Legacy Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 404 481
Rank change year-on-year +40 +77 +9
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 5 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.043% 0.087%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.10% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 22
10th Percentile £383 £433 £301
25th Percentile £394 £456 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -1.04% +29.39%
75th Percentile £478 £564 £581
90th Percentile £503 £565 £623
UK median daily rate £413 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -23.96% -1.36% +12.82%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,910 6,526 9,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.31% 31.26% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,702 4,231 6,534
10th Percentile £208 £213 £213
25th Percentile £360 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £676
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 381 399
10th Percentile £15.64 £16.54 £13.14
25th Percentile £22.40 £21.00 £16.68
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +100.78% +13.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £63.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £79.19 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £41.25 £44.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year -6.25% +63.08% +11.60%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
South East +39 2 - -
Scotland +24 2 £469 +4.17% 2
North of England - 1 £400 - 5
North West - 1 £400 - 3
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) Drupal
1 2 (40.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) PHP Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Perl Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) LAMP
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) MERN Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Zend
2 1 (20.00%) Google