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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 696 660
Rank change year-on-year +148 -36 +98
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 23 69 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.094% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.28% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 21 19 79
10th Percentile - £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +71.43% +5.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,271 24,318 24,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.13% 33.02% 42.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,777 15,252 11,013
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
Midlands +56 7 £67,500 +42.11% 8
Wales +53 7 £32,500 - 13
East Midlands +37 6 £67,500 +42.11% 5
South West +120 4 £85,000 +58.14%
North of England +36 3 £72,500 +37.44% 12
North West -2 3 £72,500 +31.82% 11
South East +87 1 £71,000 - 10
West Midlands +62 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 - - 3
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 8 (34.78%) CMS
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.35%) Drupal
3 1 (4.35%) Joomla!
3 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Moqups
1 1 (4.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
1 7 (30.43%) npm
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) SaaS
3 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Figma
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) MySQL
2 6 (26.09%) MongoDB
3 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.35%) DocumentDB
6 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 7 (30.43%) webpack
3 6 (26.09%) Grunt
4 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Law
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Games
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) PHP Developer
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Principal .NET Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Principal Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Web Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) HTML
1 8 (34.78%) Vue
2 7 (30.43%) Sass
2 7 (30.43%) Symfony
3 6 (26.09%) .NET
3 6 (26.09%) CakePHP
3 6 (26.09%) Doctrine
3 6 (26.09%) Pyjs
4 5 (21.74%) Node.js
5 4 (17.39%) React
6 3 (13.04%) .NET Core
6 3 (13.04%) CSS
6 3 (13.04%) Kafka
7 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
7 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
7 2 (8.70%) JSON
7 2 (8.70%) REST
7 2 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (8.70%) WPF
8 1 (4.35%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
3 7 (30.43%) CRM
4 6 (26.09%) B2B
4 6 (26.09%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) OO
4 6 (26.09%) OO PHP
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
5 5 (21.74%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) SDLC
6 4 (17.39%) Client Onboarding
6 4 (17.39%) Code Quality
6 4 (17.39%) Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
7 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
7 3 (13.04%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) JavaScript
2 8 (34.78%) PHP
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
5 4 (17.39%) C#
5 4 (17.39%) Python
6 3 (13.04%) VB.NET
7 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Google