Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Legacy System
Somerset > Taunton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Taunton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 15.66% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 37.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
Somerset median daily rate £450 - -

All Generic Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 42.17% 47.06% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 5
10th Percentile £406 £585 -
25th Percentile £431 £615 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.50% +7.92% -10.58%
75th Percentile £488 £715 £606
90th Percentile £600 - £655
Somerset median daily rate £500 £633 £500
% change year-on-year -20.95% +26.50% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £14.00 £43.01 £40.00
% change year-on-year -67.45% +7.51% -3.03%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Taunton

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 7 (53.85%) IIS
2 3 (23.08%) Confluence
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) AWS
3 7 (53.85%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
1 3 (23.08%) MSI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Site Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Migration Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Architect
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
1 13 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 5 (38.46%) .NET Core
3 3 (23.08%) ATL
3 3 (23.08%) COM
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) CSS3
3 3 (23.08%) GeoJSON
3 3 (23.08%) HTML
3 3 (23.08%) HTML5
3 3 (23.08%) MFC
3 3 (23.08%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
3 3 (23.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Legacy Code
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
3 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Wiki
5 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) High Availability
3 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (53.85%) Incident Management
3 7 (53.85%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (53.85%) Service-Level Objective
3 7 (53.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) Graceful Degradation
4 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
4 6 (46.15%) Runbook
5 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (38.46%) Microservices
5 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 6 (46.15%) C#
3 5 (38.46%) Bicep
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Python
4 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (23.08%) NCSC
2 3 (23.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft