Legacy Code Contracts

Legacy Code
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 621 724
Rank change year-on-year +39 +103 -40
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 20 74 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.40% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 64 121
10th Percentile £349 £416 £400
25th Percentile £363 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £630 £475
Median % change year-on-year -36.51% +32.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £498 £750 £545
90th Percentile £579 - £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -28.57% +2.44% +22.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Code 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 12,984 18,455 29,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.97% 33.21% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 12,703 20,498
10th Percentile £274 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £444 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 608 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.58 £22.26 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -17.51% +7.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £59.06 £50.39
90th Percentile £71.44 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -4.44%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +43 16 £388 -38.49% 26
London +49 12 £525 -30.00% 7
UK excluding London +32 8 £375 -28.57% 18
Scotland +42 3 £425 -19.05% 1
Work from Home +63 2 £444 -38.79% 12
South East +12 2 £350 -41.67% 3
Wales +19 1 £375 -46.43%
North of England +19 1 £340 -24.44% 5
Yorkshire +12 1 £340 -24.44% 2
East of England +2 1 £375 -6.25% 3

Legacy Code
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 1 (5.00%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) GitHub
1 7 (35.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Gradle
2 7 (35.00%) CircleCI
3 5 (25.00%) JUnit
4 3 (15.00%) Git
5 1 (5.00%) XCTest
5 1 (5.00%) XCUITest
General
1 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Android Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Perl Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Android Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) REST
2 8 (40.00%) RAML
3 5 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
3 5 (25.00%) Dagger
3 5 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (20.00%) OkHttp
4 4 (20.00%) RxJava
4 4 (20.00%) WireMock
5 3 (15.00%) Spring
6 2 (10.00%) .NET
6 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.00%) CSS
7 1 (5.00%) HTML
7 1 (5.00%) Ktor
7 1 (5.00%) RESTful
7 1 (5.00%) Retrofit
7 1 (5.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Virtual Team
2 6 (30.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) e-Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (60.00%) Performance Analysis
3 10 (50.00%) Open Source
4 7 (35.00%) Integration Patterns
4 7 (35.00%) Refactoring
4 7 (35.00%) Time Management
5 4 (20.00%) User Experience
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Backends for Frontends
7 2 (10.00%) Black-Box Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
7 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
7 2 (10.00%) OO
7 2 (10.00%) OOD
7 2 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 8 (40.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Objective-C
5 1 (5.00%) PHP
5 1 (5.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) Swift
5 1 (5.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (65.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker