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 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 243 301
Rank change year-on-year +56 +58 +38
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 490 270 274
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.01% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.34% 3.08% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 167 177
10th Percentile £401 £372 £410
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £668
90th Percentile £724 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £30.06 £78.75 £15.39
Median hourly rate £61.25 £80.50 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +409.82% -54.89%
75th Percentile £82.69 £84.88 £55.13
90th Percentile £88.88 £86.45 £91.65
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £80.50 £15.79
% change year-on-year -23.91% +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 11,299 8,760 11,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.81% 32.69% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 5,266 7,710
10th Percentile £282 £269 £256
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 248 635
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.39 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.79 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% +6.44% +57.88%
75th Percentile £63.03 £68.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.74 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.54 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.31% - +55.66%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +37 238 £550 -8.33% 65
North of England -20 68 £513 -6.82% 64
Midlands -11 66 £520 -9.57% 57
South East +4 53 £500 -17.36% 98
West Midlands -20 45 £550 -8.33% 21
Yorkshire -17 39 £525 +90.91% 25
South West +12 31 £525 -16.00% 45
North West -26 24 £475 -24.00% 31
East Midlands -16 21 £513 +2.50% 35
East of England -21 13 £478 -2.55% 43
North East -13 5 £625 - 8
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 12 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.04%) Confluence
3 6 (1.22%) ArcGIS
3 6 (1.22%) GeoServer
3 6 (1.22%) Smallworld
4 5 (1.02%) Appian
4 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.61%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) CICS
7 1 (0.20%) Documentum
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.41%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.41%) Sketch
3 2 (0.41%) Windchill
4 1 (0.20%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (6.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.22%) Maximo
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (1.02%) Oracle SCM
4 5 (1.02%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.02%) SAP ERP
4 5 (1.02%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (1.02%) SAP PP
5 4 (0.82%) iTrent
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle FAH
5 4 (0.82%) Primavera
5 4 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.61%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.61%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.61%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 134 (27.35%) Azure
2 73 (14.90%) AWS
3 35 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 28 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (4.29%) GCP
7 18 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (3.67%) SaaS
8 16 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 16 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.65%) OCI
9 13 (2.65%) Serverless
10 12 (2.45%) GitHub
10 12 (2.45%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.24%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.04%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.43%) Firewall
2 5 (1.02%) DNS
2 5 (1.02%) Internet
2 5 (1.02%) Network Security
3 4 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.61%) VLAN
4 3 (0.61%) VoIP
4 3 (0.61%) VPN
4 3 (0.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.41%) BGP
5 2 (0.41%) Broadband
5 2 (0.41%) ISDN
5 2 (0.41%) NAS
5 2 (0.41%) OSPF
5 2 (0.41%) PSTN
6 1 (0.20%) Intranet
6 1 (0.20%) Modbus
6 1 (0.20%) MQTT
6 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 26 (5.31%) Power BI
3 19 (3.88%) Metadata
4 16 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (3.06%) GIS
6 13 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.43%) QGIS
9 6 (1.22%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.02%) DB2
10 5 (1.02%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.82%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.82%) MySQL
11 4 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.82%) SAP BW
11 4 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (4.49%) JIRA
2 10 (2.04%) Git
2 10 (2.04%) GitLab
3 9 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.02%) MLflow
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.61%) Jaeger
6 3 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.41%) Gradle
7 2 (0.41%) JUnit
7 2 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.20%) Mockito
8 1 (0.20%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 166 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 132 (26.94%) Finance
3 66 (13.47%) Public Sector
4 53 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.53%) Banking
6 23 (4.69%) Retail
7 21 (4.29%) Manufacturing
8 18 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.86%) Local Government
10 14 (2.86%) Marketing
11 11 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.84%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.84%) Military
12 9 (1.84%) Police
13 8 (1.63%) Law
14 7 (1.43%) Legal
14 7 (1.43%) Publishing
15 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 98 (20.00%) Architect
2 57 (11.63%) Lead
3 53 (10.82%) Consultant
3 53 (10.82%) Developer
4 49 (10.00%) Analyst
5 44 (8.98%) Solutions Architect
6 37 (7.55%) Senior
7 32 (6.53%) Business Analyst
8 29 (5.92%) Project Manager
9 20 (4.08%) Data Engineer
10 17 (3.47%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.86%) Technical Architect
12 13 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (2.65%) SAP Consultant
13 11 (2.24%) Lead Architect
14 10 (2.04%) Data Architect
14 10 (2.04%) Functional Consultant
14 10 (2.04%) Migration Manager
14 10 (2.04%) Oracle Consultant
14 10 (2.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.14%) .NET
2 19 (3.88%) REST
3 17 (3.47%) RESTful
4 15 (3.06%) Web Services
5 13 (2.65%) OAuth
6 11 (2.24%) .NET Framework
6 11 (2.24%) Middleware
7 10 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (2.04%) React
8 9 (1.84%) HTML
8 9 (1.84%) Swagger
8 9 (1.84%) XML
9 8 (1.63%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.63%) Kafka
9 8 (1.63%) OpenAPI
9 8 (1.63%) PySpark
9 8 (1.63%) SOAP
10 7 (1.43%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.43%) Django
11 6 (1.22%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.92%) Data Structures
3 25 (5.10%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.65%) Mainframe
6 13 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.43%) NHS
10 7 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.22%) IoT
11 6 (1.22%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.02%) SCADA
13 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.82%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.88%) Linux
1 19 (3.88%) Windows
2 6 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.02%) OpenVMS
3 5 (1.02%) VMS
3 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.41%) Debian
4 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.41%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (42.86%) Migration
2 115 (23.47%) Data Migration
3 104 (21.22%) Agile
4 89 (18.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 81 (16.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 75 (15.31%) Data Modelling
7 73 (14.90%) DevOps
8 72 (14.69%) Validation
9 69 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (12.65%) ERP
11 59 (12.04%) CI/CD
12 52 (10.61%) Analytics
13 50 (10.20%) AI
14 46 (9.39%) ETL
14 46 (9.39%) Roadmaps
14 46 (9.39%) User Acceptance Testing
15 38 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
17 34 (6.94%) Data Mapping
18 33 (6.73%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 89 (18.16%) SQL
2 55 (11.22%) Python
3 35 (7.14%) C#
4 32 (6.53%) Java
5 19 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.24%) Bicep
8 9 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.22%) ABAP
10 6 (1.22%) Bash
10 6 (1.22%) Perl
10 6 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.82%) Go
11 4 (0.82%) PHP
12 3 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.61%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 90 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.73%) Degree
4 19 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.82%) CISSP
11 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.61%) CCNP
12 3 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.41%) AAT
13 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.88%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.29%) GDPR
3 17 (3.47%) QA
4 13 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.43%) WCAG
6 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.82%) NIST
7 4 (0.82%) PMO
8 3 (0.61%) COBIT
8 3 (0.61%) NCSC
8 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.41%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 27 (5.51%) Docker
2 15 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.41%) QEMU
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.10%) Terraform
3 15 (3.06%) Ansible
4 6 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.61%) Grafana
8 2 (0.41%) Packer
8 2 (0.41%) Podman
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%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.22%) Oracle
2 55 (11.22%) SAP
3 24 (4.90%) Workday
4 19 (3.88%) Databricks
4 19 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.27%) IBM
6 14 (2.86%) VMware
7 10 (2.04%) ESRI
8 9 (1.84%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.63%) Google
10 7 (1.43%) Avaloq
10 7 (1.43%) Cisco
11 6 (1.22%) Intergraph
11 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.22%) UiPath
12 5 (1.02%) Automation Anywhere
13 4 (0.82%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.82%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.82%) OpenText
347 Legacy Systems jobs in England