Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Legacy System
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.39% 0.66% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% 1.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £550 £350
% change year-on-year -19.09% +57.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.50 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -68.82% - -

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 108 68 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 42.19% 44.74% 58.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 56 37
10th Percentile £314 £356 £495
25th Percentile £375 £362 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £496 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -11.41% +13.13%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £586
90th Percentile £607 £639 £595
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.30% -4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.25 £26.71 £17.72
% change year-on-year -39.15% +50.71% +2.10%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA