Legacy Systems Contracts in the City of London

Legacy System
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 150 159
Rank change year-on-year +38 +9 -30
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 12 21 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.55% 0.58% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% 1.64% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 24
10th Percentile £369 £485 £520
25th Percentile £378 £606 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% +8.33% +29.73%
75th Percentile £453 £700 £681
90th Percentile £466 £738 £718
Central London median daily rate £450 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -30.77% +8.33% +29.73%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 672 1,284 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.92% 35.56% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 878 1,092
10th Percentile £275 £350 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £848 £850 £808
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 23
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.33 £19.85
25th Percentile £14.38 - £38.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +164.26%
75th Percentile £27.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £36.60 - £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +150.16%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the City of London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the City of London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the City of London

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
1 8 (66.67%) Serverless
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Functions
3 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) .NET
1 6 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 6 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) Microservices
4 7 (58.33%) Data Development
4 7 (58.33%) Front End Development
4 7 (58.33%) SDLC
4 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
5 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (50.00%) Multithreading
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
7 2 (16.67%) Migration
7 2 (16.67%) Project Management
7 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 1 (8.33%) ETL
8 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Scrum
8 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (8.33%) TDD
8 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (50.00%) C++
3 6 (50.00%) Go
3 6 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce