Legacy Systems Jobs 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 264 229
Rank change year-on-year +67 -35 +60
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 62 70 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.92% 0.50% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.72% 1.64% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 39 51 42
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £27,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £56,752
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.90% -12.69%
75th Percentile £60,625 £68,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £73,750 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -

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 2,277 4,262 3,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.63% 30.58% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,118 2,577 1,507
10th Percentile £26,375 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -8.33% +13.68%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,370 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 +83 51 £55,000 +10.00% 65
East Midlands +20 11 £50,000 +33.33% 44
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.61%) IIS
1 1 (1.61%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.23%) Infor M3
2 2 (3.23%) SAP CO
2 2 (3.23%) SAP FI
2 2 (3.23%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) Azure
2 14 (22.58%) AWS
3 7 (11.29%) GCP
3 7 (11.29%) Power Platform
3 7 (11.29%) SaaS
3 7 (11.29%) Snowflake
4 6 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.61%) dbt
7 1 (1.61%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (11.29%) BigQuery
1 7 (11.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.06%) Power BI
2 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) MS Access
4 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 30 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 29 (46.77%) Finance
3 21 (33.87%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.74%) Law
4 11 (17.74%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.68%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.68%) Marketing
5 6 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Legal
7 3 (4.84%) Agriculture
7 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.23%) Retail
9 1 (1.61%) Advertising
9 1 (1.61%) Local Government
9 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) Business Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) Lead
3 7 (11.29%) Architect
3 7 (11.29%) CRM Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) CRM Business Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) CRM Systems Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Developer
3 7 (11.29%) Finance Business Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Financial Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Financial Business Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Business Development Director
4 5 (8.06%) C# Developer
4 5 (8.06%) Data Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Development Director
4 5 (8.06%) Lead Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Lead Data Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) .NET
2 4 (6.45%) OAuth
2 4 (6.45%) OpenID
3 3 (4.84%) .NET Framework
3 3 (4.84%) ADO
3 3 (4.84%) Blazor
3 3 (4.84%) OAuth2
3 3 (4.84%) ODBC
3 3 (4.84%) SAML
3 3 (4.84%) WPF
4 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.61%) CSS
4 1 (1.61%) HTML
4 1 (1.61%) PySpark
4 1 (1.61%) REST
4 1 (1.61%) RESTful
4 1 (1.61%) Spring
4 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (11.29%) Taxonomies
3 6 (9.68%) Data Structures
3 6 (9.68%) Operational Technology
4 4 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.84%) PKI
5 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.23%) NHS
7 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Agile
2 18 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (24.19%) Change Management
4 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (20.97%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (19.35%) Analytics
6 12 (19.35%) Decision-Making
6 12 (19.35%) Project Management
6 12 (19.35%) Thought Leadership
7 11 (17.74%) CRM
7 11 (17.74%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (17.74%) Roadmaps
8 10 (16.13%) Business Development
8 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 10 (16.13%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (16.13%) User Stories
9 9 (14.52%) Migration
10 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
10 8 (12.90%) ETL
10 8 (12.90%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) C#
3 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.84%) Delphi
4 3 (4.84%) XAML
5 1 (1.61%) Java
5 1 (1.61%) Python
5 1 (1.61%) Scala
5 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) ACCA
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.61%) CIMA
3 1 (1.61%) CISA
3 1 (1.61%) CISM
3 1 (1.61%) CISSP
3 1 (1.61%) GIAC
3 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) CSIRT
1 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Salesforce
2 6 (9.68%) Google
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
5 2 (3.23%) Infor
6 1 (1.61%) Databricks