Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Legacy System
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 1.16% 1.20% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.77% 2.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £675 - -

All Generic Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 53 72 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 30.81% 43.37% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 51 6
10th Percentile £263 £155 £149
25th Percentile £358 £320 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £410 £320
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% +28.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £653 £538 £488
90th Percentile £671 £606 £519
County Antrim median daily rate £448 £410 £320
% change year-on-year +9.27% +28.13% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £21.79 £14.78 £12.25
Median hourly rate £38.98 £15.05 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year +159.00% +15.86% -
75th Percentile £43.96 £15.33 £23.94
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £38.98 £15.05 £22.56
% change year-on-year +159.00% -33.29% -

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Belfast

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MarkLogic
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Trading
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EMIR
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle