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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 362 393
Rank change year-on-year +37 +31 +69
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 30 39 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.64% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 35
10th Percentile £375 £385 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% -25.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £699 £537 £738
90th Percentile £771 £594 £773
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £630
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.70% +5.00%
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 4,636 6,082 7,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.95% 28.78% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 3,558 4,866
10th Percentile £220 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £602
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 756 393
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.36 £12.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.77% +60.20% +5.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.65 £36.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -16.02% +62.22% -16.60%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +48 10 £400 -31.91% 5
North of England +8 8 £598 +29.19% 22
North West +17 7 £532 +1.77% 8
South East +47 5 £400 -8.57% 22
Scotland 0 4 £450 - 2
Wales +4 2 £460 -8.10%
West Midlands +12 1 £700 +40.00% 7
Midlands +5 1 £700 +40.00% 9
Yorkshire -3 1 £760 +52.00% 11
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 5 (16.67%) NetWeaver
2 3 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) IaaS
3 3 (10.00%) PaaS
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.33%) Miro
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) HTTP
2 3 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) DB2
2 1 (3.33%) MS Access
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) DBeaver
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Architect
4 5 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Integration Developer
4 5 (16.67%) SAP Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Security Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Oracle Financials Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) React Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Middleware
2 6 (20.00%) .NET
3 5 (16.67%) EDI
3 5 (16.67%) IDoc
3 5 (16.67%) JDBC
3 5 (16.67%) JMS
3 5 (16.67%) REST
3 5 (16.67%) SAP PI
3 5 (16.67%) SOAP
3 5 (16.67%) XML
3 5 (16.67%) XSLT
4 4 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (6.67%) React
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) LDAP
6 1 (3.33%) ODBC
6 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
6 1 (3.33%) Swagger
6 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 5 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 4 (13.33%) Wiki
3 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) AS400
5 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
5 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 8 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (3.33%) OpenVMS
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
1 10 (33.33%) Migration
2 9 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (26.67%) Scrum
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 5 (16.67%) SDLC
5 5 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Cloud Security
6 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 4 (13.33%) Integration Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (13.33%) Patch Management
6 4 (13.33%) Security Hardening
6 4 (13.33%) Server Hardening
6 4 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
6 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Java
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) ABAP
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) Fortran
4 1 (3.33%) RPG
4 1 (3.33%) RPG IV
4 1 (3.33%) VB
4 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.33%) VB6
4 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.33%) GxP
1 1 (3.33%) QA
1 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Nessus
1 4 (13.33%) SCCM
1 4 (13.33%) WSUS
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) SAP
3 4 (13.33%) Citrix
3 4 (13.33%) IBM
3 4 (13.33%) Qualys
4 3 (10.00%) F5
4 3 (10.00%) HP
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) Google
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.33%) Databricks
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat