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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 220 331
Rank change year-on-year +53 +111 -5
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 594 295 248
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.19% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.79% 3.53% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 208 170
10th Percentile £400 £360 £413
25th Percentile £450 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £645
90th Percentile £740 £775 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 12
10th Percentile £20.00 £16.97 -
25th Percentile £31.50 £35.36 £15.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +343.32% -45.08%
75th Percentile £82.25 £82.25 £88.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.35 £90.03
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £70.00 £15.79
% change year-on-year -8.93% +343.32% -45.08%

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 12,406 8,364 11,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.69% 33.85% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,870 5,375 7,646
10th Percentile £297 £285 £258
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £663
90th Percentile £749 £785 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 293 789
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.95 £12.69
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +20.35% +25.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.80 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.75 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +16.07% +24.53%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +41 321 £550 -8.33% 66
North of England -39 71 £500 -20.00% 40
South East -7 70 £538 +2.87% 42
Midlands -27 58 £500 -2.44% 25
West Midlands -34 43 £500 -13.04% 15
South West +7 42 £525 -16.00% 26
Yorkshire -24 41 £519 +88.64% 10
North West -44 21 £475 -27.20% 22
East Midlands -30 15 £480 -4.00% 10
East of England -24 13 £575 +17.35% 12
North East -5 9 £563 - 9
South Coast - 1 £550 -
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 15 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.52%) Confluence
4 8 (1.35%) Appian
5 6 (1.01%) ArcGIS
5 6 (1.01%) GeoServer
5 6 (1.01%) Smallworld
6 4 (0.67%) Apache
6 4 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.67%) IIS
7 3 (0.51%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) CICS
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 28 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Sketch
4 2 (0.34%) Windchill
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.18%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.84%) iTrent
4 5 (0.84%) Maximo
4 5 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.84%) SAP MM
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.51%) Primavera
6 3 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.51%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 149 (25.08%) Azure
2 92 (15.49%) AWS
3 46 (7.74%) Power Platform
4 37 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (3.54%) GCP
7 17 (2.86%) SaaS
7 17 (2.86%) Serverless
8 16 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.36%) Power Automate
10 13 (2.19%) Boomi
11 12 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (2.02%) GitHub
11 12 (2.02%) OCI
12 10 (1.68%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.52%) Snowflake
14 8 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.19%) DNS
2 6 (1.01%) 4G
2 6 (1.01%) 5G
2 6 (1.01%) Network Security
3 4 (0.67%) Internet
3 4 (0.67%) NAS
4 3 (0.51%) HTTP
4 3 (0.51%) WAN
4 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.34%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.34%) Broadband
5 2 (0.34%) Firewall
5 2 (0.34%) SAN
5 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.34%) VoIP
5 2 (0.34%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) Intranet
6 1 (0.17%) LAN
6 1 (0.17%) NaaS
6 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.75%) SQL Server
2 36 (6.06%) Power BI
3 23 (3.87%) Metadata
4 21 (3.54%) Oracle Database
5 20 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.53%) GIS
9 14 (2.36%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.02%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
11 9 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.35%) MySQL
12 8 (1.35%) Pinecone
13 7 (1.18%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.18%) QGIS
14 6 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
14 6 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (6.40%) JIRA
2 19 (3.20%) Git
3 8 (1.35%) MLflow
4 6 (1.01%) GitLab
5 5 (0.84%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.34%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.34%) Gradle
7 2 (0.34%) JUnit
7 2 (0.34%) Maven
7 2 (0.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.34%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) git-flow
8 1 (0.17%) Mocha
8 1 (0.17%) Mockito
8 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.17%) tSQLt
General
1 195 (32.83%) Social Skills
2 180 (30.30%) Finance
3 80 (13.47%) Public Sector
4 76 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.73%) Banking
6 17 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.69%) Local Government
7 16 (2.69%) Retail
8 15 (2.53%) Military
9 13 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.52%) Marketing
11 9 (1.52%) Police
12 7 (1.18%) Front Office
12 7 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (18.86%) Architect
2 73 (12.29%) Lead
3 58 (9.76%) Developer
4 56 (9.43%) Analyst
5 53 (8.92%) Consultant
6 50 (8.42%) Senior
7 39 (6.57%) Business Analyst
7 39 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (6.23%) Data Engineer
9 29 (4.88%) Project Manager
10 21 (3.54%) Data Analyst
11 20 (3.37%) Technical Architect
12 16 (2.69%) Project Officer
13 14 (2.36%) Software Engineer
14 13 (2.19%) Administrator
14 13 (2.19%) SAP Consultant
15 12 (2.02%) Data Architect
15 12 (2.02%) Migration Engineer
15 12 (2.02%) Senior Developer
16 11 (1.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.41%) .NET
2 23 (3.87%) REST
3 21 (3.54%) RESTful
4 18 (3.03%) Middleware
5 17 (2.86%) .NET Framework
6 14 (2.36%) OAuth
6 14 (2.36%) Web Services
7 13 (2.19%) OpenAPI
7 13 (2.19%) React
7 13 (2.19%) Swagger
8 12 (2.02%) HTML
8 12 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (1.85%) .NET Core
10 10 (1.68%) Django
10 10 (1.68%) Kafka
10 10 (1.68%) PySpark
11 9 (1.52%) CSS
11 9 (1.52%) PyTorch
12 8 (1.35%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.35%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 26 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (3.20%) Legacy Applications
7 15 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.36%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.68%) LIMS
11 9 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.52%) NHS
12 8 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.35%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.35%) Replication
13 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.01%) Legacy Code
13 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.56%) Windows
2 29 (4.88%) Linux
3 18 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.52%) Unix
5 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.67%) VMS
6 3 (0.51%) OpenVMS
7 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.34%) Debian
7 2 (0.34%) Solaris
7 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.34%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Android
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.17%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (44.95%) Migration
2 150 (25.25%) Data Migration
3 126 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 104 (17.51%) Agile
5 103 (17.34%) Validation
6 97 (16.33%) Data Modelling
7 95 (15.99%) DevOps
8 84 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (12.79%) Analytics
10 75 (12.63%) User Acceptance Testing
11 74 (12.46%) ERP
12 70 (11.78%) CI/CD
12 70 (11.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 66 (11.11%) ETL
13 66 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 63 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 55 (9.26%) AI
16 46 (7.74%) Data Mapping
17 45 (7.58%) Data Cleansing
17 45 (7.58%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 125 (21.04%) SQL
2 71 (11.95%) Python
3 42 (7.07%) C#
4 39 (6.57%) Java
5 17 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 15 (2.53%) PL/SQL
7 14 (2.36%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.01%) Bicep
9 6 (1.01%) Perl
9 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.67%) Ada
11 4 (0.67%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.67%) Rust
12 3 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.51%) C
12 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.51%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 119 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 91 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.88%) Degree
4 16 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.67%) CISSP
10 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.51%) PMP
11 2 (0.34%) CCSP
11 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.99%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.72%) QA
3 32 (5.39%) GDPR
4 15 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.18%) PMO
7 5 (0.84%) NIST
8 4 (0.67%) NCSC
8 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) WCAG
9 3 (0.51%) HL7
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.34%) SEPA
10 2 (0.34%) SLA
11 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (5.56%) Docker
2 18 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.36%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.34%) NFS
6 2 (0.34%) QEMU
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) vSphere
7 1 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 37 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.69%) Terraform
3 12 (2.02%) Ansible
4 6 (1.01%) Grafana
5 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (0.34%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.34%) Packer
6 2 (0.34%) Podman
6 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.34%) vMotion
7 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) SELinux
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 76 (12.79%) Oracle
2 72 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 50 (8.42%) SAP
4 35 (5.89%) Workday
5 27 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 24 (4.04%) Databricks
7 21 (3.54%) VMware
8 18 (3.03%) IBM
9 14 (2.36%) MuleSoft
10 13 (2.19%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.85%) Talend
12 10 (1.68%) UiPath
13 9 (1.52%) Automation Anywhere
13 9 (1.52%) ESRI
14 7 (1.18%) Avaloq
14 7 (1.18%) Informatica
14 7 (1.18%) NEC
15 6 (1.01%) Google
15 6 (1.01%) Intergraph
16 4 (0.67%) Red Hat
196 Legacy Systems jobs in England