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

6 months to
2 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 221 314
Rank change year-on-year +57 +93 +11
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 651 296 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.21% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.97% 3.55% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 199 163
10th Percentile £400 £359 £414
25th Percentile £450 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £651
90th Percentile £750 £755 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 9
10th Percentile £22.30 £17.59 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £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 £70.00 £16.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £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 13,086 8,341 11,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.39% 34.18% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 5,455 7,512
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 666 324 827
10th Percentile £16.05 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £33.96 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +38.42% +12.58% +34.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.75 £84.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +8.33% +33.42%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +44 332 £550 -8.33% 86
North of England -17 83 £500 -20.00% 39
South East -4 77 £550 +37.50% 40
South West +13 64 £500 -20.00% 34
Midlands -43 58 £450 -10.00% 35
West Midlands -31 48 £463 -7.50% 18
North West -21 41 £550 -16.67% 16
Yorkshire -27 32 £500 +11.11% 16
East of England -24 18 £540 +8.00% 22
North East -12 10 £490 -14.78% 7
East Midlands -40 9 £450 -10.00% 17
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 18 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.15%) Confluence
3 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.23%) Appian
4 8 (1.23%) IIS
5 7 (1.08%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.92%) Apache
6 6 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.46%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.31%) Camunda
9 2 (0.31%) nginx
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.31%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 27 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.31%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (5.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.08%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.77%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.61%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.61%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.61%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.46%) iTrent
7 3 (0.46%) Maximo
7 3 (0.46%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.46%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.46%) SAP Retail
7 3 (0.46%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.31%) Shopify
8 2 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 161 (24.73%) Azure
2 126 (19.35%) AWS
3 48 (7.37%) Power Platform
4 34 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (3.38%) Serverless
7 21 (3.23%) SaaS
8 18 (2.76%) GCP
9 15 (2.30%) Boomi
9 15 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (2.30%) GitHub
10 14 (2.15%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (1.84%) Snowflake
13 10 (1.54%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (1.54%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.30%) DNS
2 6 (0.92%) 4G
2 6 (0.92%) 5G
2 6 (0.92%) Network Security
3 5 (0.77%) Firewall
4 4 (0.61%) WAN
5 3 (0.46%) HTTP
5 3 (0.46%) Internet
5 3 (0.46%) Intranet
5 3 (0.46%) NAS
5 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.31%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.31%) Broadband
6 2 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.31%) MQTT
6 2 (0.31%) SAN
6 2 (0.31%) VLAN
6 2 (0.31%) VoIP
6 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.76%) SQL Server
2 40 (6.14%) Power BI
3 23 (3.53%) Metadata
4 22 (3.38%) Oracle Database
5 21 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (2.76%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.54%) GIS
10 9 (1.38%) MySQL
11 8 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.23%) Pinecone
11 8 (1.23%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.08%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (1.08%) Pentaho
12 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 45 (6.91%) JIRA
2 20 (3.07%) Git
3 8 (1.23%) MLflow
4 4 (0.61%) Selenium
5 3 (0.46%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.31%) GitLab
6 2 (0.31%) JUnit
6 2 (0.31%) Mockito
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.15%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) Mocha
7 1 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 206 (31.64%) Finance
2 190 (29.19%) Social Skills
3 87 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.07%) Banking
6 22 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.76%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.46%) Local Government
9 14 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.15%) Retail
10 13 (2.00%) Billing
10 13 (2.00%) Military
11 10 (1.54%) Marketing
12 9 (1.38%) Police
12 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.23%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.92%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 105 (16.13%) Architect
2 76 (11.67%) Lead
3 65 (9.98%) Analyst
4 60 (9.22%) Developer
5 48 (7.37%) Senior
6 42 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 40 (6.14%) Consultant
8 38 (5.84%) Business Analyst
9 33 (5.07%) Project Manager
10 29 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
11 26 (3.99%) Data Analyst
12 21 (3.23%) Product Manager
13 18 (2.76%) Technical Architect
14 17 (2.61%) Data Architect
15 16 (2.46%) Project Officer
15 16 (2.46%) Tester
16 15 (2.30%) Migration Engineer
16 15 (2.30%) Migration Manager
16 15 (2.30%) Software Engineer
17 13 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.68%) .NET
2 24 (3.69%) REST
3 22 (3.38%) .NET Framework
3 22 (3.38%) RESTful
4 18 (2.76%) React
5 16 (2.46%) Middleware
6 15 (2.30%) Kafka
7 14 (2.15%) .NET Core
8 12 (1.84%) OAuth
8 12 (1.84%) OpenAPI
8 12 (1.84%) Swagger
9 11 (1.69%) CSS
9 11 (1.69%) FastAPI
9 11 (1.69%) Web Services
10 10 (1.54%) Django
10 10 (1.54%) HTML
10 10 (1.54%) JSON
10 10 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (1.38%) Flask
11 9 (1.38%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.83%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.30%) Data Structures
3 26 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.92%) Legacy Applications
6 19 (2.92%) Mainframe
7 13 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.54%) Legacy Code
9 10 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.38%) LIMS
10 9 (1.38%) NHS
11 8 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.23%) Reference Data
11 8 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.08%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.14%) Windows
2 36 (5.53%) Linux
3 20 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.15%) Unix
5 6 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.92%) Solaris
6 5 (0.77%) HPUX
7 4 (0.61%) AIX
7 4 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.61%) SUSE
7 4 (0.61%) VMS
8 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.31%) Debian
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.31%) zOS
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.15%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (47.00%) Migration
2 158 (24.27%) Data Migration
3 134 (20.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 119 (18.28%) Agile
5 113 (17.36%) Validation
6 110 (16.90%) Data Modelling
7 100 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (14.59%) Roadmaps
9 89 (13.67%) DevOps
10 87 (13.36%) CI/CD
11 85 (13.06%) User Acceptance Testing
12 84 (12.90%) ERP
13 76 (11.67%) ETL
14 72 (11.06%) Analytics
15 68 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 53 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
18 52 (7.99%) AI
19 49 (7.53%) Data Cleansing
20 47 (7.22%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 137 (21.04%) SQL
2 72 (11.06%) Python
3 42 (6.45%) C#
4 37 (5.68%) Java
5 20 (3.07%) PowerShell
6 17 (2.61%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.46%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.30%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.38%) Bicep
10 7 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.92%) Perl
12 5 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.61%) Ada
13 4 (0.61%) COBOL
13 4 (0.61%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.61%) Ruby
13 4 (0.61%) VBA
14 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.46%) Korn
14 3 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 121 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 102 (15.67%) SC Cleared
3 23 (3.53%) Degree
4 16 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.08%) CISSP
9 6 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.61%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.61%) PMP
11 4 (0.61%) RHCE
12 3 (0.46%) ACCA
12 3 (0.46%) CIMA
13 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (15.51%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.30%) QA
3 39 (5.99%) GDPR
4 14 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.54%) PMO
7 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.77%) GRC
8 5 (0.77%) HL7
8 5 (0.77%) NCSC
9 4 (0.61%) BS7666
9 4 (0.61%) NIST
10 3 (0.46%) DICOM
10 3 (0.46%) SEPA
11 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.15%) GMP
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (5.07%) Docker
2 16 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.31%) NFS
6 2 (0.31%) QEMU
6 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.53%) Terraform
3 12 (1.84%) Grafana
4 5 (0.77%) Ansible
4 5 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.46%) Kibana
7 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.31%) Podman
7 2 (0.31%) vMotion
8 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.15%) Avamar
8 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.15%) SELinux
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 83 (12.75%) Oracle
2 80 (12.29%) Microsoft
3 69 (10.60%) SAP
4 42 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 32 (4.92%) Workday
6 28 (4.30%) Databricks
7 20 (3.07%) VMware
8 14 (2.15%) IBM
8 14 (2.15%) Talend
9 13 (2.00%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.84%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.54%) UiPath
12 9 (1.38%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (1.08%) Avaloq
13 7 (1.08%) Denodo
13 7 (1.08%) HP
13 7 (1.08%) Informatica
13 7 (1.08%) NEC
14 6 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.92%) Siebel
244 Legacy Systems jobs in England