Legacy Applications Job Trends in London

Legacy Application
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 352 455
Rank change year-on-year -30 +103 +89
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 28 51 37
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.15% 0.40% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.88% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 25 47 37
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,625 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -7.90% -16.97%
75th Percentile £132,500 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £107,000 £95,700
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -3.70% -12.90%

All Generic Skills
London

Legacy Applications 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,853 5,781 9,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.72% 44.93% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 3,294 6,670
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £135,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -15.38%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in London

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legacy Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in London over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in London

Legacy Applications
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the London region over the 6 months to 8 April 2026. 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
Central London -14 14 £65,000 - 2
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (10.71%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (60.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (39.29%) DB2
2 11 (39.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 11 (39.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Back Office
4 2 (7.14%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Senior
2 11 (39.29%) Applications Support
3 7 (25.00%) Senior Applications Support
4 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (17.86%) Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (14.29%) Analyst
6 4 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (14.29%) React Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Support Analyst
7 3 (10.71%) Architect
7 3 (10.71%) AWS Architect
7 3 (10.71%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Administrator
9 1 (3.57%) Angular Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (60.71%) .NET
2 4 (14.29%) React
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
1 11 (39.29%) Customer-Centricity
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (21.43%) Benchmarking
4 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (21.43%) Observability
4 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.86%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
6 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 4 (14.29%) ITSM
7 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
7 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) C#
1 11 (39.29%) PL/SQL
1 11 (39.29%) SQL
1 11 (39.29%) VB.NET
2 6 (21.43%) Bicep
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) New Relic
3 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.71%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.57%) Netskope