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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 441 433
Rank change year-on-year +53 -8 +158
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 6 23 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.050% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.30% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 46
10th Percentile £73,350 £65,000 £63,631
25th Percentile £77,625 £71,875 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £115,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +35.29% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £123,750 £95,000
90th Percentile - £128,000 £113,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.09% +3.93%

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 5,538 7,763 9,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 46.41% 40.48% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,264 4,663 7,502
10th Percentile £37,705 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,485
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £64,811
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.42% +3.70%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 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
Central London +40 1 £80,000 -12.33% 2
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) OCI
5 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) OLAP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Gradle
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) ICT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Product Management
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
4 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Rackspace
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk