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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 208 305
Rank change year-on-year +51 +97 -6
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 746 342 257
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.34% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.22% 3.87% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 232 169
10th Percentile £400 £356 £414
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £651 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £765
UK median daily rate £530 £547 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% +4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 13
10th Percentile £31.25 £20.88 -
25th Percentile £41.36 £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 £71.56 £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 14,291 8,837 11,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.86% 34.70% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,903 5,651 7,356
10th Percentile £313 £305 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £820
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 779 421 844
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +56.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £31.63 £36.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% -12.15% +60.00%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +44 371 £550 -5.98% 81
North of England -10 102 £550 -4.35% 29
South West +22 86 £505 +12.22% 23
South East -17 76 £500 -3.24% 42
Midlands -29 69 £508 +1.50% 14
North West -6 63 £550 -12.00% 16
West Midlands -36 52 £510 +2.00% 6
Yorkshire -36 28 £650 +23.81% 12
East of England -14 18 £575 +202.63% 11
East Midlands -7 16 £505 +6.32% 8
North East -28 11 £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 24 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.41%) Confluence
3 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.94%) Apache
5 7 (0.94%) IIS
6 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.80%) Appian
7 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.54%) nginx
7 4 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.54%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) Camunda
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.27%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 20 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 32 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.47%) NEC Housing
3 10 (1.34%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.54%) Magento
6 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.54%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.54%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.40%) iTrent
7 3 (0.40%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.27%) Maximo
8 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.27%) Shopify
8 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 184 (24.66%) Azure
2 160 (21.45%) AWS
3 55 (7.37%) Power Platform
4 40 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (4.16%) SaaS
6 29 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (3.75%) GCP
7 28 (3.75%) Serverless
8 24 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (2.68%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.28%) GitHub
11 15 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.61%) Boomi
13 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (1.47%) dbt
15 10 (1.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.61%) DNS
2 6 (0.80%) 4G
2 6 (0.80%) 5G
3 5 (0.67%) Firewall
3 5 (0.67%) HTTP
3 5 (0.67%) Network Security
4 4 (0.54%) Intranet
4 4 (0.54%) PSTN
5 3 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.40%) IP Telephony
5 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.40%) SSH
5 3 (0.40%) WAN
6 2 (0.27%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.27%) MQTT
6 2 (0.27%) NAS
6 2 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 45 (6.03%) Power BI
3 30 (4.02%) Oracle Database
4 29 (3.89%) Metadata
5 21 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.74%) MySQL
9 12 (1.61%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.47%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.47%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.34%) Semantic Layer
12 8 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.94%) Pentaho
13 7 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.80%) Data Mart
14 6 (0.80%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 50 (6.70%) JIRA
2 33 (4.42%) Git
3 6 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.80%) MLflow
4 5 (0.67%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 5 (0.67%) Gatling
4 5 (0.67%) Selenium
5 4 (0.54%) Subversion
6 3 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.40%) GitLab
6 3 (0.40%) JUnit
6 3 (0.40%) MSI
6 3 (0.40%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.27%) Mocha
7 2 (0.27%) MSTest
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.27%) tSQLt
General
1 228 (30.56%) Finance
2 209 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 94 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 86 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (7.24%) Banking
6 29 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.22%) Retail
8 23 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 19 (2.55%) Billing
9 19 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.14%) Local Government
11 13 (1.74%) Military
12 12 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.47%) Legal
13 11 (1.47%) Marketing
14 9 (1.21%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.94%) Police
15 7 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 121 (16.22%) Architect
2 99 (13.27%) Lead
3 77 (10.32%) Analyst
4 70 (9.38%) Senior
5 60 (8.04%) Developer
6 57 (7.64%) Data Engineer
7 46 (6.17%) Project Manager
8 38 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (4.69%) Business Analyst
10 34 (4.56%) Consultant
11 29 (3.89%) Product Manager
12 27 (3.62%) Data Analyst
13 21 (2.82%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.41%) Software Engineer
14 18 (2.41%) Technical Architect
15 16 (2.14%) Digital Product Manager
16 14 (1.88%) Tester
17 13 (1.74%) Migration Engineer
17 13 (1.74%) Senior Manager
17 13 (1.74%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (8.18%) .NET
2 35 (4.69%) REST
3 26 (3.49%) React
4 25 (3.35%) .NET Framework
5 22 (2.95%) RESTful
6 21 (2.82%) Middleware
7 18 (2.41%) Kafka
8 17 (2.28%) CSS
9 15 (2.01%) .NET Core
9 15 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (2.01%) Spring
9 15 (2.01%) Spring Boot
10 13 (1.74%) HTML
10 13 (1.74%) OAuth
10 13 (1.74%) PySpark
11 12 (1.61%) FastAPI
12 11 (1.47%) JSON
13 10 (1.34%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.34%) Django
14 9 (1.21%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.46%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.43%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.28%) Legacy Applications
8 12 (1.61%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.47%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.07%) LIMS
11 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.94%) PKI
12 7 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.90%) Windows
2 43 (5.76%) Linux
3 26 (3.49%) Unix
4 20 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.34%) Solaris
6 8 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.94%) HPUX
8 5 (0.67%) AIX
8 5 (0.67%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.67%) SUSE
9 4 (0.54%) VMS
10 3 (0.40%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.13%) Debian
12 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (46.11%) Migration
2 182 (24.40%) Data Migration
3 169 (22.65%) Agile
4 152 (20.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 125 (16.76%) Validation
6 124 (16.62%) CI/CD
7 121 (16.22%) Data Modelling
7 121 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (16.22%) Roadmaps
8 117 (15.68%) DevOps
9 102 (13.67%) Analytics
10 83 (11.13%) User Acceptance Testing
11 81 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (10.86%) ERP
12 80 (10.72%) ETL
13 61 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
13 61 (8.18%) Data Pipeline
14 60 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 59 (7.91%) AI
15 59 (7.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 154 (20.64%) SQL
2 104 (13.94%) Python
3 52 (6.97%) C#
4 38 (5.09%) TypeScript
5 37 (4.96%) Java
6 33 (4.42%) JavaScript
7 23 (3.08%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.55%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.88%) Bicep
10 9 (1.21%) C
11 8 (1.07%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.80%) C++
13 6 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.80%) ProC
13 6 (0.80%) Ruby
13 6 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.67%) VBA
15 4 (0.54%) Ada
Qualifications
1 152 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 132 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.56%) Degree
4 15 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.94%) CISSP
8 6 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (0.67%) RHCE
10 4 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.40%) CCNA
11 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (14.61%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.17%) QA
3 44 (5.90%) GDPR
4 18 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.61%) PMO
6 7 (0.94%) NCSC
7 6 (0.80%) GRC
7 6 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.67%) NIST
9 4 (0.54%) BS7666
9 4 (0.54%) HL7
9 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.40%) DICOM
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.40%) SEPA
10 3 (0.40%) WCAG
11 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 43 (5.76%) Docker
2 19 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
5 3 (0.40%) OpenAM
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.27%) NFS
6 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 44 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.16%) Terraform
3 14 (1.88%) Grafana
4 9 (1.21%) Ansible
5 6 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.54%) Kibana
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) Avamar
9 2 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.27%) Packer
9 2 (0.27%) vMotion
10 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 106 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.40%) Oracle
3 63 (8.45%) SAP
4 52 (6.97%) Salesforce
5 35 (4.69%) Databricks
6 22 (2.95%) Workday
7 15 (2.01%) VMware
8 14 (1.88%) IBM
8 14 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.88%) Talend
9 11 (1.47%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.47%) NEC
10 9 (1.21%) Informatica
11 8 (1.07%) HP
11 8 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (0.94%) Denodo
12 7 (0.94%) UiPath
13 6 (0.80%) Cisco
176 Legacy Systems jobs in England