Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Legacy System
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 25 41
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 +29
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 5 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.70% 3.57% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 8.70% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - £319 £509
25th Percentile £560 £338 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £350 £595
Median % change year-on-year +79.29% -41.18% -20.67%
75th Percentile £695 £363 £666
90th Percentile - £385 £702
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £628 £355 £595
% change year-on-year +76.76% -40.34% -20.67%

All Generic Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 173 69 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 24.26% 41.07% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 52 93
10th Percentile £363 £309 £178
25th Percentile £413 £478 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -4.39%
75th Percentile £600 £632 £598
90th Percentile £643 £697 £695
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £20.65 £17.64
25th Percentile - £32.13 £20.12
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - +126.15% -
75th Percentile - £61.88 £24.15
90th Percentile - £66.75 £26.66
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £38.25 £26.25
% change year-on-year - +45.71% -38.24%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix