Legacy Application
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 788 741 1031
Rank change year-on-year -47 +290 -313
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 108 231 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.51% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 97 146 102
10th Percentile £40,500 £47,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +24.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £111,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +49.43% -13.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Applications 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 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
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 £107,500 £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 Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +33 100 £65,000 -16.13% 28
Work from Home +42 68 £57,500 -25.81% 10
UK excluding London -24 66 £57,500 -11.54% 21
London +70 38 £70,000 -17.65% 11
South East +44 34 £57,500 -9.09% 6
North of England +18 15 £55,000 -29.03% 5
North West +18 8 £70,576 +34.43% 2
Midlands +2 8 £55,000 -1.79% 2
West Midlands +23 6 £58,750 +4.91% 1
North East 0 4 £55,000 - 2
Yorkshire +52 3 £55,000 -29.03% 1
East of England +12 3 £70,000 +16.67% 3
South West -2 3 £87,500 +69.08%
Wales - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -17 2 £40,000 -33.33% 1

Legacy Applications
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 4 (3.70%) Drupal
2 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.85%) WordPress
3 1 (0.93%) IIS
3 1 (0.93%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (4.63%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.81%) Azure
2 20 (18.52%) AWS
3 15 (13.89%) SaaS
4 11 (10.19%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.33%) GCP
6 8 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.48%) PowerApps
8 6 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 6 (5.56%) Serverless
9 2 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.85%) GitHub
10 1 (0.93%) Akamai
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.93%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.07%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.33%) Power BI
3 5 (4.63%) Metadata
4 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.85%) MS Access
6 2 (1.85%) MySQL
6 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) Big Data
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Git
2 3 (2.78%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.85%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) JMeter
4 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.93%) Sourcetree
General
1 22 (20.37%) Finance
2 17 (15.74%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.96%) Banking
4 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.41%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.63%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Automotive
9 1 (0.93%) Back Office
9 1 (0.93%) Front Office
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Law
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (33.33%) Developer
2 22 (20.37%) Software Engineer
3 19 (17.59%) .NET Developer
3 19 (17.59%) Senior
4 18 (16.67%) Architect
5 14 (12.96%) Lead
6 13 (12.04%) Senior Developer
7 9 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
7 9 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 7 (6.48%) Senior C# Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Data Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Data Migration Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (44.44%) .NET
2 22 (20.37%) .NET Core
3 17 (15.74%) HTML
4 14 (12.96%) CSS
5 13 (12.04%) Web Services
6 12 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
7 11 (10.19%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.41%) ASP.NET
8 8 (7.41%) Blazor
8 8 (7.41%) Node.js
9 6 (5.56%) RESTful
10 5 (4.63%) Itk
10 5 (4.63%) React
10 5 (4.63%) XML
11 3 (2.78%) jQuery
11 3 (2.78%) Laravel
12 2 (1.85%) Entity Framework
12 2 (1.85%) JSON
12 2 (1.85%) LINQ
12 2 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.63%) IoT
3 5 (4.63%) Low-Code
3 5 (4.63%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.70%) Wiki
5 2 (1.85%) DataPower
5 2 (1.85%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.78%) Windows
3 2 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.63%) Software Engineering
2 30 (27.78%) Agile
2 30 (27.78%) DevOps
3 28 (25.93%) Microservices
4 21 (19.44%) Full Stack Development
4 21 (19.44%) Migration
5 14 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.04%) Unit Testing
6 13 (12.04%) Web Development
7 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 11 (10.19%) CI/CD
9 8 (7.41%) API Integration
9 8 (7.41%) Code Quality
9 8 (7.41%) Computer Science
9 8 (7.41%) Data Migration
9 8 (7.41%) Refactoring
9 8 (7.41%) Validation
10 7 (6.48%) Information Security
10 7 (6.48%) MVC
10 7 (6.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (40.74%) C#
2 27 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 26 (24.07%) SQL
4 16 (14.81%) Java
5 15 (13.89%) Python
6 14 (12.96%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.33%) C++
7 9 (8.33%) VB
8 8 (7.41%) PHP
9 7 (6.48%) VB6
10 6 (5.56%) VB.NET
11 5 (4.63%) Bash
11 5 (4.63%) C
11 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
12 4 (3.70%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.26%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (6.48%) OCP
2 7 (6.48%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (4.63%) MCAD
3 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.63%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.93%) GDPR
1 1 (0.93%) QA
1 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Terraform
2 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.85%) cPanel
5 1 (0.93%) Ansible
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.78%) Databricks
3 3 (2.78%) Sparx
4 2 (1.85%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.85%) Epicor
4 2 (1.85%) IBM
4 2 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow