Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Legacy Application
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 64 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.87% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +17.65% -28.57%
75th Percentile £419 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £554 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +5.48% -25.00% +20.17%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 269 231 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 34.36% 29.39% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 132 165
10th Percentile £301 £305 £213
25th Percentile £358 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £564 £588
90th Percentile £638 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 9
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.09 £17.51
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.10 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.30 £16.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -20.81% +19.59%
75th Percentile £21.39 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £32.89 £57.35 £46.18
% change year-on-year -42.65% +24.19% +77.62%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the East Midlands

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Derbyshire - 1 £413 -
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform