Legacy Applications Job Trends in the Midlands

Legacy Application
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 230 270
Rank change year-on-year -20 +40 -40
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 26 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.089% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £49,000 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -31.43%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,991 £77,000 £103,268
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% -12.50% +13.35%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,603 2,328 2,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.99% 41.62% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,258 1,158 1,058
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £31,175
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,844 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,270 £78,413
England median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% -4.76%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Legacy Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in the Midlands

Legacy Applications
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
West Midlands -28 23 £60,000 -7.69% 5
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 1
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (26.92%) CICS
2 2 (7.69%) CMS
2 2 (7.69%) Umbraco
3 1 (3.85%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 24 (92.31%) Azure
2 23 (88.46%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (69.23%) GitHub
3 18 (69.23%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.69%) IaaS
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) SonarCloud
6 1 (3.85%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) Relational Database
2 9 (34.62%) Db2
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (73.08%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) Git
General
1 18 (69.23%) Finance
2 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
3 13 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Applications Consultant
1 18 (69.23%) Consultant
1 18 (69.23%) Mainframe Consultant
2 7 (26.92%) COBOL Consultant
2 7 (26.92%) Java Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (88.46%) .NET
2 18 (69.23%) ISPF
2 18 (69.23%) Spring
2 18 (69.23%) Spring Boot
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Core
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
4 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (11.54%) Terraform
5 2 (7.69%) CSS
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) REST
5 2 (7.69%) Web Services
5 2 (7.69%) YAML
6 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.85%) Java SE
6 1 (3.85%) Middleware
6 1 (3.85%) RESTful
6 1 (3.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (73.08%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (69.23%) Mainframe
3 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (7.69%) AS400
5 2 (7.69%) Tandem
6 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) CI/CD
1 24 (92.31%) DevOps
2 20 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (73.08%) Collaborative Culture
4 18 (69.23%) Batch Processing
4 18 (69.23%) Re-Platforming
5 12 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (42.31%) Business Development
6 11 (42.31%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (42.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (26.92%) Migration
7 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
8 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
8 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (7.69%) API Integration
9 2 (7.69%) DevSecOps
9 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (7.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Java
2 18 (69.23%) COBOL
2 18 (69.23%) JCL
3 5 (19.23%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Bash
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.69%) RPG
5 2 (7.69%) RPG III
5 2 (7.69%) RPG IV
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) C++
6 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Python
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Broadcom
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (7.69%) IBM
3 2 (7.69%) IFS
3 2 (7.69%) Veracode
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) VMware