Legacy Systems Contracts in Berkshire

Legacy System
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 10 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.85% 1.01% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 3.34% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 18
10th Percentile £330 £445 £494
25th Percentile £350 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% -12.72% +11.90%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £623
90th Percentile £596 £588 £643
South East median daily rate £400 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -21.99% -14.54% +23.08%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 409 599 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.87% 30.19% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 334 393
10th Percentile £307 £205 £313
25th Percentile £424 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 16
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%
75th Percentile £87.28 £62.23 £74.25
90th Percentile £91.05 £67.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Berkshire

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Berkshire

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Berkshire

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Berkshire

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +19 4 £488 -2.60% 11
Windsor - 3 £600 -
Bracknell +16 1 - -
Legacy Systems
South East

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (20.00%) Camunda
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) ShareGate
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ERwin
General
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) BSS Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Fortran Developer
4 1 (10.00%) OpenVMS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
1 2 (20.00%) TM Forum
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) OpenVMS
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) API Integration
3 2 (20.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) eTOM
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Order Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bicep
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) DocuSign
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle