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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 365 427
Rank change year-on-year +71 +62 +87
Contract jobs citing Legacy Applications 47 31 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.07% 0.53% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 36
10th Percentile £413 £539 £456
25th Percentile £546 £553 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £613 £638
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -3.92% +8.05%
75th Percentile £825 £697 £738
90th Percentile - £702 £798
England median daily rate £650 £575 £615
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.50% +4.24%

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 4,380 5,824 9,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.14% 33.34% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,943 4,116 6,683
10th Percentile £333 £313 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £530 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 150 106
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £18.47
25th Percentile £22.57 £19.40 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.90 £27.42 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -21.23% -19.98%
75th Percentile £47.06 £50.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £86.65
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.21
% change year-on-year -4.48% +59.87% -16.21%

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 29 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 29 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 +9 4 £650 -3.70%
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 (2.13%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.91%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) AWS
3 5 (10.64%) SaaS
4 4 (8.51%) GCP
4 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.13%) Collibra
6 1 (2.13%) dbt
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) Serverless
6 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
1 1 (2.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.13%) DB2
2 1 (2.13%) MS Access
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) ER Studio
1 1 (2.13%) Git
1 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 22 (46.81%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
3 17 (36.17%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Developer
2 14 (29.79%) C# Developer
2 14 (29.79%) C++ Developer
2 14 (29.79%) C++/C# Developer
3 12 (25.53%) Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Android Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.26%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.17%) .NET
2 16 (34.04%) .NET Core
3 15 (31.91%) Kafka
4 14 (29.79%) ASP.NET
4 14 (29.79%) WCF
4 14 (29.79%) Web Services
5 4 (8.51%) Dagger
6 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.26%) React
7 1 (2.13%) ADO
7 1 (2.13%) EDI
7 1 (2.13%) JDBC
7 1 (2.13%) JMS
7 1 (2.13%) REST
7 1 (2.13%) SAP PI
7 1 (2.13%) SOAP
7 1 (2.13%) XML
7 1 (2.13%) XSLT
7 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (14.89%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.51%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.13%) Replication
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.13%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 4 (8.51%) Android
3 3 (6.38%) Linux
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Unix
5 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) DevOps
2 25 (53.19%) Agile
3 14 (29.79%) Analytics
3 14 (29.79%) Migration
4 12 (25.53%) CI/CD
5 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
7 6 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) Decision-Making
8 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (10.64%) SDLC
9 4 (8.51%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 4 (8.51%) Containerisation
9 4 (8.51%) Customer Experience
9 4 (8.51%) Event-Driven
9 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) Mobile Development
9 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
9 4 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) C#
2 14 (29.79%) C++
3 4 (8.51%) Kotlin
4 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.26%) Python
4 2 (4.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.13%) ABAP
5 1 (2.13%) COBOL
5 1 (2.13%) Java
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) JCL
5 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (4.26%) CASP
1 2 (4.26%) CCSP
1 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (4.26%) CISSP
1 2 (4.26%) CREST Certified
1 2 (4.26%) CSSLP
1 2 (4.26%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Accessibility
1 5 (10.64%) NIST
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Terraform
2 2 (4.26%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.26%) SELinux
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Grafana
3 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Oracle
2 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) DocuSign
3 4 (8.51%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (4.26%) Netskope
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.13%) SAP