Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Legacy System
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Liverpool. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 1.52% 1.59% 2.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.29% 6.98% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £493 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% - -
75th Percentile £593 £638 -
90th Percentile £650 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £495 £625 -
% change year-on-year -20.80% - -

All Generic Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 70 43 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 35.53% 22.75% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 12
10th Percentile £149 £140 £188
25th Percentile £181 £147 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £388
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -35.48% -13.89%
75th Percentile £510 £500 £545
90th Percentile £708 £594 £599
Merseyside median daily rate £419 £250 £388
% change year-on-year +67.50% -35.48% -13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.33 £18.80
25th Percentile - £18.77 £22.63
Median hourly rate £17.30 £20.03 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -30.92% +45.88%
75th Percentile - £21.77 £29.50
90th Percentile - £22.51 £29.80
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.00 £20.19 £29.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% -30.38% +65.15%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Liverpool over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Liverpool

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On