Legacy Applications Contracts in the Thames Valley

Legacy Application
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 98 143 143
Rank change year-on-year +45 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.074% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.25% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £503 £573
25th Percentile - £506 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -16.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile - £556 £663
90th Percentile - £568 £678
South East median daily rate £419 £525 £790
% change year-on-year -20.24% -33.54% +55.28%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the Thames Valley

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the Thames Valley

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the Thames Valley

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +33 4 £400 -23.81% 1
Legacy Applications
South East

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Fortran Developer
1 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Price Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Fortran
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle