Legacy Systems Contracts in Hertfordshire

Legacy System
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 70 67
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 8 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.49% 0.36% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.76% 1.44% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £478 £413 £544
25th Percentile £483 £413 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £429 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -28.54% +14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £446 -
90th Percentile £560 £448 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £80.50 - -
75th Percentile £82.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.50 £15.79 -
% change year-on-year +409.82% - -

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 168 209 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 52.34% 25.06% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 80 174
10th Percentile £404 £262 £250
25th Percentile £478 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% -7.25% -
75th Percentile £655 £622 £638
90th Percentile £681 £701 £722
East of England median daily rate £520 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 60 33
10th Percentile £16.95 £29.60 £21.00
25th Percentile £51.00 £60.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -0.76% +22.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £85.00 £73.40
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Hertfordshire

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Hertfordshire

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Hertfordshire

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Stevenage +33 4 - - 7
Watford +10 2 £490 +15.29% 6
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £550 - 8
Letchworth - 1 £500 -
Legacy Systems
East of England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Metadata
2 4 (50.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) Data Strategy
1 5 (62.50%) Logical Data Model
1 5 (62.50%) Metadata Management
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Conceptual Models
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
2 4 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IFS
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft