Legacy Applications Contracts in the North West

Legacy Application
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 150 177
Rank change year-on-year +18 +27 -47
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.55% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £372 £359 -
25th Percentile £462 £402 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £469 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £541 £495 £602
90th Percentile £546 £498 £607
England median daily rate £575 £613 £590
% change year-on-year -6.12% +3.81% +8.76%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 740 1,085 1,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.69% 33.70% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 726 1,056
10th Percentile £289 £291 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +24.35%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £586
90th Percentile £672 £675 £671
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.68 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.22 £12.39
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +49.23% +4.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £38.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +0.88%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Manchester - 2 £438 - 2
Cheshire +3 1 £523 -
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Laravel
1 1 (25.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware