Legacy Systems Contracts in Scotland

Legacy System
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 99 82
Rank change year-on-year +6 -17 +33
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 23 30 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.42% 1.35% 3.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.72% 4.10% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 74
10th Percentile - £415 £437
25th Percentile £413 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £466 £479
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -2.71% +0.84%
75th Percentile £599 £488 £538
90th Percentile £700 £539 £554
UK median daily rate £556 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +5.95% - -4.55%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Legacy Systems 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 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Scotland

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Scotland

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Scotland

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Scotland

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +9 11 £438 -9.42% 3
Edinburgh -1 10 £475 +4.68% 3
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Confluence
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.35%) GeoServer
3 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.04%) Serverless
3 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Network Security
1 4 (17.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (13.04%) Power BI
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.70%) GIS
4 2 (8.70%) MariaDB
4 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 2 (8.70%) PowerCenter
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Finance
3 6 (26.09%) Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
5 4 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Data Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Python Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
2 3 (13.04%) AWS CDK
2 3 (13.04%) JSON
2 3 (13.04%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) SOAP
2 3 (13.04%) Spring
2 3 (13.04%) Web Services
2 3 (13.04%) XML
3 2 (8.70%) PostGIS
3 2 (8.70%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Next.js
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
1 4 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (17.39%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Data Analysis
2 8 (34.78%) Data Migration
2 8 (34.78%) Migration
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
3 7 (30.43%) ETL
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
5 5 (21.74%) Human-Centred Design
5 5 (21.74%) Inclusive Design
5 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
6 4 (17.39%) Business Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Data Extraction
6 4 (17.39%) Data Transformation
6 4 (17.39%) Inventory Management
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (17.39%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) T-SQL
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Informatica
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
1 3 (13.04%) Teradata
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Pega
2 1 (4.35%) Sage
2 1 (4.35%) TSYS