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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 202 314
Rank change year-on-year +50 +112 -15
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 752 354 260
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.34% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.19% 3.87% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 239 171
10th Percentile £400 £356 £414
25th Percentile £434 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £641
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £549 £525
% change year-on-year -4.28% +4.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 13
10th Percentile £31.25 £20.88 -
25th Percentile £49.56 £31.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £63.75 £36.00 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year +77.08% +127.99% -72.54%
75th Percentile £72.81 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.20 £84.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £36.00 £34.15
% change year-on-year +73.61% +5.43% -40.62%

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 14,476 9,159 11,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.92% 34.77% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,979 5,852 7,380
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 434 832
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +47.06%
75th Percentile £70.41 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.70 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.90 £36.27
% change year-on-year +42.25% -14.80% +53.40%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +49 374 £550 -5.98% 131
North of England -16 106 £525 -6.67% 34
South West +26 87 £500 +5.26% 33
South East -14 78 £500 -3.24% 60
North West +7 68 £550 -12.00% 14
Midlands -27 67 £505 +1.00% 20
West Midlands -42 50 £505 +1.00% 8
Yorkshire -45 28 £650 +30.00% 18
East Midlands -9 16 £505 +6.32% 12
East of England -19 16 £588 +209.21% 12
North East -28 10 £480 -16.52% 4
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 23 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.53%) Confluence
3 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.93%) Apache
5 7 (0.93%) IIS
6 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.66%) Appian
8 4 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.53%) nginx
8 4 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.53%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) Camunda
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.27%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 18 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 30 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.46%) NEC Housing
4 10 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.53%) Magento
7 4 (0.53%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.40%) iTrent
8 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.40%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.27%) Shopify
9 2 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 189 (25.13%) Azure
2 163 (21.68%) AWS
3 55 (7.31%) Power Platform
4 41 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (3.99%) GCP
5 30 (3.99%) SaaS
6 28 (3.72%) Serverless
7 27 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (2.79%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.26%) GitHub
11 14 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (1.86%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.73%) Boomi
12 13 (1.73%) dbt
12 13 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.60%) DNS
2 6 (0.80%) 4G
2 6 (0.80%) 5G
3 5 (0.66%) Firewall
3 5 (0.66%) HTTP
3 5 (0.66%) Network Security
3 5 (0.66%) PSTN
4 4 (0.53%) Intranet
4 4 (0.53%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.40%) SSH
5 3 (0.40%) WAN
6 2 (0.27%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.27%) MQTT
6 2 (0.27%) NAS
6 2 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 44 (5.85%) Power BI
3 29 (3.86%) Oracle Database
4 28 (3.72%) Metadata
5 22 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (1.73%) MySQL
10 12 (1.60%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.46%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.46%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.93%) Pentaho
14 7 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.80%) Data Mart
16 5 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 48 (6.38%) JIRA
2 33 (4.39%) Git
3 6 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.80%) MLflow
4 5 (0.66%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.66%) Cypress.io
4 5 (0.66%) Gatling
4 5 (0.66%) MSI
4 5 (0.66%) Selenium
5 4 (0.53%) Subversion
6 3 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.40%) GitLab
6 3 (0.40%) JUnit
6 3 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.27%) Mocha
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.27%) tSQLt
General
1 230 (30.59%) Finance
2 204 (27.13%) Social Skills
3 97 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 85 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (7.45%) Banking
6 30 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.32%) Retail
8 24 (3.19%) Manufacturing
9 20 (2.66%) Billing
10 19 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.13%) Local Government
12 14 (1.86%) Military
13 13 (1.73%) Legal
14 12 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.46%) Marketing
16 10 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.06%) Police
19 7 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
20 6 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 125 (16.62%) Architect
2 99 (13.16%) Lead
3 78 (10.37%) Analyst
4 74 (9.84%) Senior
5 65 (8.64%) Developer
6 58 (7.71%) Data Engineer
7 46 (6.12%) Project Manager
8 41 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (4.65%) Business Analyst
10 32 (4.26%) Consultant
11 29 (3.86%) Product Manager
12 25 (3.32%) Data Analyst
13 20 (2.66%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.39%) Technical Architect
15 17 (2.26%) Software Engineer
16 16 (2.13%) Digital Product Manager
17 14 (1.86%) Senior Manager
18 13 (1.73%) Migration Engineer
18 13 (1.73%) Product Owner
18 13 (1.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.51%) .NET
2 39 (5.19%) REST
3 27 (3.59%) .NET Framework
4 26 (3.46%) React
5 23 (3.06%) Middleware
6 22 (2.93%) RESTful
7 19 (2.53%) CSS
8 18 (2.39%) Kafka
9 17 (2.26%) .NET Core
10 15 (1.99%) HTML
10 15 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (1.99%) Spring
10 15 (1.99%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.73%) OAuth
12 12 (1.60%) JSON
12 12 (1.60%) PySpark
13 11 (1.46%) FastAPI
13 11 (1.46%) SOAP
14 10 (1.33%) AngularJS
15 9 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.98%) Data Structures
3 43 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
8 11 (1.46%) Legacy Code
8 11 (1.46%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.06%) LIMS
11 8 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.93%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.12%) Windows
2 45 (5.98%) Linux
3 29 (3.86%) Unix
4 20 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.73%) Solaris
6 11 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.93%) HPUX
8 5 (0.66%) AIX
8 5 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.66%) SUSE
9 4 (0.53%) VMS
10 3 (0.40%) CentOS
10 3 (0.40%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (46.01%) Migration
2 179 (23.80%) Data Migration
3 176 (23.40%) Agile
4 151 (20.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 127 (16.89%) CI/CD
6 126 (16.76%) Roadmaps
7 123 (16.36%) Data Modelling
8 122 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (16.09%) Validation
10 120 (15.96%) DevOps
11 106 (14.10%) Analytics
12 81 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 80 (10.64%) ERP
13 80 (10.64%) User Acceptance Testing
14 74 (9.84%) ETL
15 65 (8.64%) Data Pipeline
16 61 (8.11%) Decision-Making
17 60 (7.98%) AI
17 60 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
17 60 (7.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 151 (20.08%) SQL
2 106 (14.10%) Python
3 53 (7.05%) C#
4 40 (5.32%) TypeScript
5 38 (5.05%) JavaScript
6 37 (4.92%) Java
7 23 (3.06%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.39%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.13%) Bicep
10 9 (1.20%) C
11 8 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.80%) C++
13 6 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.80%) ProC
13 6 (0.80%) Ruby
13 6 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.66%) VBA
15 4 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 157 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 136 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.52%) Degree
4 15 (1.99%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.93%) CISSP
8 6 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.66%) RHCE
10 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.53%) CCNA
10 4 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (13.96%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.38%) QA
3 44 (5.85%) GDPR
4 20 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.60%) PMO
6 9 (1.20%) NCSC
7 7 (0.93%) GRC
8 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.80%) WCAG
9 5 (0.66%) NIST
10 4 (0.53%) BS7666
10 4 (0.53%) HL7
10 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.40%) DICOM
11 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.40%) SEPA
12 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (5.98%) Docker
2 19 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.53%) Firmware
6 3 (0.40%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.27%) NFS
7 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.39%) Terraform
3 14 (1.86%) Grafana
4 8 (1.06%) Ansible
5 6 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.53%) Kibana
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle ZFS
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) Avamar
9 2 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.27%) Packer
9 2 (0.27%) vMotion
10 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 111 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 104 (13.83%) Oracle
3 61 (8.11%) SAP
4 54 (7.18%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.52%) Databricks
6 22 (2.93%) Workday
7 15 (1.99%) VMware
8 14 (1.86%) IBM
8 14 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.86%) Talend
9 11 (1.46%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.46%) NEC
10 9 (1.20%) Informatica
11 8 (1.06%) HP
11 8 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.93%) Cisco
12 7 (0.93%) Denodo
12 7 (0.93%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
13 6 (0.80%) UiPath
264 Legacy Systems jobs in England