Legacy Applications Contracts in England

Legacy Application
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in England. 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 418 484 546
Rank change year-on-year +66 +62 +106
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 67 58 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 0.51% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 49 70
10th Percentile £400 £436 £448
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £614
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -6.31% +4.03%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £725
90th Percentile - £701 £828
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £614
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.39% +4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in England.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +60 49 £800 +33.33% 18
South West +46 6 £613 +4.26% 5
South East +47 5 £419 -20.24% 8
North of England +17 4 £461 -11.87% 8
North West +17 4 £461 -12.08% 7
East of England +28 2 £375 -21.05% 2
Legacy Applications
UK

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (7.46%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.87%) Azure
2 5 (7.46%) AWS
2 5 (7.46%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (5.97%) GCP
3 4 (5.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) SaaS
4 3 (4.48%) Serverless
5 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.49%) dbt
6 1 (1.49%) Miro
6 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) HTTP
2 2 (2.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.49%) DB2
2 1 (1.49%) MS Access
2 1 (1.49%) MySQL
2 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) GitLab
2 1 (1.49%) DBeaver
2 1 (1.49%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 29 (43.28%) Analytical Skills
1 29 (43.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (38.81%) Finance
3 5 (7.46%) Banking
4 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Law
5 3 (4.48%) Retail
6 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Back Office
7 1 (1.49%) Front Office
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (47.76%) Developer
2 18 (26.87%) C# Developer
2 18 (26.87%) C++ Developer
2 18 (26.87%) C++/C# Developer
3 10 (14.93%) Architect
4 6 (8.96%) Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Integration Developer
5 5 (7.46%) SAP Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Agile C# Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Agile Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Consultant
6 4 (5.97%) DevOps Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Oracle Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Salesforce Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.48%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.84%) .NET
2 20 (29.85%) .NET Core
3 18 (26.87%) ASP.NET
3 18 (26.87%) Kafka
3 18 (26.87%) WCF
3 18 (26.87%) Web Services
4 5 (7.46%) EDI
4 5 (7.46%) IDoc
4 5 (7.46%) JDBC
4 5 (7.46%) JMS
4 5 (7.46%) Middleware
4 5 (7.46%) REST
4 5 (7.46%) SAP PI
4 5 (7.46%) SOAP
4 5 (7.46%) XML
4 5 (7.46%) XSLT
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (4.48%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.46%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.46%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.99%) Replication
7 1 (1.49%) Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.49%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Android
2 2 (2.99%) VMS
2 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) OpenVMS
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) Agile
1 34 (50.75%) DevOps
2 22 (32.84%) Migration
3 18 (26.87%) Analytics
4 12 (17.91%) CI/CD
4 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (14.93%) SDLC
6 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (11.94%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.96%) Containerisation
9 6 (8.96%) Scrum
9 6 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (7.46%) Decision-Making
10 5 (7.46%) Performance Testing
10 5 (7.46%) System Integration Testing
10 5 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (5.97%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
11 4 (5.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.85%) C#
2 18 (26.87%) C++
3 7 (10.45%) Java
3 7 (10.45%) SQL
4 5 (7.46%) ABAP
5 3 (4.48%) Python
6 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.49%) COBOL
7 1 (1.49%) Fortran
7 1 (1.49%) FoxPro (VFP)
7 1 (1.49%) JCL
7 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.99%) GDPR
1 2 (2.99%) NIST
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Terraform
2 4 (5.97%) Ansible
3 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.49%) Nessus
5 1 (1.49%) SCCM
5 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) Oracle
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.46%) SAP
4 4 (5.97%) DocuSign
4 4 (5.97%) Google
4 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.99%) Netskope
6 1 (1.49%) Calypso
6 1 (1.49%) Murex
6 1 (1.49%) Qualys