Legacy Systems Job Trends in London

Legacy System
England > London

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 296 394
Rank change year-on-year +76 +98 -22
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 168 127 83
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 0.83% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.80% 1.92% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 92 58 74
10th Percentile £52,500 £38,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,188 £42,500 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £52,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +40.48% -35.38% -4.41%
75th Percentile £94,063 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £65,150 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +24.10% -4.55% -26.67%

All Generic Skills
London

Legacy Systems 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 5,996 6,620 8,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.72% 43.42% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,551 3,402 6,471
10th Percentile £35,750 £43,227 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,357 £53,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £126,250 £128,750 £125,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,291
% change year-on-year -12.00% +9.09% -11.86%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in London

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in London over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the London region over the 6 months to 6 February 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 +32 31 £65,000 +14.54% 19
South London +37 2 £48,975 -0.05% 2
West London -8 1 - - 2
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
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 12 (7.14%) Appian
2 7 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.38%) Confluence
4 3 (1.79%) Apache
4 3 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.19%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.55%) Azure
2 29 (17.26%) AWS
3 17 (10.12%) Amazon Bedrock
3 17 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (10.12%) Vertex AI
4 13 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (7.74%) Power Automate
5 12 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
5 12 (7.14%) Azure AI
6 11 (6.55%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.95%) SaaS
8 7 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.38%) dbt
9 4 (2.38%) GCP
9 4 (2.38%) GitHub
10 3 (1.79%) ChatGPT
10 3 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.79%) IaaS
10 3 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) Firewall
2 3 (1.79%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.79%) WAN
3 2 (1.19%) Extranet
3 2 (1.19%) Intranet
3 2 (1.19%) LAN
3 2 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.60%) NAS
4 1 (0.60%) PSTN
4 1 (0.60%) SAN
4 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.60%) VoIP
4 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.50%) MySQL
3 15 (8.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (7.14%) Pinecone
5 9 (5.36%) Power BI
6 4 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.38%) Metadata
7 3 (1.79%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.79%) Tableau
8 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.19%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.60%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.74%) Octopus Deploy
2 12 (7.14%) MLflow
2 12 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 9 (5.36%) ERwin
4 6 (3.57%) Git
5 5 (2.98%) JIRA
6 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.79%) JUnit
6 3 (1.79%) Storybook
7 2 (1.19%) Maven
7 2 (1.19%) Synon
8 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.60%) GitLab
8 1 (0.60%) JMeter
8 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.60%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 77 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 58 (34.52%) Finance
3 28 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.55%) Banking
4 11 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.95%) Legal
6 5 (2.98%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.38%) Law
7 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.19%) Front Office
8 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.19%) Marketing
8 2 (1.19%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) International Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (23.81%) Consultant
2 28 (16.67%) Senior
3 27 (16.07%) Architect
4 19 (11.31%) Lead
5 17 (10.12%) Gen AI Consultant
5 17 (10.12%) Senior Consultant
6 16 (9.52%) Developer
7 14 (8.33%) Analyst
8 12 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Data Architect
10 9 (5.36%) Business Analyst
10 9 (5.36%) Lead Architect
10 9 (5.36%) Lead Data Architect
11 7 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
12 5 (2.98%) Data Analyst
12 5 (2.98%) Data Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.50%) .NET
1 21 (12.50%) REST
2 17 (10.12%) LangChain
2 17 (10.12%) LlamaIndex
3 16 (9.52%) Web Services
4 15 (8.93%) Pandas
4 15 (8.93%) RESTful
5 14 (8.33%) OpenAPI
5 14 (8.33%) Swagger
6 13 (7.74%) Django
6 13 (7.74%) Flask
6 13 (7.74%) Hugging Face
6 13 (7.74%) pytest
7 12 (7.14%) FastAPI
7 12 (7.14%) JWT
7 12 (7.14%) NumPy
7 12 (7.14%) OAuth
7 12 (7.14%) PyTorch
7 12 (7.14%) scikit-learn
7 12 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 13 (7.74%) Virtual Team
4 12 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.14%) Low-Code
5 8 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.19%) CMDB
8 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.19%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.19%) Shadow IT
9 1 (0.60%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Windows
2 2 (1.19%) VMS
2 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.60%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.17%) AI
2 46 (27.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (25.60%) CI/CD
3 43 (25.60%) Migration
4 35 (20.83%) Agile
4 35 (20.83%) DevOps
5 33 (19.64%) Data Modelling
5 33 (19.64%) Machine Learning
5 33 (19.64%) OO
6 30 (17.86%) LLM
6 30 (17.86%) Prompt Engineering
7 29 (17.26%) Generative AI
7 29 (17.26%) MLOps
7 29 (17.26%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 28 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 27 (16.07%) Thought Leadership
10 26 (15.48%) Computer Science
11 23 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (13.10%) IT Strategy
13 21 (12.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 42 (25.00%) SQL
2 25 (14.88%) Python
3 22 (13.10%) Delphi
4 21 (12.50%) Pascal
5 18 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.95%) Java
7 8 (4.76%) C#
8 6 (3.57%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.19%) Bash
9 2 (1.19%) Bicep
9 2 (1.19%) Go
9 2 (1.19%) PHP
9 2 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.19%) RPG
9 2 (1.19%) Ruby
9 2 (1.19%) X++
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.60%) Scala
10 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (16.67%) Degree
2 22 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.98%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.98%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.19%) PhD
5 1 (0.60%) CCNP
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.07%) QA
2 20 (11.90%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.95%) GDPR
4 6 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.79%) COBIT
7 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.31%) Terraform
3 2 (1.19%) Ansible
3 2 (1.19%) Grafana
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
4 1 (0.60%) SCOM
4 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.07%) Oracle
3 19 (11.31%) Google
4 13 (7.74%) OpenAI
5 12 (7.14%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (7.14%) UiPath
6 6 (3.57%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.38%) Cisco
7 4 (2.38%) Citrix
7 4 (2.38%) VMware
8 3 (1.79%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.79%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.79%) Pega
8 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.79%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.19%) Meraki
9 2 (1.19%) New Relic
9 2 (1.19%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.19%) Sparx