Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Legacy System
West London > Hillingdon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Hillingdon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 5.77% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West London median daily rate £500 £493 £700
% change year-on-year +1.52% -29.64% -

All Generic Skills
Hillingdon

Legacy Systems 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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 51 13 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 32.69% 15.12% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 24
10th Percentile £391 £248 £203
25th Percentile £463 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £716 - £559
90th Percentile £848 £480 £618
West London median daily rate £520 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +22.35% -12.82% -11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £42.28 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £42.31 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £44.75 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% -55.25% -
75th Percentile £28.75 £47.31 -
90th Percentile - £47.43 -
West London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.98 £23.80
% change year-on-year -11.23% +30.17% -64.74%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon.

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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
Uxbridge - 8 - - 2
Heathrow - 1 £500 -
Legacy Systems
West London

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) OCI
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 2 (22.22%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (11.11%) dbt
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Looker
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
1 3 (33.33%) Selenium
1 3 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Aviation
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 6 (66.67%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
3 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Validation
4 4 (44.44%) Dependency Management
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Cutover Planning
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Project Governance
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Test Management
5 3 (33.33%) Test Planning
5 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Data Quality
1 5 (55.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP ALM
2 1 (11.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 2 (22.22%) Workday
4 1 (11.11%) Informatica
4 1 (11.11%) Teradata