Legacy Code Contracts in the South East

Legacy Code
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code 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 154 203 217
Rank change year-on-year +49 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.036% 0.086%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.13% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £548
25th Percentile - - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -41.67% -0.83%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £388 £648
% change year-on-year +3.23% -40.15% +40.00%

All Generic Skills
South East

Legacy Code 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the South East

Legacy Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Code in the South East

Legacy Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Code in the South East

Legacy Code
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the South East 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
Hampshire - 4 - -
Thames Valley - 1 £400 - 3
Berkshire - 1 £400 - 3
Legacy Code
England

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) CMS
1 4 (80.00%) Confluence
1 4 (80.00%) Drupal
1 4 (80.00%) WordPress
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Fortran Developer
2 1 (20.00%) OpenVMS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Ajax
1 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (80.00%) CodeIgniter
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
1 4 (80.00%) LAMP
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (80.00%) Kanban
1 4 (80.00%) MVC
1 4 (80.00%) OO
1 4 (80.00%) OOP
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
1 4 (80.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) Fortran
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Zend