Legacy Code Jobs 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 650 741 740
Rank change year-on-year +91 -1 +139
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 52 106 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.34% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 49 60 89
10th Percentile £63,500 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £74,000 £60,375 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +71.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £82,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +71.43% +5.00%

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 19,325 30,983 34,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.32% 33.08% 43.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,231 20,631 19,722
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +6.36% -14.10% +2.45%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in England.

Salary trend for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025. 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 +72 39 £100,000 +11.11% 77
Midlands +77 6 £67,500 +35.00% 14
East Midlands +45 5 £67,500 +35.00% 12
South West +100 3 £82,500 +22.22% 14
South East +72 1 £71,000 - 28
West Midlands +55 1 - - 2
North of England +41 1 £75,000 +19.05% 23
North West +9 1 £75,000 +36.36% 21
East of England - 1 - - 8
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.77%) Apache
1 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.92%) CMS
2 1 (1.92%) Drupal
2 1 (1.92%) Joomla!
2 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Moqups
1 1 (1.92%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (7.69%) SaaS
3 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.85%) Azure
4 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.92%) dbt
5 1 (1.92%) Figma
5 1 (1.92%) Firebase
5 1 (1.92%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.92%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) RFID
1 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.77%) MySQL
4 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.92%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Crashlytics
1 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) Xcode
General
1 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Law
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Games
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (65.38%) Software Engineer
2 33 (63.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 33 (63.46%) Cloud Native Engineer
2 33 (63.46%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 22 (42.31%) Lead
4 21 (40.38%) Senior
5 19 (36.54%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 19 (36.54%) Lead Software Engineer
6 14 (26.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 14 (26.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (21.15%) Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Snowflake Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) CSS
1 5 (9.62%) React
2 4 (7.69%) Kafka
3 3 (5.77%) .NET
3 3 (5.77%) Node.js
3 3 (5.77%) RESTful
3 3 (5.77%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (5.77%) Vue
4 2 (3.85%) HTML
4 2 (3.85%) Laravel
4 2 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.92%) Blazor
5 1 (1.92%) Enzyme
5 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.92%) Jest
5 1 (1.92%) JSON
5 1 (1.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (65.38%) Cloud Native
2 33 (63.46%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.92%) NHS
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (67.31%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Android
2 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (9.62%) Microservices
4 4 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (7.69%) Scrum
5 3 (5.77%) Data Engineering
5 3 (5.77%) Data Modelling
5 3 (5.77%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (5.77%) ETL
5 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (5.77%) Mentoring
5 3 (5.77%) Micro Frontends
5 3 (5.77%) Roadmaps
5 3 (5.77%) TDD
5 3 (5.77%) User Experience
6 2 (3.85%) DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (3.85%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) Go
2 33 (63.46%) C
2 33 (63.46%) C++
2 33 (63.46%) Rust
3 9 (17.31%) SQL
4 8 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.54%) Python
6 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.69%) C#
7 4 (7.69%) PHP
8 2 (3.85%) Java
9 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.92%) Swift
9 1 (1.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.92%) Adobe
1 1 (1.92%) Google
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle