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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 189 302
Rank change year-on-year +27 +113 -7
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 773 400 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.45% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.13% 4.13% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 257 158
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £665 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £527 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.18% - +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 5
10th Percentile £31.25 £20.88 £37.06
25th Percentile £59.50 £31.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.97% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £71.88 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £83.88 £71.20 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £36.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +87.50% -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 15,060 9,689 10,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.37% 35.09% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,274 6,121 6,736
10th Percentile £322 £306 £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 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 869 481 552
10th Percentile £15.90 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.60 £18.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £44.74
% change year-on-year +49.02% -34.06% +11.85%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +44 388 £550 -5.98% 176
North of England -1 116 £525 - 39
South West +13 86 £500 +11.11% 19
North West -5 78 £550 +10.00% 23
South East -37 76 £525 -11.58% 42
Midlands -39 62 £510 -2.86% 25
West Midlands -42 48 £510 -2.86% 13
Yorkshire -35 29 £550 +4.76% 13
East of England -1 22 £575 +202.63% 13
East Midlands -11 13 £515 -0.96% 12
North East -35 9 £465 -15.07% 4
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 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.10%) Confluence
3 14 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.29%) Apache
6 8 (1.03%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.91%) IIS
8 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.52%) nginx
8 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.39%) OpenROAD
10 2 (0.26%) Appian
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) ThingWorx
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 24 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 31 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (1.03%) NEC Housing
4 8 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.65%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.52%) Magento
6 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.39%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.26%) Maximo
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.26%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 205 (26.52%) Azure
2 172 (22.25%) AWS
3 65 (8.41%) Power Platform
4 51 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (4.53%) GCP
5 35 (4.53%) SaaS
6 30 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (2.98%) Serverless
9 21 (2.72%) dbt
10 20 (2.59%) GitHub
11 18 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (2.33%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (1.94%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.81%) Boomi
13 14 (1.81%) OCI
13 14 (1.81%) Snowflake
14 13 (1.68%) Entra ID
14 13 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.42%) DNS
2 6 (0.78%) 4G
2 6 (0.78%) 5G
3 5 (0.65%) Firewall
3 5 (0.65%) HTTP
3 5 (0.65%) PSTN
4 4 (0.52%) Intranet
4 4 (0.52%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.52%) Network Security
4 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.39%) ATM
5 3 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.39%) SSH
5 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 3 (0.39%) WAN
6 2 (0.26%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.26%) MQTT
6 2 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.73%) Power BI
2 44 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 39 (5.05%) Metadata
4 30 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.10%) Oracle Database
6 23 (2.98%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (1.94%) MySQL
9 14 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.68%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
11 11 (1.42%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.91%) Pentaho
14 7 (0.91%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.78%) Data Mart
15 6 (0.78%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 50 (6.47%) JIRA
2 41 (5.30%) Git
3 9 (1.16%) MSI
4 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.65%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.65%) Gatling
5 5 (0.65%) Selenium
6 4 (0.52%) GitLab
6 4 (0.52%) Subversion
7 3 (0.39%) JUnit
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.26%) MLflow
8 2 (0.26%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 237 (30.66%) Finance
2 209 (27.04%) Social Skills
3 111 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 85 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.76%) Banking
6 31 (4.01%) Retail
7 29 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.36%) Billing
9 24 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 22 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.20%) Military
12 16 (2.07%) Local Government
13 14 (1.81%) Legal
14 11 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.29%) Marketing
16 8 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.03%) Law
16 8 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (16.82%) Architect
2 107 (13.84%) Lead
3 83 (10.74%) Senior
4 79 (10.22%) Analyst
5 74 (9.57%) Data Engineer
6 71 (9.18%) Developer
7 46 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
8 44 (5.69%) Project Manager
9 36 (4.66%) Business Analyst
10 31 (4.01%) Consultant
11 26 (3.36%) Product Manager
12 25 (3.23%) Data Architect
13 22 (2.85%) Data Analyst
14 15 (1.94%) Digital Product Manager
14 15 (1.94%) Lead Data Engineer
15 14 (1.81%) Software Engineer
15 14 (1.81%) Systems Analyst
15 14 (1.81%) Technical Architect
16 13 (1.68%) Senior Manager
16 13 (1.68%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.28%) .NET
2 44 (5.69%) REST
3 25 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 24 (3.10%) Middleware
5 21 (2.72%) Kafka
5 21 (2.72%) React
5 21 (2.72%) RESTful
6 19 (2.46%) CSS
7 18 (2.33%) PySpark
8 17 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
8 17 (2.20%) Spring
8 17 (2.20%) Spring Boot
9 16 (2.07%) .NET Core
9 16 (2.07%) HTML
9 16 (2.07%) JSON
9 16 (2.07%) SOAP
10 14 (1.81%) XML
11 11 (1.42%) GeoJSON
12 10 (1.29%) Node.js
12 10 (1.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 105 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.47%) Data Structures
3 47 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (4.79%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (1.81%) Mainframe
9 13 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.29%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.29%) Legacy Code
12 8 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.91%) LIMS
13 7 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.34%) Windows
2 47 (6.08%) Linux
3 35 (4.53%) Unix
4 18 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.81%) Solaris
6 12 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.91%) HPUX
8 5 (0.65%) AIX
8 5 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.65%) SUSE
9 4 (0.52%) CentOS
9 4 (0.52%) VMS
10 3 (0.39%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (45.92%) Migration
2 199 (25.74%) Agile
3 171 (22.12%) Data Migration
4 165 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 140 (18.11%) Data Modelling
6 137 (17.72%) DevOps
7 134 (17.34%) CI/CD
8 130 (16.82%) Roadmaps
9 128 (16.56%) Analytics
10 118 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (14.88%) Validation
12 87 (11.25%) ERP
13 86 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 78 (10.09%) Data Pipeline
15 73 (9.44%) User Acceptance Testing
16 72 (9.31%) ETL
17 70 (9.06%) Microservices
18 69 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
19 66 (8.54%) AI
20 64 (8.28%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 154 (19.92%) SQL
2 112 (14.49%) Python
3 51 (6.60%) C#
4 45 (5.82%) Java
4 45 (5.82%) JavaScript
5 39 (5.05%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.23%) PL/SQL
7 20 (2.59%) Bicep
8 17 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.29%) C
10 9 (1.16%) C++
11 8 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.91%) Ruby
13 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.65%) ProC
14 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.52%) Bash
15 4 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 180 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 155 (20.05%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.17%) Degree
4 21 (2.72%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.78%) CISSP
12 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.65%) RHCE
13 4 (0.52%) CCNA
13 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (13.32%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.60%) QA
3 43 (5.56%) GDPR
4 25 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.94%) PMO
6 14 (1.81%) NCSC
7 12 (1.55%) WCAG
8 10 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.78%) GRC
9 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.52%) BS7666
10 4 (0.52%) NIST
10 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.39%) HL7
11 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.39%) SEPA
12 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (5.82%) Docker
2 19 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.52%) Firmware
6 3 (0.39%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 44 (5.69%) Terraform
3 14 (1.81%) Grafana
4 9 (1.16%) Ansible
5 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.52%) Kibana
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle ZFS
7 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.26%) Avamar
8 2 (0.26%) Control-M
8 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 127 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 111 (14.36%) Oracle
3 67 (8.67%) SAP
4 50 (6.47%) Salesforce
5 40 (5.17%) Databricks
6 20 (2.59%) Workday
7 14 (1.81%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.68%) IBM
8 13 (1.68%) Talend
9 12 (1.55%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.55%) VMware
10 10 (1.29%) Informatica
11 8 (1.03%) HP
11 8 (1.03%) NEC
11 8 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.91%) Cisco
12 7 (0.91%) Denodo
12 7 (0.91%) Google
13 6 (0.78%) Baan
14 5 (0.65%) Siebel