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 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 374 422
Rank change year-on-year -27 +48 +26
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 33 8 27
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.14% 0.067% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.15% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 20
10th Percentile £50,875 £58,125 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £64,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -18.38% +12.12%
75th Percentile £99,688 £93,125 £122,500
90th Percentile £145,000 £97,500 £125,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +3.09%

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 8,336 5,516 7,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.22% 46.49% 40.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,994 3,244 4,816
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +8 4 £57,500 -20.69% 3
South London - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (27.27%) Serverless
3 8 (24.24%) Azure
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub
5 4 (12.12%) SaaS
6 2 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.06%) GCP
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (6.06%) NetDocuments
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.09%) Db2
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Claude Code
1 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 9 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 8 (24.24%) Law
5 7 (21.21%) Back Office
6 4 (12.12%) Front Office
6 4 (12.12%) Legal
6 4 (12.12%) Legal Technology
7 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Senior
2 8 (24.24%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Consultant
2 8 (24.24%) Lead
2 8 (24.24%) Lead Software Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Professional Services Consultant
3 6 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
3 6 (18.18%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
4 5 (15.15%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Applications Support
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Architect
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Developer in Test
7 2 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (6.06%) Head of Development
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Applications Support
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.06%) Middleware
3 2 (6.06%) Playwright
3 2 (6.06%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) RxJS
3 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 8 (24.24%) Enterprise Cloud
2 8 (24.24%) Onboarding
3 6 (18.18%) AI Agents
3 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 6 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (18.18%) Market Risk
4 3 (9.09%) Equities
5 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Containerisation
2 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 12 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 10 (30.30%) Mentoring
4 10 (30.30%) Migration
5 9 (27.27%) AI
5 9 (27.27%) Microservices
5 9 (27.27%) Software Testing
6 8 (24.24%) API Design
6 8 (24.24%) Project Delivery
7 7 (21.21%) Event-Driven
7 7 (21.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 6 (18.18%) OO
8 6 (18.18%) Project Management
8 6 (18.18%) Quantitative Finance
8 6 (18.18%) Refactoring
8 6 (18.18%) Re-Platforming
8 6 (18.18%) Risk Management
8 6 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) C#
3 5 (15.15%) SQL
4 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 3 (9.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Progress Chef
2 6 (18.18%) Puppet
3 2 (6.06%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Aderant
2 2 (6.06%) Google
2 2 (6.06%) iManage
2 2 (6.06%) Intapp
2 2 (6.06%) SGI
3 1 (3.03%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow