Legacy Systems Contracts

Legacy System
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 271 277
Rank change year-on-year -36 +6 -28
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 300 538 858
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.96% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 2.87% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 381 666
10th Percentile £400 £400 £393
25th Percentile £450 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £675
90th Percentile £763 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 2
10th Percentile - £28.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £15.39 £50.00 £21.66
Median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
Median % change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -18.29%
75th Percentile £44.36 £58.75 £33.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.40 £36.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -18.29%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Systems 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 12,961 18,774 29,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.36% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,356 12,930 20,503
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +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 918 607 708
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.09
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 £70.05 £74.40 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.25 £21.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +2.38% -9.52%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -7 239 £544 -1.14% 163
UK excluding London -8 165 £500 - 118
Work from Home -3 115 £500 -2.01% 97
London -39 99 £550 -8.33% 66
Scotland -2 34 £460 -3.97% 6
North of England +30 32 £500 -4.76% 35
Midlands +29 32 £575 +17.95% 20
South East -6 32 £513 -6.77% 32
West Midlands +21 26 £575 +4.55% 15
North West +35 24 £500 -4.76% 17
East of England +16 23 £593 +12.86% 12
South West -5 12 £526 +13.17% 9
East Midlands +11 8 £565 +32.94% 5
North East +13 5 £850 +78.95% 4
Yorkshire +4 3 £406 -22.62% 14

Legacy Systems
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 6 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.67%) Apache
3 3 (1.00%) CMS
3 3 (1.00%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.67%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (2.00%) NetSuite
3 6 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.67%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.33%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.33%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.33%) AWS
2 57 (19.00%) Azure
3 35 (11.67%) Serverless
4 26 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (7.33%) Amazon S3
5 22 (7.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (5.33%) Power Platform
8 15 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (5.00%) GCP
9 11 (3.67%) GitHub
10 10 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.67%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.33%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.33%) OCI
13 6 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (2.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.67%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (1.00%) HTTP
2 3 (1.00%) Intranet
2 3 (1.00%) VLAN
3 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.33%) Oracle Database
3 15 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (4.67%) Power BI
5 13 (4.33%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.00%) Data Mining
7 9 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.67%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.33%) Tableau
10 6 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.67%) MariaDB
11 5 (1.67%) MySQL
11 5 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.33%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.67%) CircleCI
1 8 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.33%) GitLab
3 6 (2.00%) Git
3 6 (2.00%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.67%) JIRA
4 5 (1.67%) Selenium
5 4 (1.33%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.33%) LSMW
5 4 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.67%) ERwin
7 1 (0.33%) Appium
7 1 (0.33%) Maven
7 1 (0.33%) Subversion
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 79 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.00%) Finance
3 46 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.67%) Banking
6 12 (4.00%) Local Government
7 9 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.00%) Legal
8 8 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.33%) Marketing
10 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.67%) Law
12 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.00%) Billing
13 3 (1.00%) French Language
13 3 (1.00%) Retail
14 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 55 (18.33%) Developer
2 47 (15.67%) Architect
3 35 (11.67%) Analyst
4 29 (9.67%) Project Manager
5 28 (9.33%) Consultant
6 25 (8.33%) Senior
7 21 (7.00%) Lead
7 21 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.33%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.33%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.00%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.67%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.00%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.00%) IT Manager
12 8 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (2.67%) Migration Specialist
12 8 (2.67%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.33%) Data Migration Lead
13 7 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.67%) .NET
2 25 (8.33%) React
3 22 (7.33%) HTML
4 19 (6.33%) Node.js
5 18 (6.00%) CSS
6 17 (5.67%) AWS CDK
7 13 (4.33%) REST
8 11 (3.67%) Spring
9 10 (3.33%) .NET Core
9 10 (3.33%) Blazor
10 9 (3.00%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.00%) WPF
11 8 (2.67%) SOAP
12 7 (2.33%) RESTful
13 5 (1.67%) BAPI
13 5 (1.67%) LAMP
13 5 (1.67%) Playwright
13 5 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.67%) WinForms
14 4 (1.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.00%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 5 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.67%) Tandem
5 4 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.00%) DataPower
6 3 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.00%) FMCG
6 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.00%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.00%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.67%) Life Science
7 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.67%) Social Media
7 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.00%) Windows
2 14 (4.67%) Linux
3 6 (2.00%) Unix
4 5 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (42.67%) Migration
2 77 (25.67%) Agile
3 59 (19.67%) Data Migration
4 50 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (14.33%) CI/CD
6 40 (13.33%) DevOps
7 38 (12.67%) Project Management
8 34 (11.33%) Microservices
9 30 (10.00%) CRM
9 30 (10.00%) ETL
10 28 (9.33%) Roadmaps
11 26 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (8.33%) ERP
13 23 (7.67%) Data Modelling
14 22 (7.33%) Software Engineering
15 21 (7.00%) Full Stack Development
15 21 (7.00%) SDLC
16 20 (6.67%) Computer Science
17 17 (5.67%) Data Protection
18 16 (5.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (24.33%) SQL
2 44 (14.67%) JavaScript
3 33 (11.00%) Java
4 30 (10.00%) Python
5 18 (6.00%) C#
5 18 (6.00%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.00%) Bash
7 11 (3.67%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.00%) C++
8 9 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.33%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.00%) Go
10 6 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.67%) C
11 5 (1.67%) PHP
11 5 (1.67%) VB
11 5 (1.67%) VB6
12 3 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.67%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 25 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.67%) Degree
3 20 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.67%) PMP
6 6 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.67%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CCA
10 1 (0.33%) CISM
10 1 (0.33%) CISSP
10 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.00%) QA
3 10 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.33%) GDPR
4 6 (2.00%) PMO
5 4 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) EMIR
7 1 (0.33%) FATCA
7 1 (0.33%) GAMP
7 1 (0.33%) GxP
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.67%) Terraform
3 10 (3.33%) Grafana
4 5 (1.67%) Ansible
4 5 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (13.67%) Oracle
2 27 (9.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.33%) SAP
4 18 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.00%) Google
6 6 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.67%) Infragistics
7 5 (1.67%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.33%) Liquidlogic
8 4 (1.33%) Workday
9 3 (1.00%) Databricks
9 3 (1.00%) F5
9 3 (1.00%) IBM
9 3 (1.00%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.67%) IDERA
10 2 (0.67%) Informatica
10 2 (0.67%) Snow
10 2 (0.67%) VMware
11 1 (0.33%) Cadence
11 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace