Legacy Code Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Legacy Code
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 80 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.25% 0.093% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £480 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% - -
75th Percentile £490 £425 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £430 £400 -
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Legacy Code 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 425 372 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.51% 34.44% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 204 319
10th Percentile £300 £254 £225
25th Percentile £362 £360 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £580 £585 £560
90th Percentile £641 £696 £655
North West median daily rate £450 £487 £513
% change year-on-year -7.55% -5.02% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £28.69
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.13
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.64% -28.13%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.56 £69.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £61.50 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £30.12 £41.87
% change year-on-year +50.95% -28.07% +19.61%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Legacy Code job vacancy trend in Manchester

Legacy Code
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Legacy Code
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 2 (66.67%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Local Government
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) ProC
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle