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 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 52 57 58
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +26
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 18 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.33% 1.41% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.79% 4.78% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 9
10th Percentile £410 £430 £310
25th Percentile £414 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £647 £629 £525
90th Percentile £700 £706 £708
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £15.10 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.70% -76.77% -
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -48.57% +21.74% -

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 265 230 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 34.33% 29.45% 26.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 130 170
10th Percentile £295 £302 £213
25th Percentile £358 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £558 £597
90th Percentile £638 £625 £689
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 9
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.09 £17.51
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.10 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.30 £16.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -20.81% +19.59%
75th Percentile £21.39 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -2 8 £675 - 4
Northamptonshire -8 5 £420 -9.19% 2
Derbyshire - 3 £225 - 4
Lincolnshire +3 1 £505 -28.37% 2
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Alfresco
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Documentum
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (11.11%) SAP CO
2 2 (11.11%) SAP FI
2 2 (11.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) BrowserStack
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (5.56%) ChatGPT
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) SAP BW
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JMeter
1 3 (16.67%) Postman
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
4 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Agriculture
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Integration Architect
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) SAP CO Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) SAP FI Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) SAP PI
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) BAPI
2 3 (16.67%) IDoc
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (11.11%) SAP XI
4 1 (5.56%) Express.js
4 1 (5.56%) MERN Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) React
4 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) OpenVMS
1 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (16.67%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Validation
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) API Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Robotic Process Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) ABAP
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) PHP
2 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.11%) Nintex
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) OpenText