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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 99 102
Rank change year-on-year -50 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.11% 0.084% 0.058%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.23% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £400 £730 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £760 £500
Median % change year-on-year -42.43% +52.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £509 £790 £525
90th Percentile £534 - -
England median daily rate £500 £653 £571
% change year-on-year -23.40% +14.32% -15.41%

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 1,049 430 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.35% 36.13% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 253 252
10th Percentile £322 £303 £251
25th Percentile £413 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 72
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.11 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.72 £21.00 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% +43.59% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £31.45 £19.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £59.91 £40.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.22%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in Yorkshire

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 23 June 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -20 2 £425 -44.08% 1
South Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Power Query
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Success Factor
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP