Legacy Systems Contracts in Edinburgh

Legacy System
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 59 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 11 18 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.74% 2.14% 4.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% 6.41% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 43
10th Percentile £428 £281 £438
25th Percentile £450 £415 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -6.05% -8.76%
75th Percentile £480 £480 £534
90th Percentile £488 £519 £554
Scotland median daily rate £470 £460 £479
% change year-on-year +2.17% -3.97% -7.88%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Legacy Systems 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 242 281 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.29% 33.37% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 160 298
10th Percentile £202 £241 £171
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £479
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +1.77% -4.20%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £538
90th Percentile £638 £658 £613
Scotland median daily rate £465 £453 £490
% change year-on-year +2.65% -7.55% +1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 3
10th Percentile - £13.13 £21.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.99 £21.47
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.07 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +21.78% -16.64% -50.75%
75th Percentile £24.09 £26.89 £37.71
90th Percentile £49.72 £60.75 £47.33
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.07 £12.73
% change year-on-year +21.78% +41.91% -69.65%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Edinburgh

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Edinburgh

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Edinburgh

Legacy Systems
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Confluence
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (9.09%) GeoServer
3 1 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (27.27%) GIS
3 3 (27.27%) Power BI
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (18.18%) PowerCenter
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Data Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 3 (27.27%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) AWS CDK
2 3 (27.27%) PostGIS
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Migration
1 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
1 6 (54.55%) ETL
1 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
3 4 (36.36%) Human-Centred Design
3 4 (36.36%) Inclusive Design
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Re-Platforming
4 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Informatica
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) Teradata
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Pega
2 1 (9.09%) TSYS