Legacy Applications Contracts with Work from Home Options

Legacy Application
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 413 495
Rank change year-on-year +105 +82 -68
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 34 51 124
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 0.66% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 79
10th Percentile £428 £408 £413
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £700 £675
90th Percentile £703 £730 £703
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £595
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.94% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.29%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,212 7,673 14,090
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.94% 31.66% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,870 5,442 10,155
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £438 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 148 224
10th Percentile £15.73 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.53 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +28.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +61.36% -18.46% +5.80%

Legacy Applications
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Applications trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Applications.

Legacy Applications daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Legacy Applications daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.94%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (14.71%) Power Automate
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.76%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Serverless
5 2 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.94%) dbt
6 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) Power BI
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Front Office
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
3 5 (14.71%) .NET Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Senior Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Applications Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Systems Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Platform Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Power Platform Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Product Delivery Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Product Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) React Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) REST
3 3 (8.82%) React
4 2 (5.88%) Web Services
5 1 (2.94%) ADO
5 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) HTML
5 1 (2.94%) Java EE
5 1 (2.94%) Middleware
5 1 (2.94%) Node.js
5 1 (2.94%) SAML
5 1 (2.94%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 4 (11.76%) Wiki
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) FMCG
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Migration
2 6 (17.65%) DevOps
2 6 (17.65%) Workflow
3 5 (14.71%) Asset Management
3 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
4 4 (11.76%) Data Migration
4 4 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (11.76%) User Experience
4 4 (11.76%) Web Development
5 3 (8.82%) Decision-Making
5 3 (8.82%) ETL
5 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.88%) Application Packaging
6 2 (5.88%) CI/CD
6 2 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (5.88%) Document Management
6 2 (5.88%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 6 (17.65%) C#
3 5 (14.71%) Java
4 4 (11.76%) C
5 2 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.94%) Perl
6 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle
1 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.88%) Apple
2 2 (5.88%) OpenText
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Civica
3 1 (2.94%) Cognos
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) JD Edwards