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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 177 269
Rank change year-on-year -20 +92 +46
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 680 450 282
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.60% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.27% 4.40% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 300 162
10th Percentile £368 £410 £400
25th Percentile £434 £455 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -
75th Percentile £644 £638 £638
90th Percentile £735 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 6
10th Percentile £61.25 £29.37 £42.55
25th Percentile - £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -48.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £86.88 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £87.50 £73.20 £78.75
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 15,907 10,228 10,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.42% 36.40% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,560 6,400 6,068
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £645 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 533 364
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.13 £15.94
25th Percentile £17.45 £18.82 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +17.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.62 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% -42.11% +6.15%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +8 356 £550 - 346
North of England -29 109 £550 +4.76% 67
North West -5 72 £550 +15.79% 28
South West +15 71 £538 +19.56% 31
Midlands -57 52 £525 - 41
South East -70 43 £450 -18.18% 56
West Midlands -46 41 £515 -6.36% 25
Yorkshire -45 27 £581 +10.71% 29
East of England -13 22 £575 +202.63% 17
East Midlands -32 10 £525 +1.94% 16
North East -34 10 £500 +16.62% 10
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 31 (4.56%) Confluence
2 18 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.62%) Apache
5 8 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.44%) nginx
7 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) OpenROAD
8 2 (0.29%) SugarCRM
8 2 (0.29%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.15%) Appian
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Mule
9 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 30 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.76%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
3 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 25 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.91%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (1.76%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.74%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.74%) SAP ECC
6 5 (0.74%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.59%) Magento
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.44%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.29%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 192 (28.24%) Azure
2 148 (21.76%) AWS
3 60 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 49 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (6.18%) GCP
6 31 (4.56%) Dynamics 365
7 30 (4.41%) SaaS
8 25 (3.68%) Serverless
9 22 (3.24%) GitHub
10 21 (3.09%) dbt
10 21 (3.09%) Entra ID
11 19 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (2.65%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (2.35%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (1.76%) Amazon S3
16 12 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (1.76%) OCI
16 12 (1.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
2 7 (1.03%) Firewall
2 7 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.88%) VLAN
4 5 (0.74%) Network Security
4 5 (0.74%) PSTN
5 4 (0.59%) Intranet
5 4 (0.59%) IP Telephony
5 4 (0.59%) MPLS
5 4 (0.59%) SAN
6 3 (0.44%) ATM
6 3 (0.44%) DNS
6 3 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.44%) HTTP
6 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.44%) SDH
6 3 (0.44%) SSH
6 3 (0.44%) SSL
7 2 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.29%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.62%) Metadata
1 45 (6.62%) Power BI
2 33 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.35%) Oracle Database
4 16 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.76%) Power Query
6 12 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.47%) Delta Lake
8 9 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (1.18%) Data Mining
9 8 (1.18%) MySQL
9 8 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.03%) Tableau
11 6 (0.88%) Data Mart
11 6 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (7.50%) JIRA
2 40 (5.88%) Git
3 11 (1.62%) GitLab
3 11 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.32%) MSI
5 5 (0.74%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.74%) Gatling
6 4 (0.59%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.59%) Subversion
7 3 (0.44%) JUnit
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.29%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.29%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) MLflow
9 1 (0.15%) Postman
9 1 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 208 (30.59%) Finance
2 199 (29.26%) Social Skills
3 106 (15.59%) Public Sector
4 79 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.68%) Banking
6 32 (4.71%) Retail
7 27 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.38%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.09%) Billing
11 18 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.06%) Legal
12 14 (2.06%) Military
13 13 (1.91%) Local Government
14 12 (1.76%) Back Office
15 10 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.32%) Front Office
16 9 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
17 8 (1.18%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (17.79%) Architect
2 94 (13.82%) Lead
3 84 (12.35%) Analyst
4 77 (11.32%) Senior
5 71 (10.44%) Developer
6 56 (8.24%) Data Engineer
7 52 (7.65%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (5.74%) Project Manager
9 35 (5.15%) Business Analyst
10 34 (5.00%) Data Analyst
11 23 (3.38%) Consultant
12 22 (3.24%) Data Architect
12 22 (3.24%) Product Manager
13 20 (2.94%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (2.21%) Digital Product Manager
16 15 (2.21%) Senior Developer
17 13 (1.91%) Senior Manager
18 12 (1.76%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.35%) .NET
2 49 (7.21%) Terraform
3 47 (6.91%) REST
4 23 (3.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (2.94%) PySpark
5 20 (2.94%) React
6 19 (2.79%) Kafka
6 19 (2.79%) RESTful
6 19 (2.79%) Spring
6 19 (2.79%) Spring Boot
7 18 (2.65%) SOAP
8 17 (2.50%) CSS
8 17 (2.50%) Middleware
9 15 (2.21%) JSON
9 15 (2.21%) XML
10 14 (2.06%) .NET Core
10 14 (2.06%) .NET Framework
11 13 (1.91%) HTML
12 11 (1.62%) Node.js
12 11 (1.62%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 90 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 55 (8.09%) Data Structures
3 41 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 41 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 33 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (3.09%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.06%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.62%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.47%) PKI
13 9 (1.32%) Mainframe
14 8 (1.18%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.03%) NHS
16 6 (0.88%) Derivative
16 6 (0.88%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.29%) Windows
2 33 (4.85%) Unix
3 31 (4.56%) Linux
4 12 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.47%) Solaris
6 5 (0.74%) HPUX
7 4 (0.59%) CentOS
7 4 (0.59%) VMS
8 3 (0.44%) AIX
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.44%) SUSE
9 2 (0.29%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (47.35%) Migration
2 201 (29.56%) Agile
3 174 (25.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 150 (22.06%) Data Migration
5 139 (20.44%) CI/CD
6 125 (18.38%) DevOps
7 122 (17.94%) Data Modelling
8 112 (16.47%) Roadmaps
9 111 (16.32%) Validation
10 110 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (14.85%) Analytics
12 81 (11.91%) AI
13 78 (11.47%) Microservices
14 77 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
16 67 (9.85%) ERP
17 64 (9.41%) Data Governance
18 63 (9.26%) User Acceptance Testing
19 62 (9.12%) Infrastructure as Code
20 61 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 140 (20.59%) SQL
2 120 (17.65%) Python
3 45 (6.62%) C#
3 45 (6.62%) JavaScript
3 45 (6.62%) TypeScript
4 43 (6.32%) Java
5 23 (3.38%) PL/SQL
6 18 (2.65%) Bicep
7 12 (1.76%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.32%) C
8 9 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.18%) Bash
9 8 (1.18%) C++
9 8 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.74%) ProC
10 5 (0.74%) R
10 5 (0.74%) Ruby
10 5 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 159 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 134 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.29%) Degree
4 20 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.88%) CISSP
11 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.59%) CCNA
12 4 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.59%) PMP
12 4 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (14.12%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.47%) QA
3 24 (3.53%) GDPR
4 23 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.21%) WCAG
6 14 (2.06%) NCSC
7 12 (1.76%) PMO
8 10 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.03%) NIST
10 5 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.59%) GRC
12 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.15%) SEPA
14 1 (0.15%) SLA
14 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (5.29%) Docker
2 17 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) Firmware
4 3 (0.44%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.06%) Ansible
3 9 (1.32%) Grafana
4 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.59%) Kibana
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle ZFS
7 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.44%) Control-M
8 2 (0.29%) Avamar
8 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.29%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.15%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 131 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 94 (13.82%) Oracle
3 51 (7.50%) SAP
4 35 (5.15%) Databricks
5 27 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.91%) Google
6 13 (1.91%) IBM
6 13 (1.91%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.76%) Workday
8 8 (1.18%) Cisco
8 8 (1.18%) Informatica
9 6 (0.88%) Infor
10 5 (0.74%) Baan
10 5 (0.74%) BMC
10 5 (0.74%) NEC
10 5 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.74%) Remedy
10 5 (0.74%) Sage
10 5 (0.74%) Teradata
10 5 (0.74%) VMware
576 Legacy Systems jobs in England