Legacy Systems Job Trends in the North East

Legacy System
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 78 70
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 20 11 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.94% 1.18% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.69% 3.77% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 2
10th Percentile £58,500 - £60,875
25th Percentile £60,000 - £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £29,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +137.29% -62.54% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,250 - £93,438
90th Percentile £71,275 - £99,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -17.24%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 299 292 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 29.03% 31.40% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 171 98 206
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,241 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,404 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +6.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £69,498 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £91,875 £79,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the North East

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the North East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the North East

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Tyne and Wear +16 19 £70,000 +137.29% 10
Durham - 1 £55,200 -
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) IaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JUnit
1 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Principal Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Senior
3 8 (40.00%) Senior Developer
4 7 (35.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (35.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Digital Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) Jest
2 3 (15.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) Django
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Flask
3 1 (5.00%) pytest
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (35.00%) Front End Development
2 5 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Microservices
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.00%) AI
5 2 (10.00%) Analytics
5 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (10.00%) Information Assurance
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
6 1 (5.00%) API Development
6 1 (5.00%) API Integration
6 1 (5.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C#
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) PHP
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Delphi
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) VBA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle