Legacy Systems Contracts 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 319 308
Rank change year-on-year +99 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 293 232 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.20% 0.62% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.53% 2.02% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 164 288
10th Percentile £359 £415 £396
25th Percentile £450 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 £556
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -2.92% +1.14%
75th Percentile £688 £651 £666
90th Percentile £760 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £563 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile £17.59 - £35.25
25th Percentile £31.50 £15.39 £56.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £16.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £88.00 £66.20
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%

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 8,299 11,467 17,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.10% 30.81% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,427 7,502 11,797
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 825 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in England.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in England.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in England

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 +104 163 £600 +5.49% 133
North of England +31 41 £635 +27.00% 56
Midlands +30 32 £500 -16.67% 39
North West +5 26 £660 +32.00% 28
South East +37 25 £400 -21.99% 53
South West +51 19 £625 +34.41% 23
West Midlands +11 18 £500 -16.67% 29
East Midlands +20 14 £500 -11.50% 10
Yorkshire +23 10 £425 -15.00% 19
East of England +20 10 £500 -4.76% 12
North East -1 3 £575 -32.35% 10
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.71%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.37%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.02%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (6.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.75%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.37%) Aladdin
4 4 (1.37%) Endur
4 4 (1.37%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.02%) SAP MM
5 3 (1.02%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.68%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.68%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.68%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.68%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.68%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (19.11%) Azure
2 52 (17.75%) AWS
3 23 (7.85%) GCP
4 17 (5.80%) Snowflake
5 16 (5.46%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.10%) Amazon S3
7 11 (3.75%) GitHub
7 11 (3.75%) SaaS
7 11 (3.75%) Serverless
8 8 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.73%) OCI
9 6 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 6 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.05%) CloudFront
9 6 (2.05%) Route 53
10 5 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.02%) WAN
2 2 (0.68%) BGP
2 2 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.68%) Firewall
2 2 (0.68%) LAN
2 2 (0.68%) Multicast
2 2 (0.68%) Network Security
2 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.68%) VPN
2 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.34%) DHCP
3 1 (0.34%) DNS
3 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.34%) Extranet
3 1 (0.34%) Intranet
3 1 (0.34%) MPLS
3 1 (0.34%) OSPF
3 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (4.78%) Power BI
4 12 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.41%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.41%) Metadata
6 9 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.39%) Data Mining
8 7 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.39%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.39%) Redis
9 6 (2.05%) Big Data
9 6 (2.05%) DocumentDB
9 6 (2.05%) Tableau
10 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.37%) DB2
12 3 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (1.02%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (4.78%) JIRA
2 8 (2.73%) GitLab
3 7 (2.39%) Postman
4 6 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.37%) Git
5 4 (1.37%) Selenium
5 4 (1.37%) Subversion
6 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.02%) ERwin
7 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.68%) JMeter
7 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.34%) LSMW
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 90 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 82 (27.99%) Finance
3 40 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.24%) Banking
5 25 (8.53%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.46%) Retail
7 9 (3.07%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.73%) Front Office
8 8 (2.73%) Marketing
9 7 (2.39%) Law
9 7 (2.39%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.05%) Back Office
10 6 (2.05%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.71%) Billing
11 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.71%) Military
11 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Legal
12 4 (1.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 64 (21.84%) Architect
2 35 (11.95%) Developer
3 34 (11.60%) Consultant
4 32 (10.92%) Analyst
5 31 (10.58%) Lead
6 24 (8.19%) Data Architect
7 23 (7.85%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (7.17%) Project Manager
8 21 (7.17%) Senior
9 20 (6.83%) Data Engineer
10 18 (6.14%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.75%) Migration Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) Data Consultant
12 9 (3.07%) Migration Consultant
13 8 (2.73%) Data Migration Engineer
13 8 (2.73%) Functional Consultant
13 8 (2.73%) SAP Consultant
14 7 (2.39%) C# Developer
14 7 (2.39%) Data Analyst
14 7 (2.39%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.46%) .NET
2 13 (4.44%) RESTful
3 11 (3.75%) .NET Core
4 10 (3.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (3.07%) Kafka
6 6 (2.05%) GraphQL
6 6 (2.05%) React
6 6 (2.05%) Web Services
7 5 (1.71%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.71%) Node.js
7 5 (1.71%) XML
8 4 (1.37%) Blazor
8 4 (1.37%) Middleware
8 4 (1.37%) REST
8 4 (1.37%) SOAP
9 3 (1.02%) Pandas
9 3 (1.02%) pydantic
9 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.02%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (1.02%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.14%) Data Structures
2 16 (5.46%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.07%) Reference Data
6 8 (2.73%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.39%) Derivative
7 7 (2.39%) SCADA
8 6 (2.05%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.37%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.37%) TWAP
10 4 (1.37%) VWAP
11 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.02%) Replication
12 2 (0.68%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.10%) Windows
2 3 (1.02%) Linux
3 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.68%) Unix
3 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) HPUX
4 1 (0.34%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.34%) Solaris
4 1 (0.34%) VMS
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (42.66%) Migration
2 72 (24.57%) Data Migration
3 56 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (18.77%) Data Modelling
5 53 (18.09%) Agile
6 45 (15.36%) ETL
7 39 (13.31%) Validation
8 38 (12.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (11.95%) CI/CD
9 35 (11.95%) ERP
10 30 (10.24%) Data Governance
11 26 (8.87%) Data Management
12 23 (7.85%) Project Management
13 22 (7.51%) CRM
14 21 (7.17%) Analytics
14 21 (7.17%) Data Architecture
14 21 (7.17%) DevOps
15 20 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (6.83%) Data Mapping
15 20 (6.83%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 74 (25.26%) SQL
2 39 (13.31%) Python
3 18 (6.14%) PL/SQL
4 17 (5.80%) C#
5 12 (4.10%) Java
6 9 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.39%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.39%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.71%) Bash
9 5 (1.71%) C++
9 5 (1.71%) Go
10 3 (1.02%) Bicep
11 2 (0.68%) ABAP
11 2 (0.68%) COBOL
11 2 (0.68%) JCL
11 2 (0.68%) Ruby
12 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.34%) R
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.53%) Degree
4 9 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.05%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.37%) PMP
7 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.68%) ACCA
8 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.68%) CIMA
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.34%) CSPO
9 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.24%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.17%) GDPR
3 12 (4.10%) QA
4 6 (2.05%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.34%) EMIR
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (3.41%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 14 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.07%) Terraform
3 3 (1.02%) Grafana
3 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.02%) Puppet
4 2 (0.68%) SCCM
5 1 (0.34%) Ansible
5 1 (0.34%) Istio
5 1 (0.34%) Podman
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (19.11%) Oracle
2 39 (13.31%) SAP
3 29 (9.90%) Microsoft
4 22 (7.51%) Salesforce
5 17 (5.80%) Google
6 9 (3.07%) Databricks
7 6 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.05%) Workday
8 5 (1.71%) Ariba
8 5 (1.71%) IBM
8 5 (1.71%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.37%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.37%) OpenLink
10 3 (1.02%) Avaya
10 3 (1.02%) Sun
11 2 (0.68%) Apple
11 2 (0.68%) Autodesk
11 2 (0.68%) Citrix
11 2 (0.68%) Ericsson
11 2 (0.68%) Talend