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 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 555 441 540
Rank change year-on-year -114 +99 -180
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 363 711 961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.68% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 1.58% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 243 482 523
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,025 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,875 £95,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £103,000 £120,000 £99,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,250 £50,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.39% +8.60%

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 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 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 27 April 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 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 -95 307 £57,500 -14.81% 121
UK excluding London -63 259 £52,500 -6.67% 86
Work from Home -102 145 £55,000 -18.52% 67
London -68 85 £82,500 -2.94% 39
South East +21 67 £52,500 +10.53% 16
Midlands +12 65 £50,000 +4.17% 23
North of England +30 59 £55,000 -15.38% 24
West Midlands +25 38 £50,000 -23.08% 12
Scotland -60 34 £69,447 -7.40% 7
North West -12 31 £55,000 -23.89% 15
East Midlands -9 27 £37,500 -14.77% 11
East of England +6 17 £35,000 -30.00% 5
North East +11 15 £55,000 -16.67% 6
Yorkshire +83 13 £38,500 -35.83% 3
South West -53 12 £67,500 +20.00% 8
Northern Ireland +26 3 £47,500 -50.65% 1
Wales +6 3 - - 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 (6.06%) SAS
2 15 (4.13%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.58%) Apache
4 9 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.48%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.65%) Mendix
6 5 (1.38%) Drupal
6 5 (1.38%) IIS
6 5 (1.38%) K2 blackpearl
7 4 (1.10%) CMS
7 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.55%) Resin
8 2 (0.55%) WordPress
9 1 (0.28%) Confluence
9 1 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.28%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 12 (3.31%) Sketch
2 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.68%) NetSuite
2 9 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.48%) Elite 3E
2 9 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.83%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.55%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.55%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.55%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.55%) SAP MDM
5 2 (0.55%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.28%) Magento
6 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 90 (24.79%) Azure
2 76 (20.94%) AWS
3 27 (7.44%) Power Platform
4 26 (7.16%) GCP
5 23 (6.34%) SaaS
6 16 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (4.13%) GitHub
8 14 (3.86%) Figma
9 11 (3.03%) Serverless
10 10 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.48%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.20%) Stackdriver
13 7 (1.93%) Azure API Management
13 7 (1.93%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) VPN
2 3 (0.83%) Firewall
3 2 (0.55%) 4G
3 2 (0.55%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.55%) VoIP
4 1 (0.28%) BGP
4 1 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.28%) DHCP
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) FTP
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) IPv6
4 1 (0.28%) Modbus
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (19.01%) SQL Server
2 43 (11.85%) Relational Database
3 34 (9.37%) MySQL
4 32 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 25 (6.89%) Power BI
6 19 (5.23%) Big Data
7 17 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.31%) Oracle Database
9 11 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
10 10 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.20%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.20%) Data Mining
13 7 (1.93%) Apache Hive
13 7 (1.93%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.93%) HBase
14 6 (1.65%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (13.77%) Git
2 38 (10.47%) JIRA
3 35 (9.64%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.58%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (3.58%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.93%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (1.65%) JUnit
6 6 (1.65%) NUnit
6 6 (1.65%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (1.38%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.55%) Apache Continuum
9 2 (0.55%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.55%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.55%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 107 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.79%) Finance
3 36 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.26%) Law
5 28 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (7.44%) Retail
7 25 (6.89%) Marketing
8 17 (4.68%) Banking
8 17 (4.68%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.58%) Back Office
10 11 (3.03%) Legal
10 11 (3.03%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.93%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.65%) Local Government
13 6 (1.65%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Police
15 3 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 136 (37.47%) Developer
2 79 (21.76%) Architect
3 62 (17.08%) Senior
4 36 (9.92%) Senior Developer
5 33 (9.09%) Lead
6 28 (7.71%) Technical Architect
7 25 (6.89%) Consultant
8 24 (6.61%) PHP Developer
9 22 (6.06%) ServiceNow Developer
10 21 (5.79%) C# Developer
11 20 (5.51%) Full Stack Developer
12 16 (4.41%) Data Architect
12 16 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.13%) Functional Consultant
13 15 (4.13%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.86%) NetSuite Consultant
14 14 (3.86%) Senior Consultant
14 14 (3.86%) Senior Functional Consultant
14 14 (3.86%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.58%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (19.28%) HTML
2 62 (17.08%) Web Services
3 58 (15.98%) .NET
4 48 (13.22%) CSS
5 39 (10.74%) REST
6 32 (8.82%) AngularJS
7 24 (6.61%) Laravel
8 23 (6.34%) JSON
8 23 (6.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 22 (6.06%) HTML5
10 21 (5.79%) Symfony
11 19 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (5.23%) SOAP
12 18 (4.96%) .NET Core
12 18 (4.96%) Spring
13 17 (4.68%) ASP.NET
13 17 (4.68%) jQuery
13 17 (4.68%) Kafka
13 17 (4.68%) Spring Boot
13 17 (4.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.25%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.06%) CMDB
3 16 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.86%) Clustering
5 12 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.75%) Replication
7 9 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.20%) NHS
9 7 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.65%) PMI
11 5 (1.38%) BBC
11 5 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.38%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.23%) Linux
2 18 (4.96%) Windows
3 9 (2.48%) Unix
4 6 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.55%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (31.68%) Agile
2 84 (23.14%) Migration
3 75 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (20.11%) DevOps
5 55 (15.15%) Microservices
6 51 (14.05%) Project Management
7 47 (12.95%) Mentoring
8 45 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (11.85%) Software Engineering
10 40 (11.02%) Data Migration
11 39 (10.74%) Data Management
12 36 (9.92%) Analytics
13 35 (9.64%) SDLC
14 34 (9.37%) Code Quality
14 34 (9.37%) Service Management
14 34 (9.37%) Web Development
15 33 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
15 33 (9.09%) ITSM
15 33 (9.09%) Visualisation
16 32 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 101 (27.82%) SQL
2 75 (20.66%) JavaScript
3 60 (16.53%) C#
4 37 (10.19%) Python
5 36 (9.92%) Java
6 30 (8.26%) PHP
7 14 (3.86%) T-SQL
8 12 (3.31%) Delphi
8 12 (3.31%) Go
8 12 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.48%) Perl
10 8 (2.20%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.65%) Bash
11 6 (1.65%) VB
11 6 (1.65%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.10%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.83%) Rust
13 3 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (11.02%) Degree
2 30 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.75%) CISM
5 10 (2.75%) CISSP
6 9 (2.48%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.93%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.55%) CBAP
10 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.55%) IIBA
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CRISC
11 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.61%) QA
2 19 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.93%) GRC
4 7 (1.93%) NIST
5 6 (1.65%) NCSC
5 6 (1.65%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.38%) GDPR
7 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.83%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.83%) ISO 9000
7 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.83%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) COSO
8 1 (0.28%) GAMP
8 1 (0.28%) PSD2
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (11.02%) Docker
2 9 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.93%) HDFS
4 6 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.28%) KVM
8 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.71%) Terraform
3 19 (5.23%) Ansible
4 7 (1.93%) Grafana
5 5 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (1.38%) Puppet
6 2 (0.55%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.28%) MIIS
7 1 (0.28%) Nagios
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.85%) ServiceNow
3 41 (11.29%) Oracle
4 21 (5.79%) SAP
5 15 (4.13%) Databricks
6 10 (2.75%) HP
7 9 (2.48%) BMC
7 9 (2.48%) Remedy
7 9 (2.48%) WSO2
8 7 (1.93%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.93%) Informatica
9 6 (1.65%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.65%) Splunk
10 5 (1.38%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (1.38%) Blue Prism
11 4 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.83%) Cisco
13 2 (0.55%) Cognos
13 2 (0.55%) JDA
13 2 (0.55%) Salesforce