Legacy Systems Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Legacy System
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 54 65
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +49
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 2 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.33% 0.70% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 1.90% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £46,625
25th Percentile £26,250 - £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £28,750 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £36,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +80.56% -28.00% -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 115 211 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.98% 37.08% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 74 79 157
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,405 £25,200
25th Percentile £28,750 £42,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +35.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £66,875 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,850 £75,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Sheffield +5 2 £27,500 - 6
Legacy Systems
Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Draytek
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware