Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Legacy System
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.33% 1.07% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.29% 2.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 70 73 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 31.11% 39.04% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 51 6
10th Percentile £106 £155 £149
25th Percentile £263 £320 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £410 £320
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +28.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £488
90th Percentile £665 £606 £519
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.72 £14.78 £12.25
Median hourly rate £38.98 £15.05 £15.63
Median % change year-on-year +159.00% -3.71% -
75th Percentile £43.96 £15.33 £23.94
90th Percentile - - £31.88
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £32.95 £35.50
% change year-on-year +29.63% -7.20% +57.88%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
County Antrim +2 3 £675 - 13
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) MarkLogic
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Automated Trading
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EMIR
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle