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 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 416 423
Rank change year-on-year +54 +7 +101
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 7 24 49
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.059% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.33% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 37
10th Percentile £74,300 £67,500 £62,878
25th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £115,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +43.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £127,500 £112,750
England median annual salary £71,000 £95,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -25.26% +34.61% +0.82%

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 5,435 7,171 8,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 45.81% 41.22% 41.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,265 4,059 6,556
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £136,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% -

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 3 £96,250 +1.32%
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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) OCI
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) OLAP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) ICT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Shadow IT
3 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
2 2 (28.57%) Business Case
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Contract Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bicep
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) COBOL
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) New Relic
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Rackspace