Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Durham

Legacy System
North East > Durham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Durham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 1.00% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
North East median daily rate £500 £429 £650
% change year-on-year +16.62% -34.04% +50.55%

All Generic Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14 9 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 14.00% 31.03% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £273 £303 £241
25th Percentile £295 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +29.41% +1.37%
75th Percentile £834 £675 £480
90th Percentile £938 £720 £519
North East median daily rate £450 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £30.63 - -
25th Percentile £31.56 - -
Median hourly rate £33.75 - £11.44
75th Percentile £36.56 - -
90th Percentile £37.88 - -
North East median hourly rate £43.96 £16.73 £32.59
% change year-on-year +162.76% -48.67% +1.84%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Durham

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

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

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

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Durham

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

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

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Durham

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 Durham region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Darlington - 1 £525 -
Legacy Systems
North East

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle