Legacy Systems Job Trends in the South East

Legacy System
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 222 323
Rank change year-on-year -45 +101 -36
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 51 66 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.33% 0.77% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.33% 1.85% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 32 41 48
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,402 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £80,938 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £98,250 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,828 3,558 5,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.45% 41.64% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,645 1,692 3,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £34,988 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the South East

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Thames Valley +22 21 £60,750 -2.80% 10
Hampshire -62 17 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Berkshire +24 11 £56,500 +0.44% 4
Surrey -19 6 £66,152 +12.60%
Buckinghamshire -16 5 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Oxfordshire - 5 £80,000 - 2
Kent -23 3 £70,000 - 1
East Sussex -12 2 - -
West Sussex -23 1 £83,150 +44.61% 3
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.92%) JBoss
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) IIS
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) AWS
2 11 (21.57%) Azure
3 7 (13.73%) Serverless
4 6 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.88%) GCP
6 3 (5.88%) GitHub
6 3 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.88%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.88%) SaaS
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.92%) Figma
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.92%) Stripe
8 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Firewall
1 1 (1.96%) MQTT
1 1 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.80%) Power BI
3 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.84%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
1 7 (13.73%) JMeter
2 6 (11.76%) JUnit
2 6 (11.76%) Mockito
3 5 (9.80%) Git
4 3 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (3.92%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.92%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.96%) Gatling
6 1 (1.96%) GitLab
6 1 (1.96%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.96%) NUnit
6 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 14 (27.45%) Finance
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Manufacturing
3 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.84%) Legal
6 3 (5.88%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Back Office
8 1 (1.96%) Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Developer
2 8 (15.69%) Software Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Java Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Technology Director
6 3 (5.88%) Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Design Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Lead
6 3 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) ERP Project Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) REST
2 7 (13.73%) HTML
3 6 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (11.76%) Apache Camel
3 6 (11.76%) Hibernate
3 6 (11.76%) jQuery
3 6 (11.76%) Spring
3 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 6 (11.76%) WireMock
4 5 (9.80%) .NET
4 5 (9.80%) React
4 5 (9.80%) RESTful
4 5 (9.80%) Web Services
5 4 (7.84%) JSON
5 4 (7.84%) Laravel
5 4 (7.84%) XML
6 3 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.92%) JPA
7 2 (3.92%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.88%) Arduino
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.88%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (3.92%) CMDB
4 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.92%) FMCG
4 2 (3.92%) Life Science
4 2 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Robotics
5 1 (1.96%) TM Forum
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) AI
1 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 14 (27.45%) Agile
2 14 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (21.57%) DevOps
3 11 (21.57%) Migration
4 10 (19.61%) Microservices
4 10 (19.61%) TDD
5 9 (17.65%) Decision-Making
6 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (15.69%) Software Engineering
7 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
7 7 (13.73%) Performance Management
7 7 (13.73%) Scrum
7 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
7 7 (13.73%) User Experience
7 7 (13.73%) Workflow
8 6 (11.76%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 12 (23.53%) Python
3 11 (21.57%) Java
4 7 (13.73%) Shell Script
5 6 (11.76%) C
5 6 (11.76%) SQL
6 4 (7.84%) PHP
7 3 (5.88%) C#
7 3 (5.88%) C++
7 3 (5.88%) Pascal
7 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.96%) Delphi
9 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.96%) Rust
9 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.96%) VB
9 1 (1.96%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) Degree
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 2 (3.92%) PMO
2 2 (3.92%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) PERC
3 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Kibana
3 3 (5.88%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) Ansible
4 1 (1.96%) Podman
4 1 (1.96%) Puppet
4 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 6 (11.76%) Splunk
3 3 (5.88%) Motorola
3 3 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) HubSpot
4 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) Juniper
5 1 (1.96%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.96%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) Veeam
5 1 (1.96%) Workday