Legacy Systems Jobs in Central London

Legacy System
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 187 206
Rank change year-on-year +48 +19 +37
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 26 10 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.02% 0.26% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.52% 0.78% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 30
10th Percentile £59,900 £65,125 £47,825
25th Percentile £66,250 £69,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -29.41%
75th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £101,000 £93,000 £125,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% -2.94% +21.43%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Legacy Systems 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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,033 1,284 2,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 40.67% 33.94% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 692 982 1,796
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,397 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £56,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in Central London

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Camden +2 17 - -
City of London +42 8 £73,750 +11.32% 5
Legacy Systems
London

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 14 (53.85%) GitHub
2 14 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (42.31%) AWS
4 10 (38.46%) GCP
5 5 (19.23%) SaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure App Service
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
6 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) Serverless
7 1 (3.85%) Boomi
7 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
2 5 (19.23%) MySQL
2 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Git
2 12 (46.15%) Gradle
3 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (26.92%) SonarQube
4 5 (19.23%) Maven
5 3 (11.54%) JIRA
6 2 (7.69%) Artifactory
6 2 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 17 (65.38%) Games
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Back Office
4 2 (7.69%) Front Office
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (38.46%) Lead
2 10 (38.46%) Senior
3 7 (26.92%) Android Developer
3 7 (26.92%) iOS Android Developer
3 7 (26.92%) iOS Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Lead Android Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Lead Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Lead iOS Developer
4 6 (23.08%) Architect
4 6 (23.08%) Software Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Senior Architect
5 5 (19.23%) Senior Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Senior Software Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 5 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Kafka
1 10 (38.46%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (26.92%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 5 (19.23%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (19.23%) OpenAPI
3 5 (19.23%) React
3 5 (19.23%) RESTful
3 5 (19.23%) Spring
4 2 (7.69%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (65.38%) Mobile Games
2 12 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 12 (46.15%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Android
1 7 (26.92%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (80.77%) Migration
3 19 (73.08%) Software Engineering
4 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
5 17 (65.38%) B2B
5 17 (65.38%) Computer Science
6 16 (61.54%) DevOps
7 15 (57.69%) Agile
8 12 (46.15%) Architectural Patterns
8 12 (46.15%) Design Patterns
8 12 (46.15%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
8 12 (46.15%) Microservices
8 12 (46.15%) SOLID
8 12 (46.15%) Sprint Planning
8 12 (46.15%) Sprint Retrospective
9 10 (38.46%) API Design
9 10 (38.46%) Domain-Driven Design
9 10 (38.46%) Event-Driven
9 10 (38.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (38.46%) UML
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) SQL
2 12 (46.15%) Java
3 7 (26.92%) Kotlin
3 7 (26.92%) Objective-C
3 7 (26.92%) Swift
4 3 (11.54%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) Bicep
5 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.69%) VBA
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) Degree
2 17 (65.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Certification
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Argo
2 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
3 3 (11.54%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) New Relic
2 10 (38.46%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Alteryx
3 2 (7.69%) Anaplan
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) VMware