Legacy Applications Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Legacy Application
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 313 416
Rank change year-on-year +51 +103 +102
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 42 32 61
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 0.73% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 43
10th Percentile £420 £427 £451
25th Percentile £461 £456 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £825 £588 £700
90th Percentile - £688 £798
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £614
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.39% +4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Legacy Applications 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Legacy Applications
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Applications trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Legacy Applications daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Applications
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Legacy Applications.

Legacy Applications hourly rate 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 5 (11.90%) NetWeaver
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) Azure
2 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (11.90%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.76%) AWS
3 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
3 2 (4.76%) GitHub
3 2 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (2.38%) dbt
4 1 (2.38%) GCP
4 1 (2.38%) Miro
4 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) DB2
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) DBeaver
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 22 (52.38%) Finance
2 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
3 18 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (71.43%) Developer
2 18 (42.86%) C# Developer
2 18 (42.86%) C++ Developer
2 18 (42.86%) C++/C# Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Integration Developer
3 5 (11.90%) SAP Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Agile C# Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Agile Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) DevOps Developer
5 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Android Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle Financials Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (54.76%) .NET
2 18 (42.86%) .NET Core
2 18 (42.86%) ASP.NET
2 18 (42.86%) Kafka
2 18 (42.86%) WCF
2 18 (42.86%) Web Services
3 5 (11.90%) EDI
3 5 (11.90%) IDoc
3 5 (11.90%) JDBC
3 5 (11.90%) JMS
3 5 (11.90%) Middleware
3 5 (11.90%) REST
3 5 (11.90%) SAP PI
3 5 (11.90%) SOAP
3 5 (11.90%) XML
3 5 (11.90%) XSLT
4 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.76%) Dagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (11.90%) Virtual Team
3 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.76%) Wiki
5 1 (2.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.38%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
1 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Agile
2 26 (61.90%) DevOps
3 18 (42.86%) Analytics
4 10 (23.81%) Migration
5 8 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (14.29%) SDLC
7 5 (11.90%) Performance Testing
7 5 (11.90%) Scrum
7 5 (11.90%) System Integration Testing
8 4 (9.52%) Code Quality
8 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
9 3 (7.14%) CI/CD
9 3 (7.14%) Integration Testing
9 3 (7.14%) Unit Testing
10 2 (4.76%) Data Migration
10 2 (4.76%) Data Protection
10 2 (4.76%) Incident Management
10 2 (4.76%) Software Engineering
10 2 (4.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) C#
2 18 (42.86%) C++
3 6 (14.29%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) ABAP
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.76%) SQL
6 1 (2.38%) COBOL
6 1 (2.38%) FoxPro (VFP)
6 1 (2.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
1 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Nessus
2 1 (2.38%) SCCM
2 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) Qualys