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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 194 307
Rank change year-on-year +32 +113 -11
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 775 394 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.44% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.20% 4.14% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 257 169
10th Percentile £400 £362 £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 £645
90th Percentile £738 £760 £761
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -2.91% +4.27% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 10
10th Percentile £31.25 £20.88 £15.36
25th Percentile £59.50 £31.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £71.88 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £83.88 £71.20 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +80.56% -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 14,917 9,520 10,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.24% 34.81% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 6,021 7,099
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 476 667
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -20.61% +5.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.59 £80.00 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +14.29%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +42 395 £550 -5.98% 128
North of England -10 118 £516 -6.27% 31
South West +19 83 £500 +5.26% 15
North West +3 77 £540 -13.60% 15
South East -38 75 £538 -6.52% 42
Midlands -38 62 £503 -4.29% 20
West Midlands -47 46 £500 -4.76% 9
Yorkshire -40 31 £525 - 14
East of England -11 20 £588 +209.21% 11
East Midlands -10 15 £505 +1.51% 11
North East -32 10 £480 -12.33% 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 24 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.84%) Confluence
3 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.16%) Apache
4 9 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.90%) IIS
7 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.39%) Appian
8 3 (0.39%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.13%) Mule
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 22 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 31 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.16%) NEC Housing
5 8 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.52%) Magento
7 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.52%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.52%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.39%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.26%) Maximo
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 206 (26.58%) Azure
2 171 (22.06%) AWS
3 64 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 50 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (4.52%) SaaS
6 34 (4.39%) GCP
7 33 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (3.23%) Serverless
10 19 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 19 (2.45%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.19%) dbt
11 17 (2.19%) GitHub
12 14 (1.81%) Boomi
12 14 (1.81%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (1.55%) OCI
15 11 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.55%) DNS
2 6 (0.77%) 4G
2 6 (0.77%) 5G
3 5 (0.65%) Firewall
3 5 (0.65%) HTTP
3 5 (0.65%) Network Security
3 5 (0.65%) PSTN
4 4 (0.52%) Intranet
4 4 (0.52%) IP Telephony
4 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.39%) SSH
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%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SSL
6 2 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.58%) Power BI
1 51 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 36 (4.65%) Metadata
3 28 (3.61%) Oracle Database
4 25 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 20 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (1.81%) MySQL
9 13 (1.68%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.42%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
12 9 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.03%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.90%) Pentaho
14 7 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.77%) Data Mart
16 5 (0.65%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 51 (6.58%) JIRA
2 37 (4.77%) Git
3 7 (0.90%) MSI
4 6 (0.77%) 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%) MLflow
6 4 (0.52%) Subversion
7 3 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.39%) JUnit
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.26%) Mocha
8 2 (0.26%) MSTest
8 2 (0.26%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
General
1 243 (31.35%) Finance
2 209 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 105 (13.55%) Public Sector
4 87 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.35%) Banking
6 33 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.74%) Retail
8 25 (3.23%) Billing
9 24 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 22 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.06%) Military
13 15 (1.94%) Local Government
14 13 (1.68%) Legal
15 11 (1.42%) Marketing
16 10 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 8 (1.03%) Law
18 7 (0.90%) Back Office
18 7 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (16.90%) Architect
2 105 (13.55%) Lead
3 84 (10.84%) Analyst
4 78 (10.06%) Senior
5 71 (9.16%) Developer
6 70 (9.03%) Data Engineer
7 47 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
8 43 (5.55%) Project Manager
9 38 (4.90%) Business Analyst
10 29 (3.74%) Consultant
11 27 (3.48%) Product Manager
12 26 (3.35%) Data Analyst
13 23 (2.97%) Data Architect
14 16 (2.06%) Software Engineer
15 15 (1.94%) Digital Product Manager
16 14 (1.81%) Lead Data Engineer
16 14 (1.81%) Systems Analyst
16 14 (1.81%) Technical Architect
16 14 (1.81%) Tester
17 13 (1.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.26%) .NET
2 43 (5.55%) REST
3 26 (3.35%) .NET Framework
4 24 (3.10%) Middleware
4 24 (3.10%) React
5 22 (2.84%) RESTful
6 21 (2.71%) CSS
6 21 (2.71%) Kafka
7 18 (2.32%) HTML
7 18 (2.32%) Spring
7 18 (2.32%) Spring Boot
8 17 (2.19%) .NET Core
8 17 (2.19%) PySpark
9 15 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.81%) SOAP
11 13 (1.68%) JSON
12 12 (1.55%) XML
13 11 (1.42%) OAuth
14 10 (1.29%) AngularJS
15 9 (1.16%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 101 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.19%) Data Structures
3 46 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (4.52%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.58%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (1.68%) Mainframe
9 12 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.29%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.03%) LIMS
12 8 (1.03%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.32%) Linux
2 48 (6.19%) Windows
3 33 (4.26%) Unix
4 19 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.81%) Solaris
6 12 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.90%) 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
1 354 (45.68%) Migration
2 189 (24.39%) Agile
3 179 (23.10%) Data Migration
4 159 (20.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 135 (17.42%) Data Modelling
6 134 (17.29%) DevOps
7 130 (16.77%) Roadmaps
8 129 (16.65%) CI/CD
9 123 (15.87%) Analytics
10 122 (15.74%) Validation
11 120 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (10.71%) ERP
14 80 (10.32%) User Acceptance Testing
15 76 (9.81%) ETL
16 73 (9.42%) Data Pipeline
17 67 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
17 67 (8.65%) Microservices
18 65 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 63 (8.13%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 159 (20.52%) SQL
2 110 (14.19%) Python
3 52 (6.71%) C#
4 45 (5.81%) Java
5 42 (5.42%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.16%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.32%) Bicep
8 18 (2.32%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.29%) C
10 8 (1.03%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.90%) C++
11 7 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.90%) Ruby
12 6 (0.77%) ProC
12 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.65%) VBA
14 4 (0.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 178 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 154 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.52%) Degree
4 22 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.90%) CISSP
10 6 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.77%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.65%) RHCE
12 4 (0.52%) CCNA
12 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (13.81%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.58%) QA
3 46 (5.94%) GDPR
4 23 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.94%) PMO
6 13 (1.68%) NCSC
7 11 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.16%) WCAG
9 7 (0.90%) GRC
10 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.65%) NIST
12 4 (0.52%) BS7666
12 4 (0.52%) HL7
12 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.39%) DICOM
13 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.39%) SEPA
14 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (5.68%) Docker
2 20 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.52%) Firmware
6 3 (0.39%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.26%) NFS
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.16%) Terraform
3 14 (1.81%) Grafana
4 9 (1.16%) Ansible
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%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.26%) Avamar
8 2 (0.26%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.26%) Packer
8 2 (0.26%) vMotion
9 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 121 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 111 (14.32%) Oracle
3 66 (8.52%) SAP
4 51 (6.58%) Salesforce
5 39 (5.03%) Databricks
6 22 (2.84%) Workday
7 15 (1.94%) VMware
8 14 (1.81%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.81%) Talend
9 13 (1.68%) IBM
10 12 (1.55%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.16%) Informatica
11 9 (1.16%) NEC
12 8 (1.03%) HP
12 8 (1.03%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.90%) Cisco
13 7 (0.90%) Denodo
13 7 (0.90%) Google
14 6 (0.77%) Baan
14 6 (0.77%) Siebel