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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 100 103
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 +21
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 16 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.47% 0.18% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.16% 0.64% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 10
10th Percentile £263 £323 £403
25th Percentile £406 £348 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £406 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -22.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £473 £575
90th Percentile £688 £504 £614
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -

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 385 469 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.45% 27.95% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 257 420
10th Percentile £272 £263 £224
25th Percentile £380 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £626 £640 £700
England median daily rate £533 £550 £572
% change year-on-year -3.09% -3.89% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 71 40
10th Percentile £18.51 - -
25th Percentile £19.13 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.25 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +65.81% +37.58% -43.61%
75th Percentile £32.80 £18.51 -
90th Percentile £66.35 £25.83 £22.28
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.65 £22.34
% change year-on-year -4.88% +59.61% -15.72%

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 31 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 31 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 +18 14 £500 +23.08% 17
South Yorkshire +9 1 £400 - 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £600 -
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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.25%) OCI
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
1 1 (6.25%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) HPUX
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Solaris
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Migration
2 7 (43.75%) Data Migration
3 5 (31.25%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Optimisation
4 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
6 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (6.25%) Content Management
6 1 (6.25%) Data Extraction
6 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Database Tuning
6 1 (6.25%) High Availability
6 1 (6.25%) Information Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CSPO
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Sun
3 1 (6.25%) Unisys