Legacy Systems Job Trends in Essex

Legacy System
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in Essex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.27% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% +33.33% -2.50%

All Generic Skills
Essex

Legacy Systems 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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 246 114 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 32.98% 24.73% 40.34%
Number of salaries quoted 88 75 118
10th Percentile £27,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £73,063
90th Percentile £77,875 £70,000 £100,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Essex

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the Essex region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Basildon - 1 - - 7
Chelmsford - 1 - - 11
Legacy Systems
East of England

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Beam
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft