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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 204 323
Rank change year-on-year +48 +119 -24
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 700 313 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.29% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.12% 3.75% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 209 161
10th Percentile £400 £356 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £465
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 11
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 £88.00
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 13,671 8,341 11,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.34% 34.28% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,571 5,378 7,379
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 722 358 843
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £21.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £44.23 £34.42 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% -5.70% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.17 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.95 £83.59 £72.38
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.47 £35.50
% change year-on-year +26.99% -5.73% +59.48%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +51 356 £563 -6.25% 118
North of England -32 87 £523 -12.83% 59
South West +31 81 £523 +4.50% 31
South East -8 73 £500 +25.00% 44
Midlands -29 60 £500 - 26
North West -16 50 £550 -16.67% 35
West Midlands -40 45 £498 -2.93% 13
Yorkshire -47 25 £575 +9.52% 16
East of England -5 24 £575 -2.13% 20
East Midlands -24 14 £505 +1.00% 13
North East -15 12 £480 -16.52% 10
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 26 (3.71%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.14%) Confluence
3 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.14%) Appian
4 8 (1.14%) IIS
5 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.86%) Apache
6 6 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.43%) nginx
8 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.43%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.29%) 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%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 24 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (5.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.43%) NEC Housing
3 10 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.71%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.71%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.57%) Magento
6 4 (0.57%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.57%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.43%) iTrent
7 3 (0.43%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.43%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.43%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 168 (24.00%) Azure
2 148 (21.14%) AWS
3 46 (6.57%) Power Platform
4 37 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (3.71%) GCP
6 26 (3.71%) SaaS
7 24 (3.43%) Serverless
8 18 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.57%) Power Automate
9 17 (2.43%) GitHub
10 12 (1.71%) Boomi
10 12 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.57%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (1.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.57%) DNS
2 6 (0.86%) 4G
2 6 (0.86%) 5G
3 5 (0.71%) Firewall
3 5 (0.71%) Network Security
4 4 (0.57%) HTTP
4 4 (0.57%) Intranet
5 3 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.43%) SSH
5 3 (0.43%) WAN
6 2 (0.29%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.29%) MQTT
6 2 (0.29%) NAS
6 2 (0.29%) PSTN
6 2 (0.29%) SAN
6 2 (0.29%) VLAN
6 2 (0.29%) VoIP
7 1 (0.14%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 35 (5.00%) Power BI
3 28 (4.00%) Metadata
4 27 (3.86%) Oracle Database
5 20 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (2.57%) Data Lake
8 17 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (1.71%) MySQL
9 12 (1.71%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.14%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.14%) GIS
10 8 (1.14%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.00%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.71%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 46 (6.57%) JIRA
2 25 (3.57%) Git
3 8 (1.14%) MLflow
4 5 (0.71%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.71%) Selenium
5 4 (0.57%) Subversion
6 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.29%) GitLab
7 2 (0.29%) Mocha
7 2 (0.29%) MSTest
7 2 (0.29%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 222 (31.71%) Finance
2 201 (28.71%) Social Skills
3 90 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 49 (7.00%) Banking
6 28 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.57%) Manufacturing
7 18 (2.57%) Retail
8 17 (2.43%) Billing
9 16 (2.29%) Local Government
10 12 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.57%) Marketing
11 11 (1.57%) Military
12 9 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.29%) Publishing
13 8 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.14%) Legal
14 7 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 111 (15.86%) Architect
2 89 (12.71%) Lead
3 73 (10.43%) Analyst
4 62 (8.86%) Senior
5 53 (7.57%) Developer
6 48 (6.86%) Data Engineer
7 46 (6.57%) Project Manager
8 39 (5.57%) Business Analyst
9 36 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (5.00%) Consultant
11 29 (4.14%) Product Manager
12 26 (3.71%) Data Analyst
13 19 (2.71%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.57%) Technical Architect
15 16 (2.29%) Digital Product Manager
15 16 (2.29%) Software Engineer
16 14 (2.00%) Migration Manager
16 14 (2.00%) Tester
17 13 (1.86%) Migration Engineer
17 13 (1.86%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (8.00%) .NET
2 26 (3.71%) REST
3 22 (3.14%) React
4 21 (3.00%) RESTful
5 20 (2.86%) .NET Framework
6 18 (2.57%) Middleware
7 15 (2.14%) Kafka
8 14 (2.00%) CSS
8 14 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (1.86%) FastAPI
10 12 (1.71%) Django
10 12 (1.71%) JSON
10 12 (1.71%) OAuth
10 12 (1.71%) Spring
10 12 (1.71%) Spring Boot
11 11 (1.57%) .NET Core
11 11 (1.57%) OpenAPI
11 11 (1.57%) Swagger
12 10 (1.43%) HTML
12 10 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.29%) Data Structures
3 37 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.43%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.86%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.57%) Legacy Code
11 10 (1.43%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.14%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.14%) LIMS
12 8 (1.14%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.86%) CMDB
14 6 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.00%) Linux
2 40 (5.71%) Windows
3 21 (3.00%) Unix
4 19 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.29%) Solaris
6 7 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.86%) HPUX
8 4 (0.57%) AIX
8 4 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.57%) SUSE
9 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.43%) VMS
10 2 (0.29%) Debian
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (46.86%) Migration
2 172 (24.57%) Data Migration
3 149 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 143 (20.43%) Agile
5 121 (17.29%) Validation
6 120 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (16.57%) Roadmaps
8 113 (16.14%) Data Modelling
9 107 (15.29%) CI/CD
9 107 (15.29%) DevOps
10 88 (12.57%) User Acceptance Testing
11 86 (12.29%) ERP
12 83 (11.86%) Analytics
13 81 (11.57%) ETL
14 80 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 58 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 55 (7.86%) AI
17 52 (7.43%) Data Pipeline
18 50 (7.14%) Data Governance
19 49 (7.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 139 (19.86%) SQL
2 88 (12.57%) Python
3 48 (6.86%) C#
4 42 (6.00%) Java
5 25 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 23 (3.29%) JavaScript
6 23 (3.29%) PowerShell
7 19 (2.71%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.43%) Bicep
9 8 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.86%) C++
10 6 (0.86%) Perl
10 6 (0.86%) Ruby
10 6 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.57%) Ada
11 4 (0.57%) C
11 4 (0.57%) Korn
11 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.57%) VBA
12 3 (0.43%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 133 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 115 (16.43%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.71%) Degree
4 13 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.00%) CISSP
7 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.57%) ACCA
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) CIMA
9 4 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.57%) RHCE
10 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.43%) PMP
10 3 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.43%) QA
3 42 (6.00%) GDPR
4 16 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.71%) PMO
6 6 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.71%) GRC
7 5 (0.71%) NIST
8 4 (0.57%) BS7666
8 4 (0.57%) HL7
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
8 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.43%) DICOM
9 3 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.43%) SEPA
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.14%) GMP
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 40 (5.71%) Docker
2 14 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.29%) NFS
6 2 (0.29%) QEMU
6 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.57%) Terraform
3 14 (2.00%) Grafana
4 9 (1.29%) Ansible
5 6 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.57%) Kibana
7 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.29%) Avamar
9 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
9 2 (0.29%) Podman
9 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.29%) vMotion
10 1 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.14%) SELinux
Vendors
1 91 (13.00%) Oracle
2 88 (12.57%) Microsoft
3 68 (9.71%) SAP
4 47 (6.71%) Salesforce
5 29 (4.14%) Databricks
6 23 (3.29%) Workday
7 14 (2.00%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.00%) Talend
7 14 (2.00%) VMware
8 11 (1.57%) IBM
9 10 (1.43%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.43%) NEC
10 9 (1.29%) Automation Anywhere
10 9 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.29%) UiPath
11 8 (1.14%) Informatica
12 7 (1.00%) Denodo
12 7 (1.00%) HP
12 7 (1.00%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.86%) Siebel