Legacy Systems Contracts with Work from Home Options

Legacy System
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems 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 Systems over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 245 234
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 111 233 523
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.96% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.62% 3.04% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 167 414
10th Percentile £398 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £532
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.67% +9.13%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £665
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £42.00 £40.44
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.63 £45.36
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £54.08
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.33% +209.01%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £62.29
90th Percentile - - £66.92
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £57.50 £38.16
% change year-on-year -72.54% +50.70% +13.05%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,234 7,672 13,998
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.91% 31.65% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 5,442 10,085
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £440 £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 184 148 223
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% +28.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.83
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Legacy Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Legacy Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
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 Systems.

Legacy Systems daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Legacy Systems daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Legacy Systems hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
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 3 (2.70%) CMS
1 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.90%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.90%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (3.60%) NetSuite
4 3 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.80%) JDE OneWorld
6 1 (0.90%) Orchard Housing
6 1 (0.90%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.90%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) AWS
2 19 (17.12%) Azure
3 15 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (12.61%) Serverless
5 13 (11.71%) Amazon S3
6 8 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (6.31%) GCP
7 7 (6.31%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.41%) GitHub
8 6 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 5 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.60%) dbt
10 4 (3.60%) Fivetran
11 3 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.70%) OCI
11 3 (2.70%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.21%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.31%) Oracle Database
5 6 (5.41%) Power BI
6 5 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.50%) Tableau
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.60%) Data Mining
7 4 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.60%) Metadata
7 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.60%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.80%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.80%) ERwin
3 2 (1.80%) Git
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.80%) Selenium
4 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Finance
3 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Banking
5 5 (4.50%) Marketing
6 3 (2.70%) Billing
6 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.70%) Retail
7 2 (1.80%) French Language
7 2 (1.80%) Local Government
7 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.90%) Front Office
8 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.90%) Publishing
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (21.62%) Developer
2 13 (11.71%) Project Manager
2 13 (11.71%) Senior
3 12 (10.81%) Analyst
4 11 (9.91%) Consultant
5 10 (9.01%) Architect
6 8 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) Data Migration Specialist
9 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 4 (3.60%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Lead
9 4 (3.60%) Migration Specialist
9 4 (3.60%) Transformation Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) Node.js
2 11 (9.91%) React
3 9 (8.11%) HTML
4 8 (7.21%) AWS CDK
5 7 (6.31%) .NET
5 7 (6.31%) CSS
6 6 (5.41%) REST
7 5 (4.50%) RESTful
7 5 (4.50%) Spring
8 4 (3.60%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.70%) Blazor
9 3 (2.70%) SOAP
10 2 (1.80%) OAuth
10 2 (1.80%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.80%) Playwright
10 2 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.80%) Spring Security
10 2 (1.80%) WinForms
10 2 (1.80%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.70%) DataPower
1 3 (2.70%) FMCG
1 3 (2.70%) Mobile App
1 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
1 3 (2.70%) Reinsurance
1 3 (2.70%) Tandem
2 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
2 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (1.80%) Life Science
2 2 (1.80%) Mainframe
2 2 (1.80%) Social Media
2 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
3 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
3 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
3 1 (0.90%) Replication
3 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.11%) Windows
2 3 (2.70%) Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.54%) Migration
2 32 (28.83%) Agile
3 24 (21.62%) Data Migration
4 20 (18.02%) CRM
5 19 (17.12%) ETL
6 18 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.61%) Roadmaps
9 13 (11.71%) DevOps
9 13 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (9.91%) Data Modelling
10 11 (9.91%) Software Engineering
11 10 (9.01%) ERP
11 10 (9.01%) Microservices
12 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.11%) Project Management
13 8 (7.21%) TDD
13 8 (7.21%) Translating Business Requirements
13 8 (7.21%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (7.21%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.23%) SQL
2 17 (15.32%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.71%) Java
4 12 (10.81%) Python
5 9 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.50%) Bash
7 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.70%) C
8 3 (2.70%) C#
9 2 (1.80%) C++
9 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.80%) Perl
9 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.80%) VB
9 2 (1.80%) VB6
10 1 (0.90%) Go
10 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) Degree
2 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.70%) PMP
4 3 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.90%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) QA
2 7 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.70%) GDPR
5 2 (1.80%) PMO
5 2 (1.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.90%) EMIR
6 1 (0.90%) FATCA
6 1 (0.90%) GAMP
6 1 (0.90%) GxP
6 1 (0.90%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.90%) VMware Server
2 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.70%) Kibana
2 3 (2.70%) Terraform
3 2 (1.80%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (14.41%) Oracle
2 14 (12.61%) Salesforce
3 8 (7.21%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.21%) SAP
4 5 (4.50%) Google
5 3 (2.70%) IBM
6 2 (1.80%) IDERA
6 2 (1.80%) Informatica
6 2 (1.80%) Infragistics
6 2 (1.80%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.80%) VMware
7 1 (0.90%) Cadence
7 1 (0.90%) Databricks
7 1 (0.90%) Dell
7 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.90%) EMC
7 1 (0.90%) Isilon
7 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.90%) Orchard
7 1 (0.90%) Sybase