Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Legacy System
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 32 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.16% 1.74% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.26% 5.26% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £478 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +5.88% +36.00%
75th Percentile £653 £525 £438
90th Percentile £689 £555 -
East Midlands median daily rate £478 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -4.50% -11.50% +32.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £62.50 £15.09 -
% change year-on-year +314.18% - -

All Generic Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 92 57 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 35.66% 33.14% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 47 35
10th Percentile £335 £300 £285
25th Percentile £375 £357 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -9.66% +11.25%
75th Percentile £474 £494 £500
90th Percentile £537 £537 £560
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -3.33% +12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £20.52 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -25.33%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £48.45 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.81 £16.11 £14.00
% change year-on-year +41.59% +15.07% -33.92%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Northamptonshire

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
Northampton -11 1 £675 +50.00% 5
Towcester - 1 - -
Legacy Systems
East Midlands

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Implementation Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Case Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat