Legacy Code Contracts in Central London

Legacy Code
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 175 207
Rank change year-on-year +44 +32 -43
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.12% 0.11% 0.045%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.30% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £481 £655
25th Percentile £988 £566 £660
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,025 £663 £685
Median % change year-on-year +54.72% -3.22% +15.05%
75th Percentile £1,063 £738 £703
90th Percentile - £760 £705
London median daily rate £525 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Legacy Code is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 757 1,351 1,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.15% 35.84% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 928 1,170
10th Percentile £263 £329 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £800
London median daily rate £586 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.29% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.42 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £32.50 £37.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +158.69%
75th Percentile £27.00 £84.89 £61.75
90th Percentile £32.05 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.80
% change year-on-year -25.71% -20.09% +32.73%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in Central London

Legacy Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Code in Central London

Legacy Code
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
City of London +47 3 £1,025 +54.72%
Legacy Code
London

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Android Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RAML
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (33.33%) Dagger
2 1 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (33.33%) OkHttp
2 1 (33.33%) RxJava
2 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Backends for Frontends
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA