Legacy Systems Contracts in the Midlands

Legacy System
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 79 108 148
Rank change year-on-year +29 +40 +12
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 32 25 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.67% 0.91% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.52% 2.92% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 12
10th Percentile £425 - £321
25th Percentile £456 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -11.83%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £550
90th Percentile £673 £850 £573
England median daily rate £575 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.12% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.63
25th Percentile - - £32.19
Median hourly rate £15.09 - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £54.69
90th Percentile - - £60.88
England median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the Midlands

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the Midlands

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the Midlands

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the Midlands

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +9 18 £500 -16.67% 30
East Midlands +20 14 £500 -11.50% 12
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Luigi
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) SaaS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) BrowserStack
2 2 (6.25%) OCI
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) dbt
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) Pulumi
3 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.25%) JMeter
2 2 (6.25%) Postman
2 2 (6.25%) Selenium
2 2 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Law
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Back Office
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Lead
2 6 (18.75%) Tester
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Programme Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Finance Manager
5 2 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Telephony Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
1 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.13%) Next.js
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) SCADA
2 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) ERP
2 8 (25.00%) Migration
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (18.75%) Functional Testing
4 6 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 6 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (15.63%) Data Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Change Management
7 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (9.38%) Project Management
7 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
7 3 (9.38%) Validation
7 3 (9.38%) Waterfall
7 3 (9.38%) Workflow
8 2 (6.25%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.13%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Nintex
3 1 (3.13%) Avaya
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Ivanti
3 1 (3.13%) Logitech
3 1 (3.13%) Remedy
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) SendGrid
3 1 (3.13%) Workday