Legacy Systems Jobs in the City of London

Legacy System
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 174 201
Rank change year-on-year +48 +27 +40
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 11 9 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.27% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 0.78% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 23
10th Percentile £57,000 - £48,400
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £90,313 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 - £125,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -29.41%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 794 1,152 1,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 40.95% 34.48% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 593 875 1,539
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,632
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £102,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £117,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% +3.33%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the City of London

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the City of London.

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the City of London

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the City of London

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Azure App Service
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
1 3 (27.27%) Tableau
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Retail
3 3 (27.27%) Wholesale Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Back Office
4 2 (18.18%) Front Office
5 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
2 1 (9.09%) CRM Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Incident Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Major Incident Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Platform Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
5 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) API Development
6 2 (18.18%) BDD
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Kanban
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) VBA
3 2 (18.18%) Bicep
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Alteryx
1 3 (27.27%) Anaplan
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Guidewire
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce