Legacy System
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 453 504
Rank change year-on-year -66 +51 -144
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 427 635 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.65% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 1.52% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 241 429 554
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,812 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,250 £82,970
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +18.28%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems.

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -69 351 £57,500 -11.54% 131
UK excluding London -15 319 £52,500 -4.55% 85
Work from Home -73 162 £52,500 -21.17% 83
London -25 89 £82,500 -2.94% 47
North of England +61 83 £55,000 -15.38% 29
South East +3 74 £52,500 +10.53% 13
Midlands -3 69 £50,000 +1.01% 19
North West +2 45 £55,000 -15.38% 15
Scotland -37 43 £73,750 -1.67% 4
West Midlands +8 38 £50,000 -23.08% 15
East Midlands -9 31 £37,500 -21.05% 4
Yorkshire +83 23 £52,500 -4.55% 11
East of England -11 18 £37,500 -31.82% 10
South West -65 16 £62,500 +16.28% 8
North East +7 15 £55,000 -16.67% 3
Northern Ireland +22 9 £47,500 -44.12% 1
Wales +1 8 - - 2

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (5.15%) SAS
2 14 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.04%) Apache
4 9 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.41%) Mendix
6 5 (1.17%) Drupal
6 5 (1.17%) K2 blackpearl
7 4 (0.94%) CMS
7 4 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.70%) IIS
9 2 (0.47%) Confluence
9 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.47%) Resin
9 2 (0.47%) WordPress
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 12 (2.81%) Sketch
2 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 12 (2.81%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.17%) Elite 3E
4 5 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (1.17%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.94%) SAP MDM
5 4 (0.94%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.70%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.23%) Magento
7 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.23%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.23%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-BP
7 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (35.60%) Azure
2 138 (32.32%) AWS
3 27 (6.32%) Power Platform
4 26 (6.09%) GCP
5 18 (4.22%) SaaS
6 14 (3.28%) Figma
6 14 (3.28%) GitHub
7 13 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.34%) Serverless
10 9 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (2.11%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.11%) PowerApps
10 9 (2.11%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (1.87%) Stackdriver
12 6 (1.41%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.70%) Firewall
1 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.70%) VPN
2 2 (0.47%) 4G
2 2 (0.47%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.47%) Multicast
2 2 (0.47%) VoIP
3 1 (0.23%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.23%) DHCP
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) FTP
3 1 (0.23%) Internet
3 1 (0.23%) Modbus
3 1 (0.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (16.86%) Geospatial Data
2 58 (13.58%) SQL Server
3 38 (8.90%) Relational Database
4 33 (7.73%) NoSQL
5 31 (7.26%) MySQL
6 25 (5.85%) Power BI
7 18 (4.22%) Big Data
8 17 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.34%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.87%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.87%) Data Mining
12 6 (1.41%) Apache Hive
12 6 (1.41%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.41%) HBase
12 6 (1.41%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (11.01%) Git
2 39 (9.13%) JIRA
3 33 (7.73%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.58%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (2.58%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.41%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (1.17%) JUnit
6 5 (1.17%) LabVIEW
6 5 (1.17%) NUnit
7 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.47%) Apache Continuum
8 2 (0.47%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.47%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.47%) Postman
8 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.47%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) GitLab
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 164 (38.41%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.91%) Finance
3 37 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.79%) Retail
5 28 (6.56%) Law
6 26 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (5.62%) Marketing
8 17 (3.98%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.04%) Back Office
10 12 (2.81%) Banking
10 12 (2.81%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.64%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.41%) Legal
13 6 (1.41%) Local Government
14 5 (1.17%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.94%) Police
16 3 (0.70%) Electronics
16 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (33.96%) Developer
2 139 (32.55%) Architect
3 72 (16.86%) Geospatial Architect
3 72 (16.86%) Software Architect
4 56 (13.11%) Senior
5 35 (8.20%) Senior Developer
6 34 (7.96%) Lead
7 25 (5.85%) PHP Developer
8 24 (5.62%) Technical Architect
9 22 (5.15%) ServiceNow Developer
10 21 (4.92%) Consultant
11 20 (4.68%) C# Developer
12 18 (4.22%) Full Stack Developer
13 16 (3.75%) Data Architect
14 15 (3.51%) .NET Developer
14 15 (3.51%) Java Developer
15 14 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (3.04%) Senior .NET Developer
16 13 (3.04%) Software Engineer
17 12 (2.81%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.46%) HTML
2 56 (13.11%) Web Services
3 52 (12.18%) .NET
4 49 (11.48%) CSS
5 32 (7.49%) AngularJS
6 31 (7.26%) REST
7 25 (5.85%) Laravel
8 23 (5.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 22 (5.15%) HTML5
10 21 (4.92%) Symfony
11 18 (4.22%) Spring
12 17 (3.98%) jQuery
12 17 (3.98%) Kafka
13 16 (3.75%) .NET Core
13 16 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (3.51%) ASP.NET
14 15 (3.51%) SOAP
14 15 (3.51%) Spring Boot
15 13 (3.04%) CSS3
15 13 (3.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 54 (12.65%) Management Information System
2 22 (5.15%) CMDB
3 16 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.28%) Clustering
5 12 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.58%) Replication
7 9 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.87%) NHS
9 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.64%) PMI
10 6 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.17%) BBC
11 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.17%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.22%) Linux
2 17 (3.98%) Windows
3 8 (1.87%) Unix
4 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.47%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (40.52%) Agile
2 141 (33.02%) Migration
3 133 (31.15%) DevOps
4 79 (18.50%) Software Testing
5 73 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (17.10%) Software Architecture
6 52 (12.18%) Microservices
7 48 (11.24%) Mentoring
8 47 (11.01%) Project Management
9 43 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (9.84%) Data Management
10 42 (9.84%) Software Engineering
11 38 (8.90%) Data Migration
12 36 (8.43%) Analytics
12 36 (8.43%) Visualisation
13 34 (7.96%) Code Quality
13 34 (7.96%) SDLC
14 33 (7.73%) Computer Science
15 32 (7.49%) Web Development
16 31 (7.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 96 (22.48%) SQL
2 69 (16.16%) JavaScript
3 54 (12.65%) C#
4 33 (7.73%) Java
5 32 (7.49%) Python
6 31 (7.26%) PHP
7 12 (2.81%) Go
7 12 (2.81%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.34%) Delphi
9 9 (2.11%) FoxPro (VFP)
10 7 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.41%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.17%) Bash
12 5 (1.17%) Perl
12 5 (1.17%) VB
13 3 (0.70%) C
13 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.70%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (8.43%) Degree
2 25 (5.85%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (4.45%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.34%) CISM
5 10 (2.34%) CISSP
6 9 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.47%) CBAP
10 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.47%) IIBA
10 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CCNP
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CRISC
11 1 (0.23%) ISEB
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.15%) QA
2 21 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.64%) GDPR
4 7 (1.64%) GRC
4 7 (1.64%) NIST
5 6 (1.41%) NCSC
5 6 (1.41%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.47%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) PMO
8 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.23%) COSO
8 1 (0.23%) GAMP
8 1 (0.23%) PSD2
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (8.90%) Docker
2 8 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.41%) HDFS
3 6 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.23%) KVM
5 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (6.79%) Kubernetes
1 29 (6.79%) Terraform
2 20 (4.68%) Ansible
3 7 (1.64%) Grafana
4 5 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.17%) Puppet
5 4 (0.94%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) MIIS
7 1 (0.23%) Nagios
7 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 60 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.13%) ServiceNow
3 35 (8.20%) Oracle
4 23 (5.39%) SAP
5 14 (3.28%) Databricks
6 9 (2.11%) WSO2
7 7 (1.64%) Informatica
8 6 (1.41%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.17%) Automation Anywhere
9 5 (1.17%) Blue Prism
9 5 (1.17%) BMC
9 5 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.17%) HP
9 5 (1.17%) Remedy
9 5 (1.17%) Splunk
10 4 (0.94%) JDA
10 4 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.70%) Cisco
12 2 (0.47%) Cognos
12 2 (0.47%) Salesforce