Legacy Code Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Legacy Code
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.031% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 £330 £438
% change year-on-year +28.79% -24.57% -27.08%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,113 621 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.45% 28.59% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 364 497
10th Percentile £206 £186 £256
25th Percentile £358 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £513 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% +3.54% +7.61%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £693
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 24 48
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.14 £16.54
25th Percentile £18.20 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.89 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +3.87% +30.53%
75th Percentile £27.00 £32.21 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £55.18 £67.50
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.00 £37.95
% change year-on-year -22.80% -2.51% +51.81%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Legacy Code job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Legacy Code
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Legacy Code

Legacy Code
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands - 1 £515 - 7
Legacy Code
England

Legacy Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle