Legacy Code Jobs in England

Legacy Code
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 814 791
Rank change year-on-year +63 -23 -68
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 82 130 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.096% 0.14% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.32% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 53 100 134
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £89,250
UK median annual salary £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
England

Legacy Code 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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,560 40,009 61,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.75% 43.21% 46.37%
Number of salaries quoted 20,858 21,655 30,508
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,232 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London +153 63 £95,000 +58.33% 8
Midlands +13 7 £50,000 +13.64% 4
North of England +12 7 £55,000 +4.76% 1
East Midlands -13 6 £50,000 +15.61% 4
North West 0 4 £55,000 -2.22% 1
South East -17 4 - - 6
Yorkshire +78 2 £48,750 -7.14%
West Midlands +29 1 - -
North East -4 1 £63,000 +26.00%
South West -38 1 £40,000 -9.09% 3
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (31.71%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (17.07%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 26 (31.71%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 14 (17.07%) NuGet
2 13 (15.85%) AWS
3 6 (7.32%) SaaS
4 3 (3.66%) GitHub
4 3 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (2.44%) Azure
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.22%) Figma
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.22%) Slack
6 1 (1.22%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.10%) MySQL
3 3 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (34.15%) Git
1 28 (34.15%) JIRA
2 26 (31.71%) Moq
2 26 (31.71%) NUnit
2 26 (31.71%) TeamCity
3 14 (17.07%) git-flow
3 14 (17.07%) Octopus Deploy
3 14 (17.07%) Sourcetree
3 14 (17.07%) SpecFlow
3 14 (17.07%) Visual Studio
4 12 (14.63%) GitLab
5 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.22%) Gradle
6 1 (1.22%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.22%) XCTest
6 1 (1.22%) XCUITest
General
1 26 (31.71%) Marketing
2 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.10%) Law
4 3 (3.66%) Games
5 2 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (46.34%) Developer
2 36 (43.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 35 (42.68%) Senior
4 30 (36.59%) Full Stack Developer
5 22 (26.83%) Software Engineer
6 20 (24.39%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 20 (24.39%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 20 (24.39%) Lead
7 18 (21.95%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 18 (21.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 16 (19.51%) C# Developer
8 16 (19.51%) Full Stack Engineer
8 16 (19.51%) Senior Developer
9 15 (18.29%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 14 (17.07%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 14 (17.07%) Senior C# Developer
11 11 (13.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (12.20%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (9.76%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
14 4 (4.88%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (41.46%) CSS
1 34 (41.46%) HTML
1 34 (41.46%) React
2 31 (37.80%) .NET
3 30 (36.59%) jQuery
4 28 (34.15%) .NET Framework
4 28 (34.15%) RESTful
4 28 (34.15%) SOAP
4 28 (34.15%) Web Services
5 26 (31.71%) ASP.NET
5 26 (31.71%) ASP.NET MVC
5 26 (31.71%) ASP.NET MVC 5
5 26 (31.71%) Entity Framework
5 26 (31.71%) Semantic HTML
6 22 (26.83%) Node.js
7 16 (19.51%) Svelte
7 16 (19.51%) XML
8 14 (17.07%) Autofac
8 14 (17.07%) Code First Entity Framework
8 14 (17.07%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 36 (43.90%) Cloud Native
1 36 (43.90%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (17.07%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.22%) Xbox
Operating Systems
1 38 (46.34%) Linux
2 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (58.54%) Full Stack Development
2 41 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 32 (39.02%) Agile
4 30 (36.59%) MVC
5 29 (35.37%) Unit Testing
6 28 (34.15%) E-Commerce
7 27 (32.93%) Computer Science
8 26 (31.71%) Issue Tracking
8 26 (31.71%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (31.71%) Responsive Web Design
9 20 (24.39%) DevOps
10 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (21.95%) Mentoring
12 16 (19.51%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (19.51%) OO
12 16 (19.51%) Scrum
13 15 (18.29%) Architectural Design
13 15 (18.29%) SOLID
13 15 (18.29%) TDD
14 14 (17.07%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (60.98%) JavaScript
2 36 (43.90%) Go
3 31 (37.80%) C#
3 31 (37.80%) SQL
4 26 (31.71%) T-SQL
5 23 (28.05%) C
6 22 (26.83%) C++
7 20 (24.39%) Rust
8 18 (21.95%) TypeScript
9 14 (17.07%) XPath
10 6 (7.32%) PHP
11 3 (3.66%) Java
12 1 (1.22%) Ada
12 1 (1.22%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.22%) Perl
12 1 (1.22%) Python
12 1 (1.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (34.15%) Degree
2 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) HL7
2 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (43.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.07%) Adobe
1 14 (17.07%) Cognizant
2 2 (2.44%) Progress
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.22%) SAP