Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Legacy System
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 68 99
Rank change year-on-year -23 +31 +30
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 13 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.82% 1.20% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 3.39% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile - £472 £348
25th Percentile £425 £485 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £490 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +22.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £515
90th Percentile £642 £643 £539
England median daily rate £525 £580 £530
% change year-on-year -9.48% +9.43% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 -
Median hourly rate £82.25 £80.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £69.00 £80.50 £88.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -9.04% +152.86%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 523 383 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.08% 35.23% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 183 307
10th Percentile £213 £256 £195
25th Percentile £337 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £560
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 48 87
10th Percentile £12.97 £29.70 £16.90
25th Percentile £15.79 £46.25 £40.53
Median hourly rate £42.50 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +12.50% +4.80%
75th Percentile £73.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £40.46
% change year-on-year -21.62% -8.55% +61.83%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the East of England

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the East of England

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Hertfordshire -21 9 £450 -8.16% 15
Bedfordshire -7 1 - - 4
Norfolk - 1 - - 5
Essex - 1 £505 - 5
Cambridgeshire - 1 £650 - 7
Legacy Systems
England

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

Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Modbus
1 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Publishing
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
4 2 (15.38%) Law
5 1 (7.69%) Agriculture
5 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Perl Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Perl Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) CRM Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Express.js
1 1 (7.69%) MERN Stack
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
2 5 (38.46%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Life Science
3 1 (7.69%) LIMS
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (7.69%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Debian
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Data Architecture
1 7 (53.85%) Data Modelling
2 6 (46.15%) Data Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
2 6 (46.15%) Metadata Management
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Use Case
5 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) Perl
2 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cerner
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Siemens