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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 +51
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 27 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.39% 0.57% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.72% 1.84% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 5
10th Percentile £500 £525 £444
25th Percentile £503 £619 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £563
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +42.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £569
90th Percentile £759 - £668
London median daily rate £575 £550 £605
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.09% +0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

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 726 708 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.29% 30.78% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 449 728
10th Percentile £350 £359 £313
25th Percentile £446 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.92% +2.56%
75th Percentile £689 £719 £730
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
London median daily rate £556 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.26% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £16.96
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £40.87
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £29.75
% change year-on-year -12.17% +5.24% -2.46%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +15 19 £625 -21.88% 23
West End of London - 2 £650 -
City of Westminster - 2 £650 -
Legacy Systems
London

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Endur
2 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.70%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.70%) DB2
1 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.70%) Parquet
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
1 1 (3.70%) Power Query
1 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Law
4 2 (7.41%) Local Government
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Front Office
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Business Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) OpenLink Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) ERP Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) ERP Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
6 2 (7.41%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Development Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
7 1 (3.70%) SAP Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.70%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
1 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.70%) AS400
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) iSeries
2 1 (3.70%) PMI
2 1 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) BDD
5 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (14.81%) ERP
5 4 (14.81%) Kanban
5 4 (14.81%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Risk Register
6 3 (11.11%) User Stories
6 3 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 2 (7.41%) Business Process Mapping
7 2 (7.41%) SABSA
7 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Python
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) C#
2 5 (18.52%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) COBOL
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) RPG
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (7.41%) CASP
1 2 (7.41%) CCSP
1 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (7.41%) CISSP
1 2 (7.41%) CREST Certified
1 2 (7.41%) CSSLP
1 2 (7.41%) CTC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) GIAC
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) CFA
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) RHCE
2 1 (3.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.41%) NCSC
1 2 (7.41%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) SELinux
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) OpenLink
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Workday
4 1 (3.70%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) FNZ
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Kony
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat