Legacy Systems Job Trends in Kent

Legacy System
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 76 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +72
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 4 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.53% 0.55% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 1.76% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £36,750 -
25th Percentile £122,500 £38,188 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £60,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -46.67% -
75th Percentile £127,500 £82,500 £118,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 309 340 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 41.26% 31.39% 46.94%
Number of salaries quoted 242 162 206
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £34,988 £30,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £51,118 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.03% +1.22% +6.32%
75th Percentile £46,250 £65,886 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £85,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.38% -8.70% +4.28%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Kent

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the Kent region over the 6 months to 14 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
Canterbury - 3 - -
Chatham +8 1 £125,000 +224.68%
Legacy Systems
South East

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Jest
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
1 3 (75.00%) LAMP
1 3 (75.00%) Laravel
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) B2B
1 3 (75.00%) Data Privacy
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Fintech
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile First
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
1 3 (75.00%) Refactoring
1 3 (75.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker