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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 126 165
Rank change year-on-year +26 +39 +14
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 32 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.55% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.37% 1.58% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 7
10th Percentile £498 £466 £453
25th Percentile £525 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £697 £825 £675
90th Percentile £736 - £695
London median daily rate £585 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +6.36% -4.35% -8.00%
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 £44.50 - -

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 733 759 1,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.44% 31.78% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 511 879
10th Percentile £356 £313 £300
25th Percentile £456 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £610
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -7.38% +6.09%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £23.52 £16.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.80 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% -40.25% -12.46%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £58.70 £88.30
London median hourly rate £29.75 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.83% -14.29% -12.50%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +18 27 £640 -19.97% 22
City of Westminster +1 2 £650 +30.00%
West End of London - 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 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) nginx
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Endur
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) CloudFront
5 2 (6.25%) Route 53
5 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.38%) Redis
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.25%) DocumentDB
3 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) DB2
4 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.13%) Parquet
4 1 (3.13%) Power BI
4 1 (3.13%) Power Query
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (65.63%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Front Office
5 2 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Local Government
5 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) OpenLink Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) ERP Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) ERP Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (3.13%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.13%) SAP Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) RESTful
3 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.25%) XML
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.13%) FpML
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) SPFx
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.25%) Data Fabric
2 2 (6.25%) Derivative
2 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) AS400
3 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.13%) iSeries
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.88%) DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (18.75%) Migration
5 5 (15.63%) Microservices
6 4 (12.50%) BDD
6 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (12.50%) Kanban
6 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 3 (9.38%) Asset Management
7 3 (9.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (9.38%) ERP
7 3 (9.38%) Risk Management
7 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.38%) Unit Testing
7 3 (9.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Python
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) C#
3 6 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) COBOL
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) R
5 1 (3.13%) RPG
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (6.25%) CASP
1 2 (6.25%) CCSP
1 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.25%) CISSP
1 2 (6.25%) CREST Certified
1 2 (6.25%) CSSLP
1 2 (6.25%) GIAC
2 1 (3.13%) CFA
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) NCSC
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) SELinux
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Istio
2 1 (3.13%) Podman
2 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) OpenLink
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 3 (9.38%) Workday
4 1 (3.13%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.13%) Citrix
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) FNZ
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Kony
4 1 (3.13%) Pega
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow