Legacy Systems Jobs in the North of England

Legacy System
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 334 356
Rank change year-on-year +69 +22 +6
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 43 59 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 1.09% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38 42 29
10th Percentile £37,625 £37,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £69,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £82,250 £71,125 £137,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -14.81% +12.50%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,108 5,398 6,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 28.37% 31.24% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,564 3,993 3,096
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,459 £71,652
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,125
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the North of England

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the North of England.

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the North of England

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the North of England

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +30 29 £50,000 -9.09% 34
Yorkshire +74 11 £65,000 +68.83% 19
North East +38 3 £29,500 -46.36% 12
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (11.63%) Confluence
1 5 (11.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (16.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.33%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.23%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (9.30%) AWS IoT
6 4 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (9.30%) PowerApps
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.98%) GCP
7 3 (6.98%) Serverless
8 2 (4.65%) Azure API Management
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.65%) dbt
8 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) LAN
2 1 (2.33%) OSPF
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
2 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) MySQL
3 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.30%) TimescaleDB
4 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Power BI
5 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Law
5 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.98%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) Games
6 1 (2.33%) iGaming
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Architect
2 7 (16.28%) Consultant
2 7 (16.28%) NetSuite Consultant
2 7 (16.28%) Technical Consultant
3 6 (13.95%) IT Manager
4 5 (11.63%) IT Services Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Service Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Integration Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Junior
7 2 (4.65%) Junior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) HTML
1 8 (18.60%) XML
2 7 (16.28%) Restlet
2 7 (16.28%) SOAP
3 6 (13.95%) .NET
3 6 (13.95%) Node.js
3 6 (13.95%) React
4 5 (11.63%) RESTful
5 4 (9.30%) NestJS
6 3 (6.98%) Kafka
6 3 (6.98%) REST
7 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.65%) Blazor
7 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.65%) Vue
7 2 (4.65%) WinForms
7 2 (4.65%) WPF
8 1 (2.33%) Classic ASP
8 1 (2.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (9.30%) IoT
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.65%) Clustering
4 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) FMCG
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (34.88%) Migration
3 10 (23.26%) Data Modelling
4 9 (20.93%) Agile
5 8 (18.60%) Data Migration
6 7 (16.28%) API Integration
6 7 (16.28%) Coaching
6 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
7 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (11.63%) Change Management
8 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
8 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.63%) Customer Service
8 5 (11.63%) ETL
8 5 (11.63%) Problem Management
9 4 (9.30%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (9.30%) Machine Learning
9 4 (9.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) JavaScript
2 11 (25.58%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.30%) C#
4 4 (9.30%) PHP
5 2 (4.65%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) Python
5 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Ruby
6 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.33%) PhD
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.98%) SLA
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Istio
2 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.33%) SCCM
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco
4 1 (2.33%) Confluent
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) IBM
4 1 (2.33%) Meraki
4 1 (2.33%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Talend
4 1 (2.33%) VMware