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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 479 542
Rank change year-on-year +79 +63 +117
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 71 58 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 0.52% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 47 59
10th Percentile £400 £422 £413
25th Percentile £455 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -6.12% +3.81%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £713
90th Percentile - £701 £790
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +1.44%
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 8,217 11,187 16,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.23% 30.72% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 7,325 11,228
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £698
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 825 564
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £35.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +56.70% -15.72%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £62.97
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £32.12 £22.00
% change year-on-year -1.11% +45.98% -18.52%

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 24 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 24 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 +80 49 £718 +19.58% 32
South West +45 9 £400 -31.91% 5
South East +47 6 £438 -12.50% 20
North of England +13 5 £466 -8.85% 13
North West +11 4 £461 -11.87% 4
West Midlands +11 1 £700 +40.00% 4
Yorkshire +10 1 £760 +52.00% 4
Midlands +3 1 £700 +40.00% 5
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 (7.04%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Azure
2 10 (14.08%) AWS
3 5 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (7.04%) GCP
3 5 (7.04%) SaaS
4 4 (5.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.23%) Serverless
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) Collibra
7 1 (1.41%) dbt
7 1 (1.41%) GitHub
7 1 (1.41%) Miro
7 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) HTTP
2 1 (1.41%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) MS Access
2 2 (2.82%) MySQL
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.41%) DB2
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) GitLab
2 1 (1.41%) DBeaver
2 1 (1.41%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.41%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (35.21%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (35.21%) Finance
1 25 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.04%) Banking
2 5 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Retail
4 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Back Office
5 1 (1.41%) Law
5 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (40.85%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) Architect
3 15 (21.13%) C# Developer
3 15 (21.13%) C++ Developer
3 15 (21.13%) C++/C# Developer
4 7 (9.86%) Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Integration Developer
6 5 (7.04%) SAP Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Android Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) Salesforce Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Senior
7 4 (5.63%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.17%) .NET
2 17 (23.94%) .NET Core
3 16 (22.54%) Kafka
4 15 (21.13%) ASP.NET
4 15 (21.13%) WCF
4 15 (21.13%) Web Services
5 5 (7.04%) EDI
5 5 (7.04%) IDoc
5 5 (7.04%) JDBC
5 5 (7.04%) JMS
5 5 (7.04%) Middleware
5 5 (7.04%) REST
5 5 (7.04%) SAP PI
5 5 (7.04%) SOAP
5 5 (7.04%) XML
5 5 (7.04%) XSLT
6 4 (5.63%) Dagger
6 4 (5.63%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (4.23%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (9.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.86%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.04%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.63%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.41%) Clustering
8 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.41%) Replication
8 1 (1.41%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Windows
2 6 (8.45%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.63%) Android
4 3 (4.23%) Linux
5 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.41%) OpenVMS
6 1 (1.41%) Unix
6 1 (1.41%) VMS
6 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) Agile
2 33 (46.48%) DevOps
3 26 (36.62%) Migration
4 16 (22.54%) Analytics
5 13 (18.31%) CI/CD
6 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (14.08%) SDLC
8 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
8 9 (12.68%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
10 7 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (8.45%) Containerisation
11 6 (8.45%) Scrum
12 5 (7.04%) Decision-Making
12 5 (7.04%) Performance Testing
12 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (7.04%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.94%) C#
2 15 (21.13%) C++
3 7 (9.86%) Java
4 6 (8.45%) SQL
5 5 (7.04%) ABAP
6 4 (5.63%) Kotlin
6 4 (5.63%) Python
7 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.82%) VBA
8 1 (1.41%) COBOL
8 1 (1.41%) Fortran
8 1 (1.41%) JCL
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) VB
8 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.41%) CASP
3 1 (1.41%) CCSP
3 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.41%) CISSP
3 1 (1.41%) CREST Certified
3 1 (1.41%) CSSLP
3 1 (1.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.63%) NIST
3 3 (4.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) NCSC
4 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (15.49%) Terraform
2 3 (4.23%) Ansible
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.23%) Nessus
2 3 (4.23%) SCCM
2 3 (4.23%) WSUS
3 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 2 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Oracle
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.04%) SAP
4 4 (5.63%) DocuSign
4 4 (5.63%) Google
4 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.23%) Qualys
6 2 (2.82%) Netskope
6 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.41%) Calypso
7 1 (1.41%) Citrix
7 1 (1.41%) Databricks
7 1 (1.41%) Murex