Legacy Applications Contracts in England

Legacy Application
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 544 670
Rank change year-on-year +51 +126 -160
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 57 92 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.58% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 60 83
10th Percentile £454 £446 £428
25th Percentile £494 £511 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £630 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £678 £738 £675
90th Percentile £702 £789 £748
UK median daily rate £559 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -10.64% +5.93% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Generic Skills
England

Legacy Applications falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +65 32 £613 -9.26% 10
Midlands +20 6 £500 +17.65% 3
North of England +19 5 £511 -15.50% 7
South West +4 5 £588 +14.63% 2
East of England - 4 £475 - 3
North West +16 3 £523 - 2
East Midlands +7 3 £500 +17.65% 1
South East +1 3 £438 -39.66% 4
Yorkshire +14 1 £500 -17.36% 2
North East - 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
Legacy Applications
UK

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.77%) GCP
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
4 4 (7.02%) PowerApps
4 4 (7.02%) Serverless
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.51%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.75%) dbt
7 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.75%) AMQP
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) MySQL
2 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Power BI
4 2 (3.51%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) OLAP
5 1 (1.75%) OLAP Cube
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.75%) Parquet
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (3.51%) JIRA
2 2 (3.51%) Selenium
2 2 (3.51%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.75%) Git
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 3 (5.26%) Front Office
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Back Office
4 2 (3.51%) Banking
4 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.51%) Law
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.75%) Automotive
5 1 (1.75%) Local Government
5 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Developer
2 16 (28.07%) Architect
3 6 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Senior
5 4 (7.02%) Applications Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Systems Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Technical Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Developer
6 3 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Integration Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Product Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Product Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) .NET
2 5 (8.77%) React
2 5 (8.77%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) Middleware
4 3 (5.26%) SailPoint
4 3 (5.26%) XML
5 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.51%) Django
5 2 (3.51%) HTML
5 2 (3.51%) JSON
5 2 (3.51%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (3.51%) Node.js
5 2 (3.51%) WCF
5 2 (3.51%) Web Services
5 2 (3.51%) WPF
6 1 (1.75%) ADO
6 1 (1.75%) CSS
6 1 (1.75%) Spring
6 1 (1.75%) Struts
6 1 (1.75%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.02%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) FMCG
5 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
2 3 (5.26%) Linux
3 2 (3.51%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) DevOps
2 11 (19.30%) Migration
3 9 (15.79%) Agile
4 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
4 7 (12.28%) Microservices
4 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.77%) Asset Management
5 5 (8.77%) Design Patterns
5 5 (8.77%) Project Management
5 5 (8.77%) Web Development
6 4 (7.02%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (7.02%) Scrum
6 4 (7.02%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (7.02%) Workflow
7 3 (5.26%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (5.26%) ETL
7 3 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (5.26%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (5.26%) Secrets Management
7 3 (5.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) SQL
2 13 (22.81%) C#
3 12 (21.05%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) Python
5 4 (7.02%) C
5 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (1.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.75%) ISEB
3 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.75%) GRC
1 1 (1.75%) QA
1 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) SAP
3 5 (8.77%) Oracle
4 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.26%) CyberArk
5 3 (5.26%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.51%) Google
6 2 (3.51%) Okta
6 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.51%) VMware
7 1 (1.75%) Apple
7 1 (1.75%) Civica
7 1 (1.75%) Infor