Legacy Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code 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 393 412 452
Rank change year-on-year +19 +40 -18
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 8 18 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.079% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.25% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 47
10th Percentile £346 £381 £409
25th Percentile £356 £453 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +4.88% +22.02%
75th Percentile £419 £600 £531
90th Percentile £470 £634 £566
UK median daily rate £400 £630 £475
% change year-on-year -36.51% +32.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Legacy Code 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
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 Code within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +51 3 £425 -19.05% 1
South East +12 2 £350 -41.67% 3
Wales +21 1 £375 -46.43%
Yorkshire +14 1 £340 -24.44% 2
North of England +12 1 £340 -34.62% 4
East of England +5 1 £375 -6.25% 3
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
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 1 (12.50%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Android Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Perl Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Dagger
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (12.50%) Ktor
2 1 (12.50%) OkHttp
2 1 (12.50%) RAML
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Retrofit
2 1 (12.50%) RxJava
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Document Management
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA