Legacy Systems Jobs in the North West

Legacy System
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 256 245
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +48
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 30 39 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 0.39% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.16% 1.25% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 29 24 16
10th Percentile £38,750 £44,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £91,500 £71,250 £137,500
England median annual salary £60,250 £58,750 £66,603
% change year-on-year +2.55% -11.79% +11.01%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,578 3,120 3,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.04% 31.40% 41.38%
Number of salaries quoted 947 2,281 1,484
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,548 £84,056
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the North West

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the North West

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the North West

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Manchester +45 27 £56,250 +2.27% 19
Merseyside +30 2 £62,500 - 4
Lancashire - 1 £29,500 - 7
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.33%) AWS IoT
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 3 (10.00%) Serverless
7 2 (6.67%) Azure API Management
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (6.67%) dbt
7 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Table
8 1 (3.33%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.33%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) OSPF
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) TimescaleDB
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
3 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.00%) Law
3 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Consultant
1 5 (16.67%) Developer
1 5 (16.67%) NetSuite Consultant
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
2 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Integration Architect
3 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 3 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Lead Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) XML
2 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 6 (20.00%) HTML
2 6 (20.00%) SOAP
3 5 (16.67%) RESTful
3 5 (16.67%) Restlet
4 4 (13.33%) NestJS
4 4 (13.33%) Node.js
4 4 (13.33%) React
4 4 (13.33%) REST
5 3 (10.00%) Blazor
5 3 (10.00%) Kafka
6 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.67%) WinForms
6 2 (6.67%) WPF
7 1 (3.33%) JSON
7 1 (3.33%) Web Services
7 1 (3.33%) XSD
7 1 (3.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) IoT
1 4 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (10.00%) Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) FMCG
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (33.33%) Migration
3 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) API Integration
5 5 (16.67%) Coaching
5 5 (16.67%) ETL
6 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.33%) Microservices
7 3 (10.00%) API Development
7 3 (10.00%) Change Control
7 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (10.00%) SDLC
7 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) C#
3 4 (13.33%) PHP
3 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.00%) Python
5 2 (6.67%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) Java
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) Ruby
6 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.33%) PhD
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Istio
1 1 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.33%) SCCM
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Confluent
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Talend
4 1 (3.33%) VMware