Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Legacy Application
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.096% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -29.41%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 374 351 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.79% 43.66% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 191 145
10th Percentile £281 £300 £303
25th Percentile £358 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £513
90th Percentile £639 £600 £642
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.17% -6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 4
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.94 £15.68
25th Percentile £15.44 £18.52 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.79 £19.97 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year -10.92% -44.60% +2.99%
75th Percentile £43.96 £38.74 £54.69
90th Percentile - £57.50 £56.38
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £19.97 £18.07
% change year-on-year +50.23% +10.55% -5.81%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Applications relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware