Legacy Applications Contracts in London

Legacy Application
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 432 521
Rank change year-on-year +64 +89 -123
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 26 63 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.65% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 41 62
10th Percentile £538 £456 £463
25th Percentile £563 £500 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £675
90th Percentile £703 £850 £750
England median daily rate £575 £613 £590
% change year-on-year -6.12% +3.81% +8.76%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,852 9,722 14,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.04% 35.90% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,983 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 113 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £53.16
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.60 £71.55
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +24 1 £625 +9.65% 1
South London +13 1 - -
West London - 1 £567 -
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SAP HR
2 1 (3.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.85%) Markit EDM
2 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (15.38%) GCP
2 4 (15.38%) Serverless
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.85%) dbt
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
1 2 (7.69%) SpecFlow
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Front Office
3 3 (11.54%) Law
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Back Office
4 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Integration Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Angular Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) WPF Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
1 5 (19.23%) React
2 3 (11.54%) Middleware
3 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
3 2 (7.69%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) SailPoint
3 2 (7.69%) WCF
3 2 (7.69%) WPF
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) ADO
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.85%) gRPC
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) JSON
4 1 (3.85%) Next.js
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) FMCG
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
3 5 (19.23%) Microservices
3 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) Facilities Management
4 3 (11.54%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.69%) Case Management
5 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (7.69%) ETL
5 2 (7.69%) Event-Driven
5 2 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Management
5 2 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
5 2 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) C#
2 7 (26.92%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) ISEB
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) QA
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) SAP
3 3 (11.54%) MuleSoft
3 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 2 (7.69%) Okta
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow