Legacy Systems Job Trends in the East Midlands

Legacy System
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 96 150
Rank change year-on-year -32 +54 +14
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 23 8 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.62% 0.56% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 1.71% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 24
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,475 -
25th Percentile £46,750 £40,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +46.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £69,250 £67,500 £57,188
90th Percentile £81,900 - £69,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -20.00%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 919 469 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.58% 32.80% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 500 326 896
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,125 £24,807
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +22.35% -19.05%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,875 £69,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the East Midlands

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 April 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 -17 10 £61,350 +40.23% 1
Lincolnshire - 7 - -
Nottinghamshire - 3 - - 4
Northamptonshire -15 1 £25,500 -60.77% 1
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
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 6 (26.09%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) npm
2 5 (21.74%) NuGet
2 5 (21.74%) SonarCloud
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Figma
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) Sage Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
3 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.70%) DB2
4 2 (8.70%) Easytrieve
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Law
2 4 (17.39%) Retail
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Applications Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle Applications Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Architect
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.70%) DBA
6 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Mainframe Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) .NET
2 5 (21.74%) .NET Core
2 5 (21.74%) .NET Framework
2 5 (21.74%) Node.js
2 5 (21.74%) React
2 5 (21.74%) YAML
3 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.70%) ISPF
4 2 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) WPF
5 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (4.35%) CSS
5 1 (4.35%) Django
5 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.35%) Flask
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) pytest
5 1 (4.35%) Spring
5 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Code
3 2 (8.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (30.43%) Migration
1 7 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Microservices
2 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
3 5 (21.74%) DevSecOps
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (17.39%) SDLC
5 3 (13.04%) API Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Data Security
6 2 (8.70%) DataOps
6 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.70%) Software Testing
6 2 (8.70%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (8.70%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) C#
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
4 4 (17.39%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Assembly Language
5 2 (8.70%) COBOL
5 2 (8.70%) JCL
6 1 (4.35%) Delphi
6 1 (4.35%) Java
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Adobe