Legacy Applications Contracts in the North West

Legacy Application
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +20
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 3 13 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.47% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 1.58% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 22
10th Percentile - £492 £400
25th Percentile - £513 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £563 £519
90th Percentile - £633 £656
England median daily rate £550 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - £56.86
% change year-on-year - - -22.64%

All Generic Skills
North West

Legacy Applications 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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 680 825 1,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.83% 29.73% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 579 923
10th Percentile £294 £250 £253
25th Percentile £377 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £498
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +3.52% +10.56%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £672 £682
England median daily rate £547 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -0.55% -2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 38 58
10th Percentile £19.97 £16.18 £13.29
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.27 £17.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.13 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% +93.82% +18.67%
75th Percentile £45.89 £49.22 £63.85
90th Percentile £88.05 £66.23 £70.00
England median hourly rate £46.71 £44.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +4.97% +50.85% +22.61%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the North West

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in the North West

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in the North West

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Cheshire 0 3 £550 +4.76%
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat