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 in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code 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 349 381 435
Rank change year-on-year +32 +54 +136
Contract jobs citing Legacy Code 4 10 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.056% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.089% 0.17% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 53
10th Percentile - £425 £534
25th Percentile £303 £463 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £525 £750
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £308 £794 -
90th Percentile - £955 £770
England median daily rate £400 £388 £648
% change year-on-year +3.23% -40.15% +40.00%

All Generic Skills
London

Legacy Code 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 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
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 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 +2 1 - - 1
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Mocha
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (25.00%) React Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) boto
2 1 (25.00%) Express.js
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Nunjucks
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft