NetSuite
4 4 (1.42%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.06%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.71%) JDE OneWorld
6 2 (0.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.71%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.35%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 53 (18.79%) AWS
2 47 (16.67%) Azure
3 36 (12.77%) Serverless
4 29 (10.28%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (7.45%) Amazon S3
7 19 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (4.26%) GCP
9 10 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (3.55%) Azure Functions
9 10 (3.55%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (2.84%) Azure Storage
10 8 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.48%) GitHub
11 7 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.48%) OCI
11 7 (2.48%) SaaS
12 6 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.06%) HTTP
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (5.67%) Oracle Database
4 15 (5.32%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.55%) Data Mining
7 8 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.84%) Power BI
8 7 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.77%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.77%) MySQL
10 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.42%) GIS
11 4 (1.42%) Metadata
12 3 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.06%) SAP BW
12 3 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.13%) Cypress.io
2 6 (2.13%) GitLab
2 6 (2.13%) JIRA
3 4 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.06%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.06%) LSMW
4 3 (1.06%) Selenium
5 2 (0.71%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.71%) ERwin
5 2 (0.71%) Git
5 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) Subversion
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.73%) Finance
3 43 (15.25%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.74%) Banking
6 13 (4.61%) Marketing
7 10 (3.55%) Local Government
8 8 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.13%) Legal
9 6 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.77%) Billing
10 5 (1.77%) Law
11 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.06%) French Language
11 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (20.57%) Developer
2 43 (15.25%) Architect
3 35 (12.41%) Analyst
3 35 (12.41%) Consultant
4 28 (9.93%) Lead
5 27 (9.57%) Project Manager
6 20 (7.09%) Senior
7 18 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.96%) Data Architect
9 13 (4.61%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 9 (3.19%) Full Stack Developer
11 9 (3.19%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.84%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.48%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.48%) Migration Specialist
13 7 (2.48%) Performance Analyst
13 7 (2.48%) Programme Manager
13 7 (2.48%) Software Engineer
14 6 (2.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.93%) React
2 24 (8.51%) HTML
3 22 (7.80%) .NET
4 20 (7.09%) AWS CDK
4 20 (7.09%) CSS
5 14 (4.96%) Node.js
6 12 (4.26%) .NET Core
6 12 (4.26%) Blazor
7 9 (3.19%) Spring
8 8 (2.84%) XML
9 7 (2.48%) Middleware
9 7 (2.48%) REST
9 7 (2.48%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.77%) LAMP
11 5 (1.77%) Web Services
11 5 (1.77%) XSLT
12 4 (1.42%) BAPI
12 4 (1.42%) LDAP
12 4 (1.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.19%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.48%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.77%) Tandem
7 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.42%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.06%) DataPower
8 3 (1.06%) FMCG
8 3 (1.06%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.71%) BYOD
9 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.71%) Life Science
9 2 (0.71%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.71%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.32%) Windows
2 14 (4.96%) Linux
3 6 (2.13%) Unix
4 5 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (43.97%) Migration
2 76 (26.95%) Agile
3 64 (22.70%) Data Migration
4 58 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (13.48%) Microservices
6 37 (13.12%) CI/CD
7 35 (12.41%) DevOps
8 32 (11.35%) CRM
8 32 (11.35%) Project Management
9 30 (10.64%) ERP
10 28 (9.93%) Roadmaps
11 23 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (7.45%) ETL
13 19 (6.74%) Full Stack Development
13 19 (6.74%) SDLC
13 19 (6.74%) Translating Business Requirements
14 18 (6.38%) Computer Science
14 18 (6.38%) Data Modelling
14 18 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (6.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.15%) SQL
2 44 (15.60%) JavaScript
3 33 (11.70%) Python
4 28 (9.93%) Java
5 21 (7.45%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.03%) C#
7 13 (4.61%) Bash
8 11 (3.90%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.55%) C++
10 9 (3.19%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.84%) Go
12 5 (1.77%) PHP
12 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.77%) XPath
13 3 (1.06%) Perl
14 2 (0.71%) ABAP
14 2 (0.71%) C
14 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.80%) Degree
3 19 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.13%) PMP
6 5 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) CCA
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.61%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.90%) QA
4 7 (2.48%) GDPR
5 6 (2.13%) PMO
6 3 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.71%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) EMIR
8 1 (0.35%) FATCA
8 1 (0.35%) GAMP
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (2.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) KVM
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.26%) Grafana
3 7 (2.48%) Terraform
4 5 (1.77%) Ansible
5 4 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.06%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.35%) Salt
7 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (14.18%) Oracle
2 21 (7.45%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.38%) SAP
4 10 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.84%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.84%) Workday
6 7 (2.48%) Google
7 5 (1.77%) Databricks
8 4 (1.42%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.06%) IBM
10 2 (0.71%) Ariba
10 2 (0.71%) CA
10 2 (0.71%) IDERA
10 2 (0.71%) Informatica
10 2 (0.71%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.71%) Snow
11 1 (0.35%) Adobe
11 1 (0.35%) Isilon
11 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud