Legacy Systems Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legacy System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems 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 239 236 221
Rank change year-on-year -3 -15 -26
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 160 232 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.01% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.68% 3.14% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 170 271
10th Percentile £413 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £588
90th Percentile £698 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 2
10th Percentile - £28.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £15.39 £51.25 £21.66
Median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
Median % change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -18.29%
75th Percentile £56.55 £58.75 £33.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.40 £36.99
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £38.16
% change year-on-year -72.54% +50.70% +13.05%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,976 7,381 9,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.66% 32.21% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,568 4,949 6,853
10th Percentile £208 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 743 412 428
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.12 £10.63 £15.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East -11 35 £525 -4.55% 13
Scotland -1 34 £460 -3.97%
North of England +30 31 £500 -4.76% 24
Midlands +27 29 £550 +10.00% 16
North West +27 23 £500 -4.76% 12
West Midlands +23 23 £550 - 11
East of England +16 23 £593 +12.86% 7
East Midlands +6 8 £565 +32.94% 5
South West -4 8 £588 +26.34% 11
North East +13 5 £850 +78.95% 5
Yorkshire +10 3 £406 -22.62% 7
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.13%) Apache
2 3 (1.88%) GeoServer
2 3 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (5.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.50%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.63%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.00%) AWS
2 23 (14.38%) Azure
3 17 (10.63%) Serverless
4 16 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 14 (8.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (6.88%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (6.25%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.38%) GCP
10 7 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.13%) OCI
12 5 (3.13%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.50%) dbt
13 4 (2.50%) Fivetran
13 4 (2.50%) GitHub
13 4 (2.50%) Oracle Service Cloud
14 3 (1.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.88%) HTTP
2 3 (1.88%) Intranet
3 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.38%) Oracle Database
2 14 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (6.25%) Data Mining
5 9 (5.63%) Power BI
6 8 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.13%) MariaDB
9 5 (3.13%) MySQL
9 5 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (3.13%) Tableau
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.50%) GIS
10 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.50%) SAP BW
10 4 (2.50%) SAP Data Services
10 4 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (4.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.75%) GitLab
3 5 (3.13%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.50%) Git
4 4 (2.50%) LSMW
5 3 (1.88%) JIRA
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.25%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.25%) ERwin
7 1 (0.63%) Appium
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) Maven
7 1 (0.63%) Selenium
7 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 44 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.25%) Public Sector
3 25 (15.63%) Finance
4 20 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.88%) Banking
6 10 (6.25%) Local Government
7 8 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.13%) Legal
8 5 (3.13%) Marketing
8 5 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.50%) Law
9 4 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Billing
11 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Automotive
12 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.63%) Games
12 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (20.63%) Developer
2 26 (16.25%) Architect
3 25 (15.63%) Analyst
4 21 (13.13%) Consultant
5 11 (6.88%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.25%) Senior
7 9 (5.63%) Lead
8 8 (5.00%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.38%) Performance Analyst
10 6 (3.75%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.75%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.13%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Product Analyst
11 5 (3.13%) Programme Manager
11 5 (3.13%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.25%) React
2 17 (10.63%) AWS CDK
3 15 (9.38%) CSS
4 14 (8.75%) HTML
5 13 (8.13%) Node.js
6 7 (4.38%) .NET
6 7 (4.38%) REST
7 6 (3.75%) SOAP
7 6 (3.75%) Spring
7 6 (3.75%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.13%) LAMP
8 5 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.50%) BAPI
9 4 (2.50%) LDAP
9 4 (2.50%) OAuth
9 4 (2.50%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.50%) PostGIS
9 4 (2.50%) Spring Security
9 4 (2.50%) WinForms
9 4 (2.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
1 7 (4.38%) Operational Technology
2 4 (2.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (2.50%) Tandem
3 3 (1.88%) DataPower
3 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.25%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.63%) FMCG
5 1 (0.63%) Life Science
5 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.63%) Social Media
5 1 (0.63%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.13%) Linux
2 7 (4.38%) Windows
3 5 (3.13%) Unix
4 3 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.63%) Android
5 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (42.50%) Migration
2 41 (25.63%) Agile
3 32 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (18.75%) Data Migration
5 24 (15.00%) DevOps
6 23 (14.38%) Roadmaps
7 20 (12.50%) CRM
7 20 (12.50%) Project Management
8 18 (11.25%) CI/CD
9 16 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 16 (10.00%) Microservices
10 14 (8.75%) Computer Science
10 14 (8.75%) ERP
10 14 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (7.50%) Data Modelling
11 12 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (6.88%) Analytics
12 11 (6.88%) Test Automation
13 10 (6.25%) Data Cleansing
13 10 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.00%) SQL
2 20 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 19 (11.88%) Java
4 18 (11.25%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.88%) Bash
5 11 (6.88%) Python
6 10 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.38%) C#
8 5 (3.13%) PHP
9 4 (2.50%) VB
9 4 (2.50%) VB6
10 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.63%) C
10 1 (0.63%) Perl
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (9.38%) Degree
2 13 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.50%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.50%) PMP
5 2 (1.25%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.88%) QA
3 10 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.75%) GDPR
5 4 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.63%) ARP4754
6 1 (0.63%) DO-160
6 1 (0.63%) GAMP
6 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) Grafana
2 5 (3.13%) Ansible
2 5 (3.13%) Prometheus
2 5 (3.13%) Terraform
3 3 (1.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (16.25%) Oracle
2 13 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.50%) Salesforce
4 11 (6.88%) SAP
5 7 (4.38%) Google
6 5 (3.13%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.50%) Infragistics
8 3 (1.88%) IBM
8 3 (1.88%) Liquidlogic
8 3 (1.88%) Workday
9 2 (1.25%) IDERA
9 2 (1.25%) Informatica
10 1 (0.63%) Adobe
10 1 (0.63%) EMC
10 1 (0.63%) Isilon
10 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.63%) VMware