Legacy Applications Contracts in London

Legacy Application
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 364 430
Rank change year-on-year +60 +66 +82
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 49 27 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 0.46% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 22 41
10th Percentile £481 £470 £456
25th Percentile £563 £553 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £825 £697 £738
90th Percentile - £702 £850
England median daily rate £650 £575 £614
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.31% +4.03%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +5 2 £656 +4.88%
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (2.04%) NetWeaver
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.04%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Azure
2 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) AWS
3 3 (6.12%) SaaS
4 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.04%) dbt
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) Serverless
5 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) SAN
2 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) DB2
2 1 (2.04%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 27 (55.10%) Analytical Skills
1 27 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 22 (44.90%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Banking
4 4 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Law
5 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
5 2 (4.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Back Office
6 1 (2.04%) Front Office
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (48.98%) Developer
2 18 (36.73%) C# Developer
2 18 (36.73%) C++ Developer
2 18 (36.73%) C++/C# Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Agile C# Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Agile Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Consultant
4 4 (8.16%) DevOps Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.08%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.86%) .NET
2 20 (40.82%) .NET Core
3 18 (36.73%) ASP.NET
3 18 (36.73%) Kafka
3 18 (36.73%) WCF
3 18 (36.73%) Web Services
4 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.08%) Dagger
4 2 (4.08%) React
5 1 (2.04%) IDoc
5 1 (2.04%) JDBC
5 1 (2.04%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) SAP PI
5 1 (2.04%) SOAP
5 1 (2.04%) Swagger
5 1 (2.04%) XML
5 1 (2.04%) XSLT
5 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Android
2 2 (4.08%) VMS
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) DevOps
2 29 (59.18%) Agile
3 18 (36.73%) Analytics
4 13 (26.53%) Migration
5 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (20.41%) CI/CD
7 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 6 (12.24%) SDLC
10 5 (10.20%) Decision-Making
10 5 (10.20%) Roadmaps
11 4 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
11 4 (8.16%) B2B
11 4 (8.16%) Change Management
11 4 (8.16%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
11 4 (8.16%) Containerisation
11 4 (8.16%) Customer Experience
11 4 (8.16%) Event-Driven
11 4 (8.16%) PRINCE2
11 4 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) C#
2 18 (36.73%) C++
3 2 (4.08%) Kotlin
3 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) SQL
4 1 (2.04%) ABAP
4 1 (2.04%) COBOL
4 1 (2.04%) FoxPro (VFP)
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.04%) JCL
4 1 (2.04%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
1 2 (4.08%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
3 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Oracle
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) DocuSign
3 4 (8.16%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.08%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) Netskope
5 1 (2.04%) Calypso
5 1 (2.04%) Murex
5 1 (2.04%) SAP