Legacy Applications Contracts in Berkshire

Legacy Application
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 122 114
Rank change year-on-year +33 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.10% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.98% 0.33% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £503 -
25th Percentile - £506 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +17.35%
75th Percentile - £556 £588
90th Percentile - £568 -
South East median daily rate £419 £525 £790
% change year-on-year -20.24% -33.54% +55.28%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Legacy Applications falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 409 599 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.87% 30.19% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 334 393
10th Percentile £307 £205 £313
25th Percentile £424 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 16
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%
75th Percentile £87.28 £62.23 £74.25
90th Percentile £91.05 £67.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in Berkshire

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in Berkshire

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bracknell - 3 - -
Reading +31 1 £400 -20.00% 1
Legacy Applications
South East

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Fortran Developer
1 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Price Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Fortran
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle