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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 759 793
Rank change year-on-year +134 +34 +15
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 66 80 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.093% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.27% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 63 51 99
10th Percentile £57,750 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £69,000 £57,750 £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 £105,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 £83,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £87,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +66.67% +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 18,079 29,798 39,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.95% 34.76% 43.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,790 20,832 21,122
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £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 £75,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,025 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +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

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +85 40 £110,000 +22.22% 45
Midlands +69 12 £65,000 +36.84% 20
East Midlands +41 11 £65,000 +36.84% 9
North of England +57 7 £70,000 +32.70% 16
North West +1 6 £71,250 +29.55% 13
South West +120 4 £85,000 +58.14% 1
South East +93 1 £71,000 - 14
Yorkshire +65 1 £62,500 +47.06% 2
West Midlands +56 1 - - 11
East of England - 1 - - 7
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 1 (1.52%) Apache
1 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.52%) CMS
1 1 (1.52%) Drupal
1 1 (1.52%) Joomla!
1 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.03%) Moqups
1 2 (3.03%) Sketch
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) AWS
2 13 (19.70%) SaaS
3 11 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (9.09%) Azure
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.03%) Figma
5 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.03%) Serverless
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.52%) dbt
6 1 (1.52%) GCP
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.52%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) MongoDB
2 12 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 11 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.03%) MySQL
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.52%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Storybook
2 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.52%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) Xcode
General
1 14 (21.21%) Law
2 7 (10.61%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Finance
3 3 (4.55%) Games
4 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Electronics
5 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 36 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 35 (53.03%) Cloud Engineer
2 35 (53.03%) Cloud Native Engineer
2 35 (53.03%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 34 (51.52%) Lead
4 21 (31.82%) Senior
5 20 (30.30%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 20 (30.30%) Lead Software Engineer
6 15 (22.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 15 (22.73%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (21.21%) Developer
8 11 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) .NET Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Principal .NET Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Principal Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
11 2 (3.03%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) Node.js
2 9 (13.64%) React
3 6 (9.09%) .NET
4 5 (7.58%) CSS
4 5 (7.58%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.55%) Redux
5 3 (4.55%) REST
5 3 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.03%) Enzyme
6 2 (3.03%) HTML
6 2 (3.03%) Jest
6 2 (3.03%) JSON
6 2 (3.03%) Kafka
6 2 (3.03%) RESTful
6 2 (3.03%) Vue
6 2 (3.03%) WPF
7 1 (1.52%) Laravel
7 1 (1.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 35 (53.03%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (12.12%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.52%) GNSS
6 1 (1.52%) IoT
6 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.52%) NHS
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (56.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Android
2 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.52%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (80.30%) Software Engineering
2 18 (27.27%) Agile
3 14 (21.21%) Mentoring
3 14 (21.21%) Microservices
4 12 (18.18%) Client Onboarding
4 12 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 12 (18.18%) Scrum
5 11 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 6 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (7.58%) Front End Development
7 5 (7.58%) SDLC
8 4 (6.06%) Code Quality
8 4 (6.06%) Migration
8 4 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (6.06%) User Experience
9 3 (4.55%) Design Patterns
9 3 (4.55%) DevOps
9 3 (4.55%) Micro Frontends
9 3 (4.55%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (54.55%) C
1 36 (54.55%) C++
1 36 (54.55%) Go
2 35 (53.03%) Rust
3 19 (28.79%) JavaScript
4 15 (22.73%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.12%) SQL
6 5 (7.58%) C#
7 4 (6.06%) Python
8 3 (4.55%) PHP
8 3 (4.55%) VB.NET
9 2 (3.03%) Java
9 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.52%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.52%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.52%) IEC 62304
2 1 (1.52%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (56.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.03%) Adobe
3 1 (1.52%) Google
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle