Legacy Systems Contracts

Legacy System
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 298 297
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 -44
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 289 537 828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.91% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 2.72% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 392 645
10th Percentile £412 £400 £390
25th Percentile £454 £459 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -4.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £675
90th Percentile £765 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +14.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile - £35.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £15.39 £56.25 £21.66
Median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
Median % change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -6.52%
75th Percentile £44.36 £65.00 £33.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £66.20 £36.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -6.52%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Systems 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 13,163 19,732 29,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.30% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 13,566 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 723
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.05 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +2 233 £543 -1.36% 139
UK excluding London +6 162 £500 - 98
Work from Home +18 111 £500 - 72
London -28 94 £575 -4.17% 49
North of England +38 38 £500 -4.76% 24
North West +37 32 £500 -4.76% 14
Scotland -13 32 £463 -3.44% 10
South East -2 31 £513 -12.72% 17
Midlands +35 25 £600 +26.32% 27
West Midlands +39 23 £600 +9.09% 16
East of England +23 23 £525 -2.33% 6
South West +7 13 £465 - 10
North East +18 4 £850 +78.95% 3
East Midlands +16 4 £565 +50.67% 11
Yorkshire +10 2 £500 -4.76% 7

Legacy Systems
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 8 (2.77%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.73%) Apache
4 3 (1.04%) CMS
4 3 (1.04%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.73%) NetSuite
4 4 (1.38%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (1.04%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.69%) JDE OneWorld
6 2 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.69%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.35%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.35%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 57 (19.72%) AWS
2 50 (17.30%) Azure
3 37 (12.80%) Serverless
4 28 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (9.34%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (7.61%) Amazon S3
7 21 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (5.54%) GCP
9 11 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (3.81%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.11%) Azure Functions
10 9 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (2.77%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (2.77%) Azure Storage
11 8 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.42%) OCI
13 6 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.73%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.04%) HTTP
3 2 (0.69%) Intranet
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (5.54%) Oracle Database
4 15 (5.19%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.81%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.46%) Data Mining
7 9 (3.11%) Power BI
8 8 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.73%) MariaDB
11 5 (1.73%) MySQL
11 5 (1.73%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.38%) GIS
12 4 (1.38%) Metadata
13 3 (1.04%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.04%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.08%) Cypress.io
2 6 (2.08%) GitLab
3 5 (1.73%) JIRA
4 4 (1.38%) CircleCI
4 4 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.04%) LSMW
5 3 (1.04%) Selenium
6 2 (0.69%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.69%) ERwin
7 1 (0.35%) Git
7 1 (0.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) Subversion
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 70 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.34%) Finance
3 44 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.57%) Banking
6 13 (4.50%) Marketing
7 10 (3.46%) Local Government
8 8 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.08%) Legal
9 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.73%) Billing
10 5 (1.73%) Law
11 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.04%) French Language
11 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Retail
12 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (20.07%) Developer
2 46 (15.92%) Architect
3 35 (12.11%) Analyst
4 34 (11.76%) Consultant
5 27 (9.34%) Project Manager
6 24 (8.30%) Lead
7 21 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (6.92%) Senior
9 14 (4.84%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.15%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.15%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 9 (3.11%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.11%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (2.77%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.77%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.42%) IT Manager
13 7 (2.42%) Migration Specialist
13 7 (2.42%) Performance Analyst
13 7 (2.42%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.03%) React
2 25 (8.65%) .NET
2 25 (8.65%) HTML
3 21 (7.27%) CSS
4 20 (6.92%) AWS CDK
5 15 (5.19%) Node.js
6 12 (4.15%) .NET Core
6 12 (4.15%) Blazor
7 10 (3.46%) Spring
8 8 (2.77%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.42%) REST
10 6 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.73%) LAMP
11 5 (1.73%) RESTful
12 4 (1.38%) LDAP
12 4 (1.38%) OAuth
12 4 (1.38%) SOAP
12 4 (1.38%) Spring Security
12 4 (1.38%) WPF
12 4 (1.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.19%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.11%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (3.11%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.42%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.42%) Operational Technology
4 5 (1.73%) Tandem
5 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.04%) DataPower
6 3 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.04%) FMCG
6 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.04%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.04%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.69%) Life Science
7 2 (0.69%) Social Media
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.23%) Windows
2 13 (4.50%) Linux
3 6 (2.08%) Unix
4 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (44.98%) Migration
2 75 (25.95%) Agile
3 65 (22.49%) Data Migration
4 59 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (13.49%) CI/CD
6 38 (13.15%) Microservices
7 36 (12.46%) DevOps
8 33 (11.42%) Project Management
9 32 (11.07%) CRM
10 29 (10.03%) Roadmaps
11 26 (9.00%) ERP
11 26 (9.00%) ETL
12 23 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (6.92%) Full Stack Development
13 20 (6.92%) Translating Business Requirements
14 19 (6.57%) Computer Science
14 19 (6.57%) Data Modelling
14 19 (6.57%) Software Engineering
15 18 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (6.23%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (21.11%) SQL
2 45 (15.57%) JavaScript
3 34 (11.76%) Python
4 31 (10.73%) Java
5 21 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.19%) Bash
6 15 (5.19%) C#
7 11 (3.81%) PL/SQL
7 11 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.46%) C++
9 9 (3.11%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.77%) Go
11 5 (1.73%) PHP
11 5 (1.73%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.69%) ABAP
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.69%) Perl
13 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.35%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 24 (8.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.96%) Degree
3 19 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.08%) PMP
6 5 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) CCA
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.46%) QA
4 7 (2.42%) GDPR
5 6 (2.08%) PMO
6 4 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.69%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) EMIR
8 1 (0.35%) FATCA
8 1 (0.35%) GAMP
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (3.11%) Docker
2 5 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.15%) Grafana
3 9 (3.11%) Terraform
4 4 (1.38%) Ansible
4 4 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 40 (13.84%) Oracle
2 25 (8.65%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.23%) SAP
4 11 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.77%) Google
5 8 (2.77%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.73%) Databricks
7 4 (1.38%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.38%) Workday
8 3 (1.04%) IBM
9 2 (0.69%) Ariba
9 2 (0.69%) CA
9 2 (0.69%) IDERA
9 2 (0.69%) Informatica
9 2 (0.69%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.69%) Snow
9 2 (0.69%) VMware
10 1 (0.35%) Pega
10 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud