Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Legacy System
West Wales > Swansea

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Swansea. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 9.26% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 29.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median daily rate £550 - -

All Generic Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 31.48% 8.33% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 1
10th Percentile £370 £205 -
25th Percentile £375 £264 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £398 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% -20.50% +51.63%
75th Percentile - £559 -
90th Percentile £575 £636 -
West Wales median daily rate £465 £398 £305
% change year-on-year +16.98% +30.33% -7.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £15.91 - £22.50

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Swansea

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

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

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Swansea

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Swansea over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Swansea

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Impala
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Jest
1 2 (40.00%) Next.js
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (60.00%) Lakehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusive Design
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Product Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Databricks
3 2 (40.00%) OneLogin