Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Legacy Application
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.17% - 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% - 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £461 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.21%
75th Percentile £511 - £625
90th Percentile £523 - -
England median daily rate £514 £545 £650
% change year-on-year -5.73% -16.15% +18.18%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

Legacy Applications 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 714 404 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.32% 31.69% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 250 319
10th Percentile £313 £187 £281
25th Percentile £403 £357 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +2.56% -4.88%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £587
90th Percentile £619 £700 £628
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 18
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.87 £15.07
25th Percentile £14.63 £20.13 £17.54
Median hourly rate £15.55 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -52.15% +52.51% +12.16%
75th Percentile £21.30 £42.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £23.71 £60.29 £24.66
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 Yorkshire - 2 £513 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Legal Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) PHP Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Practice Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes