Legacy Systems Contracts in Birmingham

Legacy System
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 54 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 +8
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 7 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.40% 1.08% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.90% 3.76% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile - £500 £481
25th Percentile £513 £525 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile - £725 £556
90th Percentile £580 £775 £568
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +0.92%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 143 213 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.66% 28.71% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 131 186
10th Percentile £160 £263 £350
25th Percentile £313 £356 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -2.44% +4.27%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £642
90th Percentile £645 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 13
10th Percentile £44.35 £18.88 £15.65
25th Percentile £44.88 £22.33 £20.22
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.77% -5.45% +61.76%
75th Percentile £50.38 £40.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £51.65 £54.80 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.76 £23.58 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.72% -14.27% +66.67%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Birmingham

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Birmingham

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Birmingham

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) MPLS
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) Unified Communications
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Network Design
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Document Management
4 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) PDM
4 1 (14.29%) PLM
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCIE
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
1 2 (28.57%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) Cognos
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SendGrid
2 1 (14.29%) Workday