Legacy Systems Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legacy System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 191 242 249
Rank change year-on-year +51 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 150 160 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 0.77% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.54% 2.61% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 125 174
10th Percentile £348 £415 £396
25th Percentile £413 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% - -
75th Percentile £668 £588 £554
90th Percentile £725 £690 £623
UK median daily rate £556 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +5.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 5
10th Percentile £17.28 - £35.25
25th Percentile £28.18 £15.39 £56.25
Median hourly rate £34.50 £15.79 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -72.54% +108.50%
75th Percentile £73.06 £16.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £88.00 £66.20
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +21 40 £625 +25.00% 64
Midlands +29 32 £500 -16.67% 43
South East +41 26 £400 -21.99% 88
North West +10 25 £660 +32.00% 35
Scotland +6 23 £470 +0.86% 10
South West +52 19 £625 +34.41% 25
West Midlands +9 18 £500 -16.67% 30
East Midlands +20 14 £500 -11.50% 12
East of England +17 10 £500 -4.76% 16
Yorkshire +16 10 £425 -15.00% 19
North East -1 3 £575 -32.35% 12
Wales - 2 £325 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 4
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.33%) Confluence
3 3 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.33%) Camunda
5 1 (0.67%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.67%) Luigi
5 1 (0.67%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (7.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.33%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.67%) Avolution ABACUS
5 1 (0.67%) Maximo
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.67%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.67%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.67%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.00%) Azure
2 22 (14.67%) AWS
3 15 (10.00%) GCP
4 12 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 8 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.00%) Serverless
7 5 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.33%) SaaS
8 4 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.00%) GitHub
9 3 (2.00%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.00%) OCI
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.33%) IaaS
10 2 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) Network Security
1 5 (3.33%) VPN
2 3 (2.00%) WAN
3 2 (1.33%) Firewall
3 2 (1.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.67%) Extranet
4 1 (0.67%) Intranet
4 1 (0.67%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) PBX
4 1 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (6.00%) Metadata
3 8 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.33%) Power BI
4 7 (4.67%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.67%) Tableau
7 3 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.00%) GIS
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.33%) Big Data
8 2 (1.33%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.33%) MySQL
8 2 (1.33%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.00%) Postman
3 2 (1.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.33%) JMeter
3 2 (1.33%) Selenium
3 2 (1.33%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.67%) ERwin
4 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 58 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.67%) Finance
3 25 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.67%) Banking
5 14 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.67%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.00%) Law
7 6 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.33%) Retail
9 3 (2.00%) Billing
10 2 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) Back Office
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Local Government
11 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (19.33%) Architect
2 21 (14.00%) Analyst
3 17 (11.33%) Developer
4 14 (9.33%) Data Engineer
4 14 (9.33%) Lead
5 13 (8.67%) Business Analyst
6 11 (7.33%) Data Architect
7 9 (6.00%) Migration Engineer
7 9 (6.00%) Senior
7 9 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.67%) Data Migration Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Programme Manager
9 6 (4.00%) Tester
10 5 (3.33%) Consultant
10 5 (3.33%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.33%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.67%) Cutover Manager
11 4 (2.67%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (3.33%) REST
1 5 (3.33%) Web Services
2 4 (2.67%) SOAP
2 4 (2.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (2.67%) XML
3 3 (2.00%) .NET
3 3 (2.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (2.00%) D3.js
3 3 (2.00%) JSON
3 3 (2.00%) Node.js
3 3 (2.00%) Spring
4 2 (1.33%) Middleware
4 2 (1.33%) Next.js
4 2 (1.33%) PostGIS
4 2 (1.33%) React
4 2 (1.33%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.67%) SCADA
4 6 (4.00%) Digital Wallet
5 5 (3.33%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.67%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.67%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.00%) Replication
8 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.33%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.33%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.33%) Windows
2 6 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) HPUX
3 1 (0.67%) OpenVMS
3 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Solaris
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.00%) Migration
2 43 (28.67%) Data Migration
3 40 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (22.67%) Data Modelling
5 29 (19.33%) ETL
6 28 (18.67%) Agile
7 20 (13.33%) Validation
8 19 (12.67%) DevOps
8 19 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (11.33%) CI/CD
9 17 (11.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (10.67%) Data Management
10 16 (10.67%) Data Mapping
10 16 (10.67%) ERP
11 15 (10.00%) Data Analysis
12 13 (8.67%) Data Strategy
13 12 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
14 11 (7.33%) Roadmaps
15 10 (6.67%) Analytics
15 10 (6.67%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.67%) SQL
2 17 (11.33%) Python
3 12 (8.00%) PL/SQL
4 10 (6.67%) Java
5 7 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.00%) Bash
7 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.00%) Bicep
8 3 (2.00%) Ruby
8 3 (2.00%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.67%) ABAP
10 1 (0.67%) Fortran
10 1 (0.67%) Natural
10 1 (0.67%) Rust
10 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (7.33%) Degree
2 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.67%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.00%) PMP
6 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.67%) CSPO
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.67%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.67%) GDPR
3 7 (4.67%) QA
4 5 (3.33%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.00%) Puppet
3 2 (1.33%) Terraform
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (18.00%) Oracle
2 19 (12.67%) Microsoft
3 18 (12.00%) SAP
4 10 (6.67%) Google
5 6 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.00%) Ariba
7 3 (2.00%) Informatica
7 3 (2.00%) Teradata
8 2 (1.33%) Apple
8 2 (1.33%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.33%) Databricks
8 2 (1.33%) IBM
8 2 (1.33%) IFS
8 2 (1.33%) Nintex
9 1 (0.67%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.67%) Pega
9 1 (0.67%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.67%) TSYS
9 1 (0.67%) Workday