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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 207 310
Rank change year-on-year +57 +103 -8
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 720 316 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.29% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.25% 3.75% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 213 159
10th Percentile £400 £357 £414
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £665 £645
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 12
10th Percentile £23.38 £18.22 -
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 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.70 £82.25 £86.20
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 13,704 8,429 11,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.44% 34.45% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,581 5,444 7,379
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.56% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 369 848
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -6.51% +61.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £85.65 £82.68 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -5.71% +56.70%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +47 365 £550 -8.33% 75
North of England -32 89 £523 -12.83% 43
South West +39 87 £525 +16.67% 29
South East -22 73 £500 +25.00% 38
Midlands -39 63 £500 - 24
North West -9 51 £550 -16.67% 25
West Midlands -33 48 £500 -2.44% 8
Yorkshire -46 26 £575 +9.52% 11
East of England -7 24 £575 -2.13% 14
East Midlands -24 14 £505 +3.59% 16
North East -15 12 £480 -16.52% 9
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 25 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.36%) Confluence
3 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.11%) Appian
5 7 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.97%) IIS
6 6 (0.83%) Apache
6 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.56%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.42%) nginx
8 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.28%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 24 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (5.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.39%) NEC Housing
3 10 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.69%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.69%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.56%) Magento
6 4 (0.56%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.56%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.42%) iTrent
7 3 (0.42%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.42%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.42%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.28%) Maximo
8 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 171 (23.75%) Azure
2 152 (21.11%) AWS
3 47 (6.53%) Power Platform
4 39 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (3.75%) SaaS
7 26 (3.61%) GCP
8 24 (3.33%) Serverless
9 18 (2.50%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (2.22%) GitHub
12 12 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (1.67%) Boomi
12 12 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.81%) DNS
2 6 (0.83%) 4G
2 6 (0.83%) 5G
2 6 (0.83%) Network Security
3 5 (0.69%) Firewall
4 4 (0.56%) HTTP
4 4 (0.56%) Intranet
5 3 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.42%) SSH
5 3 (0.42%) WAN
6 2 (0.28%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.28%) MQTT
6 2 (0.28%) NAS
6 2 (0.28%) PSTN
6 2 (0.28%) SAN
6 2 (0.28%) VLAN
6 2 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 37 (5.14%) Power BI
3 31 (4.31%) Metadata
4 27 (3.75%) Oracle Database
5 23 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (1.67%) MySQL
9 12 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.25%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.11%) GIS
11 8 (1.11%) Pinecone
12 7 (0.97%) Pentaho
12 7 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 48 (6.67%) JIRA
2 28 (3.89%) Git
3 8 (1.11%) MLflow
4 5 (0.69%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.69%) Cypress.io
4 5 (0.69%) Gatling
4 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.69%) Selenium
5 4 (0.56%) Subversion
6 3 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.42%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.28%) GitLab
7 2 (0.28%) Mocha
7 2 (0.28%) MSI
7 2 (0.28%) MSTest
7 2 (0.28%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 225 (31.25%) Finance
2 206 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 91 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.94%) Banking
6 30 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.50%) Billing
7 18 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 18 (2.50%) Retail
8 16 (2.22%) Local Government
9 14 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.67%) Military
10 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.53%) Marketing
12 10 (1.39%) Publishing
13 9 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.25%) Legal
13 9 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.97%) Police
Job Titles
1 113 (15.69%) Architect
2 93 (12.92%) Lead
3 73 (10.14%) Analyst
4 68 (9.44%) Senior
5 55 (7.64%) Developer
6 52 (7.22%) Data Engineer
7 46 (6.39%) Project Manager
8 39 (5.42%) Business Analyst
9 37 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.86%) Consultant
11 29 (4.03%) Product Manager
12 26 (3.61%) Data Analyst
13 20 (2.78%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.50%) Technical Architect
15 17 (2.36%) Software Engineer
16 16 (2.22%) Digital Product Manager
17 15 (2.08%) Tester
18 14 (1.94%) Migration Manager
19 13 (1.81%) Product Owner
19 13 (1.81%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.92%) .NET
2 28 (3.89%) REST
3 23 (3.19%) RESTful
4 22 (3.06%) .NET Framework
4 22 (3.06%) React
5 18 (2.50%) Middleware
6 16 (2.22%) CSS
7 15 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
8 14 (1.94%) FastAPI
8 14 (1.94%) Kafka
9 13 (1.81%) .NET Core
10 12 (1.67%) Django
10 12 (1.67%) HTML
10 12 (1.67%) OAuth
10 12 (1.67%) Spring
10 12 (1.67%) Spring Boot
11 11 (1.53%) JSON
11 11 (1.53%) OpenAPI
11 11 (1.53%) Swagger
12 10 (1.39%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.39%) Data Structures
3 38 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.81%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.53%) Legacy Code
11 10 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.11%) LIMS
12 8 (1.11%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.97%) Windows
2 42 (5.83%) Linux
3 21 (2.92%) Unix
4 20 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.25%) Solaris
6 7 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.83%) HPUX
8 4 (0.56%) AIX
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.56%) SUSE
9 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.42%) VMS
10 2 (0.28%) Debian
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (46.67%) Migration
2 175 (24.31%) Data Migration
3 151 (20.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 150 (20.83%) Agile
5 127 (17.64%) Validation
6 120 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (16.11%) Data Modelling
7 116 (16.11%) Roadmaps
8 112 (15.56%) CI/CD
9 110 (15.28%) DevOps
10 91 (12.64%) Analytics
10 91 (12.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 86 (11.94%) ERP
12 83 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (11.25%) ETL
14 61 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (7.92%) AI
15 57 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (7.22%) Data Governance
16 52 (7.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 145 (20.14%) SQL
2 94 (13.06%) Python
3 50 (6.94%) C#
4 41 (5.69%) Java
5 33 (4.58%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 24 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.78%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.67%) Bicep
10 8 (1.11%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.83%) C++
12 6 (0.83%) Perl
12 6 (0.83%) Ruby
12 6 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.69%) C
14 4 (0.56%) Ada
14 4 (0.56%) Korn
14 4 (0.56%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 144 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 124 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.44%) Degree
4 15 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.97%) CISSP
8 7 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.56%) ACCA
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) CIMA
10 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.56%) RHCE
11 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.42%) PMP
11 3 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (15.69%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.53%) QA
3 43 (5.97%) GDPR
4 18 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.67%) PMO
6 6 (0.83%) NCSC
6 6 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.69%) GRC
7 5 (0.69%) NIST
8 4 (0.56%) BS7666
8 4 (0.56%) HL7
8 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.42%) DICOM
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.42%) SEPA
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.28%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 41 (5.69%) Docker
2 16 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.28%) NFS
6 2 (0.28%) QEMU
6 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.89%) Terraform
3 14 (1.94%) Grafana
4 9 (1.25%) Ansible
5 6 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.56%) Kibana
7 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.42%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.28%) Avamar
9 2 (0.28%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.28%) Packer
9 2 (0.28%) Podman
9 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) vMotion
10 1 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.14%) SELinux
Vendors
1 94 (13.06%) Oracle
2 89 (12.36%) Microsoft
3 68 (9.44%) SAP
4 46 (6.39%) Salesforce
5 29 (4.03%) Databricks
6 23 (3.19%) Workday
7 15 (2.08%) VMware
8 14 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.94%) Talend
9 12 (1.67%) IBM
10 10 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.39%) NEC
11 9 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere
11 9 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.25%) UiPath
12 8 (1.11%) Informatica
13 7 (0.97%) Denodo
13 7 (0.97%) HP
13 7 (0.97%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.83%) Siebel
210 Legacy Systems jobs in England