Legacy Applications Contracts in Scotland

Legacy Application
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 156 164
Rank change year-on-year +41 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 12 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.56% 0.45% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.75% 1.22% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile £422 £400 £430
25th Percentile £436 £484 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +42.11% +2.70%
75th Percentile £478 £697 £556
90th Percentile £503 £700 £613
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £590
% change year-on-year -10.20% +3.81% -1.67%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 684 982 1,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.90% 36.42% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 661 838
10th Percentile £200 £200 £284
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £485
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.52% +14.12%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £560
90th Percentile £651 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 25
10th Percentile £12.68 - £16.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £10.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.16 £41.95
Median % change year-on-year +37.77% -68.63% +30.08%
75th Percentile £29.59 £22.15 £52.50
90th Percentile £59.45 £50.14 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in Scotland

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in Scotland

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Edinburgh +38 11 £450 +12.50% 1
Legacy Applications
UK

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
General
1 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 7 (58.33%) Senior
4 6 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 6 (50.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (41.67%) React Developer
5 5 (41.67%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (16.67%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (16.67%) Perl Developer
7 1 (8.33%) Administrator
7 1 (8.33%) Consultant
7 1 (8.33%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 8 (66.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Product Ownership
1 9 (75.00%) Wiki
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Code Quality
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
1 9 (75.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 9 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) VMware