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

6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 211 307
Rank change year-on-year +48 +96 -21
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 676 301 238
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.26% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.07% 3.69% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 205 159
10th Percentile £400 £356 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £648
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £509
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.00% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 9
10th Percentile £23.38 £17.91 -
25th Percentile £34.44 £31.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% +127.99% -72.54%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.88 £16.20
90th Percentile £84.70 £82.25 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £15.79
% change year-on-year +80.56% +127.99% -72.54%

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 13,328 8,154 11,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.11% 34.26% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,397 5,329 7,352
10th Percentile £313 £300 £269
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 689 328 827
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.59 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.71 £33.91 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% -4.48% +60.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.42 £82.33 £70.07
UK median hourly rate £40.96 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +28.97% -6.59% +54.55%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +48 343 £550 -8.33% 80
North of England -28 86 £506 -18.71% 33
South West +23 76 £500 - 26
South East -20 68 £500 +25.00% 41
Midlands -42 59 £475 -5.00% 24
North West -9 48 £550 -17.36% 20
West Midlands -42 44 £475 -5.00% 6
Yorkshire -44 26 £575 +21.05% 8
East of England -20 23 £575 -2.13% 16
East Midlands -29 14 £505 +1.00% 18
North East -13 12 £480 -16.52% 6
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 22 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.07%) Confluence
3 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.18%) Appian
4 8 (1.18%) IIS
5 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.89%) Apache
6 6 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) nginx
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.30%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 24 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.33%) NEC Housing
4 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.59%) Magento
7 4 (0.59%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.59%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.59%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.44%) iTrent
8 3 (0.44%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.44%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.44%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 158 (23.37%) Azure
2 138 (20.41%) AWS
3 44 (6.51%) Power Platform
4 33 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (3.85%) SaaS
7 23 (3.40%) Serverless
8 19 (2.81%) GCP
9 17 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (2.51%) GitHub
10 14 (2.07%) Power Automate
11 13 (1.92%) Boomi
12 11 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.48%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.78%) DNS
2 6 (0.89%) 4G
2 6 (0.89%) 5G
3 5 (0.74%) Firewall
3 5 (0.74%) Network Security
4 3 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.44%) HTTP
4 3 (0.44%) Intranet
4 3 (0.44%) VoIP
4 3 (0.44%) WAN
5 2 (0.30%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.30%) Broadband
5 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.30%) MQTT
5 2 (0.30%) NAS
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) SSH
5 2 (0.30%) VLAN
6 1 (0.15%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.33%) Power BI
3 28 (4.14%) Metadata
4 24 (3.55%) Oracle Database
5 20 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (2.66%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.48%) MySQL
10 8 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.18%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.18%) GIS
10 8 (1.18%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.18%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.04%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.74%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (6.66%) JIRA
2 23 (3.40%) Git
3 8 (1.18%) MLflow
4 5 (0.74%) Selenium
5 4 (0.59%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.59%) Subversion
6 3 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.30%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.30%) GitLab
7 2 (0.30%) Mocha
7 2 (0.30%) MSTest
7 2 (0.30%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.15%) Gatling
8 1 (0.15%) git-flow
8 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 215 (31.80%) Finance
2 194 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 89 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.95%) Banking
6 27 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.22%) Billing
7 15 (2.22%) Local Government
8 14 (2.07%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.07%) Military
9 13 (1.92%) Retail
10 11 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.63%) Marketing
10 11 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.18%) Legal
13 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.04%) Police
14 6 (0.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 100 (14.79%) Architect
2 88 (13.02%) Lead
3 72 (10.65%) Analyst
4 57 (8.43%) Senior
5 50 (7.40%) Developer
6 45 (6.66%) Data Engineer
7 43 (6.36%) Project Manager
8 39 (5.77%) Business Analyst
9 35 (5.18%) Consultant
10 29 (4.29%) Product Manager
11 28 (4.14%) Data Analyst
12 25 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.81%) Technical Architect
14 18 (2.66%) Data Architect
15 16 (2.37%) Digital Product Manager
15 16 (2.37%) Migration Manager
15 16 (2.37%) Software Engineer
15 16 (2.37%) Tester
16 15 (2.22%) Project Officer
17 14 (2.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.54%) .NET
2 22 (3.25%) REST
3 21 (3.11%) RESTful
4 19 (2.81%) .NET Framework
4 19 (2.81%) React
5 16 (2.37%) Middleware
6 15 (2.22%) Kafka
7 14 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
8 12 (1.78%) CSS
8 12 (1.78%) FastAPI
8 12 (1.78%) OAuth
9 11 (1.63%) .NET Core
9 11 (1.63%) Django
9 11 (1.63%) OpenAPI
9 11 (1.63%) Swagger
10 10 (1.48%) HTML
10 10 (1.48%) Spring
10 10 (1.48%) Spring Boot
10 10 (1.48%) Web Services
11 9 (1.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.66%) Data Structures
3 36 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.66%) Legacy Applications
9 15 (2.22%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.63%) Legacy Code
11 10 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.18%) LIMS
12 8 (1.18%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.07%) Linux
2 36 (5.33%) Windows
3 19 (2.81%) Unix
3 19 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.33%) Solaris
5 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.74%) HPUX
7 4 (0.59%) AIX
7 4 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.59%) SUSE
8 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) VMS
9 2 (0.30%) Debian
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (46.60%) Migration
2 168 (24.85%) Data Migration
3 140 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 139 (20.56%) Agile
5 121 (17.90%) Validation
6 113 (16.72%) Data Modelling
6 113 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (15.98%) Roadmaps
8 101 (14.94%) CI/CD
9 100 (14.79%) DevOps
10 91 (13.46%) User Acceptance Testing
11 86 (12.72%) ERP
12 80 (11.83%) Analytics
13 79 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 79 (11.69%) ETL
14 57 (8.43%) AI
15 52 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 51 (7.54%) Data Pipeline
17 49 (7.25%) Data Cleansing
17 49 (7.25%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 131 (19.38%) SQL
2 85 (12.57%) Python
3 41 (6.07%) C#
3 41 (6.07%) Java
4 22 (3.25%) TypeScript
5 21 (3.11%) PowerShell
6 17 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 16 (2.37%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.48%) Bicep
9 6 (0.89%) C++
9 6 (0.89%) Perl
9 6 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.74%) Ruby
11 4 (0.59%) Ada
11 4 (0.59%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.44%) C
12 3 (0.44%) COBOL
12 3 (0.44%) Korn
12 3 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 129 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 109 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.59%) Degree
4 13 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.04%) CISSP
7 7 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.59%) ACCA
9 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.59%) CIMA
9 4 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.59%) RHCE
10 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.44%) PMP
11 2 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (15.98%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.66%) QA
3 42 (6.21%) GDPR
4 15 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.48%) PMO
7 6 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.74%) GRC
8 5 (0.74%) NIST
9 4 (0.59%) BS7666
9 4 (0.59%) HL7
9 4 (0.59%) NCSC
9 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.44%) DICOM
10 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.44%) SEPA
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.15%) GMP
12 1 (0.15%) SLA
12 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 37 (5.47%) Docker
2 14 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.30%) NFS
6 2 (0.30%) QEMU
6 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.70%) Terraform
3 13 (1.92%) Grafana
4 9 (1.33%) Ansible
5 5 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.44%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Avamar
8 2 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
8 2 (0.30%) Podman
8 2 (0.30%) vMotion
9 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.15%) SELinux
Vendors
1 84 (12.43%) Oracle
2 78 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 66 (9.76%) SAP
4 43 (6.36%) Salesforce
5 29 (4.29%) Databricks
6 25 (3.70%) Workday
7 15 (2.22%) Talend
8 14 (2.07%) VMware
9 11 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.33%) Automation Anywhere
11 9 (1.33%) NEC
11 9 (1.33%) UiPath
12 8 (1.18%) IBM
12 8 (1.18%) Informatica
13 7 (1.04%) Avaloq
13 7 (1.04%) Denodo
13 7 (1.04%) HP
13 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
203 Legacy Systems jobs in England