Legacy Systems Contracts with Work from Home Options

Legacy System
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems 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 Systems over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 248 245
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 110 230 490
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 0.93% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 2.96% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 173 384
10th Percentile £375 £395 £385
25th Percentile £445 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -7.59% +15.74%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £668
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.29% -4.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £35.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.13 £37.15
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +50.70% +118.03%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £39.16
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -6.52%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,242 7,767 13,904
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.68% 31.56% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 5,492 9,944
10th Percentile £325 £364 £361
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% +9.05%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £795 £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% +30.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Legacy Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
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 Systems.

Legacy Systems daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Legacy Systems daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Systems.

Legacy Systems hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
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 3 (2.73%) CMS
1 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.91%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.91%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.91%) IIS
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (3.64%) NetSuite
4 3 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.82%) JDE OneWorld
6 1 (0.91%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.91%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.27%) AWS
2 16 (14.55%) Azure
3 15 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (13.64%) Serverless
4 14 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (11.82%) Amazon S3
5 13 (11.82%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (6.36%) GCP
7 5 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.64%) OCI
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.73%) GitHub
9 3 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.73%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 3 (2.73%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.73%) SaaS
10 2 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.36%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.64%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.64%) Metadata
5 4 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.82%) Power BI
8 1 (0.91%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.36%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.73%) Git
2 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.82%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.82%) ERwin
3 2 (1.82%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.82%) Selenium
4 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 28 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 15 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.18%) Marketing
5 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.27%) Banking
6 3 (2.73%) Billing
6 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.73%) Retail
7 2 (1.82%) French Language
7 2 (1.82%) Local Government
7 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.91%) Front Office
8 1 (0.91%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (21.82%) Developer
2 15 (13.64%) Consultant
2 15 (13.64%) Project Manager
3 11 (10.00%) Analyst
3 11 (10.00%) Architect
4 10 (9.09%) Senior
5 9 (8.18%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (7.27%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 5 (4.55%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 5 (4.55%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Data Migration Specialist
8 4 (3.64%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.64%) Lead
8 4 (3.64%) Migration Specialist
8 4 (3.64%) Transformation Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Transformation Project Manager
9 3 (2.73%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.91%) Node.js
2 11 (10.00%) React
3 9 (8.18%) HTML
4 8 (7.27%) .NET
4 8 (7.27%) AWS CDK
5 7 (6.36%) CSS
6 6 (5.45%) REST
7 5 (4.55%) RESTful
7 5 (4.55%) Spring
8 3 (2.73%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.73%) Blazor
8 3 (2.73%) SOAP
8 3 (2.73%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.82%) OAuth
9 2 (1.82%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.82%) Playwright
9 2 (1.82%) Spring Security
9 2 (1.82%) WinForms
9 2 (1.82%) WPF
9 2 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.73%) DataPower
1 3 (2.73%) FMCG
1 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
1 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
1 3 (2.73%) Reinsurance
1 3 (2.73%) Tandem
2 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
2 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (1.82%) Life Science
2 2 (1.82%) Social Media
2 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.91%) Fixed Income
3 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.91%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.91%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
3 1 (0.91%) Replication
3 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.18%) Windows
2 3 (2.73%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (47.27%) Migration
2 33 (30.00%) Agile
3 28 (25.45%) Data Migration
4 25 (22.73%) CRM
5 23 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (17.27%) CI/CD
6 19 (17.27%) ETL
7 14 (12.73%) Roadmaps
8 13 (11.82%) DevOps
9 12 (10.91%) Project Management
9 12 (10.91%) Translating Business Requirements
10 11 (10.00%) Microservices
11 10 (9.09%) ERP
11 10 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (7.27%) Customer Experience
13 8 (7.27%) Customer Insight
13 8 (7.27%) End-to-End Testing
13 8 (7.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.00%) SQL
2 17 (15.45%) JavaScript
3 12 (10.91%) Java
4 11 (10.00%) Python
5 9 (8.18%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.55%) Bash
6 5 (4.55%) C#
7 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.82%) Perl
8 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.82%) VB
8 2 (1.82%) VB6
9 1 (0.91%) C++
9 1 (0.91%) Go
9 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.36%) Degree
2 6 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.73%) PMP
4 3 (2.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.91%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) QA
2 7 (6.36%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.73%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) PMO
5 2 (1.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.91%) EMIR
6 1 (0.91%) FATCA
6 1 (0.91%) GAMP
6 1 (0.91%) GxP
6 1 (0.91%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.91%) VMware Server
2 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) Kibana
3 2 (1.82%) Grafana
3 2 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Oracle
2 11 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 10 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.27%) SAP
5 5 (4.55%) Google
6 3 (2.73%) IBM
7 2 (1.82%) IDERA
7 2 (1.82%) Informatica
7 2 (1.82%) Infragistics
7 2 (1.82%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (1.82%) VMware
8 1 (0.91%) Cadence
8 1 (0.91%) Databricks
8 1 (0.91%) Dell
8 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.91%) EMC
8 1 (0.91%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.91%) Kronos
8 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.91%) Sybase