Legacy Applications Contracts in the North of England

Legacy Application
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 184 204
Rank change year-on-year +19 +20 +41
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 6 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.12% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.48% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £454 £350 -
25th Percentile £458 £388 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £463 £605
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -23.55% +7.56%
75th Percentile £703 £532 £618
90th Percentile £764 £536 -
England median daily rate £650 £571 £675
% change year-on-year +13.84% -15.41% +14.41%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,110 1,263 1,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.63% 25.98% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 743 1,088
10th Percentile £293 £263 £271
25th Percentile £375 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +4.59%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £606
90th Percentile £644 £674 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 150 80
10th Percentile £19.61 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £26.41 £13.02 £10.63
Median hourly rate £34.16 £15.59 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +119.15% -7.51% -11.32%
75th Percentile £62.81 £34.32 £32.44
90th Percentile £79.88 £49.50 £63.28
England median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the North of England

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the North of England

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in the North of England

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the North of England

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
North West +5 5 £466 -10.81% 3
Yorkshire +7 1 £760 +52.00% 2
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (50.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Integration Developer
1 3 (50.00%) SAP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 3 (50.00%) EDI
2 3 (50.00%) IDoc
2 3 (50.00%) JDBC
2 3 (50.00%) JMS
2 3 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) SAP PI
2 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 3 (50.00%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) ABAP
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GxP
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware