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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 171 262
Rank change year-on-year -26 +91 +45
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 684 450 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.60% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.29% 4.41% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 300 164
10th Percentile £368 £410 £400
25th Percentile £430 £455 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £639 £638 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 6
10th Percentile £61.25 £29.37 £42.55
25th Percentile - £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £86.88 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.50 £73.20 £78.75
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 15,959 10,205 10,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.50% 36.38% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,584 6,382 6,052
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,176 534 364
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.13 £16.08
25th Percentile £17.45 £18.82 £24.42
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +16.93%
75th Percentile £67.85 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.38 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% -42.11% +5.56%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +11 361 £550 - 337
North of England -35 109 £550 +4.76% 68
North West -6 72 £550 +15.79% 29
South West +13 71 £538 +19.56% 31
Midlands -57 52 £525 -2.33% 42
South East -77 43 £450 -18.18% 55
West Midlands -47 41 £515 -6.36% 25
Yorkshire -40 27 £581 +10.71% 29
East of England -19 22 £575 +202.63% 16
East Midlands -28 10 £525 +1.45% 17
North East -36 10 £500 +16.62% 10
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 31 (4.53%) Confluence
2 18 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.61%) Apache
5 8 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.44%) nginx
7 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.29%) SugarCRM
8 2 (0.29%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.15%) Appian
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Mule
9 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 31 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
3 12 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 24 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (1.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.73%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.73%) SAP ECC
5 5 (0.73%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.58%) Magento
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.44%) ResourceLink
7 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.29%) Maximo
8 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.29%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (28.80%) Azure
2 149 (21.78%) AWS
3 61 (8.92%) Power Platform
4 49 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (6.14%) GCP
6 31 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
6 31 (4.53%) SaaS
7 25 (3.65%) Serverless
8 23 (3.36%) GitHub
9 21 (3.07%) dbt
9 21 (3.07%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (2.63%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (2.34%) PowerApps
14 14 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (1.75%) Amazon S3
16 12 (1.75%) OCI
16 12 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.17%) Firewall
1 8 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
2 7 (1.02%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.02%) VLAN
3 5 (0.73%) Network Security
3 5 (0.73%) PSTN
4 4 (0.58%) DNS
4 4 (0.58%) Intranet
4 4 (0.58%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.58%) MPLS
4 4 (0.58%) SAN
5 3 (0.44%) ATM
5 3 (0.44%) DHCP
5 3 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.44%) HTTP
5 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.44%) SDH
5 3 (0.44%) SSH
5 3 (0.44%) SSL
6 2 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.87%) Metadata
2 46 (6.73%) Power BI
3 33 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (4.39%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.49%) Oracle Database
5 17 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.19%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.75%) Power Query
9 11 (1.61%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.17%) Data Mining
11 8 (1.17%) MySQL
11 8 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
11 8 (1.17%) Tableau
12 7 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.88%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (7.60%) JIRA
2 40 (5.85%) Git
3 11 (1.61%) GitLab
3 11 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.32%) MSI
5 5 (0.73%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.73%) Gatling
6 4 (0.58%) Subversion
7 3 (0.44%) JUnit
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.29%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.29%) Gradle
8 2 (0.29%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) XCTest
9 1 (0.15%) XCUITest
General
1 209 (30.56%) Finance
2 200 (29.24%) Social Skills
3 106 (15.50%) Public Sector
4 80 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (8.77%) Banking
6 33 (4.82%) Retail
7 27 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.36%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.07%) Billing
11 18 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.05%) Legal
12 14 (2.05%) Military
13 11 (1.61%) Back Office
13 11 (1.61%) Local Government
14 10 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.32%) Front Office
15 9 (1.32%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.32%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (17.69%) Architect
2 93 (13.60%) Lead
3 87 (12.72%) Analyst
4 78 (11.40%) Senior
5 72 (10.53%) Developer
6 57 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 52 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (5.70%) Project Manager
9 36 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 35 (5.12%) Data Analyst
11 23 (3.36%) Consultant
12 22 (3.22%) Data Architect
13 21 (3.07%) Product Manager
13 21 (3.07%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (2.34%) Lead Data Engineer
15 16 (2.34%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.05%) Digital Product Manager
17 13 (1.90%) Senior Manager
18 12 (1.75%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.46%) .NET
2 49 (7.16%) Terraform
3 47 (6.87%) REST
4 23 (3.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (3.07%) PySpark
5 21 (3.07%) RESTful
6 20 (2.92%) React
7 19 (2.78%) Kafka
7 19 (2.78%) Spring
7 19 (2.78%) Spring Boot
8 18 (2.63%) SOAP
9 17 (2.49%) CSS
9 17 (2.49%) Middleware
10 15 (2.19%) JSON
10 15 (2.19%) XML
11 14 (2.05%) .NET Core
11 14 (2.05%) .NET Framework
12 13 (1.90%) HTML
13 12 (1.75%) WPF
14 11 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (13.30%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.19%) Data Structures
3 44 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.99%) Onboarding
5 34 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (3.95%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.22%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.05%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.75%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.46%) PKI
13 9 (1.32%) Mainframe
14 8 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.02%) NHS
16 6 (0.88%) Derivative
16 6 (0.88%) Low-Code
16 6 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.26%) Windows
2 33 (4.82%) Unix
3 31 (4.53%) Linux
4 12 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.46%) Solaris
6 5 (0.73%) HPUX
7 4 (0.58%) CentOS
7 4 (0.58%) VMS
8 3 (0.44%) AIX
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.44%) SUSE
9 2 (0.29%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (47.37%) Migration
2 203 (29.68%) Agile
3 174 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 150 (21.93%) Data Migration
5 141 (20.61%) CI/CD
6 125 (18.27%) DevOps
7 123 (17.98%) Data Modelling
8 112 (16.37%) Roadmaps
9 110 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (16.08%) Validation
10 102 (14.91%) Analytics
11 81 (11.84%) AI
12 78 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (11.40%) Microservices
13 70 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
14 66 (9.65%) ERP
15 65 (9.50%) Data Governance
16 62 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
16 62 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 62 (9.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 143 (20.91%) SQL
2 121 (17.69%) Python
3 46 (6.73%) C#
3 46 (6.73%) JavaScript
4 45 (6.58%) TypeScript
5 44 (6.43%) Java
6 23 (3.36%) PL/SQL
7 18 (2.63%) Bicep
8 13 (1.90%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.32%) C
9 9 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.17%) Bash
10 8 (1.17%) C++
10 8 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.17%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.73%) ProC
11 5 (0.73%) R
11 5 (0.73%) Ruby
11 5 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 135 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.41%) Degree
4 20 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.88%) CISSP
10 6 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.58%) CCNA
12 4 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.58%) PMP
12 4 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (14.18%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.58%) QA
3 24 (3.51%) GDPR
4 22 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.19%) WCAG
6 14 (2.05%) NCSC
7 12 (1.75%) PMO
8 10 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.02%) NIST
10 5 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.58%) GRC
12 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.15%) SEPA
14 1 (0.15%) SLA
14 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 38 (5.56%) Docker
2 17 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Firmware
4 3 (0.44%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.05%) Ansible
3 9 (1.32%) Grafana
4 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.58%) Kibana
6 4 (0.58%) Oracle ZFS
7 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.44%) Control-M
8 2 (0.29%) Avamar
8 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.29%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.15%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 132 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 96 (14.04%) Oracle
3 49 (7.16%) SAP
4 36 (5.26%) Databricks
5 27 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.90%) Google
6 13 (1.90%) IBM
6 13 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.75%) Workday
8 8 (1.17%) Cisco
8 8 (1.17%) Informatica
9 6 (0.88%) Infor
9 6 (0.88%) VMware
10 5 (0.73%) BMC
10 5 (0.73%) NEC
10 5 (0.73%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.73%) Remedy
10 5 (0.73%) Sage
10 5 (0.73%) Teradata
11 4 (0.58%) Baan