Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Legacy System
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Surrey. 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 48 48 71
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.24% 1.09% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.13% 3.27% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £530 £455 £340
25th Percentile £575 £538 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £375
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +86.67% -46.43%
75th Percentile £1,050 £741 £388
90th Percentile - £750 £484
South East median daily rate £600 £582 £474
% change year-on-year +3.09% +22.85% -5.25%

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 121 153 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 30.10% 33.41% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 98 178
10th Percentile - £189 £200
25th Percentile £204 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -21.95% -2.38%
75th Percentile £508 £538 £581
90th Percentile £665 £597 £675
South East median daily rate £492 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% +2.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 16
10th Percentile £30.51 £14.19 £27.25
25th Percentile £32.77 £21.27 £37.19
Median hourly rate £70.16 £24.18 £68.16
Median % change year-on-year +190.16% -64.52% +292.15%
75th Percentile - £67.17 £77.72
90th Percentile £75.98 £75.00 £82.79
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -33.96% +53.62%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Surrey

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Surrey

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Staines - 2 £1,000 -
Guildford -4 1 £600 -14.29% 1
Horley - 1 - -
Legacy Systems
South East

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) SIAM
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SABSA
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP