Legacy Systems Contracts in Central London

Legacy System
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 158 164
Rank change year-on-year +36 +6 -38
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 15 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.61% 0.57% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.97% 1.55% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 25
10th Percentile £388 £488 £523
25th Percentile £425 £583 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £525 £688 £700
90th Percentile £533 £738 £770
London median daily rate £562 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -6.40% -7.69% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Legacy Systems 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 760 1,418 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.89% 36.60% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 970 1,212
10th Percentile £274 £313 £389
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £603 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £694
90th Percentile £850 £850 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 24
10th Percentile £13.08 £18.78 £20.53
25th Percentile £18.20 £25.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%
75th Percentile £27.13 £83.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £47.98 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.80
% change year-on-year -25.71% -20.09% +36.88%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Central London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +37 14 £450 -30.77% 2
City of Westminster - 1 £500 -
Legacy Systems
London

Legacy Systems
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
1 9 (60.00%) Serverless
2 8 (53.33%) Azure Functions
3 7 (46.67%) AWS
4 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (40.00%) Azure Storage
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (6.67%) Datadog
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) ETL Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Perl Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Report Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) .NET
1 6 (40.00%) .NET Core
1 6 (40.00%) Blazor
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) BYOD
3 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Microservices
3 8 (53.33%) SDLC
4 7 (46.67%) Data Development
4 7 (46.67%) Front End Development
4 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
5 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (40.00%) Multithreading
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (13.33%) ETL
8 2 (13.33%) Logistics
8 2 (13.33%) Project Management
9 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
9 1 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
9 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (6.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (40.00%) C++
4 6 (40.00%) Go
4 6 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 6 (40.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (13.33%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) EMIR
2 1 (6.67%) FATCA
2 1 (6.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Check_MK
2 1 (6.67%) Salt
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 6 (40.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase