Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Legacy System
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Swindon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 4.12% 0.97% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.79% 3.03% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £398 - -
25th Percentile £428 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.67% - -
75th Percentile £528 £388 -
90th Percentile £556 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £479 £625 £720
% change year-on-year -23.40% -13.13% +58.35%

All Generic Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29 33 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 29.90% 32.04% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 25
10th Percentile £396 £205 £268
25th Percentile £424 £213 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -12.20% +3.80%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £709 £600 £668
Wiltshire median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.21%
Wiltshire median hourly rate £12.50 - £14.36
% change year-on-year - - -77.21%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Swindon

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Swindon over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Swindon

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (25.00%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Principal Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ECDL
2 1 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cerner
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle