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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 110 124
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 19 25 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.30% 0.95% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.73% 3.23% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 21
10th Percentile £316 £445 £481
25th Percentile £350 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £501 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.08% -12.96% +7.88%
75th Percentile £592 £575 £625
90th Percentile £626 £588 £706
South East median daily rate £400 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -21.99% -6.77% +11.11%

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 510 774 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.00% 29.45% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 467 602
10th Percentile £300 £205 £278
25th Percentile £400 £307 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 58 23
10th Percentile £13.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £15.13 £21.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £38.53 £29.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.84% -50.64% +193.75%
75th Percentile £68.06 £59.64 £73.59
90th Percentile £88.87 £65.00 £78.35
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £48.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.94% -2.50% +132.56%

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 29 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 29 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 +20 10 £400 -21.99% 88
Buckinghamshire +19 9 £360 -39.50% 41
Oxfordshire +1 2 £355 -2.74% 20
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 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) GCP
3 6 (31.58%) 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%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
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 Warehouse
1 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) ERwin
General
1 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Billing
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) 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
3 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) BSS Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Fortran Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
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 13 (68.42%) Migration
2 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (42.11%) Data Migration
2 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (26.32%) Data Security
3 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (26.32%) RBAC
4 4 (21.05%) Data Management
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) ETL
4 4 (21.05%) Product Analysis
4 4 (21.05%) Requirements Management
4 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) Information Security
6 2 (10.53%) eTOM
6 2 (10.53%) Workflow
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 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) GDPR
1 5 (26.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Puppet
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Citrix
2 1 (5.26%) DocuSign
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) Sitecore