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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 188 280
Rank change year-on-year -1 +92 +35
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 718 414 269
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.49% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.59% 4.14% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 270 158
10th Percentile £370 £410 £400
25th Percentile £425 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £647 £638
90th Percentile £735 £725 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 5
10th Percentile £54.95 £31.50 £37.06
25th Percentile £62.81 £31.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £82.19 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £87.50 £71.50 -
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 15,653 10,005 10,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.77% 35.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,494 6,293 6,311
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
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 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,023 500 434
10th Percentile £14.17 £15.50 £14.17
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.95 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% -42.55% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.13 £59.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +13.84%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +18 351 £550 -4.35% 175
North of England -21 116 £540 +2.86% 32
South West +9 83 £524 +16.39% 18
North West +9 81 £550 +15.79% 17
South East -42 60 £450 -23.40% 42
Midlands -54 59 £513 -1.77% 30
West Midlands -45 47 £506 -5.81% 18
Yorkshire -46 26 £525 -4.55% 12
East of England -4 24 £575 +202.63% 13
East Midlands -25 11 £525 +9.95% 12
North East -40 9 £480 -12.33% 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 30 (4.18%) Confluence
2 21 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.25%) Apache
5 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.56%) IIS
6 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.42%) nginx
7 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.28%) Camunda
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.28%) SugarCRM
8 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) Mule
9 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 29 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
3 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 31 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.81%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.70%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.70%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.56%) Magento
7 4 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.56%) SAP ECC
8 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.42%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.42%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 193 (26.88%) Azure
2 167 (23.26%) AWS
3 53 (7.38%) Power Platform
4 47 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (5.29%) GCP
6 32 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (4.32%) SaaS
8 24 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (2.92%) dbt
9 21 (2.92%) GitHub
9 21 (2.92%) Serverless
10 16 (2.23%) Power Automate
11 15 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (2.09%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (1.81%) Entra ID
13 13 (1.81%) OCI
13 13 (1.81%) Snowflake
14 10 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) Firewall
2 5 (0.70%) PSTN
2 5 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (0.56%) DNS
3 4 (0.56%) Intranet
3 4 (0.56%) IP Telephony
3 4 (0.56%) Network Security
3 4 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.42%) ATM
4 3 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.42%) HTTP
4 3 (0.42%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.42%) SAN
4 3 (0.42%) SSH
4 3 (0.42%) SSL
4 3 (0.42%) VLAN
5 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.28%) Modbus
5 2 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.99%) Metadata
2 40 (5.57%) Power BI
3 33 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.23%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.81%) Delta Lake
8 12 (1.67%) MySQL
9 9 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (1.25%) Power Query
9 9 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
10 8 (1.11%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.84%) Data Mart
12 6 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.84%) Tableau
13 5 (0.70%) Looker
Development Applications
1 51 (7.10%) JIRA
2 44 (6.13%) Git
3 11 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.25%) MSI
5 8 (1.11%) GitLab
6 5 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.70%) Gatling
7 4 (0.56%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.56%) Selenium
7 4 (0.56%) Subversion
8 3 (0.42%) JUnit
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.28%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 219 (30.50%) Finance
2 199 (27.72%) Social Skills
3 109 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 85 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (8.77%) Banking
6 34 (4.74%) Retail
7 28 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.62%) Billing
9 25 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.20%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (2.23%) Legal
13 13 (1.81%) Back Office
13 13 (1.81%) Military
14 12 (1.67%) Local Government
14 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.25%) Front Office
15 9 (1.25%) Law
16 8 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 117 (16.30%) Architect
2 99 (13.79%) Lead
3 79 (11.00%) Analyst
4 78 (10.86%) Senior
5 70 (9.75%) Developer
6 65 (9.05%) Data Engineer
7 47 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
8 46 (6.41%) Project Manager
9 29 (4.04%) Business Analyst
10 28 (3.90%) Data Analyst
11 27 (3.76%) Consultant
12 26 (3.62%) Product Manager
13 23 (3.20%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.51%) Systems Analyst
15 16 (2.23%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (2.09%) Digital Product Manager
17 14 (1.95%) DevOps Engineer
17 14 (1.95%) Senior Manager
18 12 (1.67%) Senior Developer
18 12 (1.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.94%) .NET
2 45 (6.27%) REST
3 44 (6.13%) Terraform
4 24 (3.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (2.92%) Kafka
6 20 (2.79%) .NET Framework
6 20 (2.79%) PySpark
6 20 (2.79%) React
6 20 (2.79%) Spring
6 20 (2.79%) Spring Boot
7 18 (2.51%) SOAP
8 17 (2.37%) CSS
8 17 (2.37%) RESTful
9 16 (2.23%) JSON
9 16 (2.23%) Middleware
10 15 (2.09%) XML
11 14 (1.95%) .NET Core
12 13 (1.81%) HTML
13 10 (1.39%) Django
13 10 (1.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 94 (13.09%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 42 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
9 14 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.67%) Mainframe
10 12 (1.67%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.39%) PKI
13 8 (1.11%) NHS
14 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.84%) Legacy Code
15 6 (0.84%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.57%) Windows
2 38 (5.29%) Linux
3 34 (4.74%) Unix
4 13 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.67%) Solaris
6 7 (0.97%) HPUX
7 6 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.70%) AIX
8 5 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.70%) SUSE
9 4 (0.56%) CentOS
9 4 (0.56%) VMS
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (47.35%) Migration
2 198 (27.58%) Agile
3 159 (22.14%) Data Migration
3 159 (22.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 140 (19.50%) CI/CD
5 127 (17.69%) DevOps
6 126 (17.55%) Data Modelling
7 119 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (15.88%) Roadmaps
9 110 (15.32%) Validation
10 102 (14.21%) Analytics
11 81 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (10.86%) ERP
13 77 (10.72%) AI
14 74 (10.31%) Microservices
15 73 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
16 64 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
17 63 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 62 (8.64%) Data Governance
19 61 (8.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 141 (19.64%) SQL
2 122 (16.99%) Python
3 48 (6.69%) C#
4 44 (6.13%) Java
5 43 (5.99%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.34%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.65%) Bicep
9 14 (1.95%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.53%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.25%) C
12 8 (1.11%) Bash
12 8 (1.11%) C++
13 7 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.70%) ProC
14 5 (0.70%) R
14 5 (0.70%) Ruby
14 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 167 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 140 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.15%) Degree
4 20 (2.79%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.11%) CISSP
10 7 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.84%) PMP
12 5 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.70%) RHCE
13 4 (0.56%) CCNA
13 4 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.82%) QA
3 31 (4.32%) GDPR
4 23 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.09%) NCSC
5 15 (2.09%) WCAG
6 14 (1.95%) PMO
7 9 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.97%) NIST
9 6 (0.84%) GRC
10 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.42%) BS7666
12 3 (0.42%) HL7
12 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.28%) DICOM
13 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 39 (5.43%) Docker
2 11 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.56%) Firmware
4 3 (0.42%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 40 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.53%) Ansible
2 11 (1.53%) Grafana
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.56%) Kibana
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle ZFS
4 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.28%) Avamar
6 2 (0.28%) Control-M
6 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 119 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 107 (14.90%) Oracle
3 62 (8.64%) SAP
4 41 (5.71%) Databricks
5 40 (5.57%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.81%) IBM
6 13 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.67%) Workday
8 9 (1.25%) Google
9 7 (0.97%) Cisco
9 7 (0.97%) HP
10 6 (0.84%) Baan
10 6 (0.84%) Informatica
10 6 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.70%) Infor
11 5 (0.70%) NEC
11 5 (0.70%) Remedy
11 5 (0.70%) Sage
11 5 (0.70%) Siebel
11 5 (0.70%) Teradata