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 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 210 320
Rank change year-on-year +54 +110 -25
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 729 319 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.30% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.24% 3.77% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 215 156
10th Percentile £400 £358 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £659 £646
90th Percentile £750 £733 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 13
10th Percentile £23.38 £18.22 -
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 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.70 £82.25 £84.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £34.15
% change year-on-year +80.56% +5.43% -40.62%

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 13,903 8,469 11,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.56% 34.43% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 5,462 7,333
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 374 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £20.73 £15.39
Median hourly rate £42.30 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.55 £83.82 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £33.05 £35.58
% change year-on-year +24.05% -7.10% +58.75%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +65 371 £550 -7.41% 65
North of England -20 90 £506 -15.67% 34
South West +36 88 £523 +16.11% 29
South East -18 71 £500 -4.31% 35
Midlands -32 64 £500 - 23
North West -7 52 £550 -16.67% 21
West Midlands -32 49 £500 -2.44% 6
Yorkshire -44 26 £575 +9.52% 9
East of England -10 24 £575 -2.13% 14
East Midlands -16 14 £505 +3.59% 17
North East -26 12 £480 -16.52% 6
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 25 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.47%) Confluence
3 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.10%) Appian
5 7 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.96%) IIS
6 6 (0.82%) Apache
6 6 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) Camunda
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.27%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (4.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.37%) NEC Housing
3 10 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.69%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.55%) Magento
6 4 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.55%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.55%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.41%) iTrent
7 3 (0.41%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.41%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.41%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.27%) Maximo
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 171 (23.46%) Azure
2 152 (20.85%) AWS
3 51 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 39 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (3.57%) GCP
6 26 (3.57%) SaaS
7 24 (3.29%) Serverless
8 18 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.47%) Power Automate
9 16 (2.19%) GitHub
10 12 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (1.65%) Boomi
10 12 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (1.51%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.65%) DNS
2 6 (0.82%) 4G
2 6 (0.82%) 5G
3 5 (0.69%) Firewall
3 5 (0.69%) Network Security
4 4 (0.55%) HTTP
4 4 (0.55%) Intranet
5 3 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.41%) SSH
5 3 (0.41%) WAN
6 2 (0.27%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.27%) MQTT
6 2 (0.27%) NAS
6 2 (0.27%) PSTN
6 2 (0.27%) SAN
6 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.62%) Power BI
3 32 (4.39%) Metadata
4 28 (3.84%) Oracle Database
5 22 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (1.65%) MySQL
9 12 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.37%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.23%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.10%) GIS
12 8 (1.10%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (0.96%) Pentaho
13 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 50 (6.86%) JIRA
2 29 (3.98%) Git
3 8 (1.10%) MLflow
4 5 (0.69%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.69%) Cypress.io
4 5 (0.69%) Gatling
4 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.69%) Selenium
5 4 (0.55%) Subversion
6 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.41%) JUnit
6 3 (0.41%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.27%) GitLab
7 2 (0.27%) Mocha
7 2 (0.27%) MSI
7 2 (0.27%) MSTest
7 2 (0.27%) tSQLt
8 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 227 (31.14%) Finance
2 208 (28.53%) Social Skills
3 91 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.27%) Banking
6 30 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.61%) Billing
8 18 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.47%) Manufacturing
8 18 (2.47%) Retail
9 16 (2.19%) Local Government
10 12 (1.65%) Military
10 12 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.51%) Legal
11 11 (1.51%) Marketing
11 11 (1.51%) Publishing
12 9 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 112 (15.36%) Architect
2 95 (13.03%) Lead
3 74 (10.15%) Analyst
4 67 (9.19%) Senior
5 57 (7.82%) Developer
6 53 (7.27%) Data Engineer
7 45 (6.17%) Project Manager
8 37 (5.08%) Business Analyst
8 37 (5.08%) Consultant
9 36 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
10 29 (3.98%) Product Manager
11 28 (3.84%) Data Analyst
12 20 (2.74%) Data Architect
13 18 (2.47%) Software Engineer
13 18 (2.47%) Technical Architect
14 16 (2.19%) Digital Product Manager
15 15 (2.06%) Tester
16 14 (1.92%) Migration Manager
17 13 (1.78%) Data Migration Lead
17 13 (1.78%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.82%) .NET
2 29 (3.98%) REST
3 23 (3.16%) RESTful
4 22 (3.02%) .NET Framework
4 22 (3.02%) React
5 18 (2.47%) Middleware
6 16 (2.19%) CSS
6 16 (2.19%) Kafka
7 15 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
8 14 (1.92%) FastAPI
8 14 (1.92%) Spring
8 14 (1.92%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.78%) .NET Core
10 12 (1.65%) Django
10 12 (1.65%) HTML
10 12 (1.65%) OAuth
11 11 (1.51%) JSON
11 11 (1.51%) OpenAPI
11 11 (1.51%) Swagger
12 10 (1.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.31%) Data Structures
3 40 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 28 (3.84%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.78%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.51%) Legacy Code
11 10 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.10%) LIMS
13 8 (1.10%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.90%) Linux
1 43 (5.90%) Windows
2 22 (3.02%) Unix
3 20 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.37%) Solaris
5 8 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.96%) HPUX
7 5 (0.69%) AIX
7 5 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.69%) SUSE
8 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.27%) Debian
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (46.36%) Migration
2 180 (24.69%) Data Migration
3 156 (21.40%) Agile
4 153 (20.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 129 (17.70%) Validation
6 122 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (16.32%) Data Modelling
8 116 (15.91%) Roadmaps
9 115 (15.78%) CI/CD
10 113 (15.50%) DevOps
11 94 (12.89%) Analytics
12 87 (11.93%) User Acceptance Testing
13 84 (11.52%) ERP
14 83 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 83 (11.39%) ETL
15 60 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 58 (7.96%) AI
17 57 (7.82%) Data Pipeline
17 57 (7.82%) Decision-Making
18 53 (7.27%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 150 (20.58%) SQL
2 96 (13.17%) Python
3 50 (6.86%) C#
4 43 (5.90%) Java
5 33 (4.53%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.43%) JavaScript
7 24 (3.29%) PowerShell
8 21 (2.88%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.65%) Bicep
10 8 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.82%) C
12 6 (0.82%) C++
12 6 (0.82%) Perl
12 6 (0.82%) Ruby
12 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.55%) ProC
14 4 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 148 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 127 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.39%) Degree
4 14 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.96%) CISSP
9 5 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (0.69%) RHCE
9 5 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.55%) ACCA
10 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.55%) CIMA
11 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.41%) PMP
11 3 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (15.23%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.17%) QA
3 43 (5.90%) GDPR
4 18 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.51%) PMO
7 6 (0.82%) GRC
7 6 (0.82%) NCSC
7 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.69%) NIST
9 4 (0.55%) BS7666
9 4 (0.55%) HL7
9 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.41%) DICOM
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.41%) SEPA
11 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 41 (5.62%) Docker
2 16 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.27%) NFS
6 2 (0.27%) QEMU
6 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.98%) Terraform
3 14 (1.92%) Grafana
4 9 (1.23%) Ansible
5 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.55%) Kibana
7 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.41%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.27%) Avamar
9 2 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.27%) Packer
9 2 (0.27%) Podman
9 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) vMotion
10 1 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.14%) SELinux
Vendors
1 97 (13.31%) Oracle
2 91 (12.48%) Microsoft
3 65 (8.92%) SAP
4 48 (6.58%) Salesforce
5 30 (4.12%) Databricks
6 23 (3.16%) Workday
7 15 (2.06%) VMware
8 14 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.92%) Talend
9 12 (1.65%) IBM
10 11 (1.51%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.37%) NEC
12 9 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
12 9 (1.23%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.23%) UiPath
13 8 (1.10%) HP
13 8 (1.10%) Informatica
13 8 (1.10%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.96%) Denodo
15 6 (0.82%) Siebel