Legacy Applications Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legacy Application
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 311 355 424
Rank change year-on-year +44 +69 +41
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 25 44 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.72% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 25
10th Percentile £356 £416 £418
25th Percentile £409 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £615
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -18.70% +14.42%
75th Percentile £458 £575 £700
90th Percentile £472 £594 £823
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £614
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.39% +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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the UK excluding London

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the UK excluding London

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in the UK excluding London

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the UK excluding London

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South West +46 6 £613 +4.26% 5
Scotland +4 6 £438 -5.91% 2
South East +47 5 £419 -20.24% 8
North West +17 4 £461 -12.08% 7
North of England +17 4 £461 -11.87% 8
East of England +28 2 £375 -21.05% 2
Wales +1 2 £460 -8.10%
Legacy Applications
UK

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (24.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) AWS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Miro
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) .NET Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) Integration Developer
3 6 (24.00%) SAP Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Analyst
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Oracle Analyst
5 4 (16.00%) React Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior React Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Oracle Financials Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Applications Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Power Apps Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 6 (24.00%) EDI
2 6 (24.00%) IDoc
2 6 (24.00%) JDBC
2 6 (24.00%) JMS
2 6 (24.00%) Middleware
2 6 (24.00%) REST
2 6 (24.00%) SAP PI
2 6 (24.00%) SOAP
2 6 (24.00%) XML
2 6 (24.00%) XSLT
3 5 (20.00%) React
4 4 (16.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (24.00%) Virtual Team
2 6 (24.00%) Wiki
3 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) OpenVMS
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) Migration
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Code Quality
4 6 (24.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 6 (24.00%) Performance Testing
4 6 (24.00%) Scrum
4 6 (24.00%) SDLC
4 6 (24.00%) System Integration Testing
4 6 (24.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) Integration Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Database Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Re-Platforming
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.00%) Observability
8 1 (4.00%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) ABAP
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) Fortran
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Nessus
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) SAP
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Qualys