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 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 99 118
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +50
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 28 26 22
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.39% 1.17% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.69% 3.75% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 8
10th Percentile £489 £481 £406
25th Percentile £500 £583 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £519
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +30.12% -17.00%
75th Percentile £661 £750 £569
90th Percentile £776 £788 £618
London median daily rate £550 £596 £563
% change year-on-year -7.64% +5.87% -10.00%

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 758 693 847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.66% 31.10% 32.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 440 574
10th Percentile £356 £374 £300
25th Percentile £441 £474 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -1.88% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £720
90th Percentile £788 £801 £833
London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 12
10th Percentile £20.62 £30.61 £17.00
25th Percentile - £38.42 £18.45
Median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -42.51%
75th Percentile £29.50 £75.92 £30.69
90th Percentile £41.79 £85.87 £45.73
London median hourly rate £26.30 £34.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.32% +15.83% -8.14%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -9 24 £588 -12.96% 22
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.57%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (3.57%) SAP MM
2 1 (3.57%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.57%) Boomi
4 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Redis
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
1 2 (7.14%) Gradle
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.57%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Law
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Head of Technical Operations
5 1 (3.57%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (3.57%) SAP PMO Manager
5 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.57%) J2EE
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) WinForms
2 1 (3.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Migration
2 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (25.00%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (21.43%) ERP
4 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 6 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (17.86%) AI
5 5 (17.86%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Validation
7 3 (10.71%) Business Process Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Data Mapping
7 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
7 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (10.71%) Project Management
7 3 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) Rust
3 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) C
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.57%) ProC
4 1 (3.57%) VB
4 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.57%) RHCE
3 1 (3.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) MiFID
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Ansible
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.29%) SAP
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) Guidewire
2 2 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.14%) Workday
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) iManage
3 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Murex
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) OutSystems
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Rollbar
3 1 (3.57%) SmartStream