Legacy Systems Jobs 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 311 294
Rank change year-on-year +61 -17 +118
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 68 70 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.42% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 1.28% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40 47 66
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,188 £40,000 £37,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,750
90th Percentile £84,125 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -

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 4,286 5,459 4,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 41.34% 32.84% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,107 3,389 2,821
10th Percentile £29,650 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.54% +2.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -15.38% +4.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East.

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the South East

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South East over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

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 19 July 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
Hampshire +90 38 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Thames Valley +25 13 £56,250 -1.59% 13
Buckinghamshire +21 9 £57,500 -42.50% 9
Surrey +33 6 £58,750 +11.90% 6
West Sussex +21 6 £57,500 +43.75% 4
Berkshire +6 4 £56,250 +36.66% 3
Kent +21 3 - - 3
East Sussex +17 1 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Isle of Wight - 1 £70,000 -
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.88%) JBoss
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.47%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (33.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) Azure
2 9 (13.24%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) GCP
3 6 (8.82%) OpenShift
3 6 (8.82%) SaaS
4 1 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.47%) GitHub
4 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (1.47%) IaaS
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (1.47%) PaaS
4 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) DHCP
1 6 (8.82%) DNS
1 6 (8.82%) Firewall
1 6 (8.82%) Network Security
1 6 (8.82%) Remote Desktop
1 6 (8.82%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.35%) Oracle ODI
2 6 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.88%) MySQL
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Power BI
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.47%) Gradle
3 1 (1.47%) Maven
General
1 14 (20.59%) Finance
2 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.41%) Law
5 2 (2.94%) Billing
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
5 2 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.47%) German Language
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Developer
2 15 (22.06%) Consultant
2 15 (22.06%) Data Consultant
2 15 (22.06%) Data Migration Consultant
2 15 (22.06%) Migration Consultant
2 15 (22.06%) Oracle Consultant
2 15 (22.06%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
2 15 (22.06%) Oracle Technical Consultant
2 15 (22.06%) Technical Consultant
3 7 (10.29%) Applications Developer
3 7 (10.29%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 7 (10.29%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (10.29%) Project Manager
4 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Applications Manager
6 3 (4.41%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (16.18%) REST
3 6 (8.82%) .NET
3 6 (8.82%) CSS
3 6 (8.82%) HTML
3 6 (8.82%) RESTful
4 3 (4.41%) Jest
4 3 (4.41%) jQuery
4 3 (4.41%) LAMP
4 3 (4.41%) Laravel
4 3 (4.41%) React
4 3 (4.41%) SOAP
5 2 (2.94%) Middleware
6 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.47%) Spring
6 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.35%) Data Structures
2 7 (10.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (8.82%) Clustering
3 6 (8.82%) PKI
4 5 (7.35%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.47%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Windows
2 6 (8.82%) Linux
2 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) Migration
2 28 (41.18%) ERP
3 27 (39.71%) Data Migration
4 24 (35.29%) Data Cleansing
4 24 (35.29%) Data Mapping
4 24 (35.29%) ETL
5 22 (32.35%) Validation
6 15 (22.06%) Data Extraction
6 15 (22.06%) Data Security
7 7 (10.29%) Task Automation
8 6 (8.82%) Application Virtualisation
8 6 (8.82%) Disk Encryption
8 6 (8.82%) High Availability
8 6 (8.82%) Incident Management
8 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (8.82%) RBAC
9 5 (7.35%) CRM
9 5 (7.35%) Microservices
9 5 (7.35%) Project Management
9 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) PL/SQL
2 20 (29.41%) SQL
3 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.82%) C#
5 5 (7.35%) Java
6 3 (4.41%) PHP
7 2 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
1 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) ACCA
2 2 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.47%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (1.47%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (1.47%) OSCP
3 1 (1.47%) OSWP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
2 2 (2.94%) PMO
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Docker
2 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.82%) BitLocker
2 6 (8.82%) Hyper-V
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (8.82%) Terminal Services
2 6 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.82%) vSphere
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Ansible
1 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
1 6 (8.82%) Nagios
1 6 (8.82%) Puppet
1 6 (8.82%) vCenter Server
1 6 (8.82%) vMotion
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) Oracle
2 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) Citrix
3 7 (10.29%) IBM
3 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.82%) Google
4 6 (8.82%) HP
4 6 (8.82%) Symantec
4 6 (8.82%) VMware
5 3 (4.41%) Apple
6 2 (2.94%) SAP
6 2 (2.94%) Workday
7 1 (1.47%) Adobe
7 1 (1.47%) Freshdesk
7 1 (1.47%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.47%) SendGrid