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 19 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 97 115
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +43
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 46 29 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.87% 1.48% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.79% 4.40% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 18 2
10th Percentile £400 £494 £374
25th Percentile £450 £550 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +54.29% -32.69%
75th Percentile £650 £716 £491
90th Percentile £788 £811 £511
London median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £58.92 - -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

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 794 659 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.22% 33.59% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 424 521
10th Percentile £350 £341 £263
25th Percentile £463 £464 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - -6.81%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 9
10th Percentile £19.27 £23.52 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.39 £16.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £27.76 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +20.70% -34.29%
75th Percentile £41.75 £30.52 £27.00
90th Percentile £59.56 £65.50 £32.05
London median hourly rate £34.62 £34.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +0.33% +32.69% -25.71%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +4 44 £575 -14.81% 16
Southwark - 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 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (15.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (2.17%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (2.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) AWS
2 8 (17.39%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) Serverless
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.17%) Boomi
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) NAS
1 1 (2.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.17%) Logi Info
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (2.17%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (36.96%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Law
5 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Front Office
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Consultant
4 5 (10.87%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Applications Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Consultant
5 4 (8.70%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Lead
5 4 (8.70%) Salesforce Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 2 (4.35%) Applications Tester
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.35%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) SAP Project Manager
7 2 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) .NET
1 2 (4.35%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.17%) GeoJSON
2 1 (2.17%) J2EE
2 1 (2.17%) JSON
2 1 (2.17%) Kafka
2 1 (2.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.17%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.70%) LIMS
3 3 (6.52%) Replication
4 2 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.17%) Derivative
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.17%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.17%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (2.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Migration
2 12 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (19.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (17.39%) Data Mapping
4 8 (17.39%) ERP
5 7 (15.22%) Data Migration
5 7 (15.22%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (13.04%) Data Modelling
6 6 (13.04%) DevOps
6 6 (13.04%) GAP Analysis
6 6 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.87%) Validation
8 4 (8.70%) Agile
8 4 (8.70%) Asset Management
8 4 (8.70%) Data Cleansing
8 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) SQL
2 3 (6.52%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.17%) Bicep
4 1 (2.17%) C
4 1 (2.17%) C++
4 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.17%) ProC
4 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.17%) PhD
3 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) NFS
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) SAP
2 7 (15.22%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) iManage
4 2 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Workday
5 1 (2.17%) Ariba
5 1 (2.17%) Commvault
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.17%) Informatica
5 1 (2.17%) Logi
5 1 (2.17%) Logi Analytics
5 1 (2.17%) Murex
5 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.17%) OutSystems
5 1 (2.17%) Pure Storage
5 1 (2.17%) Talend
5 1 (2.17%) VMware