Legacy Code Job Trends in England

Legacy Code
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 688 617 670
Rank change year-on-year -71 +53 +52
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 49 47 106
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.054% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.26% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 44 44 61
10th Percentile £42,500 £66,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £74,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% - +63.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £88,500 - -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -30.56% - +63.64%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,609 18,355 24,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.79% 42.15% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,541 9,301 15,534
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £56,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.65% +0.89% -12.50%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Legacy Code job vacancy trend in England

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Legacy Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Legacy Code

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in England over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
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 Code within the England region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
North of England -29 14 £65,000 -10.34% 3
East of England -5 13 £55,000 - 3
Midlands -27 8 £65,000 -3.70% 3
South East -28 8 £61,250 -13.73% 5
Yorkshire - 7 £63,750 - 1
East Midlands -25 6 £55,000 -18.52%
London -64 5 £100,000 +9.59% 9
North East - 4 £51,500 -
North West -2 3 £67,500 -6.90% 2
West Midlands -29 1 - - 3
South West -72 1 - -
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.16%) CICS
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.04%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.08%) SaaS
3 2 (4.08%) Serverless
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (2.04%) AWS
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.04%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.04%) Dagster
4 1 (2.04%) dbt
4 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.04%) PaaS
4 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.04%) Prefect
4 1 (2.04%) Pulumi
4 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
3 6 (12.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (8.16%) Db2
5 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.12%) MySQL
6 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.04%) Power BI
6 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
1 5 (10.20%) Visual Studio
2 4 (8.16%) ChangeMan
3 1 (2.04%) Claude Code
3 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Retail
4 3 (6.12%) Back Office
5 2 (4.08%) Billing
6 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Law
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (71.43%) Developer
2 16 (32.65%) Senior
3 14 (28.57%) .NET Developer
4 13 (26.53%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Applications Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Applications Support
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Applications Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Applications Support
6 5 (10.20%) Lead
6 5 (10.20%) Software Developer
7 4 (8.16%) COBOL Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior COBOL Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Billing Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Principal Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Python Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Systems Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (63.27%) .NET
2 6 (12.24%) Classic ASP
3 5 (10.20%) .NET Core
3 5 (10.20%) WPF
4 4 (8.16%) WinForms
5 3 (6.12%) ASP.NET
5 3 (6.12%) CSS
5 3 (6.12%) HTML
5 3 (6.12%) REST
5 3 (6.12%) RESTful
6 2 (4.08%) jQuery
7 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.04%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.04%) Laravel
7 1 (2.04%) React
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (12.24%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (8.16%) VSAM
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) Hackathon
5 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.04%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) zOS
3 1 (2.04%) Android
3 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.04%) Linux
3 1 (2.04%) VMS
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.45%) Agile
2 11 (22.45%) Mentoring
2 11 (22.45%) Migration
3 7 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 7 (14.29%) DevOps
3 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (12.24%) Kanban
4 6 (12.24%) Refactoring
5 5 (10.20%) Secure Coding
6 4 (8.16%) AI
6 4 (8.16%) Data Analysis
6 4 (8.16%) Release Management
6 4 (8.16%) Test Automation
7 3 (6.12%) Analytics
7 3 (6.12%) Clean Code
7 3 (6.12%) E-Commerce
7 3 (6.12%) Front End Development
7 3 (6.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (57.14%) C#
2 23 (46.94%) SQL
3 11 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 8 (16.33%) Python
5 7 (14.29%) Java
6 6 (12.24%) T-SQL
7 4 (8.16%) COBOL
7 4 (8.16%) JCL
8 3 (6.12%) C++
9 2 (4.08%) C
9 2 (4.08%) Julia
9 2 (4.08%) MATLAB
9 2 (4.08%) R
9 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
10 1 (2.04%) Perl
10 1 (2.04%) PHP
10 1 (2.04%) Ruby
10 1 (2.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.04%) New Relic
3 1 (2.04%) SAP