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 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 194 291
Rank change year-on-year +29 +97 +8
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 767 401 258
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.45% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.03% 4.10% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 258 161
10th Percentile £396 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.62%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.15% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 5
10th Percentile £31.25 £19.55 £37.06
25th Percentile £60.09 £31.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.17 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.03% -49.76% +21.74%
75th Percentile £71.25 £59.06 -
90th Percentile £82.75 £70.73 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £35.17 £70.00
% change year-on-year +99.03% -49.76% +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 15,250 9,787 10,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.47% 35.40% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,356 6,184 6,654
10th Percentile £325 £305 £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 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 490 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £13.03
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.91
Median hourly rate £43.56 £30.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% -36.32% +15.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year +48.31% -34.82% +12.74%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +32 382 £550 -6.70% 173
North of England -9 118 £525 - 29
South West +16 83 £503 +11.67% 20
North West 0 76 £550 +10.00% 18
South East -37 74 £500 -13.04% 44
Midlands -41 64 £510 -5.12% 24
West Midlands -29 50 £500 -4.76% 11
Yorkshire -31 32 £500 -4.76% 10
East of England -3 23 £575 +202.63% 8
East Midlands -19 13 £525 -4.55% 13
North East -36 10 £480 -12.33% 2
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 25 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.13%) Confluence
3 14 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.30%) Apache
5 8 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.91%) IIS
6 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.39%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 25 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 30 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.65%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.65%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.52%) Magento
7 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.26%) Maximo
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 206 (26.86%) Azure
2 174 (22.69%) AWS
3 63 (8.21%) Power Platform
4 51 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (4.56%) GCP
5 35 (4.56%) SaaS
6 29 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (2.87%) Serverless
8 21 (2.74%) dbt
9 20 (2.61%) GitHub
10 18 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (2.22%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (1.96%) OCI
13 15 (1.96%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.83%) Snowflake
15 13 (1.69%) Boomi
15 13 (1.69%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.91%) DNS
2 6 (0.78%) 4G
2 6 (0.78%) 5G
3 5 (0.65%) Firewall
3 5 (0.65%) HTTP
3 5 (0.65%) PSTN
4 4 (0.52%) Intranet
4 4 (0.52%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.52%) Network Security
4 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.39%) ATM
5 3 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.39%) SSH
5 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 3 (0.39%) WAN
6 2 (0.26%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.26%) MQTT
6 2 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.52%) Power BI
2 43 (5.61%) Metadata
2 43 (5.61%) SQL Server
3 30 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 22 (2.87%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.22%) MySQL
8 14 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (1.69%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.43%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
12 9 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.04%) Data Mining
13 8 (1.04%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.91%) Pentaho
15 6 (0.78%) Data Mart
15 6 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 48 (6.26%) JIRA
2 41 (5.35%) Git
3 9 (1.17%) MSI
4 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.65%) Gatling
5 5 (0.65%) Selenium
6 4 (0.52%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.52%) GitLab
6 4 (0.52%) Subversion
7 3 (0.39%) JUnit
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.26%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.13%) MLflow
9 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 232 (30.25%) Finance
2 207 (26.99%) Social Skills
3 112 (14.60%) Public Sector
4 87 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (7.69%) Banking
6 31 (4.04%) Retail
7 29 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.39%) Billing
9 25 (3.26%) Manufacturing
10 23 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.96%) Local Government
12 14 (1.83%) Legal
13 13 (1.69%) Military
13 13 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.30%) Marketing
15 9 (1.17%) Back Office
16 8 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 130 (16.95%) Architect
2 108 (14.08%) Lead
3 80 (10.43%) Analyst
4 79 (10.30%) Data Engineer
4 79 (10.30%) Senior
5 67 (8.74%) Developer
6 46 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (5.74%) Project Manager
8 36 (4.69%) Business Analyst
9 32 (4.17%) Consultant
10 27 (3.52%) Data Architect
11 26 (3.39%) Product Manager
12 22 (2.87%) Data Analyst
13 16 (2.09%) Lead Data Engineer
14 15 (1.96%) Digital Product Manager
14 15 (1.96%) Systems Analyst
15 14 (1.83%) Senior Manager
16 13 (1.69%) Migration Engineer
17 12 (1.56%) Support Engineer
17 12 (1.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.21%) .NET
2 44 (5.74%) REST
3 24 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 22 (2.87%) Kafka
4 22 (2.87%) Middleware
5 20 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (2.61%) React
6 19 (2.48%) PySpark
6 19 (2.48%) RESTful
7 18 (2.35%) CSS
7 18 (2.35%) Spring
7 18 (2.35%) Spring Boot
8 16 (2.09%) JSON
8 16 (2.09%) SOAP
9 15 (1.96%) .NET Core
9 15 (1.96%) XML
10 14 (1.83%) HTML
11 10 (1.30%) HTML5
11 10 (1.30%) Node.js
12 9 (1.17%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 103 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.39%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 36 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (1.83%) Mainframe
9 13 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.43%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.17%) Legacy Code
13 9 (1.17%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.91%) LIMS
15 7 (0.91%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.87%) Windows
2 43 (5.61%) Linux
3 34 (4.43%) Unix
4 14 (1.83%) Solaris
4 14 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.91%) HPUX
7 5 (0.65%) AIX
7 5 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.65%) SUSE
8 4 (0.52%) CentOS
8 4 (0.52%) VMS
9 3 (0.39%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (47.07%) Migration
2 198 (25.81%) Agile
3 175 (22.82%) Data Migration
4 166 (21.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 141 (18.38%) Data Modelling
6 135 (17.60%) DevOps
7 134 (17.47%) CI/CD
8 127 (16.56%) Roadmaps
9 125 (16.30%) Analytics
10 119 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
11 114 (14.86%) Validation
12 88 (11.47%) ERP
13 87 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 81 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
15 72 (9.39%) ETL
15 72 (9.39%) User Acceptance Testing
16 70 (9.13%) Microservices
17 67 (8.74%) AI
17 67 (8.74%) Data Governance
18 66 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 150 (19.56%) SQL
2 111 (14.47%) Python
3 50 (6.52%) C#
4 44 (5.74%) Java
4 44 (5.74%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.22%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.26%) PL/SQL
7 20 (2.61%) Bicep
8 17 (2.22%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.30%) C
10 9 (1.17%) C++
11 8 (1.04%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.78%) Ruby
13 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.65%) ProC
14 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.52%) Groovy
15 4 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 175 (22.82%) Security Cleared
2 154 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.48%) Degree
4 20 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.04%) CISSP
9 8 (1.04%) ISTQB
9 8 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.65%) RHCE
11 4 (0.52%) CCNA
11 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.52%) PMP
11 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (13.17%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.65%) QA
3 40 (5.22%) GDPR
4 25 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.96%) PMO
6 14 (1.83%) NCSC
7 13 (1.69%) WCAG
8 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.91%) NIST
10 6 (0.78%) GRC
11 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.52%) BS7666
12 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.39%) HL7
13 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 3 (0.39%) SEPA
14 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (5.22%) Docker
2 15 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) Firmware
5 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.39%) OpenAM
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.48%) Terraform
3 13 (1.69%) Grafana
4 9 (1.17%) Ansible
5 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.52%) Kibana
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle ZFS
7 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.26%) Avamar
8 2 (0.26%) Control-M
8 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 126 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 117 (15.25%) Oracle
3 67 (8.74%) SAP
4 50 (6.52%) Salesforce
5 41 (5.35%) Databricks
6 17 (2.22%) Workday
7 15 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.83%) IBM
9 13 (1.69%) Talend
10 12 (1.56%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.43%) Informatica
12 9 (1.17%) VMware
13 8 (1.04%) HP
13 8 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.91%) Cisco
14 7 (0.91%) Denodo
14 7 (0.91%) Google
15 6 (0.78%) Baan
16 5 (0.65%) NEC
16 5 (0.65%) Siebel