Legacy Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 432 429
Rank change year-on-year +45 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 6 27 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.098% 0.35% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 75
10th Percentile £344 £375 -
25th Percentile £350 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £590 £475
Median % change year-on-year -36.44% +24.21% +13.10%
75th Percentile £388 £618 £519
90th Percentile £395 £626 £525
UK median daily rate £388 £630 £475
% change year-on-year -38.49% +32.63% -5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Legacy Code is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,117 7,807 9,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.42% 32.43% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 5,281 6,769
10th Percentile £210 £213 £202
25th Percentile £375 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £618 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 717 439 468
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.70
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
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 Code within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 East +15 2 £350 -41.67% 6
Scotland +33 1 £400 -25.72%
Yorkshire +23 1 £340 -24.44%
North of England +16 1 £340 -43.33% 1
Wales +14 1 £375 -46.43%
East of England +13 1 £375 -6.25% 2
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
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 1 (16.67%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 2 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Android Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Angular Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Dagger
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (16.67%) Ktor
1 1 (16.67%) OkHttp
1 1 (16.67%) RAML
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Retrofit
1 1 (16.67%) RxJava
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Android Development
3 1 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Document Management
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA