Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Legacy Application
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.16% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £700 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +60.15%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 250 178 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 41.12% 25.25% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 103 162
10th Percentile £243 £164 £270
25th Percentile £375 £378 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £597
90th Percentile £600 £738 £680
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 16
10th Percentile - £32.30 £26.25
25th Percentile - £50.00 £29.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £53.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -64.73% -8.94% +226.39%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £31.75 £58.90 £68.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £32.21 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.85% +17.12% +41.03%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in Birmingham

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft