Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Legacy System
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 28 26
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +29
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 4 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.27% 4.15% 1.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.41% 11.43% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £573 £650 -
% change year-on-year -11.92% - -

All Generic Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 74 70 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.57% 36.27% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 25 31
10th Percentile £142 £311 £131
25th Percentile £168 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% -10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £539 £650 £544
90th Percentile £600 £710 £715
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £375 £450 £443
% change year-on-year -16.67% +1.69% -19.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £17.70
25th Percentile £13.37 £18.00 £24.75
Median hourly rate £13.49 £19.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% -47.95% -
75th Percentile £13.61 £20.00 £48.25
90th Percentile - - £55.30
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.49 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -29.00% +8.57% -

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Newcastle upon Tyne

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Journey Map
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cellebrite
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft