Legacy Applications Job Trends in the East of England

Legacy Application
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 177 146
Rank change year-on-year +24 -31 +87
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.048% 0.028% 0.082%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.075% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,750 £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £67,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% - -
75th Percentile £64,450 £68,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +12.31% -7.90% -5.90%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,311 1,331 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.57% 37.89% 38.69%
Number of salaries quoted 610 519 641
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £34,872 £41,250 £38,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in the East of England

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Cambridgeshire +19 2 £60,100 -10.96% 1
Legacy Applications
England

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Publishing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DBS Check