Legacy Systems Job Trends in Manchester

Legacy System
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 125 127
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -23
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 13 32 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.45% 1.21% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 3.33% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12 26 24
10th Percentile £49,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £38,750 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £42,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -34.62% +1.77%
75th Percentile £90,000 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £63,750 -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £42,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +64.71% -34.62% +1.77%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,091 960 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.59% 36.19% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 505 441 737
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,409
90th Percentile £88,250 £86,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Manchester

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in Manchester

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
3 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (15.38%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.69%) DB2
5 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Lead
2 5 (38.46%) .NET Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Lead .NET Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Lead Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (15.38%) Entity Framework
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (15.38%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
2 5 (38.46%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Microservices
1 7 (53.85%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) Low Latency
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle