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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 67 86
Rank change year-on-year -31 +19 +30
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 13 13 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.70% 1.28% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 2.96% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile - £472 £365
25th Percentile £425 £485 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £429
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% +14.29% -18.33%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £624
90th Percentile £675 £643 £675
England median daily rate £525 £571 £525
% change year-on-year -8.10% +8.81% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile - £30.33 -
25th Percentile £78.75 £48.49 £15.39
Median hourly rate £82.25 £80.50 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +409.82% -
75th Percentile £84.00 £82.25 £16.20
90th Percentile - - £88.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £15.79
% change year-on-year -7.14% +343.32% -45.08%

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 561 439 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.10% 43.12% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 245 322
10th Percentile £196 £250 £185
25th Percentile £313 £396 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.78% +9.17%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £560
90th Percentile £710 £700 £673
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 68 137
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.95 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.79 £33.95 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -16.03%
75th Percentile £67.31 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +33.33%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -27 9 £450 -8.16% 2
Cambridgeshire 0 2 £638 - 2
Bedfordshire -7 1 - - 3
Norfolk - 1 - - 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:

Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
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 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Publishing
3 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Law
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 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%) 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%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) CRM Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Modeller
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
1 6 (46.15%) Reference Data
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) LIMS
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Debian
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 7 (53.85%) Data Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Data Strategy
3 6 (46.15%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (46.15%) Metadata Management
3 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
4 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) ERP
7 1 (7.69%) Business Analytics
7 1 (7.69%) Business Transformation
7 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
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%) 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