Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in England

Legacy System
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 187 274
Rank change year-on-year +9 +87 +31
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 725 416 267
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.51% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.68% 4.20% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 274 157
10th Percentile £375 £410 £408
25th Percentile £425 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £647 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 5
10th Percentile £31.25 £31.50 £37.06
25th Percentile £61.25 £31.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £73.44 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +94.44% -48.57% +21.74%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,488 9,905 10,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.70% 35.96% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,452 6,251 6,324
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £684
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -5.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 488 459
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £14.02
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.78% -40.45% +19.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.50 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.39 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +27.96% -36.84% +8.57%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in England

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in England over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems in England over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
London +17 355 £550 -4.35% 199
North of England -23 114 £525 - 31
South West +16 84 £505 +12.22% 22
North West -4 77 £550 +15.79% 19
South East -54 64 £450 -21.74% 41
Midlands -54 61 £511 -2.15% 28
West Midlands -38 49 £500 -4.76% 11
Yorkshire -40 27 £525 -3.45% 7
East of England -7 23 £575 +202.63% 16
East Midlands -23 11 £525 +3.96% 17
North East -33 10 £480 -12.33% 5
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (3.86%) Confluence
2 21 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.38%) Apache
5 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.97%) IIS
6 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) OpenROAD
8 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.28%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) Mule
10 1 (0.14%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 27 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 29 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.93%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (1.66%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.69%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.69%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.55%) Magento
7 4 (0.55%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.41%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.72%) Azure
2 174 (24.00%) AWS
3 56 (7.72%) Power Platform
4 48 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (5.10%) GCP
6 32 (4.41%) SaaS
7 30 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (3.17%) GitHub
9 23 (3.17%) Serverless
10 21 (2.90%) dbt
11 16 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.21%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.07%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (1.93%) Entra ID
13 14 (1.93%) OCI
13 14 (1.93%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) DNS
1 5 (0.69%) Firewall
1 5 (0.69%) PSTN
2 4 (0.55%) Intranet
2 4 (0.55%) IP Telephony
2 4 (0.55%) Network Security
2 4 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (0.41%) ATM
3 3 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (0.41%) HTTP
3 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.41%) SAN
3 3 (0.41%) SSH
3 3 (0.41%) SSL
3 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.28%) DHCP
4 2 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.28%) MPLS
4 2 (0.28%) VLAN
4 2 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.07%) Metadata
2 42 (5.79%) Power BI
3 36 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 27 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (2.34%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.34%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.79%) Delta Lake
7 13 (1.79%) MySQL
8 10 (1.38%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
10 8 (1.10%) Data Mining
11 7 (0.97%) Power Query
11 7 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.83%) Data Mart
12 6 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.83%) Tableau
13 5 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (6.62%) JIRA
2 44 (6.07%) Git
3 10 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.24%) MSI
5 7 (0.97%) GitLab
6 5 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.69%) Gatling
7 4 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.55%) Selenium
7 4 (0.55%) Subversion
8 3 (0.41%) JUnit
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.28%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 216 (29.79%) Finance
2 199 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 109 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 82 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.14%) Banking
6 35 (4.83%) Retail
7 28 (3.86%) Billing
7 28 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.31%) Manufacturing
10 22 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.93%) Legal
12 12 (1.66%) Local Government
12 12 (1.66%) Military
12 12 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.52%) Back Office
14 9 (1.24%) Law
15 8 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
15 8 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 115 (15.86%) Architect
2 100 (13.79%) Lead
3 80 (11.03%) Analyst
4 78 (10.76%) Senior
5 72 (9.93%) Data Engineer
6 70 (9.66%) Developer
7 45 (6.21%) Project Manager
8 44 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
9 30 (4.14%) Business Analyst
9 30 (4.14%) Consultant
10 28 (3.86%) Data Analyst
11 26 (3.59%) Product Manager
12 23 (3.17%) Data Architect
13 18 (2.48%) Systems Analyst
14 17 (2.34%) Lead Data Engineer
15 15 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (2.07%) Digital Product Manager
16 14 (1.93%) Senior Manager
17 12 (1.66%) IT Manager
17 12 (1.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.69%) .NET
2 44 (6.07%) REST
2 44 (6.07%) Terraform
3 23 (3.17%) .NET Framework
3 23 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 20 (2.76%) PySpark
4 20 (2.76%) Spring
5 19 (2.62%) Kafka
5 19 (2.62%) React
5 19 (2.62%) Spring Boot
6 17 (2.34%) CSS
6 17 (2.34%) JSON
6 17 (2.34%) Middleware
6 17 (2.34%) RESTful
6 17 (2.34%) SOAP
7 15 (2.07%) XML
8 14 (1.93%) .NET Core
9 13 (1.79%) HTML
10 10 (1.38%) Django
10 10 (1.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 95 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.17%) Data Structures
3 43 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.66%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.38%) Reference Data
12 9 (1.24%) Legacy Code
13 8 (1.10%) NHS
14 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.97%) PKI
14 7 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.66%) Windows
2 40 (5.52%) Linux
3 35 (4.83%) Unix
4 13 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.66%) Solaris
6 10 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.97%) HPUX
8 5 (0.69%) AIX
8 5 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.69%) SUSE
9 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 4 (0.55%) VMS
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (47.45%) Migration
2 197 (27.17%) Agile
3 165 (22.76%) Data Migration
4 160 (22.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 140 (19.31%) CI/CD
6 132 (18.21%) DevOps
7 131 (18.07%) Data Modelling
8 119 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
9 116 (16.00%) Roadmaps
10 112 (15.45%) Validation
11 109 (15.03%) Analytics
12 81 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 79 (10.90%) ERP
14 78 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
15 77 (10.62%) AI
16 71 (9.79%) Microservices
17 65 (8.97%) Data Governance
18 63 (8.69%) ETL
19 62 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
20 61 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 142 (19.59%) SQL
2 124 (17.10%) Python
3 50 (6.90%) C#
4 44 (6.07%) Java
4 44 (6.07%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.52%) TypeScript
6 23 (3.17%) PL/SQL
7 19 (2.62%) Bicep
8 17 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.38%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.24%) C
11 8 (1.10%) Bash
11 8 (1.10%) C++
12 7 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.69%) ProC
14 5 (0.69%) R
14 5 (0.69%) Ruby
14 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 169 (23.31%) Security Cleared
2 146 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.24%) Degree
4 19 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.34%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.10%) CISSP
8 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.83%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.83%) PMP
11 5 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.69%) RHCE
12 4 (0.55%) CCNA
12 4 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.62%) QA
3 32 (4.41%) GDPR
4 23 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.07%) NCSC
5 15 (2.07%) WCAG
6 13 (1.79%) PMO
7 9 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.97%) NIST
9 6 (0.83%) GRC
10 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.55%) BS7666
11 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.41%) HL7
12 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.28%) DICOM
13 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 39 (5.38%) Docker
2 13 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Firmware
4 3 (0.41%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.66%) Grafana
3 11 (1.52%) Ansible
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.55%) Kibana
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle ZFS
5 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.28%) Avamar
7 2 (0.28%) Control-M
7 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 120 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 107 (14.76%) Oracle
3 60 (8.28%) SAP
4 43 (5.93%) Salesforce
5 42 (5.79%) Databricks
6 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.79%) IBM
8 12 (1.66%) Workday
9 9 (1.24%) Google
10 7 (0.97%) Cisco
10 7 (0.97%) HP
10 7 (0.97%) Informatica
10 7 (0.97%) Talend
11 6 (0.83%) Baan
11 6 (0.83%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.69%) NEC
12 5 (0.69%) Remedy
12 5 (0.69%) Siebel
12 5 (0.69%) Teradata
12 5 (0.69%) VMware
336 Legacy Systems jobs in England