Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in London

Legacy System
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 182 308
Rank change year-on-year +36 +126 -34
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 329 172 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 1.36% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.28% 3.81% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 121 63
10th Percentile £400 £368 £353
25th Percentile £468 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £561
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £775 £800 £795
England median daily rate £525 £588 £530
% change year-on-year -10.64% +10.85% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £59.15 - -
25th Percentile £59.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.71 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% - -
75th Percentile £62.54 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £63.27 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £15.79
% change year-on-year +80.56% +127.99% -72.54%

All Generic Skills
London

Legacy Systems 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 6,230 4,520 5,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.93% 35.68% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,002 3,059 4,217
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £723
90th Percentile £800 £850 £838
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 71 166
10th Percentile £18.05 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.49 £22.93 £18.83
Median hourly rate £32.87 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% +34.62% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.85 £50.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.81 £80.75 £66.88
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.28% +30.91% +22.22%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legacy Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in London over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legacy Systems.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the London region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. 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 +16 48 £600 -11.11% 32
West London -18 7 £513 +25.31% 4
South London -16 3 £749 +15.19%
North London - 2 £598 - 1
East London -7 1 £630 +0.80% 2
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.43%) Appian
1 8 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.13%) Confluence
3 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.91%) Apache
4 3 (0.91%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.61%) Camunda
5 2 (0.61%) nginx
5 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.61%) Sketch
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.22%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.91%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.61%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.61%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.61%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.61%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.30%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.30%) iTrent
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.30%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.30%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (28.27%) Azure
2 72 (21.88%) AWS
3 29 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (8.21%) Power Platform
5 17 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (3.65%) GCP
8 11 (3.34%) Power Automate
8 11 (3.34%) Serverless
9 10 (3.04%) Boomi
10 9 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.74%) GitHub
11 8 (2.43%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (2.43%) Azure AI
12 7 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.13%) SaaS
12 7 (2.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (2.13%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.82%) 4G
1 6 (1.82%) 5G
2 4 (1.22%) NAS
3 3 (0.91%) DNS
3 3 (0.91%) HTTP
3 3 (0.91%) Network Security
3 3 (0.91%) WAN
4 2 (0.61%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.61%) Broadband
4 2 (0.61%) Internet
4 2 (0.61%) SAN
4 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.61%) VoIP
4 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.30%) LAN
5 1 (0.30%) NGN
5 1 (0.30%) VLAN
5 1 (0.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.30%) Wireless
5 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.46%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.78%) Power BI
3 15 (4.56%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (3.04%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.43%) Pinecone
8 6 (1.82%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.52%) Metadata
9 5 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.91%) GIS
11 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.91%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (6.08%) JIRA
2 8 (2.43%) Git
2 8 (2.43%) MLflow
3 3 (0.91%) Selenium
3 3 (0.91%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.61%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.30%) git-flow
5 1 (0.30%) Mocha
5 1 (0.30%) MSTest
5 1 (0.30%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.30%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (0.30%) tSQLt
General
1 129 (39.21%) Finance
2 100 (30.40%) Social Skills
3 49 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.94%) Banking
6 17 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.65%) Local Government
8 11 (3.34%) Retail
9 10 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.43%) Billing
10 8 (2.43%) Marketing
11 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.52%) Front Office
13 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Back Office
14 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (19.45%) Architect
2 52 (15.81%) Lead
3 35 (10.64%) Analyst
4 33 (10.03%) Business Analyst
5 32 (9.73%) Developer
6 30 (9.12%) Senior
7 25 (7.60%) Consultant
8 24 (7.29%) Data Engineer
9 20 (6.08%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (5.78%) Project Manager
11 12 (3.65%) Tester
12 10 (3.04%) Data Architect
13 9 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (2.74%) AWS Architect
13 9 (2.74%) Migration Manager
14 8 (2.43%) Automation Engineer
14 8 (2.43%) Data Analyst
14 8 (2.43%) Lead Architect
14 8 (2.43%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.13%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.42%) .NET
2 18 (5.47%) REST
2 18 (5.47%) RESTful
3 14 (4.26%) React
4 13 (3.95%) OAuth
5 12 (3.65%) .NET Framework
5 12 (3.65%) Middleware
5 12 (3.65%) OpenAPI
5 12 (3.65%) Swagger
6 11 (3.34%) Web Services
7 10 (3.04%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.74%) HTML
8 9 (2.74%) Kafka
8 9 (2.74%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.43%) Django
9 8 (2.43%) Flask
9 8 (2.43%) Pandas
9 8 (2.43%) pytest
9 8 (2.43%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.98%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 17 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.95%) Legacy Applications
6 10 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.74%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.82%) LIMS
9 6 (1.82%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.22%) Replication
12 3 (0.91%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.91%) Equities
12 3 (0.91%) Market Risk
12 3 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.95%) Windows
2 10 (3.04%) Linux
3 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.91%) Unix
5 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.61%) Solaris
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (46.20%) Migration
2 87 (26.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 79 (24.01%) Data Migration
4 70 (21.28%) Agile
4 70 (21.28%) Data Modelling
5 60 (18.24%) Validation
6 59 (17.93%) CI/CD
7 58 (17.63%) DevOps
8 52 (15.81%) User Acceptance Testing
9 50 (15.20%) ERP
10 47 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 44 (13.37%) ETL
12 36 (10.94%) AI
13 35 (10.64%) Data Mapping
13 35 (10.64%) Test Automation
14 34 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 30 (9.12%) Data Transformation
15 30 (9.12%) Requirements Gathering
16 29 (8.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.01%) SQL
2 54 (16.41%) Python
3 30 (9.12%) C#
4 24 (7.29%) Java
5 11 (3.34%) PL/SQL
6 10 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.91%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.91%) Bicep
9 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.91%) VBA
10 2 (0.61%) C
10 2 (0.61%) R
10 2 (0.61%) Ruby
10 2 (0.61%) Rust
11 1 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) Swift
11 1 (0.30%) VB
11 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 57 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.95%) Degree
4 9 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.43%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.43%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.22%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.61%) CISSP
9 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) CCIE
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (15.50%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.08%) QA
3 16 (4.86%) GDPR
4 7 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.52%) PMO
6 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.61%) DICOM
7 2 (0.61%) HL7
7 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.61%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.61%) SEPA
7 2 (0.61%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) GMP
8 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) NCSC
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (5.47%) Docker
2 6 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.61%) NFS
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.34%) Terraform
3 3 (0.91%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.61%) EMC VPLEX
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.61%) vMotion
5 1 (0.30%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) SELinux
Vendors
1 55 (16.72%) Oracle
2 35 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.21%) SAP
4 23 (6.99%) Salesforce
5 15 (4.56%) Databricks
6 13 (3.95%) OpenAI
7 12 (3.65%) MuleSoft
8 11 (3.34%) IBM
9 10 (3.04%) UiPath
9 10 (3.04%) VMware
10 9 (2.74%) Automation Anywhere
10 9 (2.74%) Workday
11 8 (2.43%) Avaloq
12 5 (1.52%) Informatica
12 5 (1.52%) Talend
13 3 (0.91%) Adobe
13 3 (0.91%) GoldenSource
13 3 (0.91%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.91%) HP
14 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow