Legacy Code Jobs in London

Legacy Code
England > London

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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 458 594
Rank change year-on-year +95 +136 +63
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 40 59 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.25% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.62% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 39 35 20
10th Percentile £82,750 £77,500 £48,625
25th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +50.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - - £94,250
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +71.43% +5.00%

All Generic Skills
London

Legacy Code 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 5,693 9,551 15,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.03% 40.49% 46.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,181 6,772 10,722
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £44,192
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,524 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,300
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.40% +0.40%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in London

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in London.

Salary trend for Legacy Code in London

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Code in London

Legacy Code
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (2.50%) Firebase
2 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Crashlytics
1 1 (2.50%) Xcode
General
1 2 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (87.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 35 (87.50%) Cloud Native Engineer
1 35 (87.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 35 (87.50%) Software Engineer
2 21 (52.50%) Lead
3 20 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 20 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 18 (45.00%) Senior
5 15 (37.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 15 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) CSS
1 2 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) Laravel
2 1 (2.50%) React
2 1 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (87.50%) Cloud Native
1 35 (87.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (87.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Android
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (5.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (5.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (2.50%) API Integration
3 1 (2.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (2.50%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (2.50%) DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (2.50%) Low Latency
3 1 (2.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (2.50%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile Development
3 1 (2.50%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (2.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (2.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (2.50%) Presales
3 1 (2.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (2.50%) Technical Debt
3 1 (2.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (90.00%) Go
2 35 (87.50%) C
2 35 (87.50%) C++
2 35 (87.50%) Rust
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) PHP
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.50%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 35 (87.50%) Kubernetes