Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Legacy System
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 3.35% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £493 - -
90th Percentile £502 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £600 £599
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.23% +11.37%

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 75 31 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 19.33% 25.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 18 10
10th Percentile £211 £166 £391
25th Percentile £400 £244 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £370 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -26.00% -
75th Percentile £505 £504 £527
90th Percentile £538 £582 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £496 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -7.72% +7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year -3.73% +3.87% +29.80%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 16 January 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
Telford - 13 £475 - 5
Legacy Systems
West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure AI
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) JUnit
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
1 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Manual Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Scrum Master
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
1 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
1 1 (7.69%) JPA
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) LINQ
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
1 1 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) VME
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) AI
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Pair Programming
3 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.69%) Batch Processing
4 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.69%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) COBOL
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) ICL