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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 367 441
Rank change year-on-year +52 +74 +69
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 50 32 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 0.54% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 31
10th Percentile £400 £539 £456
25th Percentile £497 £556 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -1.85% +12.50%
75th Percentile £825 £700 £738
90th Percentile - £813 £798
England median daily rate £650 £571 £650
% change year-on-year +13.84% -12.15% +10.17%

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 4,872 5,882 9,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.85% 33.38% 35.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,214 4,125 6,579
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 141 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £17.93
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.00 £22.49
Median hourly rate £30.40 £27.84 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -20.46% -13.58%
75th Percentile £48.44 £50.25 £58.44
90th Percentile £65.39 £71.25 £85.99
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +50.00% -5.66%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +11 5 £650 -3.70% 9
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 2 (4.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (2.00%) OpenEdge
2 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.00%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) GCP
3 6 (12.00%) SaaS
4 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (8.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.00%) Collibra
5 1 (2.00%) dbt
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.00%) IaaS
5 1 (2.00%) PaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) SAN
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) DB2
2 1 (2.00%) MS Access
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (4.00%) Git
1 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (30.00%) Finance
4 6 (12.00%) Banking
5 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Developer
2 14 (28.00%) Architect
3 10 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 10 (20.00%) C++ Developer
3 10 (20.00%) C++/C# Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Android Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Lead
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Salesforce Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Administrator
8 2 (4.00%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.00%) .NET
2 12 (24.00%) .NET Core
3 11 (22.00%) Kafka
4 10 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 10 (20.00%) WCF
4 10 (20.00%) Web Services
5 5 (10.00%) Dagger
6 4 (8.00%) Middleware
7 3 (6.00%) React
7 3 (6.00%) REST
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.00%) HATEOAS
8 2 (4.00%) SAP Basis
9 1 (2.00%) OpenAPI
9 1 (2.00%) RESTful
9 1 (2.00%) SAP PI
9 1 (2.00%) Swagger
9 1 (2.00%) XML
9 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (18.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) HACMP
6 1 (2.00%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Replication
6 1 (2.00%) VAX
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Android
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Linux
3 3 (6.00%) Unix
3 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) AIX
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) DevOps
2 22 (44.00%) Agile
3 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (30.00%) Migration
5 10 (20.00%) Analytics
6 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (12.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (12.00%) Information Security
7 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.00%) Code Quality
8 5 (10.00%) Customer Experience
8 5 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 5 (10.00%) Mobile Development
8 5 (10.00%) MVVM
8 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) C#
2 10 (20.00%) C++
3 5 (10.00%) Kotlin
4 4 (8.00%) Java
5 3 (6.00%) Python
6 2 (4.00%) COBOL
6 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.00%) SQL
7 1 (2.00%) ABAP
7 1 (2.00%) JCL
7 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (4.00%) CASP
1 2 (4.00%) CCSP
1 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (4.00%) CISSP
1 2 (4.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (4.00%) CSSLP
1 2 (4.00%) GIAC
1 2 (4.00%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (12.00%) NIST
2 4 (8.00%) GDPR
3 2 (4.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) NCSC
4 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.00%) SELinux
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.00%) Grafana
3 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.00%) DocuSign
4 3 (6.00%) Google
4 3 (6.00%) SAP
5 2 (4.00%) Checkmarx
5 2 (4.00%) Netskope
6 1 (2.00%) Citrix
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (2.00%) Dell
6 1 (2.00%) F5
6 1 (2.00%) HP
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) Kony
6 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.00%) VMware