Legacy Systems Contracts in Wales

Legacy System
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Wales. 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 41 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.68% - 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% - 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £280
25th Percentile £313 - £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £338 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £556 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +5.95% - -4.55%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 111 133 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 37.88% 33.67% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 91 185
10th Percentile £160 £160 £161
25th Percentile £267 £394 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £478 £535 £538
90th Percentile £600 £570 £620
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 10
10th Percentile £18.96 - £12.61
25th Percentile £21.01 £11.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £33.38 £13.50 £17.03
Median % change year-on-year +147.22% -20.73% +17.23%
75th Percentile £44.06 £19.00 £19.81
90th Percentile £45.00 £45.80 £27.64
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 Wales

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Wales

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Wales

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Wales

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales - 1 £325 - 3
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Natural
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Sophos