Legacy Applications Job Trends in England

Legacy Application
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications 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 582 615 604
Rank change year-on-year +33 -11 +102
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 35 64 76
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.066% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.36% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 27 44 67
10th Percentile £48,270 £42,000 £51,500
25th Percentile £56,625 £50,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -7.90% -5.90%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £112,500 £108,771
UK median annual salary £64,038 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.90% -1.98%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,545 18,027 17,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.45% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9,384 8,461 13,288
10th Percentile £27,750 £34,000 £31,592
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in England

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Legacy Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in England

Legacy Applications
Job Locations in 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 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
London +24 10 £87,500 +34.62% 3
South East +30 8 £87,500 - 11
North of England +6 6 £63,076 -4.79% 13
Midlands +23 5 £65,000 +8.33% 8
West Midlands +22 5 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Yorkshire -11 5 £65,500 -37.62% 5
East of England +27 3 £60,100 -10.96% 6
South West +14 3 £60,000 - 8
North East - 1 £63,076 - 5
Legacy Applications
UK

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) AWS
3 9 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Serverless
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub
6 3 (8.57%) GCP
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.71%) Boomi
7 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.86%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.43%) MySQL
4 2 (5.71%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (5.71%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.86%) DB2
5 1 (2.86%) OLAP
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
1 2 (5.71%) Git
1 2 (5.71%) GitLab
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.71%) JUnit
1 2 (5.71%) Selenium
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 4 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Publishing
5 3 (8.57%) Retail
6 2 (5.71%) Marketing
6 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Back Office
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Senior
2 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Support Specialist
4 5 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
4 5 (14.29%) Technical Support
4 5 (14.29%) Technical Support Specialist
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Development Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Applications Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Digital Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.57%) CSS
2 3 (8.57%) HTML
3 2 (5.71%) Django
3 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.71%) Flask
3 2 (5.71%) pytest
3 2 (5.71%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
3 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.86%) OAuth
4 1 (2.86%) OpenID
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) React Native
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) Web Services
4 1 (2.86%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (45.71%) Cloud Native
2 11 (31.43%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.57%) Mainframe
5 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.71%) Legacy Code
5 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
5 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.86%) AS400
6 1 (2.86%) iSeries
6 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) VMS
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (40.00%) DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
4 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (28.57%) Migration
5 10 (28.57%) Observability
5 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
7 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (22.86%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (20.00%) Benchmarking
8 7 (20.00%) Microservices
9 6 (17.14%) Analytics
9 6 (17.14%) Change Management
9 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
9 6 (17.14%) Project Delivery
10 5 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
10 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) C#
2 7 (20.00%) Bicep
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.57%) COBOL
4 3 (8.57%) Delphi
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.57%) Python
4 3 (8.57%) SQL
5 2 (5.71%) VB
5 2 (5.71%) VBA
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
6 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.86%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Oracle
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) New Relic
3 5 (14.29%) JD Edwards
4 4 (11.43%) AppDynamics
5 3 (8.57%) IBM
6 2 (5.71%) Dell
6 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.86%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (2.86%) Citrix
7 1 (2.86%) Foundry
7 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.86%) Rackspace