Legacy Applications Contracts in the Midlands

Legacy Application
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 132 156
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 +44
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 1 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.049% 0.25% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.81% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £375 £373
25th Percentile £675 £463 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +17.65% +28.79%
75th Percentile £725 £538 £438
90th Percentile - £563 -
England median daily rate £650 £575 £620
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% +5.08%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 669 860 1,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.87% 30.90% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 555 706
10th Percentile £202 £213 £263
25th Percentile £368 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £605
90th Percentile £638 £725 £700
England median daily rate £531 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.41% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 61 41
10th Percentile £13.81 £10.42 £16.70
25th Percentile £15.16 £13.91 £19.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - -29.63% +58.33%
75th Percentile £33.91 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.26
% change year-on-year -4.48% +59.48% -16.00%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the Midlands

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the Midlands

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the Midlands

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Midlands +15 1 £700 +40.00% 18
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft