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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 285 293
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -49
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 295 524 820
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.92% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 2.76% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 377 636
10th Percentile £410 £400 £385
25th Percentile £455 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -3.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £675
90th Percentile £764 £738 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 2
10th Percentile - £25.63 £18.57
25th Percentile £15.39 £36.56 £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 £63.44 £33.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £66.00 £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 12,877 18,959 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.28% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,295 13,044 20,250
10th Percentile £268 £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 £668 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 627 718
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -11 235 £550 - 128
UK excluding London +7 162 £500 - 85
Work from Home +14 111 £500 -2.72% 70
London -13 98 £575 -4.17% 50
North of England +33 37 £500 -4.76% 27
Scotland -8 34 £460 -3.97% 8
South East -6 32 £513 -6.77% 14
North West +37 30 £500 -4.76% 11
Midlands +32 25 £600 +23.08% 19
West Midlands +40 23 £600 +9.09% 15
East of England +16 22 £550 +2.33% 3
South West 0 12 £526 +13.17% 8
North East +11 4 £850 +78.95% 4
East Midlands +7 4 £565 +32.94% 4
Yorkshire +3 3 £406 -22.62% 12

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 9 (3.05%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.69%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) CMS
4 3 (1.02%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.71%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (2.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.69%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.68%) JDE OneWorld
5 2 (0.68%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.34%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 58 (19.66%) AWS
2 55 (18.64%) Azure
3 38 (12.88%) Serverless
4 29 (9.83%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (8.47%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (7.46%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (5.42%) GCP
8 14 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (4.07%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.39%) Azure Functions
10 10 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.05%) Azure Storage
12 8 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.37%) GitHub
13 7 (2.37%) OCI
14 6 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.02%) HTTP
2 3 (1.02%) Intranet
3 1 (0.34%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.42%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.42%) Oracle Database
3 14 (4.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (4.07%) Data Mining
5 11 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.39%) Power BI
6 10 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.69%) MariaDB
11 5 (1.69%) MySQL
11 5 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.36%) GIS
12 4 (1.36%) Metadata
13 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (2.71%) CircleCI
1 8 (2.71%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.03%) Git
2 6 (2.03%) GitLab
2 6 (2.03%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.69%) JIRA
3 5 (1.69%) Selenium
4 4 (1.36%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.02%) LSMW
6 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.68%) ERwin
7 1 (0.34%) Appium
7 1 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) Subversion
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 77 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.31%) Finance
3 46 (15.59%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.44%) Banking
6 12 (4.07%) Local Government
7 11 (3.73%) Marketing
8 9 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.71%) Legal
10 6 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.03%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.69%) Law
12 3 (1.02%) Billing
12 3 (1.02%) French Language
12 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.02%) Retail
13 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 57 (19.32%) Developer
2 46 (15.59%) Architect
3 35 (11.86%) Analyst
4 32 (10.85%) Consultant
5 26 (8.81%) Project Manager
6 22 (7.46%) Senior
7 21 (7.12%) Lead
7 21 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.75%) Data Architect
9 11 (3.73%) Business Analyst
9 11 (3.73%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.39%) Data Analyst
10 10 (3.39%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.39%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 10 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
11 8 (2.71%) IT Manager
11 8 (2.71%) Migration Specialist
11 8 (2.71%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.37%) Programme Manager
12 7 (2.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.83%) .NET
2 25 (8.47%) React
3 22 (7.46%) HTML
4 19 (6.44%) Node.js
5 18 (6.10%) CSS
6 17 (5.76%) AWS CDK
7 13 (4.41%) .NET Core
7 13 (4.41%) Blazor
7 13 (4.41%) REST
8 11 (3.73%) Spring
9 9 (3.05%) WPF
10 8 (2.71%) SOAP
10 8 (2.71%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.37%) RESTful
12 5 (1.69%) LAMP
12 5 (1.69%) Playwright
12 5 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.69%) WinForms
13 4 (1.36%) LDAP
13 4 (1.36%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.42%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.05%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.71%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.37%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.37%) Operational Technology
5 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.69%) Tandem
6 4 (1.36%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.02%) DataPower
7 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.02%) FMCG
7 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.02%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.02%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.68%) Life Science
8 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.14%) Windows
2 13 (4.41%) Linux
3 5 (1.69%) Unix
3 5 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (44.41%) Migration
2 80 (27.12%) Agile
3 66 (22.37%) Data Migration
4 54 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (14.92%) CI/CD
6 40 (13.56%) DevOps
7 37 (12.54%) Microservices
8 34 (11.53%) CRM
9 33 (11.19%) Project Management
10 30 (10.17%) ETL
11 28 (9.49%) Roadmaps
12 25 (8.47%) ERP
13 24 (8.14%) Full Stack Development
13 24 (8.14%) SDLC
14 23 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (7.12%) Data Modelling
15 21 (7.12%) Software Engineering
16 20 (6.78%) Computer Science
17 19 (6.44%) User Acceptance Testing
18 17 (5.76%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.41%) SQL
2 47 (15.93%) JavaScript
3 34 (11.53%) Python
4 32 (10.85%) Java
5 18 (6.10%) C#
5 18 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.08%) Bash
7 12 (4.07%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.73%) C++
8 11 (3.73%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.39%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.05%) Go
11 6 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.69%) PHP
12 5 (1.69%) VB
12 5 (1.69%) VB6
13 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) C
14 2 (0.68%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 27 (9.15%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.80%) Degree
3 22 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.37%) PMP
6 5 (1.69%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) CCA
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.08%) QA
3 10 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.05%) GDPR
5 6 (2.03%) PMO
6 4 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.68%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) EMIR
8 1 (0.34%) FATCA
8 1 (0.34%) GAMP
8 1 (0.34%) GxP
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.39%) Docker
2 5 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.05%) Grafana
2 9 (3.05%) Terraform
3 4 (1.36%) Ansible
3 4 (1.36%) Kibana
3 4 (1.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (15.59%) Oracle
2 27 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.76%) SAP
4 14 (4.75%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.05%) Google
5 9 (3.05%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.69%) Databricks
6 5 (1.69%) Infragistics
7 4 (1.36%) Liquidlogic
7 4 (1.36%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.02%) IBM
8 3 (1.02%) Workday
9 2 (0.68%) IDERA
9 2 (0.68%) Informatica
9 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.68%) Snow
9 2 (0.68%) VMware
10 1 (0.34%) Isilon
10 1 (0.34%) Pega
10 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud