Legacy Code Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Legacy Code
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 64 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.16% 0.13% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.43% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -36.00% +13.64% -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

Legacy Code 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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 135 232 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 21.00% 31.14% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 92 93 135
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,925 £30,200
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £84,471 £69,900
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.00% -13.04% +4.55%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Legacy Code job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Legacy Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Legacy Code

Legacy Code
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 December 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
Doncaster - 1 £40,000 -
Legacy Code
Yorkshire

Legacy Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft