Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Legacy System
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Coventry. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 3.76% - 2.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.69% - 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile £306 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £538 £575 £599
% change year-on-year -6.52% -3.95% +10.86%

All Generic Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 65 26 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 48.87% 26.53% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 36
10th Percentile £263 £375 £313
25th Percentile £380 £478 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £618 £441
Median % change year-on-year -19.03% +39.94% +10.31%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £541
90th Percentile £725 - £609
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - -37.04% -8.47%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £30.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.83% +12.27% +41.03%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Coventry

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) SAP PM
2 1 (20.00%) Primavera
2 1 (20.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (60.00%) Collibra
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (60.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (60.00%) GIS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Migration Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) IoT
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Mapping
1 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 3 (60.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow