Legacy Systems Contracts in the North of England

Legacy System
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 126 147 191
Rank change year-on-year +21 +44 -7
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 40 38 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.21% 0.80% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.97% 2.92% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 20
10th Percentile £290 £458 £410
25th Percentile £463 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £700 £525 £581
90th Percentile £735 £634 £675
England median daily rate £575 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.12% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £67.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the North of England

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the North of England

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the North of England

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the North of England

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +10 25 £660 +32.00% 35
Yorkshire +16 10 £425 -15.00% 19
North East -1 3 £575 -32.35% 12
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) NetWeaver
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (27.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (5.00%) SAP PP
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (2.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (2.50%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) GCP
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.00%) Serverless
3 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.50%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) PBX
1 1 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Data Mining
1 3 (7.50%) Tableau
2 2 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.50%) Automotive
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Architect
2 9 (22.50%) Migration Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Data Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Data Migration Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) SQL Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Cutover Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.00%) SAP Architect
7 2 (5.00%) SAP Cutover Manager
7 2 (5.00%) SAP Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) D3.js
2 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (2.50%) IDoc
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.50%) SAP PI
3 1 (2.50%) SAPUI5
3 1 (2.50%) SOAP
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.50%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) HPUX
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Solaris
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) Migration
2 18 (45.00%) Data Migration
3 15 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 13 (32.50%) ETL
4 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (27.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (27.50%) Validation
6 10 (25.00%) Data Mapping
7 9 (22.50%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (17.50%) Agile
9 5 (12.50%) Data Architecture
9 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
10 4 (10.00%) ERP
10 4 (10.00%) SQL Optimisation
11 3 (7.50%) Conceptual Models
11 3 (7.50%) Data Strategy
11 3 (7.50%) Database Optimisation
11 3 (7.50%) Performance Optimisation
11 3 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 10 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.00%) Java
3 2 (5.00%) Ruby
4 1 (2.50%) ABAP
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.50%) CSPO
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.50%) PMP
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Oracle
2 12 (30.00%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) Ariba
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Mitel
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Siemens
5 1 (2.50%) Sun
5 1 (2.50%) Unisys