Legacy Systems Job Trends in the South West

Legacy System
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 137 274
Rank change year-on-year +1 +137 -72
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 73 23 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.95% 0.85% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.75% 2.16% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 26 18 7
10th Percentile £42,213 £59,125 £55,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £87,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +29.63% +22.73%
75th Percentile £87,500 £140,677 £80,625
90th Percentile £161,250 - £88,650
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% - -14.81%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,536 1,064 2,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.06% 39.51% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 975 586 2,046
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £51,058 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +2.12% -7.41%
75th Percentile £65,473 £68,525 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the South West

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the South West

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Wiltshire +10 21 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Somerset - 21 £51,250 - 7
Bristol -23 10 £55,000 -55.20% 3
Gloucestershire - 9 £51,250 - 2
Dorset -13 7 £157,500 +200.00% 1
Devon -18 4 £42,750 -38.93% 7
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 35 (47.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 43 (58.90%) Azure
2 35 (47.95%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.96%) AWS
4 7 (9.59%) Power Platform
4 7 (9.59%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.48%) GitHub
6 3 (4.11%) GCP
7 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.37%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 36 (49.32%) DHCP
1 36 (49.32%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (47.95%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (9.59%) Power BI
3 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.74%) MySQL
6 1 (1.37%) Big Data
6 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.37%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.37%) Metadata
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.37%) GitLab
3 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (54.79%) Social Skills
2 35 (47.95%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Finance
4 6 (8.22%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.48%) Automotive
5 4 (5.48%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 35 (47.95%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (9.59%) Developer
2 7 (9.59%) Head of Analytics
3 6 (8.22%) Software Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Architect
5 4 (5.48%) IT Director
6 3 (4.11%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.11%) Senior
7 2 (2.74%) .NET Developer
7 2 (2.74%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (2.74%) Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Business IT Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.74%) IT Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Lead
7 2 (2.74%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (2.74%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.74%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) Vue
2 5 (6.85%) Node.js
3 4 (5.48%) .NET
3 4 (5.48%) WPF
4 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.11%) React
5 2 (2.74%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.74%) Blazor
5 2 (2.74%) PySpark
6 1 (1.37%) CSS
6 1 (1.37%) HTML
6 1 (1.37%) Laravel
6 1 (1.37%) LoopBack
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.37%) RESTful
6 1 (1.37%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.74%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.74%) IoT
2 2 (2.74%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (50.68%) Linux
2 35 (47.95%) Windows
2 35 (47.95%) Windows Server
2 35 (47.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.01%) Migration
2 39 (53.42%) Customer Experience
3 38 (52.05%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (47.95%) Customer Service
4 35 (47.95%) Email Filtering
4 35 (47.95%) Kalman Filter
4 35 (47.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 35 (47.95%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 35 (47.95%) Web Filtering
5 17 (23.29%) Analytics
6 10 (13.70%) Agile
6 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.59%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
10 5 (6.85%) Business Strategy
10 5 (6.85%) Mentoring
10 5 (6.85%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.22%) C#
1 6 (8.22%) Python
1 6 (8.22%) SQL
2 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.11%) PHP
4 1 (1.37%) Bash
4 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.37%) Scala
4 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (53.42%) Security Cleared
2 36 (49.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (47.95%) Cyber Essentials
1 35 (47.95%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 36 (49.32%) Hyper-V
2 35 (47.95%) Active Directory
2 35 (47.95%) Terminal Server
3 3 (4.11%) Docker
4 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (56.16%) Microsoft
2 36 (49.32%) Veeam
2 36 (49.32%) VMware
3 35 (47.95%) Brocade
3 35 (47.95%) Nimble Storage
3 35 (47.95%) SolarWinds
3 35 (47.95%) Splunk
3 35 (47.95%) Tanium
4 4 (5.48%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco
5 1 (1.37%) Dell
5 1 (1.37%) HP
5 1 (1.37%) Juniper
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle