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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 755 776 865
Rank change year-on-year +21 +89 -145
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 133 220 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.51% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 101 152 98
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £32,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £130,000 £100,000 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +51.16% -14.00%

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 35,055 43,406 74,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.74% 47.58%
Number of salaries quoted 23,055 23,484 33,996
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Top 17 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 8 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
England +18 114 £65,000 -16.13% 25
UK excluding London -28 84 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Work from Home +21 75 £62,500 -4.36% 8
London +71 42 £70,000 -15.15% 7
South East +37 36 £57,500 -12.01% 7
North of England +11 20 £62,788 -3.92% 5
Midlands +2 11 £58,750 +4.91% 2
North West +11 9 £70,576 +8.00% 2
Yorkshire +43 7 £77,500 +3.33% 1
West Midlands +10 7 £62,500 +11.61%
Wales - 5 £130,446 -
North East 0 4 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands -13 4 £40,000 -21.18% 2
Northern Ireland +25 3 £130,446 +117.41%
East of England +11 3 £70,000 +16.67% 4
South West -27 3 £77,500 +18.59%
Scotland -65 3 £130,446 +100.69% 1

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 4 (3.01%) Drupal
2 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) WordPress
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (3.76%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.33%) Azure
2 24 (18.05%) AWS
3 15 (11.28%) SaaS
4 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.52%) Serverless
5 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.51%) Power Automate
6 6 (4.51%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (3.76%) GCP
8 3 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.50%) GitHub
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.55%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.78%) Data Lake
3 8 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.02%) Power BI
4 5 (3.76%) Metadata
5 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.50%) MS Access
7 2 (1.50%) MySQL
7 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Git
2 3 (2.26%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.75%) JMeter
3 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.75%) Sourcetree
General
1 17 (12.78%) Finance
2 15 (11.28%) Aerospace
3 13 (9.77%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Banking
5 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.51%) Front Office
6 6 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.51%) Law
6 6 (4.51%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.76%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Automotive
9 1 (0.75%) Back Office
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (33.83%) Developer
2 29 (21.80%) Architect
3 25 (18.80%) Senior
4 23 (17.29%) Software Engineer
5 19 (14.29%) .NET Developer
6 17 (12.78%) Junior
7 16 (12.03%) Technical Architect
8 15 (11.28%) Junior Architect
8 15 (11.28%) Junior Technical Architect
9 14 (10.53%) Lead
10 13 (9.77%) Senior Developer
11 10 (7.52%) Perl Developer
12 9 (6.77%) C# .NET Developer
12 9 (6.77%) C# Developer
12 9 (6.77%) Senior .NET Developer
13 7 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (5.26%) Senior C# .NET Developer
13 7 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
14 6 (4.51%) Analyst
14 6 (4.51%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (39.85%) .NET
2 27 (20.30%) .NET Core
3 17 (12.78%) HTML
4 14 (10.53%) CSS
5 13 (9.77%) Web Services
6 12 (9.02%) Razor View Engine
7 11 (8.27%) AngularJS
7 11 (8.27%) React
8 9 (6.77%) Node.js
9 8 (6.02%) ASP.NET
9 8 (6.02%) Blazor
10 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
10 6 (4.51%) RESTful
11 5 (3.76%) Itk
11 5 (3.76%) Unity DI Container
11 5 (3.76%) XML
12 3 (2.26%) jQuery
12 3 (2.26%) Laravel
13 2 (1.50%) Entity Framework
13 2 (1.50%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.76%) Blog
3 5 (3.76%) Derivative
3 5 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.76%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.76%) IoT
3 5 (3.76%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.76%) N-Tier
3 5 (3.76%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.01%) Wiki
5 2 (1.50%) DataPower
5 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.04%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.59%) Agile
2 33 (24.81%) Software Engineering
3 32 (24.06%) Microservices
4 31 (23.31%) DevOps
5 21 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
5 21 (15.79%) Migration
5 21 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 18 (13.53%) Security Architecture
7 16 (12.03%) Change Management
7 16 (12.03%) Collaborative Working
7 16 (12.03%) Requirements Analysis
7 16 (12.03%) Test Automation
8 15 (11.28%) Prototyping
8 15 (11.28%) Technical Analysis
9 14 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (9.77%) Unit Testing
10 13 (9.77%) Web Development
11 12 (9.02%) CI/CD
12 11 (8.27%) Scrum
13 8 (6.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.34%) C#
2 32 (24.06%) JavaScript
3 30 (22.56%) SQL
4 20 (15.04%) Python
5 17 (12.78%) Java
6 14 (10.53%) PowerShell
7 10 (7.52%) Perl
8 9 (6.77%) C++
8 9 (6.77%) VB
9 8 (6.02%) PHP
10 7 (5.26%) VB6
11 6 (4.51%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.51%) VB.NET
12 5 (3.76%) Bash
12 5 (3.76%) C
12 5 (3.76%) Shell Script
13 4 (3.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (7.52%) Degree
2 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.76%) MCAD
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.26%) OCP
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.75%) GDPR
2 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.02%) Terraform
2 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.50%) cPanel
5 1 (0.75%) Ansible
5 1 (0.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.76%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.26%) Databricks
4 3 (2.26%) Sparx
5 2 (1.50%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.50%) Epicor
5 2 (1.50%) IBM
5 2 (1.50%) SAP
6 1 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.75%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow