Legacy Systems Contracts 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 298 273
Rank change year-on-year +104 -25 +47
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 163 92 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.30% 0.52% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.62% 1.56% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 64 175
10th Percentile £399 £378 £425
25th Percentile £471 £496 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -5.21% -7.69%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £700
90th Percentile £776 £800 £788
England median daily rate £575 £540 £556
% change year-on-year +6.48% -2.92% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%

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 4,502 5,915 9,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.86% 33.15% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,044 4,191 6,967
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £749
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 161 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.93 £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 £50.50 £46.86 £64.50
90th Percentile £79.81 £67.00 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -16.67%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in London

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 30 April 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 +23 30 £675 +50.00% 11
East London +12 5 £625 +11.61% 5
South London - 5 £650 -
West London - 1 - - 7
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
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 5 (3.07%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.45%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.84%) Confluence
3 3 (1.84%) nginx
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.45%) Aladdin
2 4 (2.45%) Endur
3 2 (1.23%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (1.23%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.23%) SAP CAR
3 2 (1.23%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.23%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.23%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.23%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.61%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.61%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.61%) Summit
4 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.31%) AWS
2 35 (21.47%) Azure
3 13 (7.98%) GCP
4 12 (7.36%) Amazon S3
5 9 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.52%) Serverless
6 8 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.91%) GitHub
6 8 (4.91%) Snowflake
7 7 (4.29%) SaaS
8 6 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 6 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (3.68%) CloudFront
8 6 (3.68%) OCI
8 6 (3.68%) Route 53
9 5 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.45%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) BGP
1 2 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (1.23%) Multicast
1 2 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.61%) DHCP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) LAN
2 1 (0.61%) MPLS
2 1 (0.61%) Network Security
2 1 (0.61%) OSPF
2 1 (0.61%) SDH
2 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.52%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.91%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.29%) Oracle Database
5 7 (4.29%) Power BI
5 7 (4.29%) Redis
6 6 (3.68%) DocumentDB
7 5 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.07%) Big Data
7 5 (3.07%) Tableau
8 4 (2.45%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.84%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.84%) DB2
10 2 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (4.91%) GitLab
2 6 (3.68%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.68%) JIRA
3 4 (2.45%) Git
3 4 (2.45%) Postman
3 4 (2.45%) Subversion
4 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.23%) ERwin
4 2 (1.23%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.23%) Selenium
5 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.61%) LSMW
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (35.58%) Finance
2 49 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.88%) Banking
4 20 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.43%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.13%) Retail
7 8 (4.91%) Front Office
8 6 (3.68%) Marketing
8 6 (3.68%) Retail Banking
9 5 (3.07%) Back Office
9 5 (3.07%) Military
10 4 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.84%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.23%) Billing
12 2 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.23%) Legal
12 2 (1.23%) Local Government
12 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (23.31%) Architect
2 27 (16.56%) Consultant
3 23 (14.11%) Developer
4 18 (11.04%) Analyst
5 17 (10.43%) Senior
6 16 (9.82%) Data Architect
6 16 (9.82%) Lead
7 15 (9.20%) Project Manager
7 15 (9.20%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.91%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.29%) C# Developer
9 7 (4.29%) Data Consultant
9 7 (4.29%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) Functional Consultant
10 6 (3.68%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.68%) Migration Consultant
10 6 (3.68%) Oracle Consultant
10 6 (3.68%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (3.07%) ERP Consultant
11 5 (3.07%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.98%) .NET
2 12 (7.36%) RESTful
3 8 (4.91%) .NET Core
4 7 (4.29%) Kafka
4 7 (4.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (3.68%) GraphQL
5 6 (3.68%) React
6 4 (2.45%) Blazor
6 4 (2.45%) Web Services
6 4 (2.45%) XML
7 3 (1.84%) D3.js
7 3 (1.84%) Node.js
7 3 (1.84%) NumPy
7 3 (1.84%) OpenCV
7 3 (1.84%) Pandas
7 3 (1.84%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.84%) SciPy
7 3 (1.84%) SOAP
7 3 (1.84%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.98%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.75%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.29%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.29%) Derivative
4 6 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.07%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.45%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.45%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.45%) TWAP
6 4 (2.45%) VWAP
7 2 (1.23%) CMDB
7 2 (1.23%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) IoT
8 1 (0.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.52%) Windows
2 2 (1.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Unix
2 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.65%) Migration
2 31 (19.02%) Data Migration
3 28 (17.18%) Data Modelling
4 26 (15.95%) Agile
5 24 (14.72%) CI/CD
6 23 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.27%) Data Governance
7 20 (12.27%) ERP
7 20 (12.27%) ETL
7 20 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (9.82%) Microservices
8 16 (9.82%) Validation
9 15 (9.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (8.59%) Data Architecture
11 13 (7.98%) CRM
11 13 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (7.98%) Project Management
12 12 (7.36%) Analytics
12 12 (7.36%) DevOps
13 11 (6.75%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.15%) SQL
2 27 (16.56%) Python
3 17 (10.43%) C#
4 10 (6.13%) Java
5 9 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.29%) PL/SQL
6 7 (4.29%) T-SQL
6 7 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.07%) C++
7 5 (3.07%) Go
8 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.61%) ABAP
9 1 (0.61%) C
9 1 (0.61%) COBOL
9 1 (0.61%) FoxPro (VFP)
9 1 (0.61%) JCL
9 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.61%) R
9 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (14.72%) SC Cleared
1 24 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.20%) Degree
3 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.23%) ACCA
5 2 (1.23%) CIMA
5 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.61%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.61%) HNC
6 1 (0.61%) HND
6 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.04%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.52%) GDPR
3 7 (4.29%) QA
4 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.61%) EMIR
6 1 (0.61%) MiFID
6 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (5.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.29%) Terraform
3 3 (1.84%) Grafana
3 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.23%) SCCM
5 1 (0.61%) Ansible
5 1 (0.61%) Istio
5 1 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 35 (21.47%) Oracle
2 19 (11.66%) SAP
3 16 (9.82%) Salesforce
4 12 (7.36%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.91%) Google
6 6 (3.68%) Databricks
7 5 (3.07%) Workday
8 4 (2.45%) Guidewire
8 4 (2.45%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.45%) OpenLink
8 4 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.23%) Ariba
9 2 (1.23%) Avaya
9 2 (1.23%) Citrix
9 2 (1.23%) IBM
9 2 (1.23%) Sun
9 2 (1.23%) Talend
10 1 (0.61%) Ericsson
10 1 (0.61%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.61%) Hyperion