Legacy Applications Contracts with Work from Home Options

Legacy Application
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 409 509
Rank change year-on-year +91 +100 -96
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 30 64 116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.77% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 81
10th Percentile £426 £431 £425
25th Percentile £454 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £536 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% -10.63% +8.60%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £675
90th Percentile £668 £798 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £609 £585
% change year-on-year -9.65% +4.08% +11.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.29%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,458 8,261 13,978
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.67% 31.35% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,992 5,810 9,968
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £429 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £532
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% +7.53%
75th Percentile £672 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 150 226
10th Percentile £15.42 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.31 £20.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £63.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.60% +41.57% +43.55%
75th Percentile £62.00 £70.00 £57.03
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.13
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +25.64% -16.72% +5.88%

Legacy Applications
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Applications trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Applications.

Legacy Applications daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Legacy Applications daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.33%) Markit EDM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP BRIM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (3.33%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (3.33%) SAP FI-CA
1 1 (3.33%) SAP FI-GL
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.33%) Power Automate
4 4 (13.33%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.33%) dbt
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) ERwin
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) .NET Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Applications Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) React Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Systems Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Applications Packager
7 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) .NET
2 6 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (13.33%) React
4 2 (6.67%) Web Services
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.33%) ADO
5 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.33%) CSS
5 1 (3.33%) HTML
5 1 (3.33%) Java EE
5 1 (3.33%) Middleware
5 1 (3.33%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) SAML
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Wiki
2 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
1 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Migration
2 7 (23.33%) DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Workflow
4 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 5 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 5 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (16.67%) User Experience
5 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (13.33%) Web Development
6 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.67%) Data Integration
7 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce
7 2 (6.67%) Microservices
7 2 (6.67%) Records Management
7 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
7 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) C
5 2 (6.67%) Python
6 1 (3.33%) ABAP
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
1 4 (13.33%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) OpenText
4 1 (3.33%) Apple
4 1 (3.33%) Civica
4 1 (3.33%) Cognos
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) JD Edwards
4 1 (3.33%) Xamarin