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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 396 495
Rank change year-on-year +80 +99 -65
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 29 58 117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 0.75% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 44 79
10th Percentile £426 £424 £413
25th Percentile £463 £492 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £675
90th Percentile £708 £725 £703
UK median daily rate £571 £605 £590
% change year-on-year -5.62% +2.54% +7.27%
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 4,242 7,770 13,904
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.74% 31.54% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 5,493 9,954
10th Percentile £325 £370 £360
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 149 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £13.66
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

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 18 May 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 (6.90%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.45%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Power Platform
3 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) Power Automate
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.79%) PowerApps
5 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.90%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 2 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) Power BI
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.45%) ERwin
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 3 (10.34%) Finance
1 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Automotive
3 1 (3.45%) Front Office
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Local Government
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Applications Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Systems Developer
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Platform Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Power Platform Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Applications Packager
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Mac Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) React Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) React
3 2 (6.90%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) ADO
4 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) Java EE
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) SAML
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Wiki
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) FMCG
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Migration
2 6 (20.69%) Workflow
3 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
4 4 (13.79%) DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (13.79%) Web Development
5 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
5 3 (10.34%) ETL
5 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.90%) Code Quality
6 2 (6.90%) Data Architecture
6 2 (6.90%) Data Integration
6 2 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (6.90%) Microservices
6 2 (6.90%) Records Management
6 2 (6.90%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) C#
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) C
5 2 (6.90%) Python
6 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Perl
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) Apple
3 2 (6.90%) OpenText
4 1 (3.45%) Civica
4 1 (3.45%) Cognos
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) JD Edwards