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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 87 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +27
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 7 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.54% 0.59% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.61% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile - - £519
25th Percentile - £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £598 £563
Median % change year-on-year -68.20% +6.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £428 £668 £672
90th Percentile £516 £710 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550

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 427 345 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.92% 22.55% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 155 334
10th Percentile £190 £191 £197
25th Percentile £363 £272 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £588
90th Percentile £700 £648 £696
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 51 66
10th Percentile £17.39 £30.00 £21.13
25th Percentile £29.51 £46.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £71.88
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 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
Hertfordshire +3 2 £500 - 6
Essex -1 2 £348 -36.82% 7
Cambridgeshire +1 1 £190 -70.54% 5
Norfolk - 1 £190 - 3
Suffolk - 1 £190 - 4
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Modbus
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Agriculture
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Installations Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Express.js
1 1 (14.29%) MERN Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) EPoS
1 4 (57.14%) Smartphone
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Twin
3 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
3 1 (14.29%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (14.29%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Siemens