Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Legacy System
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 41 63
Rank change year-on-year -13 +22 +19
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 23 13 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.60% 2.18% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.59% 7.98% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 4
10th Percentile - £398 £528
25th Percentile £410 £450 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £665
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -24.81% +11.30%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £679
90th Percentile £700 £573 £692
England median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £15.10 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.70% - -
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.05 £88.50
% change year-on-year +14.89% -43.45% +152.86%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 303 163 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 34.24% 27.30% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 84 114
10th Percentile £190 £201 £250
25th Percentile £358 £336 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -9.55% +10.56%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £572
90th Percentile £625 £605 £693
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 11
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.57 £16.66
25th Percentile £17.50 £14.56 £17.20
Median hourly rate £21.25 £23.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +11.57% +19.59%
75th Percentile £25.15 £37.57 £39.86
90th Percentile £25.83 £48.03 £93.75
England median hourly rate £28.06 £37.50 £43.92
% change year-on-year -25.17% -14.62% +25.39%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the East Midlands

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Nottinghamshire -4 8 £520 -0.95% 3
Northamptonshire -14 5 £420 -16.00%
Leicestershire - 5 £625 - 4
Derbyshire +2 3 £225 -48.57% 4
Lincolnshire -10 1 £505 - 7
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Alfresco
1 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Documentum
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) ChatGPT
1 2 (8.70%) GitHub
1 2 (8.70%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) SAP BW
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JMeter
1 1 (4.35%) Postman
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Manufacturing
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Retail
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.35%) Agriculture
6 1 (4.35%) Military
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
1 6 (26.09%) Project Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Integration Architect
2 4 (17.39%) SAP Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) .NET Developer
3 3 (13.04%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (13.04%) C# Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Functional Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior C# Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (17.39%) SAP PI
2 4 (17.39%) Web Services
3 3 (13.04%) BAPI
3 3 (13.04%) IDoc
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (8.70%) SAP XI
5 1 (4.35%) Express.js
5 1 (4.35%) MERN Stack
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) React
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) OpenVMS
1 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Migration
2 5 (21.74%) AI
2 5 (21.74%) ERP
2 5 (21.74%) Issue Tracking
2 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
2 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (17.39%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (13.04%) Architectural Design
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (13.04%) Microservices
4 3 (13.04%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (8.70%) Application Security
5 2 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
5 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) PHP
2 5 (21.74%) PL/SQL
3 4 (17.39%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
2 5 (21.74%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) OpenText