Legacy Systems Contracts in Leeds

Legacy System
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Leeds. 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 53 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.51% - 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.46% - 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £522 - £634
90th Percentile £624 - £696
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 157 197 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 33.76% 24.66% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 110 288
10th Percentile £276 £292 £400
25th Percentile £400 £403 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £725 £619 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 1
10th Percentile £34.18 - -
25th Percentile £38.24 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £65.71 £12.30 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +434.21% -28.65% -27.26%
75th Percentile £97.12 £15.19 -
90th Percentile £97.98 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £12.90 £17.24
% change year-on-year +217.83% -25.17% -7.81%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Leeds

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Leeds

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Leeds

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) ShareGate
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) HPUX
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Data Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Sun
2 1 (14.29%) Unisys