Legacy Systems Contracts in the South East

Legacy System
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 133 174 174
Rank change year-on-year +41 0 -10
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 26 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 0.56% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.58% 1.96% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 33
10th Percentile £301 £445 £386
25th Percentile £350 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% -14.54% +23.08%
75th Percentile £628 £584 £625
90th Percentile £723 £626 £741
England median daily rate £575 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.12% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +37 19 £400 -20.08% 20
Berkshire +21 10 £400 -21.99% 12
Buckinghamshire +20 7 £355 -40.34% 6
Oxfordshire +7 4 £530 +45.21% 4
Hampshire +24 3 £250 -50.25% 12
Kent - 1 £775 - 4
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 1
Sussex - 1 £700 - 3
West Sussex - 1 £700 - 10
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (3.85%) Maximo
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) AWS
3 8 (30.77%) GCP
3 8 (30.77%) Snowflake
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) IaaS
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) OCI
6 1 (3.85%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 2 (7.69%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Data Lake
1 5 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.69%) Big Data
2 2 (7.69%) Metadata
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) GIS
3 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) ERwin
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
1 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Billing
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) BSS Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Document Controller
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Fortran Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Replication
1 2 (7.69%) TM Forum
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) OpenVMS
1 1 (3.85%) VMS
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Migration
2 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (38.46%) Data Migration
4 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (23.08%) Data Management
5 6 (23.08%) ETL
5 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
6 5 (19.23%) Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (19.23%) Data Security
6 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (19.23%) RBAC
6 5 (19.23%) Validation
7 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
7 4 (15.38%) DevOps
7 4 (15.38%) Product Analysis
7 4 (15.38%) Requirements Management
7 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
4 3 (11.54%) Bicep
4 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 2 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
2 5 (19.23%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Puppet
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Autodesk
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) DocuSign
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) SAP