Legacy Code Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Legacy Code
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.40% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
South East median daily rate £350 - £565

All Generic Skills
West Sussex

Legacy Code 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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 76 37 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 30.28% 26.62% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 25 34
10th Percentile £260 £170 £150
25th Percentile £415 £313 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £720 £738 £598
90th Percentile £722 £800 £678
South East median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.41 - £70.07
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.20%
75th Percentile £21.64 - -
90th Percentile £23.36 - -
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -33.96% +60.61%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Legacy Code job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Legacy Code
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Legacy Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Legacy Code

Legacy Code
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Burgess Hill - 1 £275 - 1
Legacy Code
South East

Legacy Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Dagger
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) OkHttp
1 1 (100.00%) RAML
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RxJava
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA