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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 106 143
Rank change year-on-year +28 +37 +10
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 39 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.96% 0.89% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.28% 2.95% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 10
10th Percentile £425 £446 £311
25th Percentile £463 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £488
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +25.64% -8.02%
75th Percentile £575 £781 £550
90th Percentile £645 £850 £578
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -
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 621 814 1,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.21% 30.33% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 526 709
10th Percentile £200 £213 £247
25th Percentile £370 £356 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £750 £700
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 61 42
10th Percentile - £10.42 £16.79
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £18.16
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £24.83
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -23.48% +46.06%
75th Percentile £28.18 £28.88 £53.44
90th Percentile £40.35 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.91 £32.56 £22.49
% change year-on-year +4.15% +44.80% -16.72%

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 16 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 16 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 +14 25 £525 -14.29% 33
East Midlands +19 14 £500 -11.50% 14
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 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.56%) Luigi
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) SAP PM
2 2 (5.13%) NetSuite
2 2 (5.13%) SAP CO
2 2 (5.13%) SAP FI
2 2 (5.13%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) SaaS
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (7.69%) Collibra
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (7.69%) OCI
4 2 (5.13%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.56%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.56%) dbt
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) Pulumi
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (5.13%) LAN
1 2 (5.13%) MPLS
1 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.13%) Unified Communications
1 2 (5.13%) VoIP
1 2 (5.13%) WAN
1 2 (5.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database
2 3 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 3 (7.69%) GIS
2 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.13%) JMeter
2 2 (5.13%) Postman
2 2 (5.13%) Selenium
2 2 (5.13%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (30.77%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Law
4 2 (5.13%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Lead
1 7 (17.95%) Tester
2 6 (15.38%) Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Programme Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Data Migration Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Finance Manager
5 2 (5.13%) IT Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) SAP CO Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) SAP FI Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) .NET
1 3 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 3 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.56%) Next.js
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) SCADA
2 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.69%) IoT
4 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Migration
2 9 (23.08%) Agile
3 8 (20.51%) Data Migration
3 8 (20.51%) ERP
4 7 (17.95%) Functional Testing
4 7 (17.95%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (17.95%) Performance Testing
4 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (17.95%) Systems Engineering
5 6 (15.38%) Validation
6 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.26%) Data Governance
7 4 (10.26%) Data Mapping
7 4 (10.26%) ETL
7 4 (10.26%) Waterfall
8 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (7.69%) Asset Management
8 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) SQL
2 4 (10.26%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) CCIE
1 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
4 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) SAP
3 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) Informatica
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.13%) Meraki
4 2 (5.13%) Nintex
5 1 (2.56%) Avaya
5 1 (2.56%) Cognos
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.56%) Logitech
5 1 (2.56%) Remedy
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) SendGrid
5 1 (2.56%) Workday