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 22 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 102 120
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +22
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 48 27 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.95% 1.41% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.25% 3.68% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 18 3
10th Percentile £425 £500 £525
25th Percentile £480 £503 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +42.22%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £825
90th Percentile £775 £759 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
London median hourly rate £60.50 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year +77.94% - -

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 915 733 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.20% 38.24% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 523 449
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £446 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 7
10th Percentile £19.80 £17.08 £19.60
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.89 £22.90
Median hourly rate £35.41 £26.45 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +33.88% +2.56% -26.31%
75th Percentile £64.13 £50.79 £27.00
90th Percentile £148.68 £88.75 £53.20
London median hourly rate £33.92 £27.50 £31.31
% change year-on-year +23.33% -12.17% +13.85%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 40 £550 -12.00% 25
Southwark - 8 £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 (2.08%) Apache
1 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.08%) CMS
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.08%) Maximo
2 1 (2.08%) SAP HCM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (2.08%) SAP R/3
2 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) AWS
3 4 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) Azure App Service
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.17%) Serverless
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (2.08%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.08%) dbt
5 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Data Mart
1 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.08%) DataStage
4 1 (2.08%) Logi Info
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
4 1 (2.08%) Power Query
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 22 (45.83%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Banking
3 7 (14.58%) Law
4 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Back Office
5 5 (10.42%) Legal
6 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.25%) Retail Banking
8 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.08%) Front Office
9 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) Lead
3 6 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (6.25%) Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Designer
5 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Service Designer
5 3 (6.25%) Tester
6 2 (4.17%) Applications Tester
6 2 (4.17%) Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Integration Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.17%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) .NET
1 6 (12.50%) React
2 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (8.33%) Kafka
3 3 (6.25%) Node.js
3 3 (6.25%) REST
3 3 (6.25%) Terraform
4 2 (4.17%) JSON
4 2 (4.17%) SOAP
4 2 (4.17%) Web Services
5 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.08%) EDI
5 1 (2.08%) jQuery
5 1 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.08%) Middleware
5 1 (2.08%) Playwright
5 1 (2.08%) PySpark
5 1 (2.08%) RESTful
5 1 (2.08%) XML
5 1 (2.08%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.25%) Derivative
3 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
1 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Migration
2 15 (31.25%) DevOps
3 12 (25.00%) ETL
4 10 (20.83%) Data Modelling
5 9 (18.75%) Agile
5 9 (18.75%) Analytics
5 9 (18.75%) Case Management
6 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 8 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (14.58%) Microservices
7 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.50%) Data Architecture
8 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.42%) Asset Management
9 5 (10.42%) Data Engineering
9 5 (10.42%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) SQL
3 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.42%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) Java
6 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.08%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.08%) Korn
7 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.08%) CISM
5 1 (2.08%) CISSP
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) NCSC
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Databricks
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.17%) SAP
3 2 (4.17%) Workday
3 2 (4.17%) Xero
4 1 (2.08%) Aderant
4 1 (2.08%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) IFS
4 1 (2.08%) iManage
4 1 (2.08%) Logi
4 1 (2.08%) Logi Analytics
4 1 (2.08%) Palantir