Legacy Code Jobs

Legacy Code
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 709 782 810
Rank change year-on-year +73 +28 -66
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 133 105 498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.32% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 67 87 90
10th Percentile £35,150 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £42,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £115,000 £65,000 £80,938
90th Percentile - £82,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.26%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +48 106 £90,000 +63.64% 13
London +127 76 £90,000 +38.46% 4
UK excluding London -43 57 £45,000 -14.29% 10
Work from Home +23 25 £42,500 -15.00% 10
Scotland -22 21 - -
Midlands -7 17 £50,000 +9.89% 3
East Midlands -18 11 £50,000 +9.89%
Wales +30 6 £32,500 -52.17%
West Midlands +1 6 - - 3
North of England -9 6 £66,500 +26.67%
North West -14 5 £70,000 +24.44%
South East -13 4 - - 3
South West -12 3 £67,500 +53.41%
North East -11 1 £63,000 +26.00%

Legacy Code
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 43 (32.33%) CMS
2 21 (15.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.75%) Notion
Business Applications
1 37 (27.82%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.54%) AWS
2 18 (13.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 18 (13.53%) NuGet
3 10 (7.52%) SaaS
4 7 (5.26%) GitHub
4 7 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (4.51%) npm
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (1.50%) Azure
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.75%) Figma
8 1 (0.75%) GCP
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.75%) Slack
8 1 (0.75%) Stripe
8 1 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (29.32%) SQL Server
2 21 (15.79%) Big Data
2 21 (15.79%) Hadoop
3 17 (12.78%) MySQL
4 5 (3.76%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.75%) Redis
7 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (33.08%) Git
2 38 (28.57%) JIRA
3 37 (27.82%) Moq
3 37 (27.82%) NUnit
3 37 (27.82%) TeamCity
4 19 (14.29%) GitLab
5 18 (13.53%) git-flow
5 18 (13.53%) Octopus Deploy
5 18 (13.53%) Sourcetree
5 18 (13.53%) SpecFlow
5 18 (13.53%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.51%) Grunt
6 6 (4.51%) webpack
7 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.75%) Gradle
8 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (27.82%) Marketing
1 37 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Law
3 21 (15.79%) Finance
3 21 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (15.79%) Legal
4 4 (3.01%) Games
5 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (48.12%) Software Engineer
2 60 (45.11%) Developer
3 47 (35.34%) Senior
4 40 (30.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (30.08%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 40 (30.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 40 (30.08%) Full Stack Developer
5 25 (18.80%) Senior Developer
6 24 (18.05%) Lead
7 22 (16.54%) C# Developer
7 22 (16.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (15.79%) Big Data Engineer
8 21 (15.79%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 21 (15.79%) Data Engineer
8 21 (15.79%) Java Engineer
8 21 (15.79%) Java Software Engineer
9 20 (15.04%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 20 (15.04%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (15.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 19 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (42.11%) HTML
2 50 (37.59%) CSS
3 45 (33.83%) .NET
4 40 (30.08%) .NET Framework
4 40 (30.08%) Web Services
5 39 (29.32%) ASP.NET
5 39 (29.32%) jQuery
6 37 (27.82%) ASP.NET MVC
6 37 (27.82%) ASP.NET MVC 5
6 37 (27.82%) Entity Framework
6 37 (27.82%) RESTful
6 37 (27.82%) Semantic HTML
6 37 (27.82%) SOAP
7 24 (18.05%) Spring
8 23 (17.29%) Spring Boot
9 22 (16.54%) React
10 19 (14.29%) Classic ASP
10 19 (14.29%) XML
11 18 (13.53%) Autofac
11 18 (13.53%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 61 (45.86%) Cloud Native
2 40 (30.08%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (15.79%) Algorithms
4 18 (13.53%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 46 (34.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.14%) Agile
2 66 (49.62%) Software Engineering
3 45 (33.83%) MVC
4 42 (31.58%) Full Stack Development
5 38 (28.57%) E-Commerce
6 37 (27.82%) Computer Science
6 37 (27.82%) Issue Tracking
6 37 (27.82%) Performance Tuning
6 37 (27.82%) Responsive Web Design
6 37 (27.82%) Unit Testing
7 29 (21.80%) DevOps
7 29 (21.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 28 (21.05%) CI/CD
9 27 (20.30%) OO
10 26 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (19.55%) TDD
11 25 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (17.29%) Mentoring
13 22 (16.54%) Scrum
14 21 (15.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (46.62%) SQL
2 57 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 45 (33.83%) C#
4 41 (30.83%) C
4 41 (30.83%) C++
5 40 (30.08%) Go
5 40 (30.08%) Rust
6 37 (27.82%) T-SQL
7 25 (18.80%) Java
8 18 (13.53%) XPath
9 15 (11.28%) PHP
10 9 (6.77%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (0.75%) Postgraduate
2 1 (0.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 14 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (30.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (13.53%) Adobe
1 18 (13.53%) Cognizant
2 1 (0.75%) Google
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft