Legacy Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

Legacy System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 513 430
Rank change year-on-year +156 -83 +89
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 208 257 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.37% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.84% 1.07% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 137 166 188
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,584 £79,375 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -17.86% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,276 24,079 26,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.62% 34.25% 42.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 15,233 11,409
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,733 £35,000 £40,250
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 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK excluding London

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +90 73 £45,000 -10.00% 47
West Midlands +77 65 £45,000 -10.00% 33
South East +92 50 £57,500 +9.52% 93
North of England +69 43 £50,000 -9.09% 61
North West +30 29 £50,000 -9.09% 32
South West +119 24 £92,319 +36.77% 26
Yorkshire +74 11 £65,000 +68.83% 19
East Midlands +32 8 £55,000 +46.67% 13
East of England +46 6 £73,000 +108.57% 20
Scotland +104 5 £48,343 -23.84% 10
Wales +48 5 £49,104 - 5
North East +38 3 £29,500 -46.36% 12
Northern Ireland +34 2 £30,000 -36.84% 4
Legacy Systems
UK

Legacy Systems
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 7 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.88%) Confluence
2 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.92%) JBoss
4 4 (1.92%) Luigi
5 2 (0.96%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) IIS
6 1 (0.48%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (9.62%) NetSuite
2 16 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (2.40%) Endur
5 4 (1.92%) SAP MDG
6 3 (1.44%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.96%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.96%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.48%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.81%) Azure
2 32 (15.38%) AWS
3 27 (12.98%) GCP
4 19 (9.13%) Power Platform
5 13 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 12 (5.77%) SaaS
7 11 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.81%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.85%) npm
10 6 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.88%) dbt
11 5 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.40%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.92%) AWS IoT
12 4 (1.92%) GitHub
12 4 (1.92%) Pulumi
13 3 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) Firewall
2 5 (2.40%) DHCP
2 5 (2.40%) DNS
2 5 (2.40%) Network Security
2 5 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (2.40%) SMTP
3 2 (0.96%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.48%) LAN
4 1 (0.48%) OSPF
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.48%) WAN
4 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.69%) Oracle ODI
3 14 (6.73%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.29%) Power BI
5 10 (4.81%) BigQuery
6 9 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (3.85%) MySQL
7 8 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.88%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.92%) Tableau
10 4 (1.92%) TimescaleDB
11 3 (1.44%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (8.65%) Git
2 9 (4.33%) JIRA
3 8 (3.85%) Cucumber
3 8 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (3.85%) webpack
4 3 (1.44%) LSMW
5 2 (0.96%) Checkstyle
5 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.96%) Subversion
5 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.48%) ERwin
6 1 (0.48%) JMeter
6 1 (0.48%) MSTest
6 1 (0.48%) NUnit
6 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.48%) xUnit.net
General
1 87 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 63 (30.29%) Finance
3 55 (26.44%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (21.15%) Law
5 31 (14.90%) Manufacturing
6 21 (10.10%) Electronics
7 14 (6.73%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.33%) Banking
9 8 (3.85%) Legal
10 6 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.44%) Local Government
12 3 (1.44%) Retail
13 2 (0.96%) Marketing
13 2 (0.96%) Military
14 1 (0.48%) Billing
14 1 (0.48%) German Language
14 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (20.19%) Developer
1 42 (20.19%) Lead
2 34 (16.35%) Consultant
3 29 (13.94%) Technical Consultant
4 21 (10.10%) Analyst
5 20 (9.62%) Technical Leader
6 18 (8.65%) Architect
7 17 (8.17%) Senior
8 15 (7.21%) Data Consultant
8 15 (7.21%) Data Migration Consultant
8 15 (7.21%) Migration Consultant
8 15 (7.21%) Oracle Consultant
8 15 (7.21%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
8 15 (7.21%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 14 (6.73%) NetSuite Consultant
10 11 (5.29%) Business Analyst
11 10 (4.81%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.33%) .NET Developer
13 8 (3.85%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.02%) .NET
2 20 (9.62%) HTML
3 19 (9.13%) SOAP
4 18 (8.65%) RESTful
5 17 (8.17%) XML
6 16 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (7.21%) REST
8 14 (6.73%) Restlet
9 12 (5.77%) Web Services
10 11 (5.29%) React
11 10 (4.81%) Node.js
12 9 (4.33%) Jest
13 8 (3.85%) Spring Boot
14 7 (3.37%) WPF
15 6 (2.88%) .NET Framework
15 6 (2.88%) CSS
16 5 (2.40%) Blazor
16 5 (2.40%) JSON
17 4 (1.92%) GraphQL
17 4 (1.92%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 24 (11.54%) IoT
3 20 (9.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 20 (9.62%) SCADA
4 15 (7.21%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (4.33%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (4.33%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
8 7 (3.37%) Clustering
9 6 (2.88%) Taxonomies
10 5 (2.40%) Legacy Code
10 5 (2.40%) PKI
10 5 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.44%) Replication
12 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.37%) Linux
1 7 (3.37%) Windows
2 5 (2.40%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Unix
3 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.98%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (33.17%) Migration
3 52 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 45 (21.63%) Agile
5 36 (17.31%) ETL
6 34 (16.35%) Data Modelling
7 28 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (12.98%) Change Management
8 27 (12.98%) ERP
9 26 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 25 (12.02%) CI/CD
10 25 (12.02%) Data Cleansing
11 23 (11.06%) Data Mapping
11 23 (11.06%) Project Management
12 21 (10.10%) Analytics
13 20 (9.62%) Data Collection
13 20 (9.62%) Mechatronics
13 20 (9.62%) Software Engineering
14 19 (9.13%) Data Extraction
14 19 (9.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.17%) SQL
2 36 (17.31%) JavaScript
3 27 (12.98%) C#
4 25 (12.02%) Java
5 18 (8.65%) PL/SQL
6 12 (5.77%) Python
7 10 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.40%) PHP
9 5 (2.40%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.92%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.44%) Delphi
11 3 (1.44%) XAML
12 2 (0.96%) Bash
12 2 (0.96%) Julia
12 2 (0.96%) R
12 2 (0.96%) VBA
13 1 (0.48%) Ada
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (6.73%) Degree
2 11 (5.29%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.44%) ACCA
6 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.96%) MOS
6 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) CISA
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CISM
7 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.48%) CRISC
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
7 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.33%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.33%) QA
3 3 (1.44%) GDPR
3 3 (1.44%) SLA
4 2 (0.96%) PMO
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.48%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.48%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.48%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (11.54%) Docker
2 7 (3.37%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.40%) BitLocker
4 5 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (2.40%) Terminal Services
4 5 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.37%) Terraform
3 5 (2.40%) Ansible
3 5 (2.40%) Nagios
3 5 (2.40%) Puppet
3 5 (2.40%) vCenter Server
3 5 (2.40%) vMotion
4 1 (0.48%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) Istio
4 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.98%) Oracle
3 20 (9.62%) Rockwell
3 20 (9.62%) Siemens
4 11 (5.29%) Google
5 10 (4.81%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.85%) SAP
7 6 (2.88%) VMware
8 5 (2.40%) Citrix
8 5 (2.40%) HP
8 5 (2.40%) OpenLink
8 5 (2.40%) Symantec
9 2 (0.96%) Databricks
9 2 (0.96%) IBM
9 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.96%) Talend
10 1 (0.48%) Confluent
10 1 (0.48%) Meraki
10 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.48%) Workday