Legacy Systems Job Trends in the East of England

Legacy System
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 170 140
Rank change year-on-year +24 -30 +62
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 13 14 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.40% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 1.05% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £39,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £41,150
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +57.96% -17.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £54,063
90th Percentile - £100,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -17.24%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,319 1,338 944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.55% 37.94% 38.74%
Number of salaries quoted 614 521 640
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £28,675
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 £86,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the East of England

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the East of England

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Suffolk - 5 £62,500 - 5
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 2
Hertfordshire -1 2 - - 10
Essex - 2 - - 3
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Stackdriver
3 1 (7.69%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Law
2 5 (38.46%) Legal
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Business Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Beam
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Integration Patterns
1 7 (53.85%) Technical Debt
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Business Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) Data Management
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
4 4 (30.77%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks