Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Reading

Legacy System
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 80 84
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 2 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.28% 1.02% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 3.11% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £409 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £580 £379
Median % change year-on-year - +52.91% -26.35%
75th Percentile - £590 £402
90th Percentile - £607 -
Berkshire median daily rate £511 £580 £415
% change year-on-year -11.90% +39.88% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.50 - £88.50

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 237 354 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.76% 32.72% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 169 211
10th Percentile £350 £312 £205
25th Percentile £415 £409 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £571 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% +16.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £664 £702 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 8
10th Percentile £55.15 £35.75 £60.54
25th Percentile £58.00 £45.94 £61.52
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -9.15% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £66.95 £65.55
90th Percentile £102.20 £72.28 £66.83
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £45.06 £61.65
% change year-on-year +28.71% -26.90% +39.31%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Reading

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Progress