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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 111 130
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 +56
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 28 21 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.46% 0.90% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.77% 2.93% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 8
10th Percentile £500 £472 £423
25th Percentile £503 £583 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £713 £519
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +37.35% -6.95%
75th Percentile £650 £756 £569
90th Percentile £704 £820 £618
London median daily rate £569 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +3.41% -1.85% -10.34%
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 - £92.50

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 743 717 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.74% 30.81% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 459 633
10th Percentile £350 £362 £325
25th Percentile £436 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £688 £711 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £833
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 13
10th Percentile £16.90 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £26.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.75 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -1.82% -41.18%
75th Percentile £43.39 £59.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £72.53 £79.40 £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -27.10% +15.00% +16.69%

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 12 November 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 12 November 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 +3 19 £613 -14.04% 70
City of Westminster - 3 £650 -
West End of London - 2 £650 - 1
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 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.57%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.57%) Boomi
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.57%) iPaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.57%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
1 1 (3.57%) DB2
1 1 (3.57%) Parquet
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) Power Query
1 1 (3.57%) Redis
1 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
1 2 (7.14%) Gradle
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 16 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Law
5 2 (7.14%) Local Government
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Front Office
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Architect
1 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
1 5 (17.86%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) ERP Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) ERP Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) React
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) SPFx
2 1 (3.57%) WinForms
2 1 (3.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.57%) AS400
2 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Derivative
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.57%) iSeries
2 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) ERP
4 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 4 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (10.71%) Risk Register
6 3 (10.71%) Validation
6 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
7 2 (7.14%) Data Mapping
7 2 (7.14%) Data Migration
7 2 (7.14%) Risk Management
7 2 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
1 4 (14.29%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) Java
3 2 (7.14%) C#
3 2 (7.14%) Rust
3 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) COBOL
4 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) RPG
4 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (7.14%) CASP
2 2 (7.14%) CCSP
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.14%) CISSP
2 2 (7.14%) CREST Certified
2 2 (7.14%) CSSLP
2 2 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) GIAC
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) CFA
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.57%) RHCE
3 1 (3.57%) RHCSA
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) NCSC
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) MiFID
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) SELinux
3 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Workday
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) FNZ
4 1 (3.57%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.57%) iManage
4 1 (3.57%) Kony
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) New Relic
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) Rollbar
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) SmartStream