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 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 109 160
Rank change year-on-year -28 +51 -8
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 27 8 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.61% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% 1.27% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 22
10th Percentile £44,625 £34,475 -
25th Percentile £49,188 £40,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +46.67% -14.77%
75th Percentile £69,250 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,250 - £72,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% - -14.81%

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 1,013 632 1,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.72% 38.28% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 537 362 920
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,768 £24,807
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,406 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +12.35% -15.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £69,875 £69,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 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 30 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 -30 10 £61,350 +40.23% 1
Nottinghamshire - 8 £60,000 - 3
Lincolnshire - 7 - - 3
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 5 (18.52%) IIS
Business Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) npm
3 5 (18.52%) NuGet
3 5 (18.52%) SonarCloud
4 4 (14.81%) AWS
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
3 4 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (14.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.41%) DB2
4 2 (7.41%) Easytrieve
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 6 (22.22%) Retail
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Law
4 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Applications Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle Applications Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.41%) DBA
6 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) .NET
2 5 (18.52%) .NET Core
2 5 (18.52%) .NET Framework
2 5 (18.52%) Node.js
2 5 (18.52%) React
2 5 (18.52%) YAML
3 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
3 2 (7.41%) ISPF
3 2 (7.41%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) WPF
4 1 (3.70%) Django
4 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.70%) Flask
4 1 (3.70%) pytest
4 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.70%) Spring
4 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (14.81%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.41%) CCTV
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Code
3 2 (7.41%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (25.93%) DevOps
1 7 (25.93%) Migration
1 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 6 (22.22%) Microservices
2 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 5 (18.52%) DevSecOps
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) SDLC
5 3 (11.11%) Agile
5 3 (11.11%) API Integration
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Business Analysis
6 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (7.41%) Process Improvement
6 2 (7.41%) Reverse Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Software Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) C#
2 7 (25.93%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 5 (18.52%) Bash
5 4 (14.81%) T-SQL
6 2 (7.41%) Assembly Language
6 2 (7.41%) COBOL
6 2 (7.41%) JCL
7 1 (3.70%) Delphi
7 1 (3.70%) Java
7 1 (3.70%) Python
7 1 (3.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 2 (7.41%) IBM
4 2 (7.41%) Meraki
5 1 (3.70%) DevExpress
5 1 (3.70%) Sage