Legacy Systems Contracts in the West Midlands

Legacy System
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 89 113
Rank change year-on-year +16 +24 +13
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 28 23 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.98% 1.19% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.91% 3.67% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 9
10th Percentile £400 £450 £423
25th Percentile £481 £469 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £569 £781 £700
90th Percentile £600 £850 -
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.13
25th Percentile - - £23.44
Median hourly rate - - £26.25
75th Percentile - - £28.44
90th Percentile - - £29.38
England median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 474 627 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.50% 32.32% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 393 481
10th Percentile £190 £265 £275
25th Percentile £397 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +3.02%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £648 £750 £700
England median daily rate £531 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.41% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 45 23
10th Percentile £17.40 £10.42 £17.72
25th Percentile £21.30 £14.71 £20.74
Median hourly rate £33.91 £24.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% -10.36% +66.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £40.50 £30.00
90th Percentile - £58.75 £56.75
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.65 £22.45
% change year-on-year -4.88% +58.82% -14.11%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Warwickshire 0 11 £500 -14.89% 9
Birmingham +10 8 £550 - 52
Coventry - 5 £469 - 42
Halesowen - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - - 77
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) SAP PM
2 1 (3.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.57%) SAP PP
2 1 (3.57%) SAP QM
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (10.71%) Collibra
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (7.14%) OCI
4 1 (3.57%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 4 (14.29%) WAN
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (7.14%) LAN
2 2 (7.14%) MPLS
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) Unified Communications
2 2 (7.14%) VoIP
2 2 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.71%) Delta Lake
2 3 (10.71%) GIS
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Tester
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (10.71%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Network Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Change Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) Next.js
2 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) SCADA
2 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) IoT
2 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Migration
2 7 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 7 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 7 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (17.86%) Agile
3 5 (17.86%) Data Governance
3 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
3 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
3 5 (17.86%) Waterfall
4 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.71%) Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) Asset Management
5 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.71%) CRM
5 3 (10.71%) Data Mapping
5 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.71%) ERP
5 3 (10.71%) ETL
5 3 (10.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
1 4 (14.29%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) CCIE
1 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 4 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) Databricks
4 3 (10.71%) Informatica
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco
5 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.14%) Meraki
5 2 (7.14%) Workday
6 1 (3.57%) Cognos
6 1 (3.57%) IBM
6 1 (3.57%) Remedy
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.57%) SendGrid
6 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow