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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 195 298
Rank change year-on-year +31 +103 +2
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 776 400 246
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.45% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.15% 4.16% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 258 164
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% - -
75th Percentile £650 £670 £638
90th Percentile £738 £775 £770
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -3.55% +4.27% +0.48%
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 £66.25 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.03% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £71.88 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £83.88 £71.20 -
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 15,069 9,612 10,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.32% 34.85% 31.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,349 6,073 7,005
10th Percentile £316 £305 £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 816 480 633
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.85
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.22% -27.22% +9.70%
75th Percentile £71.13 £60.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £87.33 £80.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.11%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +30 389 £550 -5.98% 107
North of England -18 119 £525 -4.55% 26
South West +18 84 £500 +11.11% 19
North West +2 78 £545 -12.80% 14
South East -47 76 £550 -5.38% 39
Midlands -33 63 £505 -3.81% 15
West Midlands -39 47 £505 -3.81% 7
Yorkshire -37 31 £525 - 12
East of England -9 22 £575 +202.63% 8
East Midlands -11 15 £505 +1.51% 8
North East -37 10 £480 -12.33% 1
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 23 (2.96%) 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%) Appian
7 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.52%) nginx
7 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.39%) OpenROAD
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 23 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 30 (3.87%) 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 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.52%) Magento
7 4 (0.52%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.52%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.39%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.26%) Maximo
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 203 (26.16%) Azure
2 168 (21.65%) AWS
3 64 (8.25%) Power Platform
4 51 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (4.64%) SaaS
6 33 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 33 (4.25%) GCP
7 27 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (3.22%) Serverless
9 19 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 19 (2.45%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.19%) dbt
10 17 (2.19%) GitHub
11 14 (1.80%) Boomi
11 14 (1.80%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (1.68%) OCI
13 12 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.55%) DNS
2 6 (0.77%) 4G
2 6 (0.77%) 5G
3 5 (0.64%) Firewall
3 5 (0.64%) HTTP
3 5 (0.64%) Network Security
3 5 (0.64%) PSTN
4 4 (0.52%) Intranet
4 4 (0.52%) IP Telephony
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 51 (6.57%) Power BI
2 50 (6.44%) SQL Server
3 37 (4.77%) Metadata
4 28 (3.61%) Oracle Database
5 25 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (1.80%) MySQL
10 13 (1.68%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.42%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
13 9 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.03%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (0.90%) Pentaho
15 7 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (0.77%) Data Mart
16 6 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 52 (6.70%) JIRA
2 38 (4.90%) Git
3 7 (0.90%) MSI
4 6 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.64%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.64%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.64%) Gatling
5 5 (0.64%) 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 (31.31%) Finance
2 213 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 104 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 88 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.47%) Banking
6 33 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.74%) Retail
8 25 (3.22%) Billing
8 25 (3.22%) Manufacturing
9 22 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.19%) Military
12 16 (2.06%) Local Government
13 13 (1.68%) Legal
14 11 (1.42%) Marketing
15 10 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 8 (1.03%) Law
18 7 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 131 (16.88%) Architect
2 106 (13.66%) Lead
3 83 (10.70%) Analyst
4 81 (10.44%) Senior
5 73 (9.41%) Developer
6 71 (9.15%) Data Engineer
7 47 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
8 43 (5.54%) Project Manager
9 37 (4.77%) Business Analyst
10 28 (3.61%) Consultant
11 27 (3.48%) Product Manager
12 25 (3.22%) Data Analyst
13 24 (3.09%) Data Architect
14 16 (2.06%) Software Engineer
15 15 (1.93%) Digital Product Manager
15 15 (1.93%) Tester
16 14 (1.80%) Lead Data Engineer
16 14 (1.80%) Systems Analyst
16 14 (1.80%) Technical Architect
17 13 (1.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.25%) .NET
2 43 (5.54%) REST
3 26 (3.35%) .NET Framework
4 24 (3.09%) Middleware
4 24 (3.09%) 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 16 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (1.93%) SOAP
11 14 (1.80%) JSON
12 13 (1.68%) XML
13 12 (1.55%) OAuth
14 10 (1.29%) Node.js
15 9 (1.16%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 100 (12.89%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.44%) Data Structures
3 46 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (4.64%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (1.80%) Mainframe
9 12 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.29%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.03%) LIMS
12 8 (1.03%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.90%) PKI
13 7 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.19%) Windows
2 47 (6.06%) Linux
3 33 (4.25%) Unix
4 19 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.80%) Solaris
6 12 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.90%) HPUX
8 5 (0.64%) AIX
8 5 (0.64%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.64%) 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
1 352 (45.36%) Migration
2 192 (24.74%) Agile
3 178 (22.94%) Data Migration
4 162 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 136 (17.53%) DevOps
6 135 (17.40%) Data Modelling
7 131 (16.88%) Roadmaps
8 130 (16.75%) CI/CD
9 124 (15.98%) Analytics
10 123 (15.85%) Validation
11 121 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (10.70%) ERP
14 79 (10.18%) User Acceptance Testing
15 76 (9.79%) ETL
16 73 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
17 68 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
17 68 (8.76%) Microservices
18 65 (8.38%) AI
19 64 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 160 (20.62%) SQL
2 110 (14.18%) Python
3 52 (6.70%) C#
4 45 (5.80%) Java
5 44 (5.67%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.15%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.35%) 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 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.64%) VBA
14 4 (0.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 180 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 154 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.90%) Degree
4 23 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.77%) CISSP
10 6 (0.77%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.64%) 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
1 105 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.57%) QA
3 46 (5.93%) GDPR
4 23 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.93%) PMO
6 12 (1.55%) NCSC
7 10 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.16%) WCAG
9 7 (0.90%) GRC
10 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.52%) BS7666
11 4 (0.52%) HL7
11 4 (0.52%) NIST
11 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.39%) DICOM
12 3 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.39%) SEPA
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (5.80%) Docker
2 19 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.42%) 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%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 47 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.15%) Terraform
3 14 (1.80%) Grafana
4 9 (1.16%) Ansible
5 5 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.64%) 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%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.13%) vMotion
Vendors
1 121 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 112 (14.43%) Oracle
3 65 (8.38%) SAP
4 50 (6.44%) Salesforce
5 39 (5.03%) Databricks
6 22 (2.84%) Workday
7 14 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.80%) Talend
7 14 (1.80%) VMware
8 13 (1.68%) IBM
9 12 (1.55%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.16%) Informatica
10 9 (1.16%) NEC
11 8 (1.03%) HP
11 8 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.90%) Cisco
12 7 (0.90%) Denodo
12 7 (0.90%) Google
13 6 (0.77%) Baan
13 6 (0.77%) Siebel