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 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 189 284
Rank change year-on-year -4 +95 +30
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 698 428 276
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.54% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.44% 4.27% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 285 156
10th Percentile £368 £410 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.15% -1.14%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £735 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £527 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -1.95% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 6
10th Percentile £59.85 £29.30 £42.55
25th Percentile £64.38 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £79.38 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.50 £73.20 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +94.44% -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 15,715 10,023 10,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 36.13% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,478 6,288 6,128
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £412 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.53% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 511 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.11 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% -47.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.43 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +12.36%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +21 356 £550 -4.35% 250
North of England -18 110 £545 +3.81% 56
South West +11 76 £525 +16.67% 26
North West -5 76 £550 +15.79% 32
Midlands -54 53 £520 -0.95% 51
South East -60 51 £450 -19.46% 54
West Midlands -46 42 £513 -6.82% 32
Yorkshire -44 25 £550 - 16
East of England -4 24 £575 +202.63% 15
East Midlands -27 10 £525 +1.94% 19
North East -34 9 £480 -7.69% 8
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 32 (4.58%) Confluence
2 19 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.58%) Apache
5 8 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.43%) nginx
7 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.43%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.29%) Camunda
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.29%) SugarCRM
8 2 (0.29%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Mule
9 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 29 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.58%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 25 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.86%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.72%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.72%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.57%) Magento
6 4 (0.57%) SAP ECC
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.43%) ResourceLink
7 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.43%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 196 (28.08%) Azure
2 157 (22.49%) AWS
3 54 (7.74%) Power Platform
4 46 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (6.02%) GCP
6 33 (4.73%) SaaS
7 32 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (3.01%) dbt
9 20 (2.87%) GitHub
9 20 (2.87%) Serverless
10 17 (2.44%) Entra ID
11 16 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (2.29%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.15%) PowerApps
13 14 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 13 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.86%) OCI
15 12 (1.72%) Snowflake
16 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.00%) Firewall
2 6 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (0.72%) PSTN
3 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.57%) DNS
4 4 (0.57%) Intranet
4 4 (0.57%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.57%) MPLS
4 4 (0.57%) Network Security
4 4 (0.57%) SAN
4 4 (0.57%) VLAN
5 3 (0.43%) ATM
5 3 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.43%) HTTP
5 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.43%) SDH
5 3 (0.43%) SSH
5 3 (0.43%) SSL
6 2 (0.29%) DHCP
6 2 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.16%) Metadata
2 41 (5.87%) Power BI
3 31 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.29%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.01%) Oracle Database
8 10 (1.43%) Delta Lake
8 10 (1.43%) Power Query
8 10 (1.43%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (1.29%) MySQL
10 8 (1.15%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.00%) Tableau
12 6 (0.86%) Data Mart
12 6 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.72%) Looker
Development Applications
1 52 (7.45%) JIRA
2 41 (5.87%) Git
3 11 (1.58%) GitLab
3 11 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.29%) MSI
5 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.72%) Gatling
6 4 (0.57%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.57%) Subversion
7 3 (0.43%) JUnit
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.43%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.29%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.29%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.14%) Capybara
9 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 220 (31.52%) Finance
2 199 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 107 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (9.46%) Banking
6 33 (4.73%) Retail
7 29 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.01%) Billing
11 19 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.15%) Legal
13 13 (1.86%) Military
14 12 (1.72%) Back Office
14 12 (1.72%) Local Government
15 10 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.29%) Front Office
16 9 (1.29%) Marketing
17 8 (1.15%) Law
17 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (17.05%) Architect
2 95 (13.61%) Lead
3 83 (11.89%) Analyst
4 76 (10.89%) Senior
5 70 (10.03%) Developer
6 58 (8.31%) Data Engineer
7 47 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
8 43 (6.16%) Project Manager
9 34 (4.87%) Business Analyst
10 32 (4.58%) Data Analyst
11 25 (3.58%) Consultant
12 23 (3.30%) Data Architect
13 22 (3.15%) Product Manager
14 21 (3.01%) Systems Analyst
15 18 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
16 16 (2.29%) Lead Data Engineer
17 15 (2.15%) Digital Product Manager
18 14 (2.01%) Senior Manager
19 13 (1.86%) Senior Developer
20 11 (1.58%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.74%) .NET
2 49 (7.02%) Terraform
3 46 (6.59%) REST
4 23 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (3.01%) React
6 20 (2.87%) PySpark
6 20 (2.87%) Spring
6 20 (2.87%) Spring Boot
7 18 (2.58%) RESTful
7 18 (2.58%) SOAP
8 17 (2.44%) .NET Framework
8 17 (2.44%) CSS
8 17 (2.44%) Kafka
8 17 (2.44%) Middleware
9 16 (2.29%) JSON
10 15 (2.15%) XML
11 14 (2.01%) .NET Core
12 13 (1.86%) HTML
13 11 (1.58%) Node.js
14 10 (1.43%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 90 (12.89%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.45%) Data Structures
3 42 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 42 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.58%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (3.01%) Legacy Applications
8 16 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.86%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.72%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.58%) Mainframe
13 10 (1.43%) PKI
14 8 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.15%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.00%) NHS
16 6 (0.86%) CMDB
16 6 (0.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.30%) Windows
2 36 (5.16%) Linux
3 32 (4.58%) Unix
4 14 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.72%) Solaris
6 7 (1.00%) HPUX
7 5 (0.72%) AIX
7 5 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.72%) SUSE
8 4 (0.57%) CentOS
8 4 (0.57%) VMS
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.29%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (46.42%) Migration
2 198 (28.37%) Agile
3 171 (24.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 150 (21.49%) Data Migration
5 138 (19.77%) CI/CD
6 124 (17.77%) DevOps
7 120 (17.19%) Data Modelling
8 113 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (15.62%) Roadmaps
10 107 (15.33%) Validation
11 101 (14.47%) Analytics
12 82 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 80 (11.46%) AI
14 77 (11.03%) Microservices
15 73 (10.46%) ERP
16 67 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
17 65 (9.31%) User Acceptance Testing
18 62 (8.88%) Data Governance
18 62 (8.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 61 (8.74%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 138 (19.77%) SQL
2 122 (17.48%) Python
3 47 (6.73%) C#
4 45 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 44 (6.30%) JavaScript
6 43 (6.16%) Java
7 22 (3.15%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.72%) Bicep
9 11 (1.58%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.29%) C
12 8 (1.15%) Bash
12 8 (1.15%) C++
13 7 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.72%) Korn
14 5 (0.72%) ProC
14 5 (0.72%) R
14 5 (0.72%) Ruby
14 5 (0.72%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 159 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 133 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.16%) Degree
4 20 (2.87%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.15%) CISSP
10 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.72%) PMP
12 5 (0.72%) RHCE
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.57%) CCNA
13 4 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (13.47%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.45%) QA
3 25 (3.58%) GDPR
4 22 (3.15%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.15%) NCSC
5 15 (2.15%) WCAG
6 13 (1.86%) PMO
7 8 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.00%) NIST
9 6 (0.86%) GRC
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.29%) DICOM
12 2 (0.29%) HL7
12 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.14%) BS7666
13 1 (0.14%) SLA
13 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (5.16%) Docker
2 16 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.57%) Firmware
4 3 (0.43%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.15%) Ansible
3 7 (1.00%) Grafana
4 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.57%) Kibana
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle ZFS
6 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.29%) Avamar
8 2 (0.29%) Control-M
8 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.29%) Packer
9 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 129 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 101 (14.47%) Oracle
3 53 (7.59%) SAP
4 35 (5.01%) Databricks
5 31 (4.44%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.01%) IBM
7 13 (1.86%) Google
7 13 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.86%) Workday
8 8 (1.15%) Cisco
9 7 (1.00%) Informatica
9 7 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.86%) Baan
10 6 (0.86%) HP
10 6 (0.86%) Infor
11 5 (0.72%) NEC
11 5 (0.72%) Remedy
11 5 (0.72%) Sage
11 5 (0.72%) Teradata
11 5 (0.72%) VMware
462 Legacy Systems jobs in England