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 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 186 297 256
Rank change year-on-year +111 -41 +45
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 164 99 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.35% 0.57% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.74% 1.70% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 63 171
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £481 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £575 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +5.75% -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 4,380 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 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 29 May 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 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 +28 31 £675 +54.29% 10
East London +19 2 £565 +61.29%
South London - 2 £650 -
West London +12 1 - - 31
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 7 (4.27%) Confluence
2 4 (2.44%) Apache
2 4 (2.44%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.83%) nginx
4 2 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Endur
1 6 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.83%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.22%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (1.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.22%) SAP CAR
4 2 (1.22%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.22%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.22%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.22%) SAP MDG
4 2 (1.22%) SAP Retail
4 2 (1.22%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.61%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.61%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.61%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.61%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.61%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (26.22%) Azure
2 42 (25.61%) AWS
3 15 (9.15%) GCP
4 11 (6.71%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.10%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.49%) Snowflake
7 8 (4.88%) GitHub
7 8 (4.88%) SaaS
7 8 (4.88%) Serverless
8 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.27%) dbt
9 6 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.05%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.05%) Route 53
11 4 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) BGP
1 3 (1.83%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (1.83%) Multicast
2 2 (1.22%) MPLS
2 2 (1.22%) OSPF
2 2 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.61%) Firewall
3 1 (0.61%) LAN
3 1 (0.61%) Network Security
3 1 (0.61%) SDH
3 1 (0.61%) VPN
3 1 (0.61%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.59%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.88%) Power BI
4 7 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.66%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.66%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.66%) Redis
6 5 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.05%) Big Data
6 5 (3.05%) DB2
6 5 (3.05%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.44%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.44%) Metadata
8 3 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.22%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (6.10%) JIRA
2 8 (4.88%) GitLab
3 6 (3.66%) Git
4 5 (3.05%) ERwin
4 5 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.05%) Postman
5 4 (2.44%) Subversion
6 3 (1.83%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.83%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.22%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.22%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.61%) LSMW
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 62 (37.80%) Finance
2 50 (30.49%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.59%) Banking
4 17 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.10%) Retail
7 7 (4.27%) Front Office
7 7 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.66%) Marketing
9 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.05%) Retail Banking
10 4 (2.44%) Legal
10 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.83%) Back Office
11 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.83%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.83%) Law
11 3 (1.83%) Military
12 2 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (19.51%) Architect
2 26 (15.85%) Developer
3 19 (11.59%) Consultant
3 19 (11.59%) Project Manager
4 18 (10.98%) Senior
5 17 (10.37%) Analyst
6 16 (9.76%) Lead
6 16 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (7.32%) Data Architect
8 7 (4.27%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.27%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) C# Developer
9 6 (3.66%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.66%) Data Consultant
9 6 (3.66%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (3.66%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.15%) .NET
2 10 (6.10%) RESTful
3 9 (5.49%) Kafka
4 8 (4.88%) .NET Core
5 6 (3.66%) React
6 5 (3.05%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.44%) Blazor
7 4 (2.44%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.44%) Web Services
7 4 (2.44%) XML
8 3 (1.83%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.83%) Node.js
8 3 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.83%) REST
8 3 (1.83%) SOAP
9 2 (1.22%) JSON
9 2 (1.22%) NumPy
9 2 (1.22%) OpenCV
9 2 (1.22%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (1.22%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.71%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.10%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.10%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.27%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (3.66%) Derivative
5 5 (3.05%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.44%) TWAP
6 4 (2.44%) VWAP
7 3 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.22%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.22%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.22%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.49%) Windows
2 5 (3.05%) Linux
3 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.41%) Migration
2 37 (22.56%) Agile
3 30 (18.29%) Data Migration
4 28 (17.07%) CI/CD
5 26 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (14.63%) Data Modelling
7 22 (13.41%) Data Governance
7 22 (13.41%) DevOps
8 21 (12.80%) ETL
8 21 (12.80%) Microservices
9 19 (11.59%) ERP
9 19 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (10.37%) Validation
11 16 (9.76%) Analytics
11 16 (9.76%) CRM
12 15 (9.15%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (9.15%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (9.15%) Project Management
12 15 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (7.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (26.22%) SQL
2 28 (17.07%) Python
3 18 (10.98%) C#
4 16 (9.76%) Java
5 9 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.27%) PL/SQL
6 7 (4.27%) T-SQL
6 7 (4.27%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.05%) C++
7 5 (3.05%) COBOL
7 5 (3.05%) Go
8 2 (1.22%) JCL
9 1 (0.61%) ABAP
9 1 (0.61%) C
9 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.61%) R
9 1 (0.61%) RPG
9 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (11.59%) SC Cleared
1 19 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.93%) Degree
3 5 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.83%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.22%) ACCA
5 2 (1.22%) CASP
5 2 (1.22%) CCSP
5 2 (1.22%) CIMA
5 2 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.22%) CISSP
5 2 (1.22%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.22%) CSSLP
5 2 (1.22%) GIAC
5 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.22%) PMP
6 1 (0.61%) CFA
6 1 (0.61%) HNC
6 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.88%) GDPR
3 6 (3.66%) QA
4 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.83%) NIST
5 3 (1.83%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.22%) ISO 15022
6 2 (1.22%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.22%) NCSC
6 2 (1.22%) PMO
6 2 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.61%) EMIR
7 1 (0.61%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (4.88%) Docker
2 6 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Firmware
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.27%) Terraform
3 2 (1.22%) Grafana
3 2 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.22%) SCCM
3 2 (1.22%) SELinux
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Istio
4 1 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (16.46%) Oracle
2 23 (14.02%) SAP
3 16 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.71%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.27%) Google
5 7 (4.27%) Guidewire
5 7 (4.27%) Workday
6 6 (3.66%) Databricks
6 6 (3.66%) OpenLink
7 5 (3.05%) IBM
8 4 (2.44%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.83%) Ariba
9 3 (1.83%) Duck Creek
9 3 (1.83%) Talend
10 2 (1.22%) Arista
10 2 (1.22%) Cisco
10 2 (1.22%) Citrix
10 2 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.22%) Sun
10 2 (1.22%) Virgin Media