Legacy Systems Contract Job Trends in Central London

Legacy System
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 95 121
Rank change year-on-year +3 +26 +39
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 51 30 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.96% 1.57% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.05% 4.67% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 20 2
10th Percentile £423 £498 £505
25th Percentile £450 £534 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £653 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +0.42% -
75th Percentile £651 £697 £750
90th Percentile £776 £736 £795
London median daily rate £550 £594 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £58.92 - -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

All Generic Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 843 643 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.45% 33.63% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 418 501
10th Percentile £350 £357 £300
25th Percentile £463 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £695
90th Percentile £788 £811 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 7
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.28 £14.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +20.70% -38.53%
75th Percentile £59.72 £45.44 £25.50
90th Percentile £69.70 £92.13 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.25 £31.95 £27.84
% change year-on-year +10.35% +14.74% -20.46%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Central London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Central London over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 16 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
City of London +12 49 £600 -11.11% 13
Southwark - 1 - -
Legacy Systems
London

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.92%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.96%) Maximo
3 1 (1.96%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.96%) SAP R/3
3 1 (1.96%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.57%) AWS
2 8 (15.69%) Azure
3 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.84%) Serverless
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.96%) Boomi
5 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) NAS
1 1 (1.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) Data Mart
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 3 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) DataStage
2 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.96%) Logi Info
2 1 (1.96%) Metadata
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 21 (41.18%) Finance
2 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Legal
5 4 (7.84%) Banking
5 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Front Office
7 2 (3.92%) Law
7 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.96%) Local Government
8 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Lead
2 7 (13.73%) Consultant
3 6 (11.76%) Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Applications Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Cloud Consultant
5 4 (7.84%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Salesforce Consultant
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
6 3 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Tester
7 2 (3.92%) Applications Tester
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Implementation Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.92%) JSON
2 2 (3.92%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (3.92%) React
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.96%) EDI
3 1 (1.96%) GeoJSON
3 1 (1.96%) jQuery
3 1 (1.96%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) Middleware
3 1 (1.96%) Node.js
3 1 (1.96%) Playwright
3 1 (1.96%) REST
3 1 (1.96%) XML
3 1 (1.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.80%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.84%) LIMS
3 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.88%) Replication
5 2 (3.92%) Derivative
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.96%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.96%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.96%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.96%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.96%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) Migration
2 11 (21.57%) DevOps
2 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (19.61%) Data Migration
4 9 (17.65%) Data Mapping
4 9 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 9 (17.65%) ETL
5 8 (15.69%) Agile
6 7 (13.73%) Analytics
7 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.76%) ERP
7 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (11.76%) Validation
8 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
8 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (7.84%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) Python
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 2 (3.92%) Apex Code
2 2 (3.92%) C#
2 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.96%) Bicep
3 1 (1.96%) C++
3 1 (1.96%) Java
3 1 (1.96%) Korn
3 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
4 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) NFS
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.96%) vMotion
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Salesforce
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) SAP
3 4 (7.84%) Databricks
4 2 (3.92%) iManage
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.92%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.92%) Workday
4 2 (3.92%) Xero
5 1 (1.96%) Ariba
5 1 (1.96%) Commvault
5 1 (1.96%) IBM
5 1 (1.96%) IFS
5 1 (1.96%) Informatica
5 1 (1.96%) Logi
5 1 (1.96%) Logi Analytics
5 1 (1.96%) Murex
5 1 (1.96%) Pure Storage
5 1 (1.96%) Talend
5 1 (1.96%) VMware