Legacy Applications Contracts in the South West

Legacy Application
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications 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 105 151 164
Rank change year-on-year +46 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 6 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.19% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 0.57% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £419 - £423
25th Percentile £484 £581 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £588 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +23.68% -32.14%
75th Percentile £734 £594 £513
90th Percentile £796 £665 £528
England median daily rate £650 £575 £614
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.31% +4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Generic Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the South West

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the South West

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in the South West

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the South West

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +22 4 - - 1
Somerset - 2 £613 - 1
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Financials Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Oracle Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
2 1 (16.67%) Server Hardening
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys