Legacy Code Jobs in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 692 666 723
Rank change year-on-year -26 +57 -104
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 65 95 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.38% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17 77 91
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,750 £66,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Legacy Code is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,010 24,691 30,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.86% 41.05% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,230 11,255 15,729
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Scotland -23 43 - - 1
Midlands -10 9 £47,500 +7.95% 5
East Midlands -14 8 £47,500 +9.83% 4
North of England +34 6 £52,750 +0.48% 4
North West +8 4 £55,000 -2.22% 4
South East -28 4 - - 2
South West -42 2 £53,750 +22.16% 3
Yorkshire +76 1 £42,500 -19.05%
West Midlands +10 1 - - 1
Wales +2 1 £32,500 -35.00%
North East -4 1 £63,000 +26.00%
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (66.15%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.54%) AWS
2 8 (12.31%) SaaS
3 2 (3.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) GitHub
4 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.54%) npm
4 1 (1.54%) NuGet
4 1 (1.54%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (66.15%) Big Data
1 43 (66.15%) Hadoop
2 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.69%) MySQL
2 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.54%) Redis
4 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Moq
2 4 (6.15%) NUnit
2 4 (6.15%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.62%) GitLab
4 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.54%) git-flow
5 1 (1.54%) Grunt
5 1 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.54%) Sourcetree
5 1 (1.54%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.54%) webpack
General
1 50 (76.92%) Law
2 43 (66.15%) Finance
2 43 (66.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (66.15%) Legal
3 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Marketing
5 2 (3.08%) Games
6 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (67.69%) Software Engineer
2 43 (66.15%) Big Data Engineer
2 43 (66.15%) Big Data Software Engineer
2 43 (66.15%) Data Engineer
2 43 (66.15%) Java Engineer
2 43 (66.15%) Java Software Engineer
3 14 (21.54%) Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (7.69%) PHP Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Applications Support
6 3 (4.62%) C# Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Senior
6 3 (4.62%) Site Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Lead
7 2 (3.08%) Lead C# Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (3.08%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (67.69%) Spring
1 44 (67.69%) Spring Boot
2 12 (18.46%) HTML
3 11 (16.92%) CSS
4 10 (15.38%) .NET
5 8 (12.31%) Node.js
6 7 (10.77%) jQuery
7 6 (9.23%) .NET Framework
7 6 (9.23%) RESTful
7 6 (9.23%) SOAP
7 6 (9.23%) Web Services
8 5 (7.69%) React
9 4 (6.15%) ASP.NET
9 4 (6.15%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (6.15%) ASP.NET MVC 5
9 4 (6.15%) Entity Framework
9 4 (6.15%) Semantic HTML
9 4 (6.15%) Vue
10 3 (4.62%) Classic ASP
10 3 (4.62%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 43 (66.15%) Algorithms
1 43 (66.15%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (81.54%) Agile
2 49 (75.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 47 (72.31%) CI/CD
4 46 (70.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (69.23%) Software Engineering
6 43 (66.15%) Artificial Intelligence
6 43 (66.15%) Data Modelling
6 43 (66.15%) Machine Learning
6 43 (66.15%) Risk Management
6 43 (66.15%) Visualisation
7 8 (12.31%) DevOps
7 8 (12.31%) Microservices
8 7 (10.77%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (9.23%) MVC
9 6 (9.23%) TDD
9 6 (9.23%) Unit Testing
10 5 (7.69%) E-Commerce
10 5 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (6.15%) Issue Tracking
11 4 (6.15%) OO
Programming Languages
1 51 (78.46%) SQL
2 44 (67.69%) Java
3 13 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (15.38%) C#
5 7 (10.77%) PHP
6 4 (6.15%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.08%) C
7 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.54%) Ada
8 1 (1.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (1.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.08%) Progress
2 1 (1.54%) Adobe
2 1 (1.54%) Cognizant