Legacy Systems Contracts in England

Legacy System
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in England. 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 320 295 296
Rank change year-on-year -25 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 237 393 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.84% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.09% 2.49% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 277 512
10th Percentile £413 £363 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £646 £656 £692
90th Percentile £775 £759 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.46% +10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 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% -36.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £33.74
90th Percentile £84.40 £65.40 £36.99
UK median hourly rate £34.15 £57.50 £38.16
% change year-on-year -40.62% +50.70% +13.05%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London -30 97 £550 -8.33% 47
South East -2 38 £525 -4.55% 21
North of England +19 29 £500 -4.76% 29
Midlands +19 29 £550 +15.79% 12
West Midlands +26 23 £550 - 6
East of England +13 23 £593 +12.86% 5
North West +25 19 £500 -4.76% 11
South West -8 12 £588 +26.34% 9
East Midlands +3 8 £565 +32.94% 6
North East +11 6 £850 +78.95% 7
Yorkshire +4 4 £500 -4.76% 11
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.27%) CMS
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.69%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.42%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.42%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.42%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.36%) Azure
2 39 (16.46%) AWS
3 15 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.91%) Serverless
5 12 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (5.06%) GCP
6 11 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.38%) GitHub
8 7 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.53%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.53%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.69%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.69%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (1.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.17%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.49%) Power BI
3 9 (3.80%) Data Mining
3 9 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.53%) Tableau
6 5 (2.11%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.11%) MariaDB
6 5 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.11%) MySQL
6 5 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.69%) Metadata
7 4 (1.69%) SAP BW
7 4 (1.69%) SAP Data Services
7 4 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.38%) GitLab
2 6 (2.53%) CircleCI
3 5 (2.11%) JIRA
4 4 (1.69%) LSMW
4 4 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.84%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) Git
6 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) Maven
6 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
6 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.99%) Finance
3 27 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.86%) Banking
6 13 (5.49%) Local Government
7 9 (3.80%) Legal
8 7 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Avionics
9 4 (1.69%) Law
9 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.27%) Billing
10 3 (1.27%) Retail
11 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (18.14%) Architect
2 31 (13.08%) Developer
3 29 (12.24%) Analyst
4 28 (11.81%) Senior
5 21 (8.86%) Project Manager
6 20 (8.44%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (7.59%) Lead
8 17 (7.17%) Consultant
9 13 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.06%) Business Analyst
10 12 (5.06%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.64%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) Migration Specialist
13 7 (2.95%) Performance Analyst
13 7 (2.95%) Programme Manager
13 7 (2.95%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) Technical Architect
14 6 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.75%) .NET
2 11 (4.64%) HTML
3 8 (3.38%) .NET Core
3 8 (3.38%) React
4 7 (2.95%) CSS
4 7 (2.95%) RESTful
5 6 (2.53%) Blazor
5 6 (2.53%) Node.js
6 5 (2.11%) BAPI
6 5 (2.11%) LAMP
7 4 (1.69%) Kafka
7 4 (1.69%) LDAP
7 4 (1.69%) REST
7 4 (1.69%) Spring
7 4 (1.69%) WPF
8 3 (1.27%) SOAP
8 3 (1.27%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.84%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.84%) J2EE
9 2 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.38%) Cloud Native
1 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.95%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (2.53%) Operational Technology
4 5 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.27%) DataPower
5 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.27%) FMCG
5 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
5 3 (1.27%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.84%) Data Fabric
6 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.49%) Linux
2 11 (4.64%) Windows
3 7 (2.95%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (45.15%) Migration
2 54 (22.78%) Agile
3 46 (19.41%) Data Migration
4 40 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (11.81%) Project Management
6 26 (10.97%) CI/CD
7 25 (10.55%) DevOps
8 23 (9.70%) ETL
8 23 (9.70%) Roadmaps
9 22 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (8.44%) CRM
10 20 (8.44%) Data Modelling
10 20 (8.44%) Software Engineering
11 18 (7.59%) Computer Science
11 18 (7.59%) ERP
12 17 (7.17%) Full Stack Development
13 16 (6.75%) Microservices
14 14 (5.91%) Data Protection
14 14 (5.91%) Scrum
15 13 (5.49%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 60 (25.32%) SQL
2 25 (10.55%) JavaScript
3 19 (8.02%) Java
4 18 (7.59%) Python
5 12 (5.06%) C#
6 8 (3.38%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.95%) C++
8 6 (2.53%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.11%) Bash
9 5 (2.11%) PHP
9 5 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.69%) C
10 4 (1.69%) Go
11 1 (0.42%) ABAP
11 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.42%) Perl
11 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (9.28%) Degree
2 19 (8.02%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.11%) PMP
6 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CISM
9 1 (0.42%) CISSP
9 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.70%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.38%) GDPR
3 6 (2.53%) QA
4 4 (1.69%) ARP4754
4 4 (1.69%) DO-160
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) EMIR
6 1 (0.42%) FATCA
6 1 (0.42%) GAMP
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.95%) Docker
2 5 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.49%) Terraform
2 11 (4.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.95%) Ansible
4 6 (2.53%) Grafana
4 6 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) Istio
5 1 (0.42%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (8.86%) Oracle
2 19 (8.02%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.59%) Salesforce
3 18 (7.59%) SAP
4 10 (4.22%) Google
5 6 (2.53%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.69%) Liquidlogic
6 4 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.27%) Databricks
7 3 (1.27%) IBM
7 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.27%) Sybase
7 3 (1.27%) Workday
8 2 (0.84%) Cadence
8 2 (0.84%) Snow
8 2 (0.84%) VMware
9 1 (0.42%) Isilon
9 1 (0.42%) New Relic
9 1 (0.42%) Pega
9 1 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud