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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 122 151
Rank change year-on-year +29 +29 +21
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 30 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.48% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.37% 1.98% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 17
10th Percentile £479 £388 £475
25th Percentile £534 £425 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -30.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £697 £525 £675
90th Percentile £744 £533 £738
London median daily rate £600 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -5.85%

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 687 757 1,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.91% 30.82% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 530 962
10th Percentile £363 £263 £319
25th Percentile £474 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £796 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 18
10th Percentile £23.78 £13.08 £19.14
25th Percentile £26.45 £18.20 £27.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £27.13 £78.00
90th Percentile £72.40 £47.98 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -20.09%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +17 29 £675 +50.00% 9
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
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Endur
2 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (20.00%) CloudFront
3 6 (20.00%) Route 53
4 4 (13.33%) Azure
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud9 IDE
6 1 (3.33%) Slack
6 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 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (23.33%) Redis
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (20.00%) DocumentDB
3 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Postman
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (63.33%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Retail Banking
4 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Front Office
6 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Military
6 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Automotive
7 1 (3.33%) Billing
7 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) OpenLink Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Data Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) RESTful
2 6 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (6.67%) XML
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.33%) FpML
5 1 (3.33%) JSON
5 1 (3.33%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) NumPy
5 1 (3.33%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.33%) Pandas
5 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.33%) SciPy
5 1 (3.33%) SOAP
5 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Derivative
1 6 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.67%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.33%) CMDB
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Asset Management
1 7 (23.33%) Unit Testing
2 6 (20.00%) Agile
2 6 (20.00%) Secure Coding
2 6 (20.00%) SOLID
2 6 (20.00%) TDD
3 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Change Management
5 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (10.00%) Microservices
5 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (10.00%) Use Case
5 3 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.67%) Fintech
6 2 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) C#
2 8 (26.67%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) R
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Istio
3 1 (3.33%) Podman
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.67%) OpenLink
3 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Avaya
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.33%) Pega
4 1 (3.33%) Workday
4 1 (3.33%) Zuora