Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Legacy Application
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £385 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - £523
75th Percentile £395 - £534
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £370 £466 £525
% change year-on-year -20.60% -11.24% +23.53%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 235 138 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.48% 33.58% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 95 120
10th Percentile £313 £271 £311
25th Percentile £366 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -7.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £550
90th Percentile £646 £639 £607
North West median daily rate £451 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.95% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile £29.04 £23.24 £14.68
25th Percentile £33.96 £27.97 £17.72
Median hourly rate £72.07 £31.15 £31.58
Median % change year-on-year +131.35% -1.36% +23.53%
75th Percentile £111.15 £42.81 £42.13
90th Percentile - £72.25 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £29.23 £25.25
% change year-on-year +55.53% +15.76% -27.86%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft