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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 234 301
Rank change year-on-year +51 +67 +29
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 500 273 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.05% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.36% 3.17% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 181 179
10th Percentile £400 £363 £416
25th Percentile £450 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £669
90th Percentile £722 £775 £765
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 12
10th Percentile £20.40 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 £78.75 £15.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.50 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +409.82% -54.89%
75th Percentile £82.25 £84.88 £88.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £86.45 £90.03
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £80.50 £15.79
% change year-on-year -19.25% +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 11,460 8,620 11,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 33.13% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,325 5,201 7,854
10th Percentile £273 £270 £255
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £548 £546
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +0.23% -5.00%
75th Percentile £626 £670 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 245 751
10th Percentile £15.34 £18.51 £13.06
25th Percentile £18.66 £24.18 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.65 £39.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% +20.00% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.98% +42.83%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +33 251 £531 -9.65% 71
North of England -23 66 £525 -10.64% 38
Midlands -10 63 £511 -0.24% 23
South East -1 50 £500 -20.00% 55
West Midlands -18 44 £531 -12.37% 12
Yorkshire -23 41 £525 +90.91% 8
South West +8 37 £525 -16.00% 17
East Midlands -19 19 £508 +1.50% 11
North West -25 19 £460 -26.40% 24
East of England -17 14 £505 +3.06% 10
North East -12 6 £625 - 6
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 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.80%) Confluence
3 7 (1.40%) Appian
4 6 (1.20%) GeoServer
4 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.20%) Smallworld
5 5 (1.00%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.60%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Documentum
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.40%) Sketch
4 2 (0.40%) Windchill
5 1 (0.20%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (5.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.00%) Maximo
3 5 (1.00%) NEC Housing
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.00%) Oracle SCM
3 5 (1.00%) SAP CO
3 5 (1.00%) SAP ERP
3 5 (1.00%) SAP FI
3 5 (1.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (1.00%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.80%) iTrent
4 4 (0.80%) Oracle FAH
4 4 (0.80%) Primavera
4 4 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.80%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.60%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 134 (26.80%) Azure
2 78 (15.60%) AWS
3 31 (6.20%) Power Platform
4 30 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (4.00%) GCP
7 18 (3.60%) SaaS
8 17 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.60%) Serverless
11 12 (2.40%) GitHub
11 12 (2.40%) OCI
11 12 (2.40%) Power Automate
12 11 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (1.80%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.60%) Azure Functions
14 8 (1.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) DNS
1 6 (1.20%) Network Security
2 4 (0.80%) Firewall
2 4 (0.80%) Internet
2 4 (0.80%) NAS
2 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.60%) WAN
4 2 (0.40%) Broadband
4 2 (0.40%) ISDN
4 2 (0.40%) PSTN
4 2 (0.40%) SAN
4 2 (0.40%) VLAN
4 2 (0.40%) VoIP
4 2 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) LAN
5 1 (0.20%) NGN
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.40%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.60%) Power BI
3 19 (3.80%) Metadata
4 16 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (3.00%) GIS
5 15 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.60%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (1.40%) Pinecone
9 7 (1.40%) QGIS
10 6 (1.20%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.00%) DB2
12 4 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.80%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.80%) MySQL
12 4 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (5.60%) JIRA
2 11 (2.20%) Git
3 10 (2.00%) GitLab
4 9 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.40%) MLflow
6 4 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.60%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.40%) Gradle
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) Mocha
9 1 (0.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) MSTest
9 1 (0.20%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.20%) tSQLt
General
1 172 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 147 (29.40%) Finance
3 66 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 56 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.80%) Banking
6 20 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 18 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.40%) Retail
9 15 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.80%) Local Government
11 12 (2.40%) Marketing
12 11 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.00%) Military
14 9 (1.80%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.80%) Police
15 7 (1.40%) Publishing
16 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.20%) Front Office
16 6 (1.20%) Law
16 6 (1.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 95 (19.00%) Architect
2 58 (11.60%) Lead
3 57 (11.40%) Developer
4 51 (10.20%) Consultant
5 48 (9.60%) Analyst
6 43 (8.60%) Solutions Architect
7 38 (7.60%) Senior
8 32 (6.40%) Business Analyst
9 27 (5.40%) Project Manager
10 21 (4.20%) Data Engineer
11 18 (3.60%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
12 15 (3.00%) Technical Architect
13 13 (2.60%) Software Engineer
14 11 (2.20%) Project Officer
15 10 (2.00%) Business Consultant
15 10 (2.00%) Functional Consultant
15 10 (2.00%) Lead Architect
15 10 (2.00%) Oracle Consultant
15 10 (2.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.00%) .NET
2 23 (4.60%) REST
3 19 (3.80%) RESTful
4 15 (3.00%) OAuth
5 14 (2.80%) React
5 14 (2.80%) Web Services
6 12 (2.40%) .NET Framework
6 12 (2.40%) HTML
7 11 (2.20%) Middleware
7 11 (2.20%) Swagger
8 10 (2.00%) OpenAPI
8 10 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.80%) .NET Core
9 9 (1.80%) CSS
9 9 (1.80%) Django
10 8 (1.60%) Kafka
10 8 (1.60%) PySpark
10 8 (1.60%) PyTorch
10 8 (1.60%) SOAP
10 8 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.60%) Cloud Native
1 28 (5.60%) Data Structures
2 25 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
5 15 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.60%) Mainframe
7 9 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.60%) NHS
9 7 (1.40%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.40%) Replication
10 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.20%) IoT
10 6 (1.20%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.00%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.40%) Linux
2 21 (4.20%) Windows
3 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.80%) OpenVMS
5 4 (0.80%) VMS
6 2 (0.40%) Debian
6 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.40%) Unix
6 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.40%) zOS
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (43.00%) Migration
2 122 (24.40%) Data Migration
3 97 (19.40%) Agile
4 96 (19.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 83 (16.60%) Validation
6 77 (15.40%) Data Modelling
6 77 (15.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 75 (15.00%) DevOps
8 74 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (12.60%) ERP
10 61 (12.20%) CI/CD
11 58 (11.60%) User Acceptance Testing
12 55 (11.00%) Analytics
13 53 (10.60%) ETL
14 50 (10.00%) AI
15 43 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (8.20%) Roadmaps
17 35 (7.00%) Data Mapping
18 34 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
18 34 (6.80%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 96 (19.20%) SQL
2 61 (12.20%) Python
3 38 (7.60%) C#
4 35 (7.00%) Java
5 20 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.00%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.60%) Bicep
10 6 (1.20%) Bash
10 6 (1.20%) Perl
11 5 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.80%) Ada
12 4 (0.80%) Go
12 4 (0.80%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.80%) PHP
13 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.60%) Rust
13 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.40%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 91 (18.20%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.00%) Degree
4 16 (3.20%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.80%) CISSP
11 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) ACCA
12 2 (0.40%) CCNP
12 2 (0.40%) CCSP
12 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.40%) PMP
12 2 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.40%) GDPR
3 20 (4.00%) QA
4 13 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.00%) WCAG
7 4 (0.80%) NCSC
7 4 (0.80%) NIST
7 4 (0.80%) PMO
8 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) COBIT
9 2 (0.40%) HL7
9 2 (0.40%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) DICOM
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (5.80%) Docker
2 14 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.40%) NFS
6 2 (0.40%) QEMU
6 2 (0.40%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.20%) Terraform
3 14 (2.80%) Ansible
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.60%) Grafana
7 2 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.40%) Packer
7 2 (0.40%) Podman
7 2 (0.40%) vMotion
8 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.20%) Kibana
8 1 (0.20%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.20%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.20%) Salt
8 1 (0.20%) SELinux
8 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (12.00%) Oracle
2 57 (11.40%) Microsoft
3 53 (10.60%) SAP
4 28 (5.60%) Workday
5 19 (3.80%) Databricks
5 19 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.40%) VMware
7 15 (3.00%) IBM
8 11 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.80%) ESRI
10 8 (1.60%) UiPath
11 7 (1.40%) Automation Anywhere
11 7 (1.40%) Avaloq
11 7 (1.40%) Cisco
11 7 (1.40%) Google
12 6 (1.20%) Intergraph
13 5 (1.00%) NEC
13 5 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.80%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.80%) OpenText
186 Legacy Systems jobs in England