Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Legacy System
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 38 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 +29
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.62% 2.14% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.40% 5.13% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £374 £571 £479
25th Percentile £391 £616 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +30.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £491 £675 £528
90th Percentile £511 £713 £532
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £501
% change year-on-year -20.00% +24.88% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
South East median hourly rate £81.00 - £54.25

All Generic Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 125 117 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 25.83% 41.79% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 82 136
10th Percentile £171 £262 £213
25th Percentile £363 £463 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £598 £630 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £936
South East median daily rate £485 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -7.62% +7.69% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 16
10th Percentile - £51.38 £18.82
25th Percentile £15.62 £51.56 £22.21
Median hourly rate £16.71 £53.75 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.92% +123.96% +41.18%
75th Percentile £17.79 £56.56 £30.00
90th Percentile - £57.13 £41.25
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -26.32% +26.67%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Buckinghamshire

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -9 1 - - 3
Aylesbury - 1 £375 -
Legacy Systems
South East

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft