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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 188 290
Rank change year-on-year +11 +102 +16
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 729 415 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.50% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.66% 4.18% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 273 155
10th Percentile £375 £410 £406
25th Percentile £425 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £735 £725 £754
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 5
10th Percentile £31.25 £31.50 £37.06
25th Percentile £61.25 £31.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £73.75 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £87.00 £71.50 -
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 15,658 9,926 10,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.81% 35.97% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,529 6,257 6,243
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £677
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 491 439
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.34
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £22.45
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.31 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.50 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +27.50% -39.39% +12.70%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +15 359 £550 -4.35% 224
North of England -19 115 £525 - 42
South West +9 84 £505 +12.22% 25
North West +2 78 £550 +15.79% 24
South East -50 63 £450 -21.74% 37
Midlands -51 61 £511 -0.24% 30
West Midlands -40 49 £500 -4.76% 16
Yorkshire -37 27 £525 -3.45% 11
East of England -7 23 £575 +202.63% 18
East Midlands -23 11 £525 +9.95% 14
North East -40 10 £480 -12.33% 7
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 29 (3.98%) Confluence
2 21 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.37%) Apache
5 7 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.96%) IIS
6 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.41%) nginx
7 3 (0.41%) OpenROAD
7 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) Camunda
8 2 (0.27%) CMS
8 2 (0.27%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) Mule
9 1 (0.14%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 27 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 30 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.69%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.69%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.55%) Magento
7 4 (0.55%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.41%) SAP ECC
8 3 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.41%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.57%) Azure
2 174 (23.87%) AWS
3 56 (7.68%) Power Platform
4 48 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (5.35%) GCP
6 32 (4.39%) SaaS
7 30 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (3.16%) GitHub
9 23 (3.16%) Serverless
10 21 (2.88%) dbt
11 16 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.19%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.06%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (1.92%) Entra ID
13 14 (1.92%) OCI
13 14 (1.92%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) Firewall
1 5 (0.69%) PSTN
2 4 (0.55%) DNS
2 4 (0.55%) Intranet
2 4 (0.55%) IP Telephony
2 4 (0.55%) Network Security
2 4 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (0.41%) ATM
3 3 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (0.41%) HTTP
3 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.41%) SAN
3 3 (0.41%) SSH
3 3 (0.41%) SSL
3 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.27%) DHCP
4 2 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.27%) MPLS
4 2 (0.27%) VLAN
4 2 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.04%) Metadata
2 42 (5.76%) Power BI
3 38 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 27 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.33%) Oracle Database
7 13 (1.78%) Delta Lake
7 13 (1.78%) MySQL
8 11 (1.51%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
10 8 (1.10%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.10%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.96%) Power Query
12 6 (0.82%) Data Mart
12 6 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.82%) Tableau
13 5 (0.69%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.69%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 49 (6.72%) JIRA
2 46 (6.31%) Git
3 11 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.23%) MSI
5 8 (1.10%) GitLab
6 5 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.69%) Gatling
7 4 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.55%) Selenium
7 4 (0.55%) Subversion
8 3 (0.41%) JUnit
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.27%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.27%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 220 (30.18%) Finance
2 201 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 109 (14.95%) Public Sector
4 83 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (8.78%) Banking
6 35 (4.80%) Retail
7 28 (3.84%) Billing
7 28 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 22 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.92%) Legal
12 13 (1.78%) Back Office
13 12 (1.65%) Local Government
13 12 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.51%) Military
15 9 (1.23%) Front Office
15 9 (1.23%) Law
16 8 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 115 (15.78%) Architect
2 100 (13.72%) Lead
3 80 (10.97%) Analyst
4 79 (10.84%) Senior
5 73 (10.01%) Developer
6 72 (9.88%) Data Engineer
7 45 (6.17%) Project Manager
8 44 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
9 30 (4.12%) Business Analyst
10 29 (3.98%) Consultant
11 28 (3.84%) Data Analyst
12 26 (3.57%) Product Manager
13 23 (3.16%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.47%) Systems Analyst
15 17 (2.33%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (2.06%) Digital Product Manager
17 14 (1.92%) Senior Manager
18 12 (1.65%) IT Manager
18 12 (1.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.64%) .NET
2 44 (6.04%) REST
2 44 (6.04%) Terraform
3 23 (3.16%) .NET Framework
3 23 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (2.88%) Spring
5 20 (2.74%) PySpark
5 20 (2.74%) React
5 20 (2.74%) Spring Boot
6 19 (2.61%) Kafka
7 17 (2.33%) CSS
7 17 (2.33%) JSON
7 17 (2.33%) Middleware
7 17 (2.33%) RESTful
7 17 (2.33%) SOAP
8 15 (2.06%) XML
9 14 (1.92%) .NET Core
10 13 (1.78%) HTML
11 11 (1.51%) Node.js
12 10 (1.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 97 (13.31%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.13%) Data Structures
3 42 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.62%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
9 14 (1.92%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.65%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.51%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.37%) Reference Data
14 9 (1.23%) Legacy Code
15 8 (1.10%) NHS
16 7 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.96%) PKI
16 7 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
17 6 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
17 6 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.62%) Windows
2 39 (5.35%) Linux
3 35 (4.80%) Unix
4 13 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.65%) Solaris
6 9 (1.23%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.96%) HPUX
8 5 (0.69%) AIX
8 5 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.69%) SUSE
9 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 4 (0.55%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (47.60%) Migration
2 198 (27.16%) Agile
3 165 (22.63%) Data Migration
4 160 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 143 (19.62%) CI/CD
6 133 (18.24%) DevOps
7 131 (17.97%) Data Modelling
8 120 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 115 (15.78%) Roadmaps
10 112 (15.36%) Validation
11 109 (14.95%) Analytics
12 82 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 79 (10.84%) ERP
14 78 (10.70%) AI
14 78 (10.70%) Data Pipeline
15 74 (10.15%) Microservices
16 65 (8.92%) Data Governance
17 63 (8.64%) ETL
18 62 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 62 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 144 (19.75%) SQL
2 125 (17.15%) Python
3 50 (6.86%) C#
4 46 (6.31%) Java
5 44 (6.04%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.16%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.61%) Bicep
9 17 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.51%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.23%) C
12 8 (1.10%) Bash
12 8 (1.10%) C++
13 7 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.69%) ProC
15 5 (0.69%) R
15 5 (0.69%) Ruby
15 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 169 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 146 (20.03%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.21%) Degree
4 19 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.10%) CISSP
8 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.82%) PMP
11 5 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.69%) RHCE
12 4 (0.55%) CCNA
12 4 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (13.99%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.72%) QA
3 32 (4.39%) GDPR
4 23 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.06%) NCSC
5 15 (2.06%) WCAG
6 13 (1.78%) PMO
7 9 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.96%) NIST
9 6 (0.82%) GRC
10 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.55%) BS7666
11 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.41%) HL7
12 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.27%) DICOM
13 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 40 (5.49%) Docker
2 12 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Firmware
4 3 (0.41%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 42 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.65%) Grafana
3 11 (1.51%) Ansible
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.55%) Kibana
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle ZFS
5 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.27%) Avamar
7 2 (0.27%) Control-M
7 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 119 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 108 (14.81%) Oracle
3 61 (8.37%) SAP
4 42 (5.76%) Databricks
4 42 (5.76%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.78%) IBM
7 12 (1.65%) Workday
8 9 (1.23%) Google
9 7 (0.96%) Cisco
9 7 (0.96%) HP
9 7 (0.96%) Informatica
9 7 (0.96%) Talend
10 6 (0.82%) Baan
10 6 (0.82%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.69%) Denodo
11 5 (0.69%) NEC
11 5 (0.69%) Remedy
11 5 (0.69%) Siebel
11 5 (0.69%) Teradata
374 Legacy Systems jobs in England