Legacy Code Contracts in London

Legacy Code
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 427 581
Rank change year-on-year +45 +154 -137
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 10 57 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.21% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.58% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 52 24
10th Percentile £425 £530 £454
25th Percentile £463 £615 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £705 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.53% +17.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £794 £750 £696
90th Percentile £955 - £715
England median daily rate £388 £630 £463
% change year-on-year -38.49% +36.22% -10.19%

All Generic Skills
London

Legacy Code 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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,849 9,826 14,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.95% 35.91% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,145 7,023 10,465
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 117 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.74 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.83 £21.25 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -21.35% +42.74%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £66.58 £83.30 £71.85
England median hourly rate £28.13 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.09% +1.92%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in London

Legacy Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Code in London

Legacy Code
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in London over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Code in London

Legacy Code
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 Code within the London region over the 6 months to 20 April 2024. 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 +38 3 £1,025 +46.43%
Legacy Code
England

Legacy Code
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) GitHub
1 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Gradle
2 4 (40.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (30.00%) JUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) XCTest
4 1 (10.00%) XCUITest
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Android Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) REST
2 7 (70.00%) RAML
3 3 (30.00%) Android Jetpack
3 3 (30.00%) Dagger
3 3 (30.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 3 (30.00%) OkHttp
3 3 (30.00%) RxJava
3 3 (30.00%) WireMock
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (80.00%) Performance Analysis
2 7 (70.00%) Open Source
3 4 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (40.00%) Refactoring
3 4 (40.00%) Time Management
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
5 2 (20.00%) Backends for Frontends
6 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Black-Box Testing
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Coaching
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Microservices
6 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
6 1 (10.00%) MVVM
6 1 (10.00%) OO
6 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Kotlin
2 6 (60.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA