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 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 92 127
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 +25
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 47 31 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.89% 1.63% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.85% 4.94% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 1
10th Percentile £450 £521 -
25th Percentile £464 £606 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +35.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £651 £725 £525
90th Percentile £779 £804 -
London median daily rate £556 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -7.29% +8.11% -7.50%
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 803 628 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.25% 33.05% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 406 511
10th Percentile £350 £357 £265
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £812 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 7
10th Percentile £19.27 £19.80 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.52 £14.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £26.45 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +15.00% -38.53%
75th Percentile £58.92 £30.04 £25.50
90th Percentile £63.94 £58.60 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +12.90% +14.81% -22.86%

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 2 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 2 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 +10 45 £600 -11.11% 19
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 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (14.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.26%) Aladdin
3 1 (2.13%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.13%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.13%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) AWS
2 7 (14.89%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.51%) Serverless
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (4.26%) GitHub
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.13%) Boomi
5 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) NAS
1 1 (2.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Data Mart
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.13%) Logi Info
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (2.13%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (42.55%) Finance
2 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Legal
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.26%) Front Office
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.26%) Law
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Local Government
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Analyst
2 6 (12.77%) Consultant
2 6 (12.77%) Lead
3 4 (8.51%) Applications Architect
3 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Consultant
3 4 (8.51%) Data Analyst
3 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Salesforce Consultant
4 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.38%) Senior
5 2 (4.26%) Applications Tester
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (4.26%) SAP Project Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) .NET
2 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.26%) Kafka
2 2 (4.26%) React
2 2 (4.26%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (2.13%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.13%) GeoJSON
3 1 (2.13%) J2EE
3 1 (2.13%) JSON
3 1 (2.13%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.13%) Middleware
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.51%) LIMS
3 3 (6.38%) Replication
4 2 (4.26%) Derivative
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.13%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.13%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.13%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.13%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (2.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Migration
2 10 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (19.15%) DevOps
3 9 (19.15%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (17.02%) Data Mapping
4 8 (17.02%) Data Migration
4 8 (17.02%) ERP
5 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
5 7 (14.89%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (12.77%) Analytics
6 6 (12.77%) ETL
6 6 (12.77%) GAP Analysis
6 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.77%) Roadmaps
7 5 (10.64%) Agile
7 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.64%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (10.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) SQL
2 6 (12.77%) Python
3 2 (4.26%) Java
4 1 (2.13%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.13%) Bicep
4 1 (2.13%) C
4 1 (2.13%) C#
4 1 (2.13%) C++
4 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.13%) Korn
4 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.13%) ProC
4 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.51%) QA
3 3 (6.38%) GDPR
4 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.13%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) NFS
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.38%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.13%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) SAP
2 7 (14.89%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Databricks
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.26%) iManage
5 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.26%) Workday
6 1 (2.13%) Ariba
6 1 (2.13%) Commvault
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (2.13%) Logi
6 1 (2.13%) Logi Analytics
6 1 (2.13%) Murex
6 1 (2.13%) OutSystems
6 1 (2.13%) Pure Storage
6 1 (2.13%) Talend
6 1 (2.13%) VMware