Legacy Systems Contracts in the South East

Legacy System
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems 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 162 160 184
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 -24
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 38 55 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.97% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.34% 2.86% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 63
10th Percentile £446 £363 £385
25th Percentile £490 £500 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.11% +4.21%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £588
90th Percentile £655 £693 £635
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £53.25 -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +238.24% -60.92%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -36.60%

All Generic Skills
South East

Legacy Systems 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,624 1,926 2,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 34.01% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,308 1,650
10th Percentile £210 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 93 117
10th Percentile £11.79 £17.82 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £49.18
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +8 23 £513 -14.54% 11
Berkshire -11 18 £525 -10.64% 8
Hampshire -6 12 £575 +20.42% 6
Buckinghamshire +26 4 £490 -34.67% 3
Surrey +9 2 £750 +65.75% 1
West Sussex +7 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 -
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (13.16%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.63%) OCI
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) PaaS
3 1 (2.63%) SaaS
3 1 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (7.89%) HTTP
3 1 (2.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) MariaDB
2 4 (10.53%) MySQL
3 3 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
General
1 4 (10.53%) Avionics
1 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Banking
3 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Consultant
3 5 (13.16%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Product Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.26%) E-Commerce Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Supply Chain Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) LAMP
2 4 (10.53%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.63%) EDI
3 1 (2.63%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Migration
2 8 (21.05%) Project Management
3 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
4 6 (15.79%) Agile
5 5 (13.16%) Backlog Refinement
5 5 (13.16%) CRM
5 5 (13.16%) Customer Service
5 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.16%) Product Backlog
5 5 (13.16%) Requirements Analysis
5 5 (13.16%) SDLC
6 4 (10.53%) Change Management
6 4 (10.53%) Data Migration
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.89%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (7.89%) Validation
8 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (5.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) PHP
3 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) ARP4754
1 4 (10.53%) DO-160
2 1 (2.63%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) EMC
2 1 (2.63%) Isilon
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) New Relic
2 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.63%) SAP