Legacy Applications Contracts in Scotland

Legacy Application
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 107 140
Rank change year-on-year -5 +33 +26
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 6 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.35% 0.43% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 1.28% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 12
10th Percentile £415 - £403
25th Percentile £428 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -27.45% +6.25%
75th Percentile - £495 £691
90th Percentile - £509 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% +14.41%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 702 626 959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.39% 33.75% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 382 645
10th Percentile £200 £200 £209
25th Percentile £360 £351 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £453 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -8.94% +3.65%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £589 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 15
10th Percentile - £12.30 £12.64
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +2.31% -56.25%
75th Percentile £24.66 £19.55 £27.56
90th Percentile £57.50 £24.18 £51.34
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.44% +12.50% +50.94%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in Scotland

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in Scotland

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Edinburgh +4 6 £450 - 3
Legacy Applications
UK

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
1 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) React Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
1 5 (83.33%) Wiki
2 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Code Quality
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (83.33%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Security Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) COBIT
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) Sun