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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 187 296
Rank change year-on-year +32 +109 +4
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 777 400 248
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.45% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.10% 4.11% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 254 156
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 5
10th Percentile £31.25 £20.88 £37.06
25th Percentile £59.50 £31.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.97% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £71.88 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £83.88 £71.20 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £36.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +87.50% -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 15,225 9,723 10,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.36% 35.24% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,360 6,153 6,671
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £679
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 483 550
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.56 £32.05 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% -32.53% +14.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +12.50%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +41 386 £550 -7.41% 171
North of England -19 119 £525 - 36
South West +22 86 £500 +11.11% 17
North West +4 79 £550 - 25
South East -40 76 £525 -9.68% 32
Midlands -42 65 £508 -3.33% 24
West Midlands -47 50 £500 -4.76% 14
Yorkshire -33 30 £550 +4.76% 11
East of England -5 22 £575 +202.63% 13
East Midlands -15 14 £525 +0.96% 10
North East -36 10 £480 -12.33% 1
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 25 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.09%) Confluence
3 14 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.29%) Apache
6 8 (1.03%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.90%) IIS
8 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.51%) nginx
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.51%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.39%) OpenROAD
10 2 (0.26%) Appian
10 2 (0.26%) Camunda
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) ThingWorx
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 24 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 30 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.03%) NEC Housing
5 8 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.64%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.51%) Magento
7 4 (0.51%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.26%) Maximo
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 206 (26.51%) Azure
2 172 (22.14%) AWS
3 65 (8.37%) Power Platform
4 51 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (4.63%) GCP
6 35 (4.50%) SaaS
7 31 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.96%) Serverless
10 21 (2.70%) dbt
11 20 (2.57%) GitHub
12 18 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (2.32%) Power Automate
13 15 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (1.93%) OCI
13 15 (1.93%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.80%) Boomi
14 14 (1.80%) Snowflake
15 13 (1.67%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.42%) DNS
2 6 (0.77%) 4G
2 6 (0.77%) 5G
3 5 (0.64%) Firewall
3 5 (0.64%) HTTP
3 5 (0.64%) PSTN
4 4 (0.51%) Intranet
4 4 (0.51%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.51%) Network Security
4 4 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.39%) ATM
5 3 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.39%) SSH
5 3 (0.39%) SSL
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%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.69%) Power BI
2 44 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 39 (5.02%) Metadata
4 30 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.09%) Oracle Database
6 23 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.06%) MySQL
9 14 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.67%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
11 11 (1.42%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.90%) Pentaho
14 7 (0.90%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.77%) Data Mart
15 6 (0.77%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 50 (6.44%) JIRA
2 41 (5.28%) Git
3 9 (1.16%) MSI
4 6 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.64%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.64%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.64%) Gatling
5 5 (0.64%) Selenium
6 4 (0.51%) GitLab
6 4 (0.51%) Subversion
7 3 (0.39%) JUnit
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.26%) MLflow
8 2 (0.26%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 238 (30.63%) Finance
2 211 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 113 (14.54%) Public Sector
4 87 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.46%) Banking
6 31 (3.99%) Retail
7 29 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.35%) Billing
9 25 (3.22%) Manufacturing
10 23 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (2.19%) Local Government
12 17 (2.19%) Military
13 14 (1.80%) Legal
14 12 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.29%) Marketing
16 8 (1.03%) Back Office
16 8 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 133 (17.12%) Architect
2 108 (13.90%) Lead
3 83 (10.68%) Senior
4 81 (10.42%) Analyst
5 73 (9.40%) Data Engineer
6 69 (8.88%) Developer
7 46 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
8 45 (5.79%) Project Manager
9 36 (4.63%) Business Analyst
10 30 (3.86%) Consultant
11 26 (3.35%) Data Architect
11 26 (3.35%) Product Manager
12 24 (3.09%) Data Analyst
13 15 (1.93%) Digital Product Manager
13 15 (1.93%) Lead Data Engineer
14 14 (1.80%) Senior Manager
14 14 (1.80%) Systems Analyst
14 14 (1.80%) Technical Architect
15 13 (1.67%) Software Engineer
15 13 (1.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.24%) .NET
2 45 (5.79%) REST
3 25 (3.22%) .NET Framework
4 24 (3.09%) Middleware
5 22 (2.83%) Kafka
6 21 (2.70%) RESTful
7 20 (2.57%) React
8 19 (2.45%) CSS
8 19 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 19 (2.45%) PySpark
9 18 (2.32%) Spring
9 18 (2.32%) Spring Boot
10 16 (2.06%) .NET Core
10 16 (2.06%) JSON
10 16 (2.06%) SOAP
11 15 (1.93%) HTML
12 14 (1.80%) XML
13 11 (1.42%) GeoJSON
14 10 (1.29%) Node.js
14 10 (1.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 105 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.56%) Data Structures
3 47 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
7 14 (1.80%) Mainframe
8 13 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.29%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.90%) LIMS
13 7 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.44%) Windows
2 47 (6.05%) Linux
3 35 (4.50%) Unix
4 18 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.80%) Solaris
6 12 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.90%) HPUX
8 5 (0.64%) AIX
8 5 (0.64%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.64%) SUSE
9 4 (0.51%) CentOS
9 4 (0.51%) VMS
10 3 (0.39%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (46.07%) Migration
2 199 (25.61%) Agile
3 173 (22.27%) Data Migration
4 169 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 140 (18.02%) Data Modelling
6 138 (17.76%) DevOps
7 134 (17.25%) CI/CD
8 131 (16.86%) Roadmaps
9 127 (16.34%) Analytics
10 119 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
11 118 (15.19%) Validation
12 88 (11.33%) ERP
13 87 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 78 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
15 73 (9.40%) User Acceptance Testing
16 71 (9.14%) ETL
16 71 (9.14%) Microservices
17 68 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
18 66 (8.49%) AI
19 65 (8.37%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 154 (19.82%) SQL
2 112 (14.41%) Python
3 51 (6.56%) C#
4 45 (5.79%) Java
5 44 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.02%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.22%) PL/SQL
8 20 (2.57%) Bicep
9 17 (2.19%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.29%) C
11 9 (1.16%) C++
12 8 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.77%) Ruby
14 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.64%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.64%) ProC
15 5 (0.64%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.51%) Bash
16 4 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 180 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 156 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.15%) Degree
4 21 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.77%) CISSP
12 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.64%) RHCE
13 4 (0.51%) CCNA
13 4 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.69%) QA
3 43 (5.53%) GDPR
4 25 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.93%) PMO
6 14 (1.80%) NCSC
7 12 (1.54%) WCAG
8 11 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.77%) GRC
9 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.64%) NIST
11 4 (0.51%) BS7666
11 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.39%) HL7
12 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.39%) SEPA
13 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (5.79%) Docker
2 19 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.51%) Firmware
6 3 (0.39%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 44 (5.66%) Terraform
3 14 (1.80%) Grafana
4 9 (1.16%) Ansible
5 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.51%) Kibana
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle ZFS
7 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.26%) Avamar
8 2 (0.26%) Control-M
8 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 128 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 114 (14.67%) Oracle
3 67 (8.62%) SAP
4 50 (6.44%) Salesforce
5 40 (5.15%) Databricks
6 20 (2.57%) Workday
7 15 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.67%) IBM
8 13 (1.67%) Talend
9 12 (1.54%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.54%) VMware
10 11 (1.42%) Informatica
11 8 (1.03%) HP
11 8 (1.03%) NEC
11 8 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.90%) Cisco
12 7 (0.90%) Denodo
12 7 (0.90%) Google
13 6 (0.77%) Baan
14 5 (0.64%) Siebel