Legacy Application
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 648 766 818
Rank change year-on-year +118 +52 -185
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 85 336 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.61% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 69 227 171
10th Percentile £56,000 £36,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £68,718 £50,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £113,385 £108,750 £74,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £59,526 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.56% +19.05% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Applications 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,064 55,164 57,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.08% 43.84% 44.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14,694 30,402 33,575
10th Percentile £33,500 £34,996 £33,618
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications.

Salary trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
England +108 82 £70,576 +0.82% 21
Work from Home +159 54 £80,000 +23.08% 9
London +151 43 £80,000 -5.88% 7
UK excluding London +98 41 £70,576 +18.56% 15
North of England +90 16 £70,576 -14.45% 5
North West +110 12 £70,576 +29.13% 3
South West +40 9 £105,823 +149.00%
East of England +121 7 £56,250 +2.27%
South East +123 4 £70,576 +18.56% 6
Yorkshire +52 4 £70,000 -17.65% 2
Midlands +98 3 £85,000 +54.55% 3
West Midlands +94 3 £85,000 +41.67% 2
Scotland +58 2 £70,576 +18.56%

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.71%) Azure
2 22 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (18.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 14 (16.47%) GCP
5 13 (15.29%) Serverless
6 9 (10.59%) AWS
6 9 (10.59%) Azure API Management
6 9 (10.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (10.59%) Power Platform
7 8 (9.41%) PowerApps
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (8.24%) Azure AKS
8 7 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (8.24%) Datadog
8 7 (8.24%) GitHub
9 5 (5.88%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Internet
1 2 (2.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.82%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (10.59%) Power BI
3 7 (8.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (8.24%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.53%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.35%) SSDT
6 1 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Git
2 7 (8.24%) Artifactory
2 7 (8.24%) GitLab
2 7 (8.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (7.06%) JIRA
4 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.18%) HP UFT
General
1 42 (49.41%) Finance
2 30 (35.29%) Banking
3 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.71%) Legal
5 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.18%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.18%) Aviation
6 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (36.47%) Senior
2 29 (34.12%) Developer
3 20 (23.53%) Senior Developer
4 19 (22.35%) Lead
5 16 (18.82%) .NET Developer
6 13 (15.29%) Architect
7 11 (12.94%) Full Stack Engineer
7 11 (12.94%) Software Developer
7 11 (12.94%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (11.76%) Azure Developer
8 10 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
9 9 (10.59%) Lead .NET Developer
9 9 (10.59%) Lead Developer
9 9 (10.59%) Senior Software Developer
10 8 (9.41%) Software Engineer
11 7 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (8.24%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (8.24%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (8.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.88%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (54.12%) .NET
2 20 (23.53%) .NET Framework
3 16 (18.82%) YAML
4 11 (12.94%) AngularJS
4 11 (12.94%) ASP.NET
4 11 (12.94%) ASP.NET Web API
4 11 (12.94%) jQuery
5 9 (10.59%) REST
5 9 (10.59%) Swagger
5 9 (10.59%) WebSockets
6 7 (8.24%) JSON
7 6 (7.06%) JSF
7 6 (7.06%) JSP
7 6 (7.06%) React
7 6 (7.06%) Spring
7 6 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.53%) Blazor
9 2 (2.35%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.18%) HTML
10 1 (1.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.59%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (8.24%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.24%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.88%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.53%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.35%) DataPower
7 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.59%) Agile
2 35 (41.18%) DevOps
3 27 (31.76%) Software Engineering
4 23 (27.06%) CI/CD
5 20 (23.53%) Microservices
5 20 (23.53%) Scrum
6 18 (21.18%) Kanban
6 18 (21.18%) Migration
7 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.29%) Full Stack Development
8 13 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (15.29%) TDD
9 11 (12.94%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (12.94%) MVC
9 11 (12.94%) Problem Management
10 9 (10.59%) API Design
10 9 (10.59%) ITIL
10 9 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.59%) Release Automation
10 9 (10.59%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.94%) SQL
2 43 (50.59%) C#
3 25 (29.41%) Java
4 15 (17.65%) T-SQL
5 14 (16.47%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.94%) PowerShell
7 10 (11.76%) Python
8 8 (9.41%) VB.NET
9 7 (8.24%) Bash
9 7 (8.24%) Bicep
10 3 (3.53%) VBA
11 1 (1.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) OCP
1 14 (16.47%) Oracle Certification
2 8 (9.41%) AWS Certification
2 8 (9.41%) Degree
3 7 (8.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 7 (8.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 7 (8.24%) Azure Certification
3 7 (8.24%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.18%) ISEB
4 1 (1.18%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (9.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Ansible
1 7 (8.24%) Argo
1 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
1 7 (8.24%) Packer
1 7 (8.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.24%) Splunk
3 4 (4.71%) Databricks
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.53%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) Sparx
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco
6 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft