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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 125 122
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +29
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.29% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £505 £456 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £463 £697
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% -33.64% -
75th Percentile £606 £469 £780
90th Percentile £641 - £867
Central London median daily rate £535 £650 £697
% change year-on-year -17.69% -6.74% +54.89%

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 818 679 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.67% 38.93% 29.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 478 385
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £452 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +0.42% -1.57%
75th Percentile £688 £696 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £551 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.26% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +1.85% -23.94%
75th Percentile £41.69 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.82 £26.29 £25.79
% change year-on-year +36.26% +1.93% -26.31%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in the City of London

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) PowerBuilder
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Commodities Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) PowerBuilder Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Process Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Batch Processing
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft