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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 180 271
Rank change year-on-year -15 +91 +31
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 697 450 280
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.60% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.38% 4.41% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 299 159
10th Percentile £368 £412 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% - -
75th Percentile £644 £644 £638
90th Percentile £735 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £530 £525
% change year-on-year - +0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 6
10th Percentile £59.85 £30.40 £42.55
25th Percentile £64.38 £31.69 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.17 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.03% -49.76% +21.74%
75th Percentile £79.38 £62.50 -
90th Percentile £87.50 £72.35 £78.75
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 15,903 10,203 10,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.33% 36.34% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,557 6,388 6,079
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year - -4.30% -0.26%
75th Percentile £645 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £766 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £530
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,160 528 373
10th Percentile £13.99 £15.21 £15.77
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.73 £56.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.26 £74.13 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +11.73%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +7 361 £550 -3.30% 337
North of England -27 109 £550 +4.76% 97
South West +15 77 £528 +17.22% 47
North West +4 75 £550 +15.79% 40
Midlands -58 53 £525 - 74
South East -63 48 £450 -19.46% 94
West Midlands -47 42 £515 -6.45% 47
Yorkshire -50 26 £550 - 39
East of England -5 22 £575 +202.63% 37
East Midlands -23 10 £525 +1.94% 27
North East -35 8 £438 +2.04% 18
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 32 (4.59%) Confluence
2 19 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.58%) Apache
5 8 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.43%) nginx
7 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.43%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.29%) SugarCRM
8 2 (0.29%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) Camunda
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Mule
9 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 29 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 25 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.72%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.72%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.72%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.57%) Magento
7 4 (0.57%) SAP ECC
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.43%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.43%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 194 (27.83%) Azure
2 154 (22.09%) AWS
3 57 (8.18%) Power Platform
4 47 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (6.17%) GCP
6 32 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (4.45%) SaaS
8 22 (3.16%) Serverless
9 21 (3.01%) dbt
10 20 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (2.87%) GitHub
11 19 (2.73%) Entra ID
12 17 (2.44%) Power Automate
13 16 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (2.30%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 13 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.87%) OCI
14 13 (1.87%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (0.86%) Firewall
2 6 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.72%) Network Security
3 5 (0.72%) PSTN
3 5 (0.72%) VLAN
4 4 (0.57%) Intranet
4 4 (0.57%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.57%) MPLS
4 4 (0.57%) SAN
5 3 (0.43%) ATM
5 3 (0.43%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.43%) HTTP
5 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.43%) SDH
5 3 (0.43%) SSH
5 3 (0.43%) SSL
6 2 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.29%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.31%) Metadata
2 43 (6.17%) Power BI
3 32 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.15%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.15%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.58%) Power Query
8 10 (1.43%) Delta Lake
8 10 (1.43%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (1.15%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.15%) MySQL
10 8 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (1.00%) Tableau
12 6 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.86%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (0.86%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (7.32%) JIRA
2 40 (5.74%) Git
3 11 (1.58%) GitLab
3 11 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.29%) MSI
5 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.72%) Gatling
6 4 (0.57%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.57%) Subversion
7 3 (0.43%) JUnit
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.29%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.29%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.14%) MLflow
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 214 (30.70%) Finance
2 199 (28.55%) Social Skills
3 111 (15.93%) Public Sector
4 78 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (9.61%) Banking
6 32 (4.59%) Retail
7 29 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.44%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.01%) Billing
11 18 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.01%) Legal
12 14 (2.01%) Military
13 13 (1.87%) Local Government
14 12 (1.72%) Back Office
15 10 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.29%) Front Office
16 9 (1.29%) Marketing
16 9 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (17.50%) Architect
2 94 (13.49%) Lead
3 85 (12.20%) Analyst
4 78 (11.19%) Senior
5 73 (10.47%) Developer
6 55 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 49 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (5.60%) Project Manager
9 35 (5.02%) Business Analyst
9 35 (5.02%) Data Analyst
10 25 (3.59%) Consultant
11 23 (3.30%) Data Architect
11 23 (3.30%) Product Manager
12 20 (2.87%) Systems Analyst
13 18 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
15 15 (2.15%) Digital Product Manager
15 15 (2.15%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.01%) Senior Manager
17 12 (1.72%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.60%) .NET
2 47 (6.74%) Terraform
3 45 (6.46%) REST
4 23 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (2.87%) PySpark
5 20 (2.87%) React
6 19 (2.73%) Kafka
6 19 (2.73%) RESTful
6 19 (2.73%) Spring
6 19 (2.73%) Spring Boot
7 18 (2.58%) SOAP
8 17 (2.44%) .NET Framework
8 17 (2.44%) CSS
8 17 (2.44%) Middleware
9 15 (2.15%) .NET Core
9 15 (2.15%) JSON
9 15 (2.15%) XML
10 13 (1.87%) HTML
11 11 (1.58%) Node.js
11 11 (1.58%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 93 (13.34%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 43 (6.17%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.03%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.73%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.72%) Reference Data
11 10 (1.43%) PKI
12 9 (1.29%) Mainframe
13 8 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.15%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.00%) NHS
15 6 (0.86%) CMDB
15 6 (0.86%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.45%) Windows
2 35 (5.02%) Linux
2 35 (5.02%) Unix
3 14 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.72%) Solaris
5 7 (1.00%) HPUX
6 5 (0.72%) AIX
6 5 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (0.72%) SUSE
7 4 (0.57%) CentOS
7 4 (0.57%) VMS
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.29%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (46.48%) Migration
2 197 (28.26%) Agile
3 172 (24.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 149 (21.38%) Data Migration
5 136 (19.51%) CI/CD
6 125 (17.93%) DevOps
7 123 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 114 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (15.78%) Roadmaps
10 109 (15.64%) Validation
11 102 (14.63%) Analytics
12 82 (11.76%) AI
13 81 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 77 (11.05%) Microservices
15 69 (9.90%) ERP
16 66 (9.47%) Data Pipeline
17 65 (9.33%) User Acceptance Testing
18 63 (9.04%) Data Governance
18 63 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 60 (8.61%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 139 (19.94%) SQL
2 123 (17.65%) Python
3 47 (6.74%) C#
4 45 (6.46%) JavaScript
4 45 (6.46%) TypeScript
5 41 (5.88%) Java
6 23 (3.30%) PL/SQL
7 17 (2.44%) Bicep
8 11 (1.58%) Kotlin
8 11 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.29%) C
10 8 (1.15%) Bash
10 8 (1.15%) C++
11 7 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.72%) Korn
12 5 (0.72%) ProC
12 5 (0.72%) R
12 5 (0.72%) Ruby
12 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 160 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 134 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.02%) Degree
4 20 (2.87%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.15%) CISSP
10 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.72%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.72%) RHCE
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.57%) CCNA
12 4 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.57%) PMP
12 4 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (14.06%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.31%) QA
3 24 (3.44%) GDPR
4 22 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.15%) WCAG
6 13 (1.87%) NCSC
6 13 (1.87%) PMO
7 9 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.00%) NIST
9 6 (0.86%) GRC
10 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.14%) BS7666
13 1 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.14%) SEPA
13 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 35 (5.02%) Docker
2 17 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Firmware
4 3 (0.43%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.15%) Ansible
3 7 (1.00%) Grafana
3 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.57%) Kibana
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle ZFS
6 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.43%) Control-M
7 2 (0.29%) Avamar
7 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.29%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.14%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 132 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 98 (14.06%) Oracle
3 53 (7.60%) SAP
4 35 (5.02%) Databricks
5 31 (4.45%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.87%) Google
7 13 (1.87%) IBM
8 12 (1.72%) Workday
9 8 (1.15%) Cisco
9 8 (1.15%) Informatica
10 7 (1.00%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.86%) Baan
11 6 (0.86%) Infor
12 5 (0.72%) BMC
12 5 (0.72%) HP
12 5 (0.72%) NEC
12 5 (0.72%) Remedy
12 5 (0.72%) Sage
12 5 (0.72%) VMware
683 Legacy Systems jobs in England