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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 204 317
Rank change year-on-year +49 +113 -22
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 766 365 262
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.37% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.22% 3.94% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 245 172
10th Percentile £400 £358 £413
25th Percentile £444 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £665 £639
90th Percentile £737 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
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 14,687 9,257 11,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.04% 34.70% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,125 5,903 7,342
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £415
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 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 784 441 819
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.90 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -12.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +41.81% -14.00% +31.07%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +40 381 £550 -5.98% 110
North of England -18 111 £506 -10.04% 27
South West +23 87 £500 +5.26% 28
South East -28 78 £500 -11.11% 51
North West 0 70 £545 -12.80% 13
Midlands -29 69 £510 +2.00% 18
West Midlands -35 52 £511 +2.25% 7
Yorkshire -29 31 £500 -4.76% 12
East Midlands -7 16 £505 +6.32% 11
East of England -15 16 £588 +209.21% 10
North East -30 10 £480 -16.52% 3
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 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.48%) Confluence
3 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.91%) Apache
5 7 (0.91%) IIS
6 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.65%) Appian
8 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.52%) nginx
8 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
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%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 18 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 30 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.44%) NEC Housing
4 10 (1.31%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.52%) Magento
7 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.52%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.39%) iTrent
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.39%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.26%) Maximo
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 194 (25.33%) Azure
2 164 (21.41%) AWS
3 59 (7.70%) Power Platform
4 43 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (4.05%) GCP
6 30 (3.92%) SaaS
7 28 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.52%) Serverless
9 25 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.74%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.22%) GitHub
12 15 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (1.83%) dbt
13 14 (1.83%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.70%) Boomi
14 13 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (1.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.57%) 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%) Network Security
3 5 (0.65%) PSTN
4 4 (0.52%) Intranet
4 4 (0.52%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.39%) SSH
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%) NAS
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (7.18%) SQL Server
2 48 (6.27%) Power BI
3 30 (3.92%) Metadata
4 29 (3.79%) Oracle Database
5 22 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (1.70%) MySQL
10 12 (1.57%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.44%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.44%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.91%) Pentaho
14 7 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.78%) Data Mart
16 5 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 49 (6.40%) JIRA
2 34 (4.44%) Git
3 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.78%) MLflow
4 5 (0.65%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
4 5 (0.65%) Gatling
4 5 (0.65%) MSI
4 5 (0.65%) Selenium
5 4 (0.52%) Subversion
6 3 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.39%) GitLab
6 3 (0.39%) JUnit
6 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.26%) Mocha
7 2 (0.26%) MSTest
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.26%) tSQLt
General
1 235 (30.68%) Finance
2 208 (27.15%) Social Skills
3 101 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 87 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.44%) Banking
6 31 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.39%) Retail
8 24 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 23 (3.00%) Billing
10 20 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.09%) Local Government
12 14 (1.83%) Military
13 13 (1.70%) Legal
14 12 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.44%) Marketing
16 9 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 8 (1.04%) Police
18 7 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.78%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 126 (16.45%) Architect
2 101 (13.19%) Lead
3 81 (10.57%) Analyst
4 76 (9.92%) Senior
5 66 (8.62%) Developer
6 63 (8.22%) Data Engineer
7 46 (6.01%) Project Manager
8 42 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (4.83%) Business Analyst
10 34 (4.44%) Consultant
11 29 (3.79%) Product Manager
12 25 (3.26%) Data Analyst
13 19 (2.48%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.35%) Technical Architect
15 17 (2.22%) Software Engineer
16 16 (2.09%) Digital Product Manager
17 14 (1.83%) Migration Engineer
17 14 (1.83%) Senior Manager
17 14 (1.83%) Tester
18 13 (1.70%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.36%) .NET
2 39 (5.09%) REST
3 27 (3.52%) .NET Framework
4 26 (3.39%) React
5 23 (3.00%) Middleware
6 21 (2.74%) RESTful
7 19 (2.48%) CSS
8 18 (2.35%) Kafka
9 17 (2.22%) .NET Core
10 16 (2.09%) HTML
10 16 (2.09%) Spring
10 16 (2.09%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (1.70%) OAuth
12 13 (1.70%) PySpark
13 12 (1.57%) JSON
14 11 (1.44%) FastAPI
14 11 (1.44%) SOAP
15 10 (1.31%) AngularJS
16 9 (1.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.87%) Data Structures
3 43 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (4.18%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
8 17 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.70%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.44%) Legacy Code
10 11 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.17%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.04%) LIMS
13 8 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.01%) Linux
1 46 (6.01%) Windows
2 30 (3.92%) Unix
3 20 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.70%) Solaris
5 11 (1.44%) 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%) VMS
9 3 (0.39%) CentOS
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%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (46.34%) Migration
2 185 (24.15%) Data Migration
3 181 (23.63%) Agile
4 153 (19.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 130 (16.97%) CI/CD
6 128 (16.71%) Roadmaps
7 127 (16.58%) Data Modelling
8 126 (16.45%) Validation
9 122 (15.93%) DevOps
9 122 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
10 112 (14.62%) Analytics
11 83 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 80 (10.44%) ERP
12 80 (10.44%) User Acceptance Testing
13 78 (10.18%) ETL
14 69 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
15 64 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
16 63 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 62 (8.09%) AI
17 62 (8.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 154 (20.10%) SQL
2 107 (13.97%) Python
3 52 (6.79%) C#
4 40 (5.22%) TypeScript
5 38 (4.96%) Java
5 38 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 24 (3.13%) PL/SQL
7 18 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 16 (2.09%) Bicep
9 9 (1.17%) C
10 8 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.78%) C++
12 6 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.78%) ProC
12 6 (0.78%) Ruby
12 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.65%) VBA
14 4 (0.52%) Ada
Qualifications
1 160 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 138 (18.02%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.44%) Degree
4 16 (2.09%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.91%) CISSP
8 6 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.65%) RHCE
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.52%) CCNA
10 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (14.23%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.27%) QA
3 45 (5.87%) GDPR
4 20 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.83%) PMO
6 12 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.17%) NCSC
8 7 (0.91%) GRC
9 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.78%) WCAG
10 5 (0.65%) NIST
11 4 (0.52%) BS7666
11 4 (0.52%) HL7
11 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.39%) DICOM
12 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.39%) SEPA
13 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (5.87%) Docker
2 19 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.52%) Firmware
6 3 (0.39%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.26%) NFS
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.44%) Terraform
3 14 (1.83%) Grafana
4 8 (1.04%) Ansible
5 6 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.52%) Kibana
7 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle ZFS
8 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.26%) Avamar
9 2 (0.26%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 2 (0.26%) vMotion
10 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 112 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 105 (13.71%) Oracle
3 61 (7.96%) SAP
4 54 (7.05%) Salesforce
5 37 (4.83%) Databricks
6 22 (2.87%) Workday
7 15 (1.96%) VMware
8 14 (1.83%) IBM
8 14 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.83%) Talend
9 11 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.44%) NEC
10 9 (1.17%) Informatica
11 8 (1.04%) HP
11 8 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.91%) Cisco
12 7 (0.91%) Denodo
12 7 (0.91%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.78%) Automation Anywhere
13 6 (0.78%) UiPath