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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 239 306
Rank change year-on-year +55 +67 +24
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 509 272 261
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.05% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.40% 3.17% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 181 177
10th Percentile £400 £363 £422
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 £725 £775 £763
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 11,565 8,568 11,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 33.15% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,398 5,173 7,835
10th Percentile £275 £274 £255
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £548 £549
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.18% -4.52%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £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 577 241 748
10th Percentile £15.43 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.82 £24.25 £16.88
Median hourly rate £31.65 £39.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% +20.00% +44.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.81 £85.00 £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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +31 254 £525 -10.71% 71
North of England -29 68 £525 -10.64% 38
Midlands -18 63 £511 -0.24% 25
South East +6 53 £500 -20.00% 54
West Midlands -17 44 £531 -12.37% 15
Yorkshire -20 41 £525 +90.91% 9
South West +11 38 £525 -16.00% 15
North West -28 21 £468 -25.20% 23
East Midlands -23 19 £508 +1.50% 10
East of England -15 14 £505 +3.06% 11
North East -9 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 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.77%) Confluence
3 8 (1.57%) Appian
3 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.18%) GeoServer
4 6 (1.18%) Smallworld
5 5 (0.98%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.59%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.39%) 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 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.39%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.39%) Sketch
4 2 (0.39%) Windchill
5 1 (0.20%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (5.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.18%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.98%) Maximo
4 5 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.98%) Oracle SCM
4 5 (0.98%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.98%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.98%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.98%) SAP MM
5 4 (0.79%) iTrent
5 4 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
5 4 (0.79%) Primavera
5 4 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.79%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.59%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 137 (26.92%) Azure
2 79 (15.52%) AWS
3 34 (6.68%) Power Platform
4 30 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (5.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (3.93%) GCP
7 19 (3.73%) SaaS
8 18 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.75%) Serverless
10 13 (2.55%) Power Automate
11 12 (2.36%) GitHub
11 12 (2.36%) OCI
12 11 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.96%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (1.96%) Azure AI
14 9 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.57%) Azure Functions
15 8 (1.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.57%) DNS
2 6 (1.18%) Network Security
3 4 (0.79%) Firewall
3 4 (0.79%) Internet
3 4 (0.79%) NAS
3 4 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.59%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.59%) WAN
5 2 (0.39%) Broadband
5 2 (0.39%) ISDN
5 2 (0.39%) PSTN
5 2 (0.39%) SAN
5 2 (0.39%) VLAN
5 2 (0.39%) VoIP
5 2 (0.39%) VPN
6 1 (0.20%) Intranet
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) OSPF
6 1 (0.20%) Wireless
6 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.47%) SQL Server
2 26 (5.11%) Power BI
3 19 (3.73%) Metadata
4 16 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (2.95%) GIS
5 15 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (1.57%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.57%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.38%) QGIS
11 6 (1.18%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.98%) DB2
13 4 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.79%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.79%) MySQL
13 4 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (5.50%) JIRA
2 11 (2.16%) Git
3 10 (1.96%) GitLab
4 9 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.57%) MLflow
6 4 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.59%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.39%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.39%) Gradle
8 2 (0.39%) JUnit
8 2 (0.39%) 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
1 174 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 149 (29.27%) Finance
3 68 (13.36%) Public Sector
4 59 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.68%) Banking
6 20 (3.93%) Manufacturing
7 18 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.34%) Retail
9 15 (2.95%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.75%) Local Government
11 12 (2.36%) Marketing
11 12 (2.36%) Military
12 11 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.77%) Police
14 7 (1.38%) Publishing
15 6 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.18%) Front Office
15 6 (1.18%) Law
15 6 (1.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 97 (19.06%) Architect
2 59 (11.59%) Lead
3 58 (11.39%) Developer
4 51 (10.02%) Consultant
5 50 (9.82%) Analyst
6 43 (8.45%) Solutions Architect
7 39 (7.66%) Senior
8 32 (6.29%) Business Analyst
9 28 (5.50%) Project Manager
10 21 (4.13%) Data Engineer
11 20 (3.93%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.14%) Technical Architect
13 15 (2.95%) SAP Consultant
14 13 (2.55%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (2.16%) Project Officer
16 10 (1.96%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (1.96%) Lead Architect
16 10 (1.96%) Migration Manager
16 10 (1.96%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.88%) .NET
2 24 (4.72%) REST
3 21 (4.13%) RESTful
4 16 (3.14%) OAuth
5 15 (2.95%) Web Services
6 14 (2.75%) React
7 12 (2.36%) .NET Framework
7 12 (2.36%) HTML
7 12 (2.36%) Swagger
8 11 (2.16%) Middleware
8 11 (2.16%) OpenAPI
9 10 (1.96%) Django
9 10 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.77%) .NET Core
10 9 (1.77%) CSS
10 9 (1.77%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.57%) FastAPI
11 8 (1.57%) JWT
11 8 (1.57%) PySpark
11 8 (1.57%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.89%) Cloud Native
1 30 (5.89%) Data Structures
2 26 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.95%) Legacy Applications
6 13 (2.55%) Mainframe
7 9 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.57%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.57%) NHS
9 7 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.38%) Replication
10 6 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.18%) IoT
10 6 (1.18%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.98%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.72%) Linux
1 24 (4.72%) Windows
2 8 (1.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.79%) OpenVMS
4 4 (0.79%) VMS
5 3 (0.59%) Unix
6 2 (0.39%) Debian
6 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.39%) 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
1 218 (42.83%) Migration
2 124 (24.36%) Data Migration
3 99 (19.45%) Agile
4 97 (19.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 86 (16.90%) Validation
6 78 (15.32%) Data Modelling
6 78 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 77 (15.13%) DevOps
8 76 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (12.38%) CI/CD
9 63 (12.38%) ERP
10 60 (11.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 56 (11.00%) Analytics
12 54 (10.61%) ETL
13 52 (10.22%) AI
14 45 (8.84%) Roadmaps
15 44 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (7.07%) Data Cleansing
18 35 (6.88%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 99 (19.45%) SQL
2 62 (12.18%) Python
3 38 (7.47%) C#
4 36 (7.07%) Java
5 20 (3.93%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.96%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.57%) Bicep
10 6 (1.18%) Bash
10 6 (1.18%) Perl
11 5 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.79%) Ada
12 4 (0.79%) Go
12 4 (0.79%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.79%) PHP
13 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.59%) Rust
13 3 (0.59%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.39%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 94 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 67 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.89%) Degree
4 16 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.79%) CISSP
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) ACCA
11 2 (0.39%) CCNP
11 2 (0.39%) CCSP
11 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.39%) PMP
11 2 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (16.11%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.52%) GDPR
3 21 (4.13%) QA
4 13 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.98%) WCAG
7 4 (0.79%) NCSC
7 4 (0.79%) NIST
7 4 (0.79%) PMO
8 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.39%) COBIT
9 2 (0.39%) HL7
9 2 (0.39%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
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
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (6.29%) Docker
2 16 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.39%) NFS
6 2 (0.39%) QEMU
6 2 (0.39%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.52%) Terraform
3 14 (2.75%) Ansible
4 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.79%) Grafana
5 4 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (0.39%) Packer
6 2 (0.39%) Podman
6 2 (0.39%) vMotion
7 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.20%) Kibana
7 1 (0.20%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.20%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.20%) Salt
7 1 (0.20%) SELinux
7 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (11.79%) Microsoft
1 60 (11.79%) Oracle
2 53 (10.41%) SAP
3 28 (5.50%) Workday
4 19 (3.73%) Databricks
4 19 (3.73%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.73%) VMware
5 15 (2.95%) IBM
6 12 (2.36%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.77%) ESRI
7 9 (1.77%) UiPath
8 8 (1.57%) Automation Anywhere
9 7 (1.38%) Avaloq
9 7 (1.38%) Cisco
9 7 (1.38%) Google
10 6 (1.18%) Intergraph
10 6 (1.18%) NEC
11 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.79%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.79%) OpenText
187 Legacy Systems jobs in England