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 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 573 612 607
Rank change year-on-year +39 -5 +116
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 32 64 77
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.061% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.36% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 24 44 68
10th Percentile £45,098 £42,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £57,063 £50,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -7.90% -5.90%
75th Percentile £92,813 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £112,500 £106,578
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -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 18,436 17,946 17,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.08% 37.40% 36.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,322 8,415 13,360
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,925 £31,750
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 13 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 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
London +26 10 £87,500 +34.62% 2
South East +17 8 £87,500 - 11
North of England +25 5 £65,500 -1.13% 14
Yorkshire -7 5 £65,500 -37.62% 5
Midlands +26 4 £65,000 +8.33% 8
West Midlands +24 4 £65,000 +8.33% 3
South West +12 3 £60,000 - 8
East of England +24 2 £60,100 -10.96% 6
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 (15.63%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) AWS
3 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) Serverless
5 4 (12.50%) GitHub
6 3 (9.38%) GCP
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.25%) Boomi
7 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.13%) Azure App Service
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.13%) Firebase
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.50%) MySQL
4 2 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.13%) DB2
5 1 (3.13%) OLAP
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) JUnit
1 2 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Retail
5 2 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (6.25%) Publishing
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Back Office
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Software Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Support Specialist
4 5 (15.63%) Technical Specialist
4 5 (15.63%) Technical Support
4 5 (15.63%) Technical Support Specialist
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Development Manager
6 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Application Development Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Specialist
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support Specialist
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.38%) CSS
2 3 (9.38%) HTML
3 2 (6.25%) Django
3 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.25%) Flask
3 2 (6.25%) pytest
3 2 (6.25%) REST
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth
4 1 (3.13%) OpenID
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
4 1 (3.13%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Cloud Native
2 9 (28.13%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (9.38%) Mainframe
5 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.25%) Legacy Code
5 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) AS400
6 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) iSeries
6 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) VMS
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (28.13%) Migration
5 9 (28.13%) Observability
5 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (21.88%) Benchmarking
8 6 (18.75%) Analytics
8 6 (18.75%) Change Management
8 6 (18.75%) Microservices
9 5 (15.63%) Kanban
9 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
10 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) C#
2 7 (21.88%) Bicep
3 4 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) COBOL
4 3 (9.38%) Delphi
4 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Python
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) VB
6 1 (3.13%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.13%) Scala
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) DBS Check
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) New Relic
3 5 (15.63%) JD Edwards
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.50%) AppDynamics
5 3 (9.38%) IBM
6 2 (6.25%) Dell
6 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
7 1 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (3.13%) Citrix
7 1 (3.13%) Foundry
7 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
7 1 (3.13%) Rackspace