Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Legacy System
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 51 51
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% 0.77% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 2.09% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +57.14% -
75th Percentile £471 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
North West median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.83% -14.33% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 226 191 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.85% 36.80% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 107 90
10th Percentile £234 £329 £361
25th Percentile £358 £419 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £500 £543
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -7.83% +9.60%
75th Percentile £500 £552 £593
90th Percentile £638 £639 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 5
10th Percentile - £18.72 £14.42
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +9.91% +1.01%
75th Percentile £31.50 £50.84 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £81.50 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £41.75
% change year-on-year +7.69% -22.16% +91.69%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Knutsford -13 1 £415 -
Chester - 1 £475 - 1
Legacy Systems
North West

Legacy Systems
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics NAV Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA