Legacy Applications Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Legacy Application
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 119 125
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +45
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.10% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £363 £552
25th Percentile - £420 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £535 £769
Median % change year-on-year - -30.49% +30.34%
75th Percentile - £642 £783
90th Percentile - £696 £786
Central London median daily rate - £535 £769
% change year-on-year - -30.49% +39.82%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Legacy Applications 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 601 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.94% 32.70% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 375 491
10th Percentile £350 £368 £275
25th Percentile £430 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £713
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 11
10th Percentile £19.03 - £12.75
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +63.16% -53.09%
75th Percentile £41.89 - £41.63
90th Percentile £50.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.06 £31.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -12.73% +47.62% -40.00%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Applications relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in the City of London

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Legacy Applications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (50.00%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) ProC
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) OutSystems
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce