Legacy Applications Contracts in Edinburgh

Legacy Application
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 63 93
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Legacy Applications 7 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.09% 0.87% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.75% 2.41% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £411 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £450 £469 £488
90th Percentile - £480 -
Scotland median daily rate £438 £463 £638
% change year-on-year -5.41% -27.45% +6.25%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 255 291 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.78% 36.06% 36.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 150 242
10th Percentile £193 £185 £164
25th Percentile £386 £340 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £510 £584 £538
90th Percentile £587 £675 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £453 £493
% change year-on-year -0.66% -8.16% +2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 3
10th Percentile £16.10 £12.61 -
25th Percentile - £14.79 -
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +2.31% -40.44%
75th Percentile £18.50 £19.15 £35.74
90th Percentile £27.00 £24.18 £46.54
Scotland median hourly rate £18.67 £18.20 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.55% +2.71% -56.25%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in Edinburgh

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) WLAN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) .NET Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) React Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior .NET Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Product Ownership
1 6 (85.71%) Wiki
2 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Code Quality
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Knowledge Transfer
1 6 (85.71%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Security Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) COBIT
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) Sun