Legacy Applications Contracts

Legacy Application
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 590 674
Rank change year-on-year +72 +84 -131
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 82 126 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.64% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 88 129
10th Percentile £424 £450 £435
25th Percentile £463 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £609 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +3.18% +6.79%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £703 £820 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £613 £531
% change year-on-year -18.37% +15.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,086 19,646 29,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.26% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,417 13,497 20,479
10th Percentile £263 £309 £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 £656 £676 £657
90th Percentile £798 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 902 642 722
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% +10.00% -16.67%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +74 57 £567 -7.43% 28
UK excluding London +61 42 £500 -18.37% 20
Work from Home +95 30 £475 -10.80% 12
London +81 28 £588 -6.00% 10
Scotland +45 14 £451 -33.15% 2
Midlands +33 7 £500 +25.00% 2
South West +26 6 £588 +23.68%
North of England +29 5 £511 -4.88% 4
East of England +20 4 £475 -22.76% 6
South East +12 4 £525 -33.54% 6
North West +25 3 £523 +7.18% 1
East Midlands +20 3 £500 +25.00% 2
West Midlands +24 2 £500 -
Wales - 2 £500 - 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £500 -17.36% 1
North East +17 1 - - 2

Legacy Applications
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 2 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) SAP HR
2 2 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.22%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.22%) Markit EDM
3 1 (1.22%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (1.22%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.22%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.22%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.22%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (1.22%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.68%) Azure
2 14 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (10.98%) AWS
3 9 (10.98%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.32%) GCP
5 5 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.10%) Serverless
6 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.88%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.88%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.66%) GitHub
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.44%) dbt
8 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.44%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.22%) AMQP
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.10%) Power BI
3 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.66%) MySQL
4 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.66%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.22%) Looker
6 1 (1.22%) Metadata
6 1 (1.22%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.22%) OLAP
6 1 (1.22%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (1.22%) Parquet
6 1 (1.22%) Redis
6 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.44%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) Selenium
2 2 (2.44%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.22%) ERwin
3 1 (1.22%) GitLab
3 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (15.85%) Public Sector
1 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) Finance
3 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.66%) Front Office
4 2 (2.44%) Back Office
4 2 (2.44%) Banking
4 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.44%) Law
4 2 (2.44%) Retail
5 1 (1.22%) Automotive
5 1 (1.22%) Billing
5 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.22%) Local Government
5 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 31 (37.80%) Developer
2 23 (28.05%) Architect
3 14 (17.07%) .NET Developer
3 14 (17.07%) Senior
4 12 (14.63%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.98%) React Developer
5 9 (10.98%) Senior .NET Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior React Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Applications Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Lead
8 4 (4.88%) Systems Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Consultant
9 3 (3.66%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.61%) .NET
2 15 (18.29%) React
3 8 (9.76%) REST
4 5 (6.10%) SailPoint
5 4 (4.88%) Middleware
5 4 (4.88%) Web Services
6 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.44%) HTML
6 2 (2.44%) JSON
6 2 (2.44%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (2.44%) Node.js
6 2 (2.44%) WCF
6 2 (2.44%) WPF
7 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.22%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.22%) Java EE
7 1 (1.22%) Laravel
7 1 (1.22%) RESTful
7 1 (1.22%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Product Ownership
2 12 (14.63%) Wiki
3 9 (10.98%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.32%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.22%) FMCG
7 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.22%) PKI
7 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Unix
2 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.22%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.05%) DevOps
2 22 (26.83%) Migration
3 11 (13.41%) Code Quality
3 11 (13.41%) Knowledge Transfer
3 11 (13.41%) User Experience
4 10 (12.20%) Microservices
5 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.76%) Design Patterns
7 7 (8.54%) Agile
7 7 (8.54%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (7.32%) Workflow
9 5 (6.10%) Data Migration
9 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (6.10%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (6.10%) Project Management
9 5 (6.10%) Secrets Management
9 5 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (6.10%) Web Development
9 5 (6.10%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) SQL
2 13 (15.85%) C#
3 10 (12.20%) Java
4 6 (7.32%) Python
5 4 (4.88%) C
6 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.44%) Bash
7 2 (2.44%) Perl
7 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.22%) ABAP
8 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.22%) Elixir
8 1 (1.22%) Go
8 1 (1.22%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.22%) PHP
8 1 (1.22%) Ruby
8 1 (1.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Degree
4 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.22%) ISEB
4 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (3.66%) GRC
2 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.22%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.32%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Ansible
3 2 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.22%) SCCM
4 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) SAP
3 7 (8.54%) Oracle
4 5 (6.10%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.88%) VMware
6 3 (3.66%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.44%) Apple
7 2 (2.44%) Okta
7 2 (2.44%) OpenText
8 1 (1.22%) Citrix
8 1 (1.22%) Civica
8 1 (1.22%) Cognos
8 1 (1.22%) Databricks
8 1 (1.22%) Google
8 1 (1.22%) IBM
8 1 (1.22%) Infor
8 1 (1.22%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.22%) Palantir