Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Legacy Application
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £369 - -
25th Percentile £379 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile £426 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £440 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -37.14% +40.00% -

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 138 23 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 20.32% 16.20% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 13 21
10th Percentile £290 £231 £141
25th Percentile £421 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £358
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% +25.70% -28.40%
75th Percentile £626 £561 £500
90th Percentile £739 £635 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £33.91 £23.58
% change year-on-year +0.21% +43.84% -14.27%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Applications relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
Telford - 1 £430 - 1
Legacy Applications
West Midlands

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) C Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior C Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) ProC
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
1 1 (50.00%) VB6
1 1 (50.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle