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

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 116 156
Rank change year-on-year +22 +40 -3
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 30 17 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.45% 0.66% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.53% 2.18% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 20
10th Percentile £500 £394 £475
25th Percentile £588 £431 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -26.92% +8.29%
75th Percentile £725 £534 £688
90th Percentile £750 £636 £738
London median daily rate £591 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +5.54% -6.67% -4.00%

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 662 780 1,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.90% 30.30% 37.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 549 983
10th Percentile £375 £263 £351
25th Percentile £463 £438 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £748
90th Percentile £775 £838 £857
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 26
10th Percentile - £13.18 £17.85
25th Percentile - £17.00 £20.44
Median hourly rate £31.00 £19.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.16% -45.71% -32.04%
75th Percentile - £32.31 £77.25
90th Percentile - £49.90 £88.30
London median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +34.55% -21.43% -21.35%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Central London over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 6 March 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 +19 28 £675 +50.00% 4
Southwark - 1 £591 -
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 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) nginx
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 7 (23.33%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (23.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 7 (23.33%) CloudFront
3 7 (23.33%) Route 53
4 3 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud9 IDE
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Slack
5 1 (3.33%) Textract
5 1 (3.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) BGP
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) Multicast
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
1 1 (3.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (26.67%) Redis
3 7 (23.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (23.33%) DocumentDB
3 7 (23.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.33%) Power BI
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) Selenium
1 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (53.33%) Finance
2 9 (30.00%) Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Retail Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Military
6 2 (6.67%) Advertising
6 2 (6.67%) Back Office
6 2 (6.67%) Front Office
6 2 (6.67%) General Ledger
6 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Legal
7 1 (3.33%) Automotive
7 1 (3.33%) Billing
7 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) C# Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Data Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Data Migration Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Migration Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Back Office Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) ERP Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) GraphQL
1 7 (23.33%) RESTful
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (6.67%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.33%) FpML
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) NumPy
3 1 (3.33%) OpenCV
3 1 (3.33%) Pandas
3 1 (3.33%) pydantic
3 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.33%) SciPy
3 1 (3.33%) Spring
3 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Derivative
1 7 (23.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) CMDB
3 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Migration
2 8 (26.67%) Asset Management
2 8 (26.67%) Unit Testing
3 7 (23.33%) Secure Coding
3 7 (23.33%) SOLID
3 7 (23.33%) TDD
4 4 (13.33%) Agile
4 4 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
4 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 4 (13.33%) ERP
4 4 (13.33%) Validation
5 3 (10.00%) Change Management
5 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (10.00%) ETL
5 3 (10.00%) ITSM
5 3 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) C#
2 6 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) ACCA
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) IFRS
1 1 (3.33%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Istio
3 1 (3.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) Informatica
3 2 (6.67%) Maconomy
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Avaya
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.33%) Pega
4 1 (3.33%) Workday
4 1 (3.33%) Zuora