Legacy Systems Job Trends in South London

Legacy System
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 74 48
Rank change year-on-year +22 -26 +40
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 2 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 0.54% 1.90% 1.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 3.00% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £47,350 -
25th Percentile £52,400 £117,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £125,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -55.84% +72.41% +38.10%
75th Percentile £58,000 £132,500 £78,750
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £75,000 £63,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.74% -6.06%

All Generic Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 209 333 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 56.33% 63.31% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 77 99 88
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,305 £33,375
25th Percentile £35,750 £50,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £52,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,750 £77,875
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in South London

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Croydon +16 2 £55,200 - 1
Legacy Systems
London

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) pytest
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Delphi
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk