Legacy Systems Contracts

Legacy System
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 270 275
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 -21
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 293 541 871
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.97% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 2.90% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 382 683
10th Percentile £407 £400 £400
25th Percentile £454 £457 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £759 £738 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 2
10th Percentile - £29.13 £18.57
25th Percentile £15.39 £50.31 £21.66
Median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
Median % change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -18.29%
75th Percentile £61.88 £58.75 £33.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.20 £36.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £27.58
% change year-on-year -72.54% +108.50% -18.29%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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 -34 233 £550 - 120
UK excluding London -16 160 £500 - 75
Work from Home +11 111 £500 -3.15% 70
London -24 98 £555 -7.50% 45
South East -10 35 £525 -4.55% 10
Scotland -3 34 £460 -4.02%
North of England +24 31 £500 -4.76% 26
Midlands +25 29 £550 +10.00% 16
North West +32 23 £500 -4.76% 13
West Midlands +22 23 £550 - 11
East of England +13 23 £593 +12.86% 7
East Midlands +8 8 £565 +32.94% 5
South West -8 8 £588 +26.34% 10
North East +13 5 £850 +78.95% 5
Yorkshire +7 3 £406 -22.62% 8

Legacy Systems
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 6 (2.05%) BizTalk Server
1 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.71%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.02%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.73%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.05%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.05%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.68%) JDE OneWorld
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.34%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.34%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.34%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.82%) AWS
2 58 (19.80%) Azure
3 34 (11.60%) Serverless
4 26 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (7.51%) Amazon S3
5 22 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (5.46%) Power Platform
8 15 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (5.12%) GCP
9 10 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.41%) GitHub
9 10 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.73%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (2.05%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.71%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.02%) BIG-IP
2 3 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (1.02%) HTTP
2 3 (1.02%) Intranet
2 3 (1.02%) VLAN
3 2 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.46%) Oracle Database
3 15 (5.12%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (4.78%) Power BI
5 13 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.75%) Data Mining
7 9 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.39%) Tableau
10 6 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.71%) MariaDB
11 5 (1.71%) MySQL
11 5 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.37%) SAP Data Services
12 4 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (2.73%) CircleCI
1 8 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.39%) GitLab
3 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.71%) Git
4 5 (1.71%) Selenium
5 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.37%) JIRA
5 4 (1.37%) LSMW
5 4 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.68%) ERwin
7 1 (0.34%) Appium
7 1 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 79 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.11%) Finance
3 45 (15.36%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.83%) Banking
6 11 (3.75%) Local Government
7 9 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.07%) Legal
8 8 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.05%) Marketing
10 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.37%) Law
11 4 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.02%) Billing
12 3 (1.02%) French Language
12 3 (1.02%) Retail
13 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 54 (18.43%) Developer
2 45 (15.36%) Architect
3 35 (11.95%) Analyst
4 26 (8.87%) Consultant
5 25 (8.53%) Senior
6 24 (8.19%) Project Manager
7 21 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (6.83%) Lead
9 13 (4.44%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.44%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.07%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.73%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (2.73%) IT Manager
12 8 (2.73%) Migration Specialist
13 7 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.39%) Programme Manager
13 7 (2.39%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.39%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.53%) .NET
1 25 (8.53%) React
2 22 (7.51%) HTML
3 19 (6.48%) Node.js
4 18 (6.14%) CSS
5 17 (5.80%) AWS CDK
6 13 (4.44%) REST
7 11 (3.75%) Spring
8 10 (3.41%) .NET Core
8 10 (3.41%) Blazor
9 9 (3.07%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.07%) WPF
10 8 (2.73%) SOAP
11 7 (2.39%) RESTful
12 5 (1.71%) BAPI
12 5 (1.71%) LAMP
12 5 (1.71%) Playwright
12 5 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.71%) WinForms
13 4 (1.37%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.07%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.39%) Operational Technology
5 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.71%) Tandem
6 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.02%) DataPower
7 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.02%) FMCG
7 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.02%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.02%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.68%) Life Science
8 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.68%) Social Media
8 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.17%) Windows
2 14 (4.78%) Linux
3 6 (2.05%) Unix
4 5 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (40.96%) Migration
2 73 (24.91%) Agile
3 55 (18.77%) Data Migration
4 48 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (14.33%) CI/CD
6 38 (12.97%) DevOps
7 34 (11.60%) Project Management
8 33 (11.26%) Microservices
9 30 (10.24%) ETL
10 29 (9.90%) CRM
11 28 (9.56%) Roadmaps
12 26 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (8.19%) ERP
14 23 (7.85%) Data Modelling
14 23 (7.85%) Software Engineering
15 21 (7.17%) Full Stack Development
16 20 (6.83%) Computer Science
17 19 (6.48%) SDLC
18 17 (5.80%) Data Protection
19 16 (5.46%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (25.26%) SQL
2 44 (15.02%) JavaScript
3 33 (11.26%) Java
4 30 (10.24%) Python
5 18 (6.14%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.46%) C#
7 15 (5.12%) Bash
8 11 (3.75%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.07%) C++
9 9 (3.07%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.39%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.05%) Go
11 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.71%) C
12 5 (1.71%) PHP
12 5 (1.71%) VB
12 5 (1.71%) VB6
13 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 23 (7.85%) Degree
1 23 (7.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.39%) PMP
5 6 (2.05%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.68%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CCA
9 1 (0.34%) CISM
9 1 (0.34%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.78%) QA
3 10 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.41%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.02%) PMO
6 2 (0.68%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) ARP4754
7 1 (0.34%) DO-160
7 1 (0.34%) EMIR
7 1 (0.34%) FATCA
7 1 (0.34%) GAMP
7 1 (0.34%) GxP
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.41%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.75%) Terraform
3 10 (3.41%) Grafana
4 5 (1.71%) Ansible
4 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 40 (13.65%) Oracle
2 25 (8.53%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.48%) SAP
4 18 (6.14%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.41%) Google
6 6 (2.05%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.71%) Infragistics
7 5 (1.71%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.37%) Liquidlogic
9 3 (1.02%) Databricks
9 3 (1.02%) F5
9 3 (1.02%) IBM
9 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.02%) Workday
10 2 (0.68%) IDERA
10 2 (0.68%) Informatica
10 2 (0.68%) Snow
10 2 (0.68%) VMware
11 1 (0.34%) Cadence
11 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace