Legacy Applications Jobs

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 cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 779 752
Rank change year-on-year +128 -27 +115
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 63 132 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.37% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 49 97 160
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £69,750
Median % change year-on-year - -6.81% +11.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £93,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,000 £130,446 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year - -12.01% +53.77%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Applications 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,402 35,281 42,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.17% 35.29% 43.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,394 23,007 23,050
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,498
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £109,865
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 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
England +106 58 £65,000 - 46
Work from Home +100 35 £65,000 +4.00% 22
London +111 34 £65,000 -16.13% 24
UK excluding London +136 30 £57,500 - 30
South West +111 12 £57,500 -25.81% 5
West Midlands +72 10 £47,500 -19.15% 4
Midlands +57 10 £47,500 -13.64% 5
North of England +39 6 £102,500 +86.36% 9
Yorkshire +64 4 £105,000 +35.48% 3
Scotland +124 1 - - 1
North East +41 1 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Wales +40 1 - - 1
North West -7 1 £100,000 +41.69% 4

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 8 (12.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) ColdFusion
3 1 (1.59%) IIS
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) Sitefinity
3 1 (1.59%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.03%) Azure
2 18 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 16 (25.40%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (22.22%) SaaS
5 10 (15.87%) Power Automate
6 9 (14.29%) AWS
7 7 (11.11%) PowerApps
8 6 (9.52%) GCP
9 5 (7.94%) Serverless
10 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (4.76%) GitHub
11 3 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (1.59%) Figma
13 1 (1.59%) Google Analytics
13 1 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.75%) SQL Server
2 14 (22.22%) DB2
2 14 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 14 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (7.94%) Power BI
4 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) FitNesse
2 2 (3.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (3.17%) Selenium
2 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.17%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.59%) Gradle
3 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) Maven
3 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
General
1 36 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 26 (41.27%) Finance
3 14 (22.22%) Retail
4 6 (9.52%) Law
5 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.76%) Banking
8 2 (3.17%) Finnish Language
8 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.17%) Legal
8 2 (3.17%) Marketing
8 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Electronics
9 1 (1.59%) French Language
9 1 (1.59%) German Language
9 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.59%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Senior
2 18 (28.57%) Developer
3 17 (26.98%) Analyst
4 14 (22.22%) Applications Support
4 14 (22.22%) Applications Support Analyst
4 14 (22.22%) Lead
4 14 (22.22%) Support Analyst
5 13 (20.63%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (20.63%) Senior Applications Support
5 13 (20.63%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
5 13 (20.63%) Senior Support Analyst
6 12 (19.05%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 10 (15.87%) Architect
7 10 (15.87%) Senior Developer
8 8 (12.70%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
9 7 (11.11%) Lead Architect
10 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (6.35%) Lead Developer
11 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
11 4 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.92%) .NET
2 6 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 3 (4.76%) Entity Framework
3 3 (4.76%) jQuery
3 3 (4.76%) Kafka
3 3 (4.76%) React
3 3 (4.76%) RESTful
3 3 (4.76%) Web Services
3 3 (4.76%) XML
4 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.17%) LINQ
4 2 (3.17%) Middleware
4 2 (3.17%) NHibernate
4 2 (3.17%) Playwright
5 1 (1.59%) Blazor
5 1 (1.59%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.17%) Market Risk
3 2 (3.17%) NHS
3 2 (3.17%) Tandem
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) Shadow IT
4 1 (1.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) Mentoring
2 18 (28.57%) CRM
3 14 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 14 (22.22%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 14 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
4 13 (20.63%) Agile
5 9 (14.29%) DevOps
5 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (12.70%) Change Management
6 8 (12.70%) Migration
6 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.70%) TOGAF
7 7 (11.11%) Project Management
8 6 (9.52%) Coaching
8 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (9.52%) Risk Management
8 6 (9.52%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.94%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
9 5 (7.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (7.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.79%) C#
2 22 (34.92%) SQL
3 14 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 14 (22.22%) VB.NET
4 13 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.94%) Python
6 3 (4.76%) Java
6 3 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.17%) PMP
2 2 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) GDPR
2 3 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.76%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) PMO
4 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.35%) Terraform
2 3 (4.76%) Grafana
3 2 (3.17%) Control-M
3 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (39.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) Google
4 1 (1.59%) Netskope
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.59%) Splunk