Legacy Applications Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Legacy Application
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 77 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 4 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.42% 0.12% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 0.30% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,750 £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £67,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% - -
75th Percentile £64,450 £68,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £60,100 £67,500 -
% change year-on-year -10.96% - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

Legacy Applications falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 314 329 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 33.23% 39.54% 50.13%
Number of salaries quoted 198 132 407
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,379 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,313 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,750 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Legacy Applications relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Legacy Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 9 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -1 4 £60,100 -10.96% 1
Legacy Applications
East of England

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 4 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Publishing
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Lead
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 4 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DBS Check