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 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 608 658
Rank change year-on-year -77 +50 +34
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 49 46 113
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.052% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.25% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 42 43 66
10th Percentile £42,500 £63,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £74,000 £60,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% - +62.90%
75th Percentile £67,813 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £81,750 - -
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 24,346 18,381 23,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.79% 42.06% 32.55%
Number of salaries quoted 15,939 9,314 14,420
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.20%

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 15 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 15 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
East of England -6 14 £55,000 - 3
North of England -28 14 £65,000 -10.34% 4
South East -20 8 £61,250 -13.73% 8
Midlands -29 7 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Yorkshire - 7 £63,750 - 3
East Midlands -22 5 £65,000 -3.70% 1
London -81 4 £70,000 -24.32% 23
North East - 4 £51,500 - 1
North West -6 3 £67,500 -6.90%
South West -74 2 - - 2
West Midlands -27 1 - - 4
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 Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.08%) AWS
3 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.08%) SaaS
3 2 (4.08%) Serverless
3 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.04%) Dagster
4 1 (2.04%) dbt
4 1 (2.04%) GitHub
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.61%) 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 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (2.04%) Power BI
7 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Visual Studio
2 4 (8.16%) ChangeMan
3 2 (4.08%) Git
4 1 (2.04%) Claude Code
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
1 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Retail
3 3 (6.12%) Back Office
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Billing
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Law
5 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (73.47%) Developer
2 16 (32.65%) Senior
3 15 (30.61%) .NET Developer
4 14 (28.57%) 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
8 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Billing Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Principal Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (65.31%) .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%) REST
6 2 (4.08%) CSS
6 2 (4.08%) HTML
6 2 (4.08%) RESTful
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%) jQuery
7 1 (2.04%) NestJS
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%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.08%) 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 2 (4.08%) Android
3 2 (4.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.08%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.45%) Mentoring
2 11 (22.45%) Migration
3 9 (18.37%) Agile
4 7 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 7 (14.29%) DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (14.29%) Refactoring
4 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 6 (12.24%) Kanban
6 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
7 4 (8.16%) AI
7 4 (8.16%) Data Analysis
7 4 (8.16%) Release Management
7 4 (8.16%) Secure Coding
8 3 (6.12%) Clean Code
8 3 (6.12%) Code Quality
8 3 (6.12%) E-Commerce
8 3 (6.12%) Front End Development
8 3 (6.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 29 (59.18%) C#
2 22 (44.90%) SQL
3 11 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 8 (16.33%) Java
4 8 (16.33%) Python
5 6 (12.24%) T-SQL
6 4 (8.16%) C++
6 4 (8.16%) COBOL
6 4 (8.16%) JCL
7 3 (6.12%) C
8 2 (4.08%) Rust
8 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.04%) Perl
9 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) New Relic
2 1 (2.04%) OpenAI