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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 551 654
Rank change year-on-year +54 +103 -162
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 57 94 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.57% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 62 88
10th Percentile £422 £428 £421
25th Percentile £488 £485 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £590 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% +0.88% +6.34%
75th Percentile £619 £700 £675
90th Percentile £701 £797 £720
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.29%

All Generic Skills
England

Legacy Applications is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,288 16,535 23,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.64% 33.66% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,395 11,470 17,004
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 588 630
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.64
Median hourly rate £32.25 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.43% -15.15% +1.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +71 28 £588 -2.89% 7
Midlands +35 7 £500 +25.00% 2
South West +23 6 £588 +23.68%
North of England +26 5 £511 -4.88% 5
East of England +8 4 £475 -22.76% 5
South East +5 4 £525 -22.22% 7
North West +22 3 £523 +7.18% 2
East Midlands +20 3 £500 +25.00% 2
West Midlands +27 2 £500 -
Yorkshire +25 1 £500 -17.36% 1
North East +16 1 - - 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) AWS
3 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (8.77%) Serverless
5 4 (7.02%) GCP
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.02%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub
7 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.75%) dbt
8 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.75%) AMQP
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) OLAP
4 1 (1.75%) OLAP Cube
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.75%) Parquet
4 1 (1.75%) Redis
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (3.51%) JIRA
2 2 (3.51%) Selenium
2 2 (3.51%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.75%) ERwin
3 1 (1.75%) Git
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 3 (5.26%) Front Office
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Back Office
4 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.51%) Law
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Automotive
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Local Government
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Developer
2 18 (31.58%) Architect
3 5 (8.77%) Senior
4 4 (7.02%) .NET Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Applications Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Systems Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Integration Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Digital Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Service Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Service Design Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) .NET
2 6 (10.53%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) Middleware
3 4 (7.02%) React
4 3 (5.26%) SailPoint
5 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.51%) HTML
5 2 (3.51%) JSON
5 2 (3.51%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (3.51%) Node.js
5 2 (3.51%) WCF
5 2 (3.51%) Web Services
5 2 (3.51%) WPF
6 1 (1.75%) ADO
6 1 (1.75%) CSS
6 1 (1.75%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.75%) Laravel
6 1 (1.75%) RESTful
6 1 (1.75%) Struts
6 1 (1.75%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.02%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) FMCG
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.51%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) Migration
2 11 (19.30%) DevOps
3 10 (17.54%) Microservices
4 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (12.28%) Agile
5 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
6 6 (10.53%) Design Patterns
7 5 (8.77%) Project Management
7 5 (8.77%) Web Development
8 4 (7.02%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (7.02%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.02%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (7.02%) ETL
8 4 (7.02%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (7.02%) Workflow
9 3 (5.26%) BDD
9 3 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (5.26%) Privileged Access Management
9 3 (5.26%) Secrets Management
9 3 (5.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) SQL
2 13 (22.81%) C#
3 10 (17.54%) Java
4 5 (8.77%) Python
5 4 (7.02%) C
6 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.75%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (1.75%) PHP
8 1 (1.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) ISEB
4 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.75%) GRC
1 1 (1.75%) QA
1 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) SAP
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle
3 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 3 (5.26%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.51%) Okta
5 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.51%) VMware
6 1 (1.75%) Apple
6 1 (1.75%) Citrix
6 1 (1.75%) Civica
6 1 (1.75%) Cognos
6 1 (1.75%) Databricks
6 1 (1.75%) IBM
6 1 (1.75%) Infor
6 1 (1.75%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.75%) Palantir