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 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 489 572 662
Rank change year-on-year +83 +90 -114
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 82 115 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.61% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 81 121
10th Percentile £426 £450 £425
25th Percentile £475 £495 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £605 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +2.54% +7.27%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £675
90th Percentile £703 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £620 £525
% change year-on-year -19.35% +18.10% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile - - £68.25
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 12,884 18,935 29,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.25% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 13,036 20,297
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 624 711
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%

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 18 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 18 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 +79 60 £575 -6.31% 23
UK excluding London +68 40 £500 -19.35% 16
London +75 30 £600 +2.13% 7
Work from Home +80 29 £500 -2.44% 8
Scotland +42 11 £475 -29.63% 1
Midlands +28 7 £500 +25.00% 3
South West +11 6 £588 +23.68%
North of England +34 5 £511 -16.02% 4
South East +26 5 £525 -19.23% 6
East of England +7 4 £475 -22.76% 3
North West +22 3 £523 - 2
East Midlands +15 3 £500 +25.00% 3
Wales - 2 £500 -
West Midlands - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire +14 1 £500 -17.86% 2
North East - 1 - -

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
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.22%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.46%) Azure
2 10 (12.20%) AWS
2 10 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (12.20%) Power Platform
3 9 (10.98%) GCP
4 6 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.10%) Power Automate
5 5 (6.10%) Serverless
6 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
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%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
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 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.10%) MySQL
3 5 (6.10%) Power BI
4 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.66%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
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%) Redis
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 12 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Finance
3 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.88%) Banking
5 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Front Office
6 2 (2.44%) Back Office
6 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.44%) Law
6 2 (2.44%) Retail
6 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.22%) Automotive
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Local Government
7 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 32 (39.02%) Developer
2 24 (29.27%) Architect
3 12 (14.63%) .NET Developer
3 12 (14.63%) Senior
4 10 (12.20%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.54%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (6.10%) React Developer
6 5 (6.10%) Security Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Senior React Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Applications Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Systems Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Applications Packager
8 3 (3.66%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Consultant
8 3 (3.66%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.17%) .NET
2 12 (14.63%) React
3 8 (9.76%) REST
4 5 (6.10%) SailPoint
5 4 (4.88%) Middleware
5 4 (4.88%) Web Services
6 3 (3.66%) XML
7 2 (2.44%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.44%) Django
7 2 (2.44%) HTML
7 2 (2.44%) JSON
7 2 (2.44%) KnockoutJS
7 2 (2.44%) Node.js
7 2 (2.44%) WCF
7 2 (2.44%) WPF
8 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.22%) gRPC
8 1 (1.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (9.76%) Wiki
3 6 (7.32%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.44%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) FMCG
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) PKI
6 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Linux
3 2 (2.44%) Unix
3 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.05%) Migration
2 21 (25.61%) DevOps
3 10 (12.20%) Microservices
4 9 (10.98%) Agile
5 8 (9.76%) Design Patterns
5 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (8.54%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.54%) Code Quality
6 7 (8.54%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (8.54%) User Experience
7 6 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (7.32%) Workflow
8 5 (6.10%) Data Migration
8 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (6.10%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (6.10%) Project Management
8 5 (6.10%) Secrets Management
8 5 (6.10%) Web Development
8 5 (6.10%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.39%) SQL
2 15 (18.29%) C#
3 12 (14.63%) Java
4 8 (9.76%) Python
5 5 (6.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.88%) C
7 3 (3.66%) Perl
7 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.44%) Bash
8 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.22%) Elixir
9 1 (1.22%) Go
9 1 (1.22%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.22%) PHP
9 1 (1.22%) Ruby
9 1 (1.22%) Scala
9 1 (1.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.41%) 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%) 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 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) Oracle
2 9 (10.98%) SAP
3 5 (6.10%) CyberArk
4 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.88%) VMware
5 3 (3.66%) Google
5 3 (3.66%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.44%) Apple
6 2 (2.44%) Okta
6 2 (2.44%) OpenText
7 1 (1.22%) Civica
7 1 (1.22%) Cognos
7 1 (1.22%) Databricks
7 1 (1.22%) IBM
7 1 (1.22%) Infor
7 1 (1.22%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.22%) Palantir