Legacy Systems Contracts in the Thames Valley

Legacy System
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 83 120 128
Rank change year-on-year +37 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 19 25 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.26% 0.93% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.49% 3.12% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 21
10th Percentile £319 £445 £500
25th Percentile £350 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.08% -16.58% +12.57%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £588 £706
South East median daily rate £400 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -21.99% -14.54% +23.08%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the Thames Valley

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the Thames Valley

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the Thames Valley

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the Thames Valley

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +21 10 £400 -21.99% 24
Buckinghamshire +20 7 £355 -40.34% 18
Oxfordshire +7 4 £530 +45.21% 9
Legacy Systems
South East

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (10.53%) Camunda
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) GCP
3 8 (42.11%) Snowflake
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
1 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) ERwin
General
1 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Billing
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) BSS Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Replication
1 2 (10.53%) TM Forum
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) OpenVMS
1 1 (5.26%) VMS
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Migration
2 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (42.11%) Data Migration
4 6 (31.58%) Data Management
4 6 (31.58%) ETL
5 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Deployment
5 5 (26.32%) Data Security
5 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (26.32%) RBAC
6 4 (21.05%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) Product Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Requirements Management
6 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Bash
4 3 (15.79%) Bicep
4 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.53%) PMP
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) GDPR
1 5 (26.32%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Puppet
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) DocuSign
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce