Legacy Systems Job Trends in the Midlands

Legacy System
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 148 237
Rank change year-on-year -34 +89 +37
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 71 74 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.58% 1.52% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 4.01% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 53 39 58
10th Percentile £42,040 - £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.88% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,125 £66,563
90th Percentile £84,000 £67,500 £80,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year +13.04% +2.22% -19.64%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,239 1,845 3,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.38% 37.93% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,080 2,658
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,925 £33,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,669
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.74% -9.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the Midlands

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 April 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 -44 45 £56,350 +25.22% 19
East Midlands -38 26 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
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 6 (8.45%) IIS
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (4.23%) SAP CO
2 3 (4.23%) SAP FI
2 3 (4.23%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (4.23%) SAP FSCM
2 3 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.82%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (2.82%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Azure
2 10 (14.08%) Power Platform
3 7 (9.86%) AWS
3 7 (9.86%) PowerApps
4 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.04%) npm
5 5 (7.04%) NuGet
5 5 (7.04%) SonarCloud
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub
6 3 (4.23%) IaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.23%) PaaS
7 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.82%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.41%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (7.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (7.04%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.63%) Power BI
4 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.23%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.82%) DB2
6 2 (2.82%) Easytrieve
6 2 (2.82%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.82%) MySQL
6 2 (2.82%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.41%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.41%) Metadata
7 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Git
2 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.63%) Selenium
3 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.23%) GitLab
3 3 (4.23%) JUnit
4 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.41%) Maven
5 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.35%) Finance
3 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.86%) Law
5 7 (9.86%) Manufacturing
5 7 (9.86%) Retail
6 5 (7.04%) Aerospace
6 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.23%) Games
7 3 (4.23%) Legal
7 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Developer
2 17 (23.94%) Senior
3 11 (15.49%) Architect
4 8 (11.27%) Project Manager
5 7 (9.86%) Applications Developer
5 7 (9.86%) Oracle Applications Developer
5 7 (9.86%) Oracle Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Business Analyst
7 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (7.04%) Lead
7 5 (7.04%) SAP Manager
7 5 (7.04%) SAP Project Manager
7 5 (7.04%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (7.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) .NET
2 8 (11.27%) .NET Framework
3 6 (8.45%) CSS
3 6 (8.45%) HTML
4 5 (7.04%) .NET Core
4 5 (7.04%) Node.js
4 5 (7.04%) React
4 5 (7.04%) REST
4 5 (7.04%) WPF
4 5 (7.04%) YAML
5 3 (4.23%) Avalonia
5 3 (4.23%) Django
5 3 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.23%) Flask
5 3 (4.23%) Middleware
5 3 (4.23%) OpenCV
5 3 (4.23%) pytest
5 3 (4.23%) Spring
5 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.45%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (7.04%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Legacy Code
5 3 (4.23%) Low-Code
5 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.23%) Photography
5 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.82%) NHS
6 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.41%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Linux
1 6 (8.45%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.39%) Migration
2 15 (21.13%) Agile
3 14 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.90%) Mentoring
6 11 (15.49%) DevOps
6 11 (15.49%) Microservices
7 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
7 10 (14.08%) ERP
8 8 (11.27%) Coaching
8 8 (11.27%) Test Automation
9 7 (9.86%) CRM
9 7 (9.86%) Decision-Making
9 7 (9.86%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (9.86%) Roadmaps
9 7 (9.86%) User Experience
10 6 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (8.45%) ETL
10 6 (8.45%) Event-Driven
10 6 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.13%) SQL
2 11 (15.49%) C#
3 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.45%) Python
4 5 (7.04%) Bash
4 5 (7.04%) Java
4 5 (7.04%) PHP
4 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.63%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.23%) C++
6 3 (4.23%) Delphi
6 3 (4.23%) VBA
7 2 (2.82%) Assembly Language
7 2 (2.82%) COBOL
7 2 (2.82%) JCL
8 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) Degree
3 3 (4.23%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.23%) ISO 20022
2 3 (4.23%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Firmware
3 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.45%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.49%) Oracle
3 10 (14.08%) SAP
4 5 (7.04%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) Adobe
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco
6 1 (1.41%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) Meraki
6 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft