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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.02% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £497 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £505 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £503 £688 £475
% change year-on-year -26.84% +44.74% -5.00%

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 133 62 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.39% 42.18% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 59 25
10th Percentile £314 £356 £360
25th Percentile £393 £358 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £402 £489
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -17.79% -13.30%
75th Percentile £542 £494 £582
90th Percentile £622 £537 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £467 £500
% change year-on-year -3.64% -6.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +12.92% -10.96% +30.45%

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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Optimisation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) AIX
1 3 (100.00%) HPUX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) SUSE
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (100.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft