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 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 77 106
Rank change year-on-year -14 +29 +25
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 7 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.49% 0.76% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 2.79% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile - £472 £390
25th Percentile - £485 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -65.45% +37.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £428 £645 £538
90th Percentile £604 £701 £580
England median daily rate £550 £538 £543
% change year-on-year +2.33% -0.92% -5.65%

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 482 358 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.82% 27.33% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 160 343
10th Percentile £190 £231 £197
25th Percentile £363 £323 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.77% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 42 84
10th Percentile £12.99 £26.63 £21.48
25th Percentile £16.52 £36.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £61.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% -2.40% +53.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.56 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.87% +6.74% +65.89%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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
Cambridgeshire 0 2 £420 -34.88%
Essex -2 2 £348 -45.49% 1
Hertfordshire -15 1 - - 3
Norfolk - 1 £190 - 1
Suffolk - 1 £190 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) 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%) 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%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Agriculture
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Installations Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
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
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Data Science
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Twin
2 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (14.29%) Information Management
2 1 (14.29%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Predictive Maintenance
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Product Management
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Siemens