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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 211 333
Rank change year-on-year +50 +122 -17
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 646 305 227
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.24% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.99% 3.64% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 205 159
10th Percentile £400 £358 £416
25th Percentile £450 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £654
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 10
10th Percentile £22.88 £17.59 -
25th Percentile £32.31 £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 £70.00 £19.05
90th Percentile £85.00 £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 12,954 8,379 11,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.60% 34.06% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,217 5,479 7,537
10th Percentile £304 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% -0.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 659 321 822
10th Percentile £16.07 £16.37 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% +19.30% +26.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.30 £84.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.05 £28.13
% change year-on-year +41.84% +13.96% +25.00%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +44 335 £550 -8.33% 74
North of England -26 83 £503 -19.52% 24
South East -3 80 £550 +35.97% 34
Midlands -36 56 £450 -10.00% 16
South West +1 53 £500 -20.00% 26
West Midlands -29 47 £450 -10.00% 13
North West -23 41 £550 -16.67% 10
Yorkshire -28 33 £500 +17.65% 7
East of England -24 18 £540 +3.85% 16
North East -9 9 £490 -14.78% 7
East Midlands -42 8 £444 -11.25% 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 15 (2.32%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.17%) Confluence
3 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.24%) Appian
4 8 (1.24%) IIS
5 7 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.08%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.93%) Apache
7 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.46%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.31%) Camunda
9 2 (0.31%) nginx
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.31%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 27 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.31%) Windchill
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 37 (5.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.08%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.77%) SAP MM
5 4 (0.62%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.62%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.46%) iTrent
6 3 (0.46%) Maximo
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.46%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.46%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.46%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.46%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.31%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 155 (23.99%) Azure
2 117 (18.11%) AWS
3 47 (7.28%) Power Platform
4 36 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (3.25%) Serverless
7 20 (3.10%) SaaS
8 19 (2.94%) GCP
9 18 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (2.48%) Boomi
11 13 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (2.01%) GitHub
12 12 (1.86%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.86%) Snowflake
13 10 (1.55%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (1.55%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.55%) OCI
14 9 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.32%) DNS
2 6 (0.93%) 4G
2 6 (0.93%) 5G
2 6 (0.93%) Network Security
3 4 (0.62%) Firewall
3 4 (0.62%) NAS
4 3 (0.46%) HTTP
4 3 (0.46%) Internet
4 3 (0.46%) WAN
5 2 (0.31%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.31%) Broadband
5 2 (0.31%) Intranet
5 2 (0.31%) MQTT
5 2 (0.31%) SAN
5 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.31%) VLAN
5 2 (0.31%) VoIP
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.15%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 37 (5.73%) Power BI
3 24 (3.72%) Metadata
4 21 (3.25%) Oracle Database
5 20 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.55%) GIS
9 10 (1.55%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.39%) MySQL
11 8 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.24%) Pinecone
11 8 (1.24%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.08%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.08%) Pentaho
12 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 44 (6.81%) JIRA
2 19 (2.94%) Git
3 8 (1.24%) MLflow
4 3 (0.46%) Selenium
4 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.15%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.15%) git-flow
6 1 (0.15%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) JUnit
6 1 (0.15%) Maven
6 1 (0.15%) Mocha
6 1 (0.15%) Mockito
6 1 (0.15%) MSTest
6 1 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.15%) tSQLt
General
1 215 (33.28%) Finance
2 192 (29.72%) Social Skills
3 87 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (13.00%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.28%) Banking
6 25 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.63%) Local Government
7 17 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.48%) Retail
9 13 (2.01%) Military
9 13 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.70%) Billing
12 10 (1.55%) Marketing
13 9 (1.39%) Police
13 9 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.08%) Automotive
16 6 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 111 (17.18%) Architect
2 80 (12.38%) Lead
3 64 (9.91%) Analyst
4 58 (8.98%) Developer
5 45 (6.97%) Data Engineer
6 44 (6.81%) Senior
7 41 (6.35%) Consultant
8 39 (6.04%) Business Analyst
9 33 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
10 31 (4.80%) Project Manager
11 25 (3.87%) Data Analyst
12 19 (2.94%) Technical Architect
13 16 (2.48%) Data Architect
13 16 (2.48%) Project Officer
13 16 (2.48%) Tester
14 15 (2.32%) Migration Engineer
14 15 (2.32%) Migration Manager
15 14 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (2.17%) Software Engineer
16 12 (1.86%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.89%) .NET
2 24 (3.72%) REST
3 21 (3.25%) .NET Framework
3 21 (3.25%) RESTful
4 17 (2.63%) React
5 16 (2.48%) Middleware
6 15 (2.32%) Kafka
7 14 (2.17%) .NET Core
8 13 (2.01%) OAuth
8 13 (2.01%) OpenAPI
8 13 (2.01%) Swagger
9 11 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (1.70%) Web Services
10 9 (1.39%) FastAPI
10 9 (1.39%) Flask
10 9 (1.39%) HTML
10 9 (1.39%) Pandas
10 9 (1.39%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.24%) JWT
11 8 (1.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.35%) Data Structures
3 27 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (3.10%) Legacy Applications
7 18 (2.79%) Mainframe
8 17 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.55%) Legacy Code
10 10 (1.55%) NHS
11 9 (1.39%) LIMS
11 9 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.39%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.24%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.08%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.04%) Windows
2 36 (5.57%) Linux
3 20 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.17%) Unix
5 6 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.93%) Solaris
6 5 (0.77%) HPUX
7 4 (0.62%) AIX
7 4 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.62%) SUSE
7 4 (0.62%) VMS
8 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.31%) Debian
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.31%) zOS
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.15%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (48.45%) Migration
2 166 (25.70%) Data Migration
3 137 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 114 (17.65%) Validation
5 113 (17.49%) Data Modelling
6 105 (16.25%) Agile
7 97 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (13.93%) DevOps
9 85 (13.16%) Roadmaps
9 85 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
10 84 (13.00%) ERP
11 83 (12.85%) CI/CD
12 73 (11.30%) ETL
13 72 (11.15%) Analytics
14 66 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 51 (7.89%) AI
15 51 (7.89%) Data Cleansing
16 50 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
17 49 (7.59%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 138 (21.36%) SQL
2 71 (10.99%) Python
3 44 (6.81%) C#
4 36 (5.57%) Java
5 19 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.17%) PL/SQL
7 12 (1.86%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.86%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.24%) Bicep
9 6 (0.93%) Perl
9 6 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.77%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.62%) Ada
11 4 (0.62%) COBOL
11 4 (0.62%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.62%) VBA
12 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.46%) C
12 3 (0.46%) Korn
12 3 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 120 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 100 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (3.10%) Degree
4 16 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.08%) CISSP
9 6 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.62%) PMP
11 4 (0.62%) RHCE
12 3 (0.46%) ACCA
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.46%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.35%) QA
3 37 (5.73%) GDPR
4 12 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.55%) PMO
6 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.77%) GRC
7 5 (0.77%) HL7
7 5 (0.77%) NCSC
7 5 (0.77%) NIST
8 4 (0.62%) BS7666
9 3 (0.46%) DICOM
9 3 (0.46%) SEPA
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) GMP
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (4.80%) Docker
2 15 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.31%) NFS
5 2 (0.31%) QEMU
5 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.25%) Terraform
3 10 (1.55%) Grafana
4 5 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.62%) Ansible
6 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.31%) Podman
7 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.31%) vMotion
8 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.15%) Avamar
8 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.15%) SELinux
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (13.16%) Oracle
2 78 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 67 (10.37%) SAP
4 39 (6.04%) Salesforce
5 32 (4.95%) Workday
6 28 (4.33%) Databricks
7 21 (3.25%) VMware
8 16 (2.48%) IBM
9 14 (2.17%) Talend
10 13 (2.01%) MuleSoft
10 13 (2.01%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.55%) UiPath
12 9 (1.39%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.24%) Avaloq
14 7 (1.08%) Denodo
14 7 (1.08%) HP
14 7 (1.08%) Informatica
14 7 (1.08%) NEC
15 6 (0.93%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.93%) Siebel
169 Legacy Systems jobs in England