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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 192 300
Rank change year-on-year +32 +108 0
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 767 406 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.46% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.04% 4.14% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 258 160
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £759
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +2.87%
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 £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £71.88 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £83.88 £71.20 -
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 15,219 9,815 10,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.41% 35.27% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,335 6,198 6,651
10th Percentile £325 £307 £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 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 487 541
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -33.68% +17.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +18.42%

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 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 10 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 10 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 +32 384 £550 -7.87% 251
North of England -12 116 £525 - 51
South West +13 83 £500 +11.11% 26
North West +1 77 £550 +10.00% 31
South East -47 73 £525 -9.68% 51
Midlands -35 65 £508 -3.33% 31
West Midlands -36 50 £500 -4.76% 14
Yorkshire -35 29 £550 +4.76% 18
East of England 0 23 £575 +202.63% 21
East Midlands -10 14 £525 +0.96% 17
North East -36 10 £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 25 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.13%) Confluence
3 14 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.30%) Apache
5 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.04%) 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%) Camunda
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%) Appian
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 30 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.78%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.65%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.52%) Magento
8 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.26%) Infor LN
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
10 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.26%) Shopify
10 2 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 204 (26.60%) Azure
2 171 (22.29%) AWS
3 62 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 51 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (4.69%) GCP
6 34 (4.43%) SaaS
7 30 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (2.87%) Serverless
10 21 (2.74%) dbt
11 20 (2.61%) GitHub
12 18 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (2.22%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (1.96%) OCI
14 15 (1.96%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.83%) Boomi
15 14 (1.83%) Snowflake
16 13 (1.69%) Entra ID
16 13 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.17%) 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 49 (6.39%) Power BI
2 43 (5.61%) SQL Server
3 40 (5.22%) Metadata
4 30 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.13%) Oracle Database
6 23 (3.00%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.09%) MySQL
9 14 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.69%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.43%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
13 9 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (0.91%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.91%) Pentaho
15 7 (0.91%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.78%) Data Mart
16 6 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (6.39%) JIRA
2 41 (5.35%) Git
3 9 (1.17%) 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%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) Capybara
General
1 235 (30.64%) Finance
2 207 (26.99%) Social Skills
3 111 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 84 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (7.69%) Banking
6 31 (4.04%) Retail
7 29 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.39%) Billing
9 25 (3.26%) Manufacturing
10 23 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.09%) Local Government
13 15 (1.96%) Military
14 14 (1.83%) Legal
15 12 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.30%) Marketing
17 8 (1.04%) Back Office
17 8 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
17 8 (1.04%) Law
17 8 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (17.21%) Architect
2 107 (13.95%) Lead
3 81 (10.56%) Senior
4 79 (10.30%) Analyst
5 74 (9.65%) Data Engineer
6 68 (8.87%) Developer
7 46 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
8 44 (5.74%) Project Manager
9 36 (4.69%) Business Analyst
10 31 (4.04%) Consultant
11 27 (3.52%) Data Architect
12 26 (3.39%) Product Manager
13 22 (2.87%) Data Analyst
14 15 (1.96%) Digital Product Manager
14 15 (1.96%) Lead Data Engineer
15 14 (1.83%) Senior Manager
15 14 (1.83%) Systems Analyst
16 13 (1.69%) Migration Engineer
16 13 (1.69%) Technical Architect
16 13 (1.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.34%) .NET
2 44 (5.74%) REST
3 25 (3.26%) .NET Framework
4 24 (3.13%) Middleware
5 22 (2.87%) Kafka
6 20 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 20 (2.61%) React
7 19 (2.48%) CSS
7 19 (2.48%) PySpark
7 19 (2.48%) RESTful
8 18 (2.35%) Spring
8 18 (2.35%) Spring Boot
9 16 (2.09%) .NET Core
9 16 (2.09%) JSON
9 16 (2.09%) SOAP
10 15 (1.96%) HTML
11 14 (1.83%) XML
12 10 (1.30%) HTML5
12 10 (1.30%) Node.js
13 9 (1.17%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 103 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.39%) Data Structures
3 45 (5.87%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 36 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (1.83%) Mainframe
9 13 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.43%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.30%) Legacy Code
13 9 (1.17%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.91%) LIMS
15 7 (0.91%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.13%) Windows
2 45 (5.87%) Linux
3 34 (4.43%) Unix
4 16 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.83%) Solaris
6 12 (1.56%) 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
1 356 (46.41%) Migration
2 197 (25.68%) Agile
3 171 (22.29%) Data Migration
4 167 (21.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 140 (18.25%) Data Modelling
6 136 (17.73%) DevOps
7 132 (17.21%) CI/CD
8 128 (16.69%) Roadmaps
9 125 (16.30%) Analytics
10 116 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (14.99%) Validation
12 89 (11.60%) ERP
13 85 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 77 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
15 71 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
16 70 (9.13%) ETL
17 69 (9.00%) Microservices
18 65 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
19 64 (8.34%) AI
19 64 (8.34%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 151 (19.69%) SQL
2 111 (14.47%) Python
3 51 (6.65%) C#
4 44 (5.74%) Java
4 44 (5.74%) JavaScript
5 39 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.26%) PL/SQL
7 20 (2.61%) Bicep
8 17 (2.22%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.30%) C
10 9 (1.17%) C++
11 8 (1.04%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.78%) 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%) VB
Qualifications
1 178 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 156 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.35%) Degree
4 20 (2.61%) Azure Certification
4 20 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.91%) CISSP
9 7 (0.91%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.65%) RHCE
11 4 (0.52%) CCNA
11 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.52%) PMP
11 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.65%) QA
3 41 (5.35%) GDPR
4 25 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.96%) PMO
6 14 (1.83%) NCSC
7 12 (1.56%) WCAG
8 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.78%) GRC
9 6 (0.78%) NIST
10 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.52%) BS7666
11 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.39%) HL7
12 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.39%) SEPA
13 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (5.48%) Docker
2 17 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.65%) 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 47 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.48%) Terraform
3 13 (1.69%) Grafana
4 9 (1.17%) 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
1 125 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 115 (14.99%) Oracle
3 67 (8.74%) SAP
4 50 (6.52%) Salesforce
5 40 (5.22%) Databricks
6 19 (2.48%) Workday
7 15 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.69%) IBM
8 13 (1.69%) Talend
9 12 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.43%) Informatica
10 11 (1.43%) VMware
11 8 (1.04%) HP
11 8 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.91%) Cisco
12 7 (0.91%) Denodo
12 7 (0.91%) Google
13 6 (0.78%) Baan
13 6 (0.78%) NEC
14 5 (0.65%) Remedy