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

6 months to
20 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 201 305
Rank change year-on-year +40 +104 -6
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 664 306 236
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.26% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.05% 3.69% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 208 161
10th Percentile £400 £356 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.41% -
75th Percentile £650 £678 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £506
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.70% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 9
10th Percentile £23.38 £17.91 -
25th Percentile £34.44 £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 £66.88 £16.20
90th Percentile £84.70 £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 13,147 8,297 11,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.98% 34.17% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 5,416 7,323
10th Percentile £313 £300 £266
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £626 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 340 817
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.59 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.91 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.70% -0.26% +51.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £84.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £31.91 £31.50
% change year-on-year +31.45% +1.29% +40.33%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +58 332 £550 -8.33% 87
North of England -20 86 £503 -19.20% 43
South West +13 74 £500 -14.89% 30
South East -22 71 £500 +25.00% 49
Midlands -44 60 £475 -5.00% 30
North West -15 46 £550 -17.36% 24
West Midlands -32 45 £475 -9.52% 13
Yorkshire -42 29 £500 +5.26% 12
East of England -16 21 £575 +15.00% 18
East Midlands -29 14 £505 +1.00% 17
North East -15 11 £490 -14.78% 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 21 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.11%) Confluence
3 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.20%) Appian
4 8 (1.20%) IIS
5 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.90%) Apache
6 6 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.60%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) nginx
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.30%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 26 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (5.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.51%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.20%) NEC Housing
4 7 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.60%) Magento
6 4 (0.60%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.60%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.60%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.60%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.45%) iTrent
7 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.45%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.45%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.45%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.30%) Shopify
8 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 156 (23.49%) Azure
2 136 (20.48%) AWS
3 45 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 33 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (3.77%) SaaS
7 23 (3.46%) Serverless
8 20 (3.01%) GCP
9 17 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (2.56%) GitHub
10 14 (2.11%) Boomi
10 14 (2.11%) Power Automate
11 11 (1.66%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.51%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (1.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.81%) DNS
2 6 (0.90%) 4G
2 6 (0.90%) 5G
3 5 (0.75%) Firewall
3 5 (0.75%) Network Security
4 3 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.45%) HTTP
4 3 (0.45%) Intranet
4 3 (0.45%) VoIP
5 2 (0.30%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.30%) Broadband
5 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.30%) MQTT
5 2 (0.30%) NAS
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) SSH
5 2 (0.30%) VLAN
5 2 (0.30%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.28%) SQL Server
2 37 (5.57%) Power BI
3 26 (3.92%) Metadata
4 23 (3.46%) Oracle Database
5 20 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.81%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.51%) MySQL
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.20%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.20%) GIS
10 8 (1.20%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.05%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (6.63%) JIRA
2 23 (3.46%) Git
3 8 (1.20%) MLflow
4 5 (0.75%) Selenium
5 4 (0.60%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.60%) Subversion
6 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.45%) GitLab
6 3 (0.45%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.30%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.30%) JUnit
7 2 (0.30%) Mocha
7 2 (0.30%) Mockito
7 2 (0.30%) MSTest
7 2 (0.30%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 209 (31.48%) Finance
2 193 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 88 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.65%) Public Sector
5 45 (6.78%) Banking
6 26 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.26%) Local Government
7 15 (2.26%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.11%) Billing
8 14 (2.11%) Military
8 14 (2.11%) Retail
9 12 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.66%) Marketing
11 10 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.20%) Legal
14 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.05%) Police
14 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 100 (15.06%) Architect
2 82 (12.35%) Lead
3 73 (10.99%) Analyst
4 57 (8.58%) Senior
5 50 (7.53%) Developer
6 42 (6.33%) Data Engineer
7 41 (6.17%) Project Manager
8 40 (6.02%) Business Analyst
9 36 (5.42%) Consultant
10 28 (4.22%) Data Analyst
10 28 (4.22%) Product Manager
11 24 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (2.86%) Technical Architect
13 18 (2.71%) Data Architect
14 16 (2.41%) Migration Manager
14 16 (2.41%) Project Officer
14 16 (2.41%) Software Engineer
15 15 (2.26%) Digital Product Manager
15 15 (2.26%) Tester
16 14 (2.11%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.68%) .NET
2 23 (3.46%) REST
3 22 (3.31%) RESTful
4 19 (2.86%) .NET Framework
4 19 (2.86%) React
5 17 (2.56%) Middleware
6 15 (2.26%) Kafka
7 12 (1.81%) CSS
7 12 (1.81%) FastAPI
7 12 (1.81%) OAuth
7 12 (1.81%) OpenAPI
7 12 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (1.81%) Swagger
8 11 (1.66%) .NET Core
8 11 (1.66%) Django
9 10 (1.51%) HTML
9 10 (1.51%) JSON
9 10 (1.51%) Spring
9 10 (1.51%) Spring Boot
9 10 (1.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.48%) Data Structures
3 33 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (4.07%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.71%) Legacy Applications
8 17 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.26%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.66%) Legacy Code
11 10 (1.51%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.20%) LIMS
12 8 (1.20%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.05%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.72%) Linux
2 36 (5.42%) Windows
3 19 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.56%) Unix
5 7 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.05%) Solaris
6 5 (0.75%) HPUX
7 4 (0.60%) AIX
7 4 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.60%) SUSE
8 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) VMS
9 2 (0.30%) Debian
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (46.54%) Migration
2 167 (25.15%) Data Migration
3 139 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 134 (20.18%) Agile
5 120 (18.07%) Validation
6 112 (16.87%) Data Modelling
7 107 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (15.66%) Roadmaps
9 99 (14.91%) CI/CD
10 96 (14.46%) DevOps
11 91 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
12 83 (12.50%) ERP
13 77 (11.60%) ETL
14 76 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 75 (11.30%) Analytics
16 54 (8.13%) AI
16 54 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 49 (7.38%) Data Cleansing
17 49 (7.38%) Data Pipeline
18 48 (7.23%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 130 (19.58%) SQL
2 81 (12.20%) Python
3 41 (6.17%) C#
3 41 (6.17%) Java
4 21 (3.16%) TypeScript
5 20 (3.01%) PowerShell
6 17 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.26%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.51%) Bicep
9 7 (1.05%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.90%) Perl
10 6 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.75%) Ruby
12 4 (0.60%) Ada
12 4 (0.60%) C++
12 4 (0.60%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.45%) C
13 3 (0.45%) COBOL
13 3 (0.45%) Korn
13 3 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 125 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 105 (15.81%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.52%) Degree
4 13 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.05%) CISSP
7 7 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.60%) ACCA
10 4 (0.60%) CIMA
10 4 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.60%) RHCE
11 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.45%) PMP
12 2 (0.30%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (15.81%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.48%) QA
3 41 (6.17%) GDPR
4 15 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.51%) PMO
7 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.75%) GRC
8 5 (0.75%) NIST
9 4 (0.60%) BS7666
9 4 (0.60%) HL7
9 4 (0.60%) NCSC
9 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.45%) DICOM
10 3 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.45%) SEPA
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.15%) GMP
12 1 (0.15%) SLA
12 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (5.42%) Docker
2 13 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.30%) NFS
6 2 (0.30%) QEMU
6 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.77%) Terraform
3 13 (1.96%) Grafana
4 8 (1.20%) Ansible
5 5 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.60%) Kibana
7 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.30%) Avamar
8 2 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.30%) Podman
8 2 (0.30%) vMotion
9 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) SELinux
Vendors
1 80 (12.05%) Oracle
2 76 (11.45%) Microsoft
3 68 (10.24%) SAP
4 43 (6.48%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.22%) Databricks
6 27 (4.07%) Workday
7 15 (2.26%) Talend
8 14 (2.11%) VMware
9 11 (1.66%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.51%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.36%) Automation Anywhere
11 9 (1.36%) UiPath
12 8 (1.20%) IBM
12 8 (1.20%) Informatica
12 8 (1.20%) NEC
12 8 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.05%) Avaloq
13 7 (1.05%) Denodo
13 7 (1.05%) HP
13 7 (1.05%) Red Hat
242 Legacy Systems jobs in England