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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 583 655
Rank change year-on-year +77 +72 -117
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 81 112 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.60% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 77 120
10th Percentile £430 £450 £424
25th Percentile £463 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +2.25%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £675
90th Percentile £703 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £614 £531
% change year-on-year -18.53% +15.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.00
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 12,948 18,711 29,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.17% 33.32% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,326 12,875 20,354
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 610 702
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.29
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +55.50% -18.46% +4.78%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.14 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £21.67 £21.25
% change year-on-year +52.28% +1.98% -8.44%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +72 58 £575 -7.26% 21
UK excluding London +60 38 £500 -18.53% 16
Work from Home +101 34 £500 - 8
London +66 32 £613 -5.77% 5
Scotland +34 12 £450 -33.33% 1
Midlands +24 7 £500 +17.65% 3
North of England +31 5 £511 -16.02% 3
South West +11 5 £588 +23.68%
East of England +11 4 £475 -22.76% 4
North West +24 3 £523 - 2
East Midlands +11 3 £500 +17.65% 3
South East -2 3 £438 -30.00% 6
Wales - 2 £500 -
West Midlands - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire +13 1 £500 -17.86% 1
North East - 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 (2.47%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.23%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.23%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.98%) Azure
2 12 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (12.35%) Power Platform
4 8 (9.88%) AWS
5 7 (8.64%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (8.64%) GCP
6 5 (6.17%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.94%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.94%) Serverless
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.70%) GitHub
9 2 (2.47%) dbt
9 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.47%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CodeCommit
10 1 (1.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.23%) AMQP
2 1 (1.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.17%) Power BI
3 4 (4.94%) MySQL
3 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.23%) Looker
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.23%) OLAP
6 1 (1.23%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (1.23%) Parquet
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.47%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Selenium
2 2 (2.47%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (13.58%) Public Sector
1 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.70%) Front Office
4 2 (2.47%) Back Office
4 2 (2.47%) Banking
4 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.47%) Law
4 2 (2.47%) Retail
4 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.23%) Automotive
5 1 (1.23%) Local Government
5 1 (1.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 34 (41.98%) Developer
2 22 (27.16%) Architect
3 14 (17.28%) .NET Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Senior
5 10 (12.35%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (6.17%) React Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Security Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Senior React Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Applications Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Systems Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.70%) Applications Packager
9 3 (3.70%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Consultant
9 3 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Integration Architect
9 3 (3.70%) Product Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.46%) .NET
2 13 (16.05%) React
3 7 (8.64%) REST
4 5 (6.17%) SailPoint
5 4 (4.94%) Middleware
5 4 (4.94%) Web Services
6 3 (3.70%) XML
7 2 (2.47%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.47%) Django
7 2 (2.47%) HTML
7 2 (2.47%) JSON
7 2 (2.47%) KnockoutJS
7 2 (2.47%) Node.js
7 2 (2.47%) WCF
7 2 (2.47%) WPF
8 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.23%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.23%) Laravel
8 1 (1.23%) RESTful
8 1 (1.23%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Product Ownership
2 10 (12.35%) Wiki
3 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.41%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.47%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.23%) FMCG
7 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.23%) PKI
7 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Windows
2 3 (3.70%) Linux
3 2 (2.47%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.93%) DevOps
2 20 (24.69%) Migration
3 9 (11.11%) Agile
3 9 (11.11%) Code Quality
3 9 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 9 (11.11%) User Experience
4 8 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
5 7 (8.64%) Design Patterns
5 7 (8.64%) Microservices
6 6 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (7.41%) Workflow
7 5 (6.17%) Asset Management
7 5 (6.17%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (6.17%) Privileged Access Management
7 5 (6.17%) Project Management
7 5 (6.17%) Secrets Management
7 5 (6.17%) Web Development
7 5 (6.17%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.46%) SQL
2 13 (16.05%) C#
3 12 (14.81%) Java
4 7 (8.64%) Python
5 4 (4.94%) C
5 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.70%) Perl
6 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.23%) Bash
8 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.23%) PHP
8 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
1 10 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.17%) Degree
3 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.23%) ISEB
3 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (3.70%) GRC
2 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.23%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.17%) Terraform
2 3 (3.70%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.23%) SCCM
4 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.88%) SAP
3 7 (8.64%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.70%) VMware
7 2 (2.47%) Apple
7 2 (2.47%) Google
7 2 (2.47%) Okta
7 2 (2.47%) OpenText
8 1 (1.23%) Civica
8 1 (1.23%) Cognos
8 1 (1.23%) Databricks
8 1 (1.23%) Infor
8 1 (1.23%) JD Edwards