Legacy Code Job Trends in East Sussex

Legacy Code
South East > East Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies in East Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in East Sussex 0.15% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £71,000 -
% change year-on-year -15.49% - -

All Generic Skills
East Sussex

Legacy Code 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 East Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 157 236 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East Sussex 23.02% 58.56% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 127 101 117
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,750 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% - -24.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Legacy Code job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in East Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Legacy Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Legacy Code

Legacy Code
Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Brighton - 1 £80,000 -
Legacy Code
South East

Legacy Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Emotional Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI