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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 632 661
Rank change year-on-year +24 +29 +276
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 42 117 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.097% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.53% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 39 69 57
10th Percentile £53,500 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £70,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - - £80,000
UK median annual salary £86,250 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% +25.00% -11.11%

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 18,040 22,074 22,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.81% 32.13% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9,145 11,748 16,089
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £43,742 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £64,811
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.42% +3.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,950 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +21 28 £92,500 +2.78% 13
Midlands +34 7 £67,500 +28.57% 3
East Midlands +19 5 £67,500 +28.57% 2
South West +72 3 £82,500 +11.86% 1
West Midlands +44 2 £70,000 +33.33% 1
South East +43 1 £71,000 -8.39% 5
North of England +34 1 £70,000 +11.11% 3
North West +12 1 £70,000 +27.27% 1
East of England - 1 - - 1
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 8 (19.05%) Apache
2 5 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SAP Business One
2 1 (2.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.29%) AWS
1 6 (14.29%) SaaS
2 5 (11.90%) Snowflake
3 2 (4.76%) Azure
3 2 (4.76%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.38%) dbt
4 1 (2.38%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Intranet
2 1 (2.38%) RFID
2 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (4.76%) MySQL
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) JUnit
General
1 5 (11.90%) Law
2 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Banking
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Games
4 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Software Engineer
2 20 (47.62%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (47.62%) Cloud Native Engineer
2 20 (47.62%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) Lead
4 13 (30.95%) Senior
5 12 (28.57%) Developer
5 12 (28.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 12 (28.57%) Lead Software Engineer
6 8 (19.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 8 (19.05%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Data Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Python Data Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Python Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Senior Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) PHP Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) CSS
1 6 (14.29%) React
2 5 (11.90%) Kafka
3 4 (9.52%) REST
3 4 (9.52%) Spring
4 3 (7.14%) HTML
4 3 (7.14%) Laravel
4 3 (7.14%) RESTful
4 3 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.76%) gRPC
5 2 (4.76%) jQuery
5 2 (4.76%) Next.js
5 2 (4.76%) Vue
6 1 (2.38%) .NET
6 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.38%) JSF
6 1 (2.38%) PrimeFaces
6 1 (2.38%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 21 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 20 (47.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.90%) Data Structures
4 4 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (7.14%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.38%) NHS
6 1 (2.38%) PKI
6 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Software Engineering
2 17 (40.48%) Agile
3 11 (26.19%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 6 (14.29%) TDD
5 5 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (11.90%) Data Engineering
5 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
5 5 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (11.90%) ETL
5 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (11.90%) Micro Frontends
5 5 (11.90%) Microservices
5 5 (11.90%) Migration
5 5 (11.90%) Scrum
5 5 (11.90%) User Experience
6 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.14%) API Integration
7 3 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) C
1 20 (47.62%) C++
1 20 (47.62%) Go
1 20 (47.62%) Rust
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 7 (16.67%) Java
5 6 (14.29%) Python
5 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.90%) PHP
7 4 (9.52%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft