Legacy Systems Contracts in Yorkshire

Legacy System
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 98 114
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 10 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.98% 0.12% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 0.43% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 9
10th Percentile - - £394
25th Percentile £263 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £539 £525 £575
90th Percentile £725 - £628
England median daily rate £575 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.12% +1.14%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 346 467 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 34.02% 27.65% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 254 458
10th Percentile £263 £265 £279
25th Percentile £375 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +9.97%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £618
90th Percentile £668 £645 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 69 41
10th Percentile £23.63 - -
25th Percentile £27.56 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%
75th Percentile £82.86 £15.25 -
90th Percentile £97.60 £24.17 £22.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +23 9 £450 -10.00% 13
South Yorkshire +8 1 £400 -
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) ShareGate
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) HPUX
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Solaris
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) ETL
3 4 (40.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Flow Diagram
5 1 (10.00%) Data Security
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) ITSM
5 1 (10.00%) Planning and Forecasting
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Service Management
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Sun
2 1 (10.00%) Unisys