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 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 97 119
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 +31
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 49 26 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.06% 1.29% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.15% 3.85% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 19 5
10th Percentile £450 £491 £388
25th Percentile £475 £563 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +50.00% -30.77%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £525
90th Percentile £780 £745 £533
London median daily rate £550 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.07% -6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £58.92 - -
London median hourly rate £60.71 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +10.38% - -

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 797 675 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.47% 33.57% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 441 538
10th Percentile £350 £363 £271
25th Percentile £463 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 11
10th Percentile £19.64 £27.24 £12.75
25th Percentile £26.11 £28.42 £17.47
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.04 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +30.59% -34.29%
75th Percentile £41.94 £48.25 £27.25
90th Percentile £59.56 £79.30 £50.25
London median hourly rate £33.12 £34.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year -4.69% +33.65% -25.71%

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 18 April 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 18 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
City of London +11 46 £550 -18.52% 32
Southwark - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 £600 -
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 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.08%) Aladdin
3 1 (2.04%) Algo Collateral
3 1 (2.04%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.04%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.04%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (2.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) Azure
3 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) Serverless
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.08%) GitHub
5 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) NAS
1 1 (2.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.04%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (38.78%) Finance
2 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.08%) Law
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.04%) Front Office
6 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Local Government
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Architect
2 6 (12.24%) Analyst
2 6 (12.24%) Business Analyst
2 6 (12.24%) Consultant
3 5 (10.20%) Lead
4 4 (8.16%) Applications Architect
4 4 (8.16%) AWS Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Cloud Consultant
4 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Tester
6 2 (4.08%) Applications Tester
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.08%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) SAP Project Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) .NET
1 3 (6.12%) RESTful
2 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.04%) GeoJSON
3 1 (2.04%) J2EE
3 1 (2.04%) JSON
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.04%) Middleware
3 1 (2.04%) Node.js
3 1 (2.04%) WinForms
3 1 (2.04%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.16%) LIMS
4 3 (6.12%) Replication
5 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.04%) Derivative
6 1 (2.04%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.04%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.04%) Learning Management System
6 1 (2.04%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Migration
2 14 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (22.45%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (18.37%) Data Mapping
5 8 (16.33%) ERP
5 8 (16.33%) Scenario Testing
6 7 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 7 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.29%) DevOps
6 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (14.29%) Validation
7 6 (12.24%) Agile
7 6 (12.24%) GAP Analysis
7 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
8 5 (10.20%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (10.20%) Data Governance
8 5 (10.20%) Decision-Making
9 4 (8.16%) Asset Management
9 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.33%) SQL
2 2 (4.08%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.04%) Bicep
3 1 (2.04%) C
3 1 (2.04%) C#
3 1 (2.04%) Java
3 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.04%) ProC
3 1 (2.04%) VB
3 1 (2.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.16%) QA
3 3 (6.12%) GDPR
4 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.04%) MiFID
5 1 (2.04%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) NFS
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.04%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) SAP
2 7 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.08%) Databricks
4 2 (4.08%) Guidewire
4 2 (4.08%) iManage
4 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
4 2 (4.08%) Workday
5 1 (2.04%) Ariba
5 1 (2.04%) Commvault
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Informatica
5 1 (2.04%) Murex
5 1 (2.04%) OutSystems
5 1 (2.04%) Pure Storage
5 1 (2.04%) SmartStream
5 1 (2.04%) Talend
5 1 (2.04%) VMware