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

6 months to
16 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 212 322
Rank change year-on-year +52 +110 -17
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 668 296 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.22% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.07% 3.58% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 200 159
10th Percentile £400 £356 £423
25th Percentile £450 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £651
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £516
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.69% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 9
10th Percentile £22.30 £17.91 -
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 £66.88 £16.20
90th Percentile £84.60 £82.25 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £36.00 £15.79
% change year-on-year +77.08% +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 13,186 8,258 11,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.14% 34.04% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,329 5,410 7,319
10th Percentile £313 £300 £269
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -3.05% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 328 812
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.58 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.16
Median hourly rate £46.00 £33.96 £32.56
Median % change year-on-year +35.47% +4.29% +44.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year +33.82% +1.63% +38.98%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +54 333 £550 -8.33% 83
North of England -17 86 £503 -19.52% 46
South East -20 74 £525 +31.25% 45
South West +15 73 £500 -27.27% 27
Midlands -42 63 £475 -5.00% 26
West Midlands -39 48 £475 -9.52% 11
North West -8 46 £550 -18.03% 23
Yorkshire -39 30 £500 +5.26% 16
East of England -20 19 £525 +5.00% 21
East Midlands -25 14 £505 +1.00% 15
North East -14 10 £480 -16.52% 7
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 21 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.40%) Confluence
3 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.20%) Appian
4 8 (1.20%) IIS
5 6 (0.90%) Apache
5 6 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.60%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) nginx
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.30%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 27 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.30%) Windchill
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (5.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.05%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.60%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.60%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.60%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.60%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.45%) iTrent
7 3 (0.45%) Magento
7 3 (0.45%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.45%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.45%) SAP Retail
7 3 (0.45%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 159 (23.80%) Azure
2 132 (19.76%) AWS
3 46 (6.89%) Power Platform
4 34 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (3.59%) SaaS
7 23 (3.44%) Serverless
8 19 (2.84%) GCP
9 17 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (2.40%) GitHub
11 14 (2.10%) Boomi
11 14 (2.10%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 11 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (1.50%) Azure AI
14 10 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.10%) DNS
2 6 (0.90%) 4G
2 6 (0.90%) 5G
3 5 (0.75%) Firewall
3 5 (0.75%) Network Security
4 3 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.45%) HTTP
4 3 (0.45%) Intranet
4 3 (0.45%) NAS
4 3 (0.45%) WAN
5 2 (0.30%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.30%) Broadband
5 2 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.30%) MQTT
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) VLAN
5 2 (0.30%) VoIP
5 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.23%) SQL Server
2 38 (5.69%) Power BI
3 25 (3.74%) Metadata
4 22 (3.29%) Oracle Database
5 21 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.50%) MySQL
11 8 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.20%) GIS
11 8 (1.20%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.05%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (1.05%) Pentaho
12 7 (1.05%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 46 (6.89%) JIRA
2 21 (3.14%) Git
3 8 (1.20%) MLflow
4 5 (0.75%) Selenium
5 3 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.45%) GitLab
5 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.45%) Subversion
5 3 (0.45%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.30%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.30%) JUnit
6 2 (0.30%) Mocha
6 2 (0.30%) Mockito
6 2 (0.30%) MSTest
6 2 (0.30%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.15%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.15%) JMeter
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
General
1 206 (30.84%) Finance
2 192 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 88 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 86 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.89%) Banking
6 25 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.40%) Local Government
9 14 (2.10%) Billing
9 14 (2.10%) Military
9 14 (2.10%) Retail
10 12 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.50%) Marketing
12 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.20%) Legal
14 7 (1.05%) Police
14 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 102 (15.27%) Architect
2 79 (11.83%) Lead
3 74 (11.08%) Analyst
4 56 (8.38%) Senior
5 51 (7.63%) Developer
6 43 (6.44%) Data Engineer
7 41 (6.14%) Business Analyst
8 40 (5.99%) Project Manager
9 38 (5.69%) Consultant
10 27 (4.04%) Data Analyst
11 26 (3.89%) Product Manager
12 23 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.84%) Technical Architect
14 18 (2.69%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.54%) Software Engineer
16 16 (2.40%) Project Officer
17 15 (2.25%) Migration Manager
17 15 (2.25%) Tester
18 14 (2.10%) Data Migration Lead
18 14 (2.10%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.78%) .NET
2 22 (3.29%) REST
2 22 (3.29%) RESTful
3 19 (2.84%) .NET Framework
4 18 (2.69%) React
5 17 (2.54%) Middleware
6 14 (2.10%) Kafka
7 13 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
8 12 (1.80%) CSS
8 12 (1.80%) OAuth
8 12 (1.80%) OpenAPI
8 12 (1.80%) Swagger
9 11 (1.65%) .NET Core
9 11 (1.65%) FastAPI
9 11 (1.65%) HTML
10 10 (1.50%) Django
10 10 (1.50%) JSON
10 10 (1.50%) Web Services
11 9 (1.35%) PySpark
11 9 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.18%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.44%) Data Structures
3 31 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (2.69%) Legacy Applications
7 17 (2.54%) Mainframe
8 15 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.50%) Legacy Code
9 10 (1.50%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.20%) LIMS
11 8 (1.20%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.20%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.69%) Linux
1 38 (5.69%) Windows
2 19 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.40%) Unix
4 7 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) Solaris
6 5 (0.75%) HPUX
7 4 (0.60%) AIX
7 4 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.60%) SUSE
7 4 (0.60%) VMS
8 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.30%) Debian
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (46.41%) Migration
2 165 (24.70%) Data Migration
3 141 (21.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 128 (19.16%) Agile
5 117 (17.51%) Validation
6 111 (16.62%) Data Modelling
7 104 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (15.57%) Roadmaps
8 95 (14.22%) CI/CD
9 94 (14.07%) DevOps
10 89 (13.32%) User Acceptance Testing
11 85 (12.72%) ERP
12 75 (11.23%) Analytics
12 75 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 75 (11.23%) ETL
13 56 (8.38%) AI
13 56 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 49 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (7.34%) Data Cleansing
15 46 (6.89%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 129 (19.31%) SQL
2 79 (11.83%) Python
3 41 (6.14%) C#
4 38 (5.69%) Java
5 21 (3.14%) PowerShell
6 19 (2.84%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 14 (2.10%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.50%) Bicep
10 7 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.90%) Perl
11 6 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.60%) Ada
12 4 (0.60%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.60%) Ruby
13 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.45%) Bash
13 3 (0.45%) C
13 3 (0.45%) Korn
13 3 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 104 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.19%) Degree
4 12 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 11 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (1.05%) CISSP
7 7 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.60%) ACCA
10 4 (0.60%) CIMA
10 4 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.60%) PMP
10 4 (0.60%) RHCE
11 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.30%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (15.72%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.14%) QA
3 40 (5.99%) GDPR
4 13 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.50%) PMO
7 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.75%) GRC
8 5 (0.75%) NIST
9 4 (0.60%) BS7666
9 4 (0.60%) HL7
9 4 (0.60%) NCSC
9 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.45%) DICOM
10 3 (0.45%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.45%) SEPA
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.15%) GMP
12 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (5.09%) Docker
2 16 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.30%) NFS
6 2 (0.30%) QEMU
6 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.74%) Terraform
3 12 (1.80%) Grafana
4 8 (1.20%) Ansible
5 5 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.45%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Avamar
8 2 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.30%) Podman
8 2 (0.30%) vMotion
9 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) SELinux
Vendors
1 81 (12.13%) Oracle
2 79 (11.83%) Microsoft
3 69 (10.33%) SAP
4 43 (6.44%) Salesforce
5 30 (4.49%) Databricks
6 28 (4.19%) Workday
7 15 (2.25%) VMware
8 14 (2.10%) Talend
9 13 (1.95%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.65%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.35%) Automation Anywhere
11 9 (1.35%) UiPath
12 8 (1.20%) IBM
13 7 (1.05%) Avaloq
13 7 (1.05%) Denodo
13 7 (1.05%) HP
13 7 (1.05%) Informatica
13 7 (1.05%) NEC
13 7 (1.05%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
236 Legacy Systems jobs in England