Legacy Systems Contracts with Work from Home Options

Legacy System
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 227 249 243
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 115 234 487
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.93% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 2.96% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 178 386
10th Percentile £375 £394 £385
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £506 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.64% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £56.25 £37.15
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +50.70% +118.03%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £39.16
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -6.52%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Legacy Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Systems.

Legacy Systems daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Legacy Systems daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Systems.

Legacy Systems hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.61%) CMS
1 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.87%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.87%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.87%) IIS
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.48%) NetSuite
2 4 (3.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.74%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.87%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.87%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.65%) AWS
2 16 (13.91%) Azure
2 16 (13.91%) Dynamics 365
3 14 (12.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (12.17%) Serverless
4 13 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (10.43%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.09%) GCP
7 6 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.48%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.48%) OCI
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.61%) GitHub
9 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.61%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.61%) SaaS
10 2 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.09%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.48%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.48%) Metadata
5 4 (3.48%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.74%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.74%) Power BI
8 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (5.22%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.61%) Git
2 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.74%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.74%) ERwin
3 2 (1.74%) JIRA
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.74%) Selenium
4 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 29 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.65%) Finance
3 15 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.43%) Marketing
5 9 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.96%) Banking
7 4 (3.48%) Billing
8 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.74%) French Language
9 2 (1.74%) Local Government
9 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.87%) Front Office
10 1 (0.87%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (21.74%) Developer
2 19 (16.52%) Consultant
3 15 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 11 (9.57%) Analyst
4 11 (9.57%) Architect
4 11 (9.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 9 (7.83%) Senior
5 9 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.35%) Data Analyst
6 5 (4.35%) Lead
6 5 (4.35%) Software Developer
7 4 (3.48%) Data Migration Specialist
7 4 (3.48%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.48%) Migration Specialist
7 4 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.48%) Transformation Manager
7 4 (3.48%) Transformation Project Manager
8 3 (2.61%) IT Support
8 3 (2.61%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) Node.js
1 11 (9.57%) React
2 9 (7.83%) HTML
3 8 (6.96%) .NET
3 8 (6.96%) AWS CDK
4 7 (6.09%) CSS
5 6 (5.22%) REST
6 5 (4.35%) Spring
7 4 (3.48%) RESTful
8 3 (2.61%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.61%) Blazor
8 3 (2.61%) SOAP
8 3 (2.61%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.61%) XML
9 2 (1.74%) Middleware
9 2 (1.74%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.74%) Playwright
9 2 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.74%) WinForms
9 2 (1.74%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.61%) DataPower
2 3 (2.61%) FMCG
2 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.61%) Reinsurance
2 3 (2.61%) Tandem
3 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.74%) Life Science
3 2 (1.74%) Social Media
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.87%) BYOD
4 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.87%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.87%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.83%) Windows
2 3 (2.61%) Linux
2 3 (2.61%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (48.70%) Migration
2 33 (28.70%) Agile
3 32 (27.83%) Data Migration
4 27 (23.48%) CRM
4 27 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.52%) ETL
6 18 (15.65%) CI/CD
7 15 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
8 14 (12.17%) Roadmaps
9 13 (11.30%) DevOps
9 13 (11.30%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (10.43%) Project Management
11 11 (9.57%) Customer Experience
11 11 (9.57%) Customer Insight
11 11 (9.57%) End-to-End Testing
11 11 (9.57%) ERP
11 11 (9.57%) Microservices
11 11 (9.57%) System Testing
12 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.57%) SQL
2 16 (13.91%) JavaScript
3 12 (10.43%) Java
3 12 (10.43%) Python
4 9 (7.83%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.35%) Bash
5 5 (4.35%) C#
6 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.74%) Perl
7 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.74%) VB
7 2 (1.74%) VB6
8 1 (0.87%) C++
8 1 (0.87%) COBOL
8 1 (0.87%) Go
8 1 (0.87%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.87%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (6.09%) Degree
2 6 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.61%) PMP
4 3 (2.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.87%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) QA
2 7 (6.09%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
4 3 (2.61%) PMO
5 2 (1.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.87%) EMIR
6 1 (0.87%) FATCA
6 1 (0.87%) GAMP
6 1 (0.87%) GxP
6 1 (0.87%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.87%) VMware Server
2 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.61%) Kibana
3 2 (1.74%) Grafana
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Oracle
2 10 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.96%) SAP
4 5 (4.35%) Google
5 3 (2.61%) IBM
6 2 (1.74%) IDERA
6 2 (1.74%) Informatica
6 2 (1.74%) Infragistics
6 2 (1.74%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.74%) VMware
7 1 (0.87%) Cadence
7 1 (0.87%) Databricks
7 1 (0.87%) Dell
7 1 (0.87%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.87%) EMC
7 1 (0.87%) Isilon
7 1 (0.87%) Micro Focus
7 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.87%) Workday