Legacy Applications Contracts

Legacy Application
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 572 669
Rank change year-on-year +76 +97 -140
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 83 128 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.64% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 87 129
10th Percentile £426 £450 £435
25th Percentile £463 £498 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £592
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +3.55% +9.03%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £703 £820 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £614 £544
% change year-on-year -18.53% +12.87% +14.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Applications 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,235 19,964 29,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,730 20,414
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 654 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +64 58 £575 -6.12% 24
UK excluding London +75 45 £500 -18.53% 19
Work from Home +92 32 £475 -17.39% 7
London +74 26 £600 -4.00% 9
Scotland +40 15 £465 -31.11% 3
Midlands +33 8 £500 +25.00% 1
South West +26 6 £588 +23.68%
North of England +23 6 £523 +4.50% 5
North West +18 4 £524 +11.73% 2
East of England +16 4 £475 -22.76% 3
South East +15 4 £525 -33.54% 6
West Midlands +33 3 £500 - 1
East Midlands +23 3 £500 +25.00%
Wales - 2 £500 -
North East +21 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +17 1 £500 -17.36% 1

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) SAP HR
2 2 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.20%) Markit EDM
3 1 (1.20%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (1.20%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.20%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.20%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (1.20%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.76%) Azure
2 15 (18.07%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.43%) AWS
5 5 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.02%) GCP
6 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.82%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.82%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.82%) Serverless
7 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.41%) GitHub
8 2 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.20%) dbt
9 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.20%) AMQP
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) MQTT
2 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.82%) Power BI
3 3 (3.61%) MySQL
3 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.20%) Metadata
5 1 (1.20%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.20%) Redis
5 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Selenium
2 2 (2.41%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.20%) ERwin
3 1 (1.20%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
2 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Finance
4 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.61%) Front Office
4 3 (3.61%) Law
5 2 (2.41%) Back Office
5 2 (2.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.20%) Automotive
6 1 (1.20%) Billing
6 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.20%) Local Government
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 33 (39.76%) Developer
2 23 (27.71%) Architect
3 16 (19.28%) .NET Developer
4 14 (16.87%) Senior
5 12 (14.46%) Senior Developer
6 10 (12.05%) React Developer
7 9 (10.84%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (8.43%) Senior React Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Security Architect
10 4 (4.82%) Applications Developer
10 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Lead
10 4 (4.82%) Systems Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.61%) Consultant
11 3 (3.61%) Data Architect
11 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Integration Architect
11 3 (3.61%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.92%) .NET
2 17 (20.48%) React
3 8 (9.64%) REST
4 5 (6.02%) SailPoint
5 4 (4.82%) Middleware
5 4 (4.82%) Web Services
6 2 (2.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.41%) HTML
6 2 (2.41%) JSON
6 2 (2.41%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (2.41%) Node.js
6 2 (2.41%) WCF
6 2 (2.41%) WPF
7 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.20%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.20%) Java EE
7 1 (1.20%) Laravel
7 1 (1.20%) RESTful
7 1 (1.20%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Product Ownership
2 14 (16.87%) Wiki
3 8 (9.64%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.23%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.41%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) FMCG
7 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.20%) PKI
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Windows
2 2 (2.41%) Unix
2 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.20%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.92%) DevOps
2 22 (26.51%) Migration
3 12 (14.46%) Code Quality
3 12 (14.46%) Knowledge Transfer
3 12 (14.46%) User Experience
4 11 (13.25%) Microservices
5 9 (10.84%) Design Patterns
5 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (8.43%) Agile
7 6 (7.23%) CI/CD
7 6 (7.23%) Workflow
8 5 (6.02%) Data Migration
8 5 (6.02%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (6.02%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (6.02%) Privileged Access Management
8 5 (6.02%) Project Management
8 5 (6.02%) Secrets Management
8 5 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (6.02%) Web Development
8 5 (6.02%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) SQL
2 13 (15.66%) C#
3 10 (12.05%) Java
4 6 (7.23%) Python
5 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.82%) C
7 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.20%) ABAP
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.20%) Elixir
9 1 (1.20%) Go
9 1 (1.20%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (1.20%) Ruby
9 1 (1.20%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.20%) XAML
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Degree
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.20%) ISEB
4 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.61%) GRC
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.20%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.23%) Terraform
2 4 (4.82%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.20%) SCCM
4 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.84%) SAP
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle
4 5 (6.02%) CyberArk
4 5 (6.02%) VMware
5 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.61%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.41%) Okta
7 2 (2.41%) OpenText
8 1 (1.20%) Apple
8 1 (1.20%) Citrix
8 1 (1.20%) Civica
8 1 (1.20%) Cognos
8 1 (1.20%) Databricks
8 1 (1.20%) Google
8 1 (1.20%) IBM
8 1 (1.20%) Infor
8 1 (1.20%) Palantir
8 1 (1.20%) Xamarin