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 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 146 106
Rank change year-on-year +38 -40 +68
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 18 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.80% 0.27% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.45% 1.07% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £26,150 £29,450 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,375 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,850 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.71% +13.33% -34.78%
75th Percentile £66,250 £47,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,125 - £69,500
England median annual salary £65,150 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +24.10% -19.23% -10.20%

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 734 844 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 32.69% 24.99% 39.50%
Number of salaries quoted 470 349 375
10th Percentile £25,375 £29,950 £25,850
25th Percentile £28,742 £37,500 £36,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £51,340
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -2.61% -2.21%
75th Percentile £54,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -1.57%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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
Derbyshire -2 7 - - 3
Leicestershire +26 6 £57,600 +28.00% 5
Northamptonshire +31 3 £27,500 +12.24%
Nottinghamshire - 2 £47,500 - 6
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 3 (16.67%) CMS
1 3 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 2 (11.11%) Sage Pay
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle CX
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Advertising
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Lead
2 7 (38.89%) Technical Leader
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Junior
5 2 (11.11%) Junior .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Junior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Graduate .NET Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Graduate Web Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Junior .NET Web Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Risk Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) CSS
1 3 (16.67%) HTML
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) Django
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) Flask
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 1 (5.56%) pytest
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Graphic Design
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 3 (16.67%) ERP
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Accounts Payable
5 2 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (11.11%) Cash Management
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Content Management
5 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.11%) Design Patterns
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) Secure Coding
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Test Planning
5 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C#
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Delphi
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) CISA
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) GIAC
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (5.56%) VMware