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 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 97 116
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 +45
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 35 28 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.67% 1.37% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.68% 4.42% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 7
10th Percentile £464 £496 £400
25th Percentile £503 £580 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +35.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £647 £709 £553
90th Percentile £766 £753 £635
London median daily rate £531 £596 £563
% change year-on-year -10.79% +5.87% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £58.92 - -
London median hourly rate £58.92 - £92.50

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 748 634 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.62% 30.96% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 404 549
10th Percentile £350 £366 £274
25th Percentile £438 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £788 £784 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 14
10th Percentile £20.46 - £14.03
25th Percentile £26.11 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.06 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile £41.89 - £34.25
90th Percentile £59.00 - £49.20
London median hourly rate £28.94 £39.02 £29.36
% change year-on-year -25.83% +32.90% -16.11%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -1 31 £550 -18.52% 18
Southwark +1 1 - - 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 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (2.86%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (5.71%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) GitHub
3 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.86%) Boomi
4 1 (2.86%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.86%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) NAS
1 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Couchbase
2 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Redis
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) GitLab
1 2 (5.71%) Gradle
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.86%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.86%) Front Office
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Applications Architect
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) SAP Manager
4 2 (5.71%) SAP Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.86%) GeoJSON
3 1 (2.86%) J2EE
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Middleware
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
3 1 (2.86%) WinForms
3 1 (2.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.71%) LIMS
3 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.86%) Derivative
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.86%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.86%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Migration
2 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (20.00%) Validation
4 6 (17.14%) DevOps
4 6 (17.14%) ERP
4 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
4 6 (17.14%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (14.29%) Agile
5 5 (14.29%) AI
5 5 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 5 (14.29%) Data Mapping
5 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 5 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (11.43%) Business Process Analysis
6 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.57%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) SQL
2 3 (8.57%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) Python
3 2 (5.71%) Rust
3 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) C
4 1 (2.86%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.86%) ProC
4 1 (2.86%) VB
4 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.86%) RHCE
4 1 (2.86%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) MiFID
3 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) NFS
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
4 1 (2.86%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.86%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) SAP
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) Guidewire
4 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.71%) Workday
5 1 (2.86%) Ariba
5 1 (2.86%) Commvault
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) iManage
5 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.86%) Murex
5 1 (2.86%) New Relic
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) OutSystems
5 1 (2.86%) Pure Storage
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) Rollbar
5 1 (2.86%) SmartStream