Legacy Applications Job Trends in the South East

Legacy Application
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 291 265
Rank change year-on-year +27 -26 +127
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 8 14 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.076% 0.15% 0.090%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.43% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £65,250 - £63,050
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.20%
75th Percentile £93,125 - £72,433
90th Percentile £93,500 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.90% -0.60%

All Generic Skills
South East

Legacy Applications 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,198 3,269 2,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.58% 35.28% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,628 1,427 1,692
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,509 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +2.74% -2.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in the South East

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Legacy Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in the South East over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in the South East

Legacy Applications
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Thames Valley +3 6 £90,000 - 1
Berkshire - 5 - - 1
Hampshire +39 1 £87,500 - 1
Oxfordshire +19 1 £90,000 -
East Sussex - 1 £62,500 -
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 5 (62.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Boomi
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Support Specialist
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Specialist
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Support
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Support Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Head of IT
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) AS400
2 1 (12.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Release Management
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) B2B
3 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
1 1 (12.50%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) JD Edwards
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) New Relic