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 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 174 198
Rank change year-on-year +97 +24 +29
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 111 19 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.21% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.69% 1.18% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 22 7 14
10th Percentile £41,925 £51,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,563 £59,375 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,425 £85,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +1.49% +45.65%
75th Percentile £72,269 £94,237 £98,947
90th Percentile £82,350 £115,355 £117,236
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -17.24%

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 1,277 1,616 1,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.43% 37.92% 35.90%
Number of salaries quoted 825 784 1,201
10th Percentile £27,000 £10,258 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,404 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £59,074 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,125 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +47 42 £63,750 - 4
Somerset +21 38 £73,750 - 6
Bristol +22 18 £79,000 -12.22% 4
Devon +9 9 £42,750 -30.20% 11
Dorset - 3 £60,850 - 4
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 84 (75.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.90%) Apache
2 1 (0.90%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.90%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 90 (81.08%) Azure
2 84 (75.68%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.21%) AWS
4 5 (4.50%) GitHub
5 4 (3.60%) Serverless
6 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.90%) GCP
8 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.90%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.90%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (75.68%) DHCP
1 84 (75.68%) DNS
2 1 (0.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (75.68%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.41%) Geospatial Data
2 6 (5.41%) Metadata
3 5 (4.50%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.60%) MySQL
5 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.90%) DB2
6 1 (0.90%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.90%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.90%) Power BI
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.90%) Git
2 1 (0.90%) GitLab
2 1 (0.90%) JUnit
2 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 93 (83.78%) Social Skills
2 89 (80.18%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.21%) Finance
4 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.90%) Retail
5 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (75.68%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (6.31%) Developer
3 6 (5.41%) Architect
4 5 (4.50%) Data Architect
4 5 (4.50%) Software Developer
5 4 (3.60%) Analyst
5 4 (3.60%) Business IT Analyst
5 4 (3.60%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (3.60%) IT Analyst
5 4 (3.60%) Senior
5 4 (3.60%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (2.70%) .NET Developer
6 3 (2.70%) .NET Software Developer
6 3 (2.70%) Software Engineer
7 2 (1.80%) Data Engineer
7 2 (1.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (0.90%) Head of Digital
8 1 (0.90%) Master Data Manager
8 1 (0.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (0.90%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) .NET
2 6 (5.41%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.70%) CSS
3 3 (2.70%) HTML
3 3 (2.70%) RESTful
4 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.80%) Node.js
4 2 (1.80%) PySpark
4 2 (1.80%) React
4 2 (1.80%) Spring
4 2 (1.80%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.90%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.90%) Blazor
5 1 (0.90%) Django
5 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.90%) Flask
5 1 (0.90%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.90%) pytest
5 1 (0.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.50%) Reference Data
3 4 (3.60%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 85 (76.58%) Linux
2 84 (75.68%) Windows
2 84 (75.68%) Windows Server
2 84 (75.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (81.08%) Migration
1 90 (81.08%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (76.58%) Customer Service
3 84 (75.68%) Customer Experience
3 84 (75.68%) Email Filtering
3 84 (75.68%) Kalman Filter
3 84 (75.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 84 (75.68%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 84 (75.68%) Web Filtering
4 10 (9.01%) Agile
5 9 (8.11%) Roadmaps
6 7 (6.31%) Software Engineering
7 6 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (5.41%) Data Management
7 6 (5.41%) DevOps
7 6 (5.41%) Master Data Management
7 6 (5.41%) Mentoring
7 6 (5.41%) Service Delivery
8 5 (4.50%) Data Transformation
8 5 (4.50%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.41%) TypeScript
2 5 (4.50%) C#
2 5 (4.50%) Python
3 4 (3.60%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.70%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.80%) Java
5 2 (1.80%) PHP
5 2 (1.80%) SQL
6 1 (0.90%) Delphi
6 1 (0.90%) Scala
6 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (77.48%) SC Cleared
1 86 (77.48%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.90%) Degree
2 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (75.68%) Cyber Essentials
1 84 (75.68%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 84 (75.68%) Active Directory
1 84 (75.68%) Hyper-V
1 84 (75.68%) Terminal Server
2 5 (4.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.90%) Grafana
2 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (79.28%) Microsoft
2 84 (75.68%) Brocade
2 84 (75.68%) Nimble Storage
2 84 (75.68%) SolarWinds
2 84 (75.68%) Splunk
2 84 (75.68%) Tanium
2 84 (75.68%) Veeam
2 84 (75.68%) VMware
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle
4 1 (0.90%) Databricks