Legacy Applications Job Trends in the East Midlands

Legacy Application
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 - 166
Rank change year-on-year - - -42
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.045% - 0.077%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% - 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £50,000
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,100 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.14% -6.67% -1.64%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,483 1,058 985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.35% 45.86% 25.29%
Number of salaries quoted 927 436 419
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,875 £28,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £62,000 £58,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legacy Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Leicestershire - 2 - - 3
Lincolnshire - 1 £52,500 - 1
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) YAML
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Sass
3 1 (33.33%) Vue
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Tandem
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Volume Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (66.67%) IFS
2 2 (66.67%) Veracode