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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 242 300
Rank change year-on-year +55 +58 +35
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 500 268 275
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.03% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.38% 3.12% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 172 182
10th Percentile £400 £363 £417
25th Percentile £450 £447 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £674
90th Percentile £721 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 12
10th Percentile £20.35 - -
25th Percentile £31.52 £78.75 £15.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.50 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +409.82% -54.89%
75th Percentile £82.25 £84.88 £88.00
90th Percentile £86.93 £86.45 £90.03
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £80.50 £15.79
% change year-on-year -19.25% +409.82% -54.89%

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 11,412 8,597 11,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 32.98% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,302 5,156 7,897
10th Percentile £275 £268 £253
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 246 739
10th Percentile £15.31 £18.51 £13.40
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.20 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.51 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +15.38% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.22
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.64% +43.28%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +46 248 £531 -11.46% 81
North of England -24 66 £525 -4.55% 35
Midlands -17 65 £513 - 34
South East +1 52 £500 -20.00% 57
West Midlands -5 46 £531 -12.37% 17
Yorkshire -14 41 £525 +90.91% 8
South West +3 34 £525 -16.00% 19
East Midlands -19 19 £510 +2.00% 17
North West -33 19 £475 -24.00% 21
East of England -16 14 £505 +3.06% 10
North East -12 6 £625 - 6
South Coast - 1 £550 -
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 13 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.00%) Confluence
3 7 (1.40%) Appian
4 6 (1.20%) GeoServer
4 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.20%) Smallworld
5 5 (1.00%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.60%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Documentum
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.40%) Sketch
4 2 (0.40%) Windchill
5 1 (0.20%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.00%) Maximo
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle SCM
3 5 (1.00%) SAP CO
3 5 (1.00%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.00%) SAP FI
3 5 (1.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.00%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.80%) iTrent
4 4 (0.80%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.80%) Oracle FAH
4 4 (0.80%) Primavera
4 4 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.80%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 137 (27.40%) Azure
2 78 (15.60%) AWS
3 35 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 30 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (4.20%) GCP
7 18 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (3.40%) SaaS
9 14 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.80%) Power Automate
10 13 (2.60%) OCI
11 12 (2.40%) GitHub
11 12 (2.40%) Serverless
12 11 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (1.80%) Azure AI
14 9 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.60%) Azure Functions
15 8 (1.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) DNS
1 6 (1.20%) Network Security
2 5 (1.00%) Firewall
2 5 (1.00%) Internet
3 4 (0.80%) NAS
3 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.60%) WAN
5 2 (0.40%) Broadband
5 2 (0.40%) ISDN
5 2 (0.40%) PSTN
5 2 (0.40%) SAN
5 2 (0.40%) VLAN
5 2 (0.40%) VoIP
5 2 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) Modbus
6 1 (0.20%) MQTT
6 1 (0.20%) NGN
6 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.40%) SQL Server
2 26 (5.20%) Power BI
3 19 (3.80%) Metadata
4 15 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.00%) GIS
5 14 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.60%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.40%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.40%) QGIS
9 6 (1.20%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.00%) DB2
10 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.80%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.80%) MySQL
11 4 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (5.60%) JIRA
2 11 (2.20%) Git
3 10 (2.00%) GitLab
4 9 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.40%) MLflow
6 4 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.60%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.40%) Gradle
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 171 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 142 (28.40%) Finance
3 68 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 54 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.40%) Banking
6 21 (4.20%) Retail
7 20 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 19 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.00%) Local Government
9 15 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.80%) Marketing
11 11 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.00%) Military
13 9 (1.80%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.80%) Police
14 8 (1.60%) Law
15 7 (1.40%) Legal
15 7 (1.40%) Publishing
16 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 98 (19.60%) Architect
2 61 (12.20%) Lead
3 56 (11.20%) Developer
4 53 (10.60%) Consultant
5 49 (9.80%) Analyst
6 43 (8.60%) Solutions Architect
7 36 (7.20%) Senior
8 33 (6.60%) Business Analyst
9 27 (5.40%) Project Manager
10 20 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 18 (3.60%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
13 14 (2.80%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.20%) Lead Architect
15 10 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 10 (2.00%) Functional Consultant
15 10 (2.00%) Oracle Consultant
15 10 (2.00%) Project Officer
15 10 (2.00%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.20%) .NET
2 22 (4.40%) REST
3 18 (3.60%) RESTful
4 15 (3.00%) OAuth
4 15 (3.00%) Web Services
5 13 (2.60%) .NET Framework
5 13 (2.60%) React
6 11 (2.20%) HTML
6 11 (2.20%) Middleware
6 11 (2.20%) Swagger
7 10 (2.00%) .NET Core
7 10 (2.00%) OpenAPI
7 10 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.80%) CSS
8 9 (1.80%) Django
9 8 (1.60%) Kafka
9 8 (1.60%) PySpark
9 8 (1.60%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.60%) SOAP
9 8 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.80%) Data Structures
2 27 (5.40%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
7 14 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.60%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.60%) NHS
11 7 (1.40%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.40%) Replication
12 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.20%) IoT
12 6 (1.20%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.00%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.40%) Linux
1 22 (4.40%) Windows
2 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.80%) OpenVMS
4 4 (0.80%) VMS
5 2 (0.40%) Debian
5 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.40%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.40%) zOS
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.20%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (43.00%) Migration
2 121 (24.20%) Data Migration
3 103 (20.60%) Agile
4 94 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 83 (16.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 83 (16.60%) Validation
6 79 (15.80%) Data Modelling
7 74 (14.80%) DevOps
8 72 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (12.60%) ERP
10 60 (12.00%) CI/CD
11 55 (11.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 53 (10.60%) Analytics
13 52 (10.40%) AI
14 49 (9.80%) ETL
15 42 (8.40%) Roadmaps
16 41 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (7.40%) Data Cleansing
18 36 (7.20%) Data Mapping
19 35 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 95 (19.00%) SQL
2 61 (12.20%) Python
3 38 (7.60%) C#
4 33 (6.60%) Java
5 20 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.80%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.60%) Bicep
10 6 (1.20%) Bash
10 6 (1.20%) Perl
11 4 (0.80%) Go
11 4 (0.80%) PHP
11 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.60%) ABAP
12 3 (0.60%) Ada
12 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.60%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 92 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.40%) Degree
4 18 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.00%) CISSP
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
14 2 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.40%) AAT
14 2 (0.40%) CCSP
14 2 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.20%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.60%) GDPR
3 19 (3.80%) QA
4 12 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.20%) WCAG
7 5 (1.00%) NIST
8 4 (0.80%) NCSC
8 4 (0.80%) PMO
9 3 (0.60%) COBIT
9 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.40%) HL7
10 2 (0.40%) SLA
11 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) DICOM
11 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.20%) MiFID
11 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (5.80%) Docker
2 14 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.40%) NFS
6 2 (0.40%) QEMU
6 2 (0.40%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.40%) Terraform
3 15 (3.00%) Ansible
4 6 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.60%) Grafana
8 2 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.40%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) Podman
8 2 (0.40%) vMotion
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.20%) Kibana
9 1 (0.20%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.20%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.20%) Salt
9 1 (0.20%) SELinux
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (12.00%) Oracle
2 59 (11.80%) Microsoft
3 54 (10.80%) SAP
4 27 (5.40%) Workday
5 20 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.80%) Databricks
7 17 (3.40%) VMware
8 15 (3.00%) IBM
9 11 (2.20%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.80%) ESRI
11 8 (1.60%) UiPath
12 7 (1.40%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (1.40%) Avaloq
12 7 (1.40%) Cisco
12 7 (1.40%) Google
13 6 (1.20%) Intergraph
14 5 (1.00%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.80%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.80%) NEC
15 4 (0.80%) OpenText
208 Legacy Systems jobs in England