Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Legacy Application
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 79 85
Rank change year-on-year -43 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.30% 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.88% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £485 £588 -
25th Percentile £500 £608 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £661 £325
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% +103.46% -54.39%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £338
90th Percentile £785 £726 -
North West median daily rate £563 £599 £523
% change year-on-year -6.05% +14.59% -26.67%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Legacy Applications 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 698 339 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.20% 33.73% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 226 205
10th Percentile £363 £320 £294
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% -4.03% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £656 £800
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £499
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.77% -0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 18 18
10th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £15.92
25th Percentile £29.96 £34.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £64.75 £48.25 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.20% +26.97% +4.11%
75th Percentile £77.38 £64.69 £61.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £77.88 £95.10
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £47.12 £23.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% +100.51% -42.10%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in Manchester

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in Manchester

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Packager
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Java Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Java Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ariba
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) SAP