Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Legacy System
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 53 70
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.64% 1.74% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 4.17% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £513 -
25th Percentile - £613 £710
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £720
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -13.13% +58.35%
75th Percentile - £678 £729
90th Percentile - £714 -
South West median daily rate £450 £568 £520
% change year-on-year -20.70% +9.13% +9.47%

All Generic Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 155 240 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 33.12% 41.74% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 165 169
10th Percentile £385 £363 £305
25th Percentile £511 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% - -
75th Percentile £644 £657 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.36
Median hourly rate £12.50 - £37.18
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.98%
75th Percentile - - £63.38
90th Percentile £15.05 - £75.58
South West median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -66.43% - +11.11%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Swindon 0 3 £575 +53.33% 1
Legacy Systems
South West

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Principal Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes