Legacy Systems Contracts in Central London

Legacy System
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 153 167
Rank change year-on-year +26 +14 -30
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 10 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.42% 0.60% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% 1.67% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 24
10th Percentile - £475 £486
25th Percentile £475 £603 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £675
90th Percentile - £734 £701
London median daily rate £555 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Legacy Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 743 1,317 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.05% 35.69% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 895 1,147
10th Percentile £265 £315 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £838 £845 £803
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 27
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.78 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £29.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -23.08% +139.63%
75th Percentile £25.50 £83.75 £57.25
90th Percentile £36.30 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.62 £42.02
% change year-on-year -22.01% -17.61% +22.90%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in Central London

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 31 May 2024. 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 +26 9 - - 6
City of Westminster - 1 £500 -
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 5 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Serverless
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (10.00%) ETL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Perl Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Report Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
3 6 (60.00%) Data Development
3 6 (60.00%) Front End Development
4 5 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 5 (50.00%) SDLC
4 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) ETL
7 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
7 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
7 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (10.00%) QA Automation
7 1 (10.00%) SDET
7 1 (10.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) C++
3 5 (50.00%) Go
3 5 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) EMIR
1 1 (10.00%) FATCA
1 1 (10.00%) MiFID
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 5 (50.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Sybase