Legacy Systems Job Trends 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 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 225 223 248
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 -46
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 48 58 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.45% 0.64% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.17% 2.06% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 42 32 38
10th Percentile £46,375 £29,800 £43,875
25th Percentile £58,500 £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £42,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -32.00% +0.91%
75th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £63,750 -
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -17.24%

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 4,113 2,817 2,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.17% 30.98% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,626 1,269 2,208
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -8.53% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,389 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,020 £85,000
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 of England

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the North of England

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Legacy Systems

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 14 January 2026.

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 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
North East +20 20 £70,000 +137.29% 10
North West +4 20 £70,000 +64.71% 27
Yorkshire -15 8 £65,000 +44.44% 15
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.33%) SaaS
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.25%) Serverless
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.17%) IaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.08%) dbt
8 1 (2.08%) GCP
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub
8 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) VPN
2 2 (4.17%) DHCP
2 2 (4.17%) DMZ
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) Modbus
2 2 (4.17%) Network Security
2 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.33%) Power BI
5 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.17%) MySQL
7 1 (2.08%) DB2
7 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.08%) Looker
7 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JUnit
2 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) Senior
3 9 (18.75%) Principal Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Lead
4 8 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 7 (14.58%) .NET Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (14.58%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Architect
6 5 (10.42%) Lead .NET Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Lead Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) .NET
2 8 (16.67%) RESTful
3 6 (12.50%) React
4 3 (6.25%) CSS
4 3 (6.25%) HTML
4 3 (6.25%) Jest
5 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 2 (4.17%) PySpark
5 2 (4.17%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.08%) Blazor
6 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.08%) Flask
6 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.08%) pytest
6 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.42%) Clustering
3 4 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 3 (6.25%) SCADA
5 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
1 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
1 14 (29.17%) Migration
2 12 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (22.92%) Microservices
3 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (14.58%) Agile
5 7 (14.58%) Analytics
5 7 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (14.58%) Front End Development
5 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
5 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
6 6 (12.50%) DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) Data Governance
7 5 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (8.33%) Containerisation
8 4 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 4 (8.33%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) C#
2 9 (18.75%) SQL
3 7 (14.58%) Python
4 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.25%) PHP
4 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.17%) Bicep
5 2 (4.17%) Java
5 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.08%) Delphi
6 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) HND
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Grafana
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.17%) Plesk
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) Draytek
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) VMware