Legacy Code Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Legacy Code
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
England median daily rate £455 £377 £775
% change year-on-year +20.85% -51.42% +27.57%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

Legacy Code 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 1,109 571 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.44% 37.42% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 348 253
10th Percentile £324 £303 £253
25th Percentile £413 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.59% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £600
90th Percentile £688 £611 £695
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 47
10th Percentile £16.23 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.72 £18.51 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% +26.56% -31.98%
75th Percentile £43.96 £20.38 £22.87
90th Percentile £68.75 £59.78 £41.88
England median hourly rate £42.71 £31.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.59% -33.69% +13.10%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Legacy Code job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Legacy Code
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Legacy Code
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 Code within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
North Yorkshire - 3 £425 - 1
West Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
Legacy Code
England

Legacy Code
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:

General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#