Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in South London

Legacy System
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.99% 1.19% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 2.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £721 - -
25th Percentile £728 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £749 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% - -
75th Percentile £773 £675 -
90th Percentile £782 - -
London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 93 76 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 30.79% 45.24% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 30
10th Percentile £219 £170 £424
25th Percentile £455 £449 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £610 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +28.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £692 £567
90th Percentile £737 £906 £681
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 12
10th Percentile - - £15.58
25th Percentile £16.70 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £17.85 £15.84 £33.17
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -52.25% +39.66%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £83.75
90th Percentile - £21.21 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £27.42
% change year-on-year +20.97% +13.06% -21.66%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in South London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Croydon - 3 £749 -
Legacy Systems
London

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Boomi
2 1 (33.33%) iPaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) SFIA
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft