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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 189 274
Rank change year-on-year +13 +85 +34
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 725 409 262
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 1.49% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.72% 4.17% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 268 154
10th Percentile £375 £410 £405
25th Percentile £425 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £754
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £530
% change year-on-year -2.28% +1.37% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 5
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.60 £37.06
25th Percentile £61.25 £31.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.17 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.03% -49.76% +21.74%
75th Percentile £73.44 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.73 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £35.17 £70.00
% change year-on-year +99.03% -49.76% +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 15,374 9,819 10,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.70% 35.87% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,393 6,206 6,353
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -6.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 491 485
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £20.75
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -37.70% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +27.50% -33.33% +4.65%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +24 356 £550 -5.98% 259
North of England -5 114 £525 - 40
South West +18 84 £505 +12.22% 28
North West +3 77 £550 +13.40% 26
South East -48 63 £450 -21.74% 46
Midlands -47 62 £510 -2.39% 35
West Midlands -41 50 £500 -4.76% 14
Yorkshire -42 27 £525 -4.55% 10
East of England -5 23 £575 +202.63% 23
East Midlands -27 11 £525 +3.96% 21
North East -36 10 £480 -12.33% 4
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 28 (3.86%) Confluence
2 21 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.38%) Apache
5 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.97%) IIS
6 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) OpenROAD
8 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.28%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) Mule
10 1 (0.14%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 27 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 29 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.93%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (1.66%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.69%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.69%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.55%) Magento
7 4 (0.55%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.41%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.72%) Azure
2 174 (24.00%) AWS
3 56 (7.72%) Power Platform
4 48 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (5.10%) GCP
6 31 (4.28%) SaaS
7 30 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (3.17%) Serverless
10 22 (3.03%) GitHub
11 21 (2.90%) dbt
12 16 (2.21%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (2.07%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (1.93%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.93%) OCI
14 14 (1.93%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) DNS
1 5 (0.69%) Firewall
1 5 (0.69%) PSTN
2 4 (0.55%) Intranet
2 4 (0.55%) IP Telephony
2 4 (0.55%) Network Security
2 4 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (0.41%) ATM
3 3 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (0.41%) HTTP
3 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.41%) SAN
3 3 (0.41%) SSH
3 3 (0.41%) SSL
3 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.28%) DHCP
4 2 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.28%) MPLS
4 2 (0.28%) VLAN
4 2 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.07%) Metadata
2 42 (5.79%) Power BI
3 36 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 27 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (2.34%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.34%) Oracle Database
7 14 (1.93%) MySQL
8 13 (1.79%) Delta Lake
9 10 (1.38%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
11 8 (1.10%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.97%) Power Query
12 7 (0.97%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.83%) Data Mart
13 6 (0.83%) Pentaho
13 6 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (6.62%) JIRA
2 46 (6.34%) Git
3 10 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.24%) MSI
5 7 (0.97%) GitLab
6 5 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.69%) Gatling
7 4 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.55%) Selenium
7 4 (0.55%) Subversion
8 3 (0.41%) JUnit
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.28%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 215 (29.66%) Finance
2 199 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 110 (15.17%) Public Sector
4 83 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.14%) Banking
6 35 (4.83%) Retail
7 28 (3.86%) Billing
7 28 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.31%) Manufacturing
10 22 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.93%) Legal
12 12 (1.66%) Local Government
12 12 (1.66%) Military
12 12 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.38%) Back Office
14 9 (1.24%) Law
15 8 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
15 8 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 115 (15.86%) Architect
2 101 (13.93%) Lead
3 80 (11.03%) Analyst
4 78 (10.76%) Senior
5 73 (10.07%) Data Engineer
6 70 (9.66%) Developer
7 44 (6.07%) Project Manager
7 44 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
8 30 (4.14%) Business Analyst
8 30 (4.14%) Consultant
9 28 (3.86%) Data Analyst
10 26 (3.59%) Product Manager
11 23 (3.17%) Data Architect
12 18 (2.48%) Systems Analyst
13 17 (2.34%) Lead Data Engineer
14 15 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (2.07%) Digital Product Manager
15 14 (1.93%) Senior Manager
16 12 (1.66%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (1.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.69%) .NET
2 44 (6.07%) REST
3 43 (5.93%) Terraform
4 23 (3.17%) .NET Framework
5 22 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 20 (2.76%) PySpark
6 20 (2.76%) Spring
7 19 (2.62%) Kafka
7 19 (2.62%) React
7 19 (2.62%) Spring Boot
8 17 (2.34%) CSS
8 17 (2.34%) Middleware
8 17 (2.34%) RESTful
8 17 (2.34%) SOAP
9 16 (2.21%) JSON
10 15 (2.07%) XML
11 14 (1.93%) .NET Core
12 13 (1.79%) HTML
13 10 (1.38%) Django
13 10 (1.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 95 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 43 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
8 17 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.66%) Mainframe
11 11 (1.52%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.38%) Reference Data
13 9 (1.24%) Legacy Code
14 8 (1.10%) NHS
15 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.97%) PKI
15 7 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.66%) Windows
2 40 (5.52%) Linux
3 35 (4.83%) Unix
4 13 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.66%) Solaris
6 10 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.97%) HPUX
8 5 (0.69%) AIX
8 5 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.69%) SUSE
9 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 4 (0.55%) VMS
10 2 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (47.17%) Migration
2 198 (27.31%) Agile
3 165 (22.76%) Data Migration
4 160 (22.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 140 (19.31%) CI/CD
6 132 (18.21%) Data Modelling
6 132 (18.21%) DevOps
7 119 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (16.00%) Roadmaps
9 112 (15.45%) Validation
10 110 (15.17%) Analytics
11 81 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (10.90%) ERP
13 78 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
14 77 (10.62%) AI
15 70 (9.66%) Microservices
16 65 (8.97%) Data Governance
17 63 (8.69%) ETL
18 62 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
19 61 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 142 (19.59%) SQL
2 123 (16.97%) Python
3 50 (6.90%) C#
4 44 (6.07%) Java
4 44 (6.07%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.52%) TypeScript
6 23 (3.17%) PL/SQL
7 19 (2.62%) Bicep
8 17 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.38%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.24%) C
11 8 (1.10%) Bash
11 8 (1.10%) C++
12 7 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.69%) ProC
14 5 (0.69%) R
14 5 (0.69%) Ruby
14 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 171 (23.59%) Security Cleared
2 148 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.24%) Degree
4 19 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.34%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.10%) CISSP
8 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.83%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.83%) PMP
11 5 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.69%) RHCE
12 4 (0.55%) CCNA
12 4 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.62%) QA
3 33 (4.55%) GDPR
4 23 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.07%) NCSC
5 15 (2.07%) WCAG
6 13 (1.79%) PMO
7 9 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.97%) NIST
9 6 (0.83%) GRC
10 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.55%) BS7666
11 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.41%) HL7
12 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.28%) DICOM
13 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 38 (5.24%) Docker
2 13 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Firmware
4 3 (0.41%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.66%) Grafana
3 11 (1.52%) Ansible
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.55%) Kibana
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle ZFS
5 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.28%) Avamar
7 2 (0.28%) Control-M
7 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 120 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 106 (14.62%) Oracle
3 60 (8.28%) SAP
4 44 (6.07%) Salesforce
5 42 (5.79%) Databricks
6 14 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.79%) IBM
8 12 (1.66%) Workday
9 9 (1.24%) Google
10 8 (1.10%) Talend
11 7 (0.97%) Cisco
11 7 (0.97%) HP
11 7 (0.97%) Informatica
12 6 (0.83%) Baan
12 6 (0.83%) Denodo
12 6 (0.83%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.69%) NEC
13 5 (0.69%) Remedy
13 5 (0.69%) Siebel
13 5 (0.69%) VMware