Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Legacy Application
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 55 73
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +26
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.28% 0.71% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 2.82% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £535 - £707
25th Percentile £588 - £712
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.69%
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £700 £825 £588
% change year-on-year -15.15% +40.43% +38.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
South West median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Generic Skills
Bristol

Legacy Applications 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 292 142 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.68% 25.04% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 64 162
10th Percentile £243 £143 £289
25th Percentile £413 £200 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £559 £561 £650
90th Percentile £633 £668 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 19 64
10th Percentile £15.62 £47.50 £36.25
25th Percentile £33.50 £56.88 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% +461.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £52.50 £62.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.33% +56.88% +173.50%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in Bristol

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in Bristol over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in Bristol

Legacy Applications
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Security
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet