Legacy Systems Job Trends

Legacy System
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 343 549
Rank change year-on-year +56 +206 -135
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 701 394 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.79% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 1.92% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 457 256 207
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £39,380
25th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,625 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 26,967 20,553 27,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.03% 41.43% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,035 10,324 16,624
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -9.09%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Legacy Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the UK

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the UK over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. 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 +58 632 £67,500 +3.85% 309
UK excluding London +65 476 £60,000 - 156
Work from Home +72 203 £62,500 - 131
London +3 180 £82,500 +6.45% 179
South West +50 147 £55,000 -21.43% 20
North of England +34 120 £69,305 +0.81% 42
Midlands -40 71 £62,500 +13.64% 26
South East -43 56 £57,303 -0.34% 40
Yorkshire +2 48 £80,000 +23.08% 13
North West +8 47 £69,305 -2.73% 26
West Midlands -45 46 £60,000 +9.09% 14
East of England +3 39 £50,000 -20.00% 13
Wales -20 36 £72,500 +31.82% 3
East Midlands -8 25 £67,500 +42.11% 12
North East - 25 £52,500 - 4
Scotland 0 5 £23,500 -52.69% 11
Northern Ireland -76 2 - - 3

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 90 (12.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.56%) Confluence
3 16 (2.28%) SharePoint Server
4 12 (1.71%) Anypoint
4 12 (1.71%) Mule
4 12 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.71%) Apache
5 5 (0.71%) WordPress
6 4 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (2.28%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) Simulink
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.00%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.71%) SAP FSCM
4 5 (0.71%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (0.71%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.43%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.29%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.14%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 256 (36.52%) Azure
2 128 (18.26%) AWS
3 105 (14.98%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (5.99%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.28%) Serverless
7 30 (4.28%) SaaS
8 28 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.71%) GCP
10 23 (3.28%) GitHub
11 20 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (2.28%) Entra ID
14 14 (2.00%) Snowflake
15 13 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (1.85%) Lucidchart
15 13 (1.85%) PaaS
16 12 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 95 (13.55%) DNS
2 88 (12.55%) DHCP
3 14 (2.00%) Firewall
3 14 (2.00%) SSL
4 12 (1.71%) Network Security
4 12 (1.71%) WAN
5 10 (1.43%) VPN
6 6 (0.86%) HTTP
6 6 (0.86%) LAN
6 6 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.71%) SAN
7 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.43%) NAS
8 3 (0.43%) Wireless
9 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.29%) VoIP
10 1 (0.14%) DMARC
10 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.14%) Internet
10 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
2 43 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 35 (4.99%) Power BI
4 27 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.71%) Db2
6 14 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.71%) MySQL
8 10 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.43%) DTS
9 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.00%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.86%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.86%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.71%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.71%) Redis
12 5 (0.71%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (5.99%) Git
2 40 (5.71%) JIRA
3 18 (2.57%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.43%) Selenium
5 15 (2.14%) JUnit
6 12 (1.71%) GitLab
6 12 (1.71%) NUnit
7 10 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.00%) JMeter
9 6 (0.86%) Mocha
9 6 (0.86%) Mockito
9 6 (0.86%) Postman
10 5 (0.71%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.71%) MSI
10 5 (0.71%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.43%) Eclipse RCP
11 3 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.43%) TestRail
11 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 201 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 160 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (20.97%) Finance
4 81 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.28%) Manufacturing
6 37 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (5.28%) Retail
7 33 (4.71%) Law
8 26 (3.71%) Aerospace
9 19 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.28%) Banking
11 15 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.71%) Legal
13 9 (1.28%) Electronics
13 9 (1.28%) Military
14 8 (1.14%) Games
14 8 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.00%) Cyber-Physical System
15 7 (1.00%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 139 (19.83%) Senior
2 112 (15.98%) Developer
3 108 (15.41%) Architect
4 98 (13.98%) Software Engineer
5 89 (12.70%) Systems Engineer
6 67 (9.56%) Lead
7 55 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 49 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (6.70%) Consultant
10 31 (4.42%) Analyst
11 23 (3.28%) Software Developer
12 21 (3.00%) Business Analyst
13 20 (2.85%) Migration Consultant
14 19 (2.71%) Senior Architect
14 19 (2.71%) Senior Developer
15 17 (2.43%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.14%) Data Engineer
17 14 (2.00%) Senior Consultant
17 14 (2.00%) Technical Architect
18 13 (1.85%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (10.13%) .NET
2 58 (8.27%) React
3 48 (6.85%) Node.js
4 45 (6.42%) Spring Boot
5 42 (5.99%) Spring
6 37 (5.28%) WPF
7 36 (5.14%) HTML
8 34 (4.85%) CSS
8 34 (4.85%) RESTful
9 30 (4.28%) REST
10 29 (4.14%) Vue
11 27 (3.85%) Kafka
12 24 (3.42%) Middleware
13 20 (2.85%) .NET Core
14 17 (2.43%) .NET Framework
15 16 (2.28%) OAuth
16 15 (2.14%) HTML5
17 14 (2.00%) AngularJS
17 14 (2.00%) Ruby on Rails
18 13 (1.85%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 97 (13.84%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (5.14%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.71%) Mainframe
4 27 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.71%) iSeries
7 18 (2.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 18 (2.57%) Legacy Applications
8 17 (2.43%) Management Information System
9 16 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
10 15 (2.14%) AI Agents
10 15 (2.14%) AS400
11 14 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.85%) IoT
12 13 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.71%) Private Cloud
14 11 (1.57%) EPoS
15 10 (1.43%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 117 (16.69%) Windows
2 97 (13.84%) Linux
3 89 (12.70%) Windows Server
4 80 (11.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.57%) AIX
6 3 (0.43%) Android
6 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
8 1 (0.14%) Unix
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (39.66%) Migration
2 189 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
3 157 (22.40%) Agile
4 156 (22.25%) CI/CD
5 130 (18.54%) Software Engineering
6 115 (16.41%) DevOps
7 109 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (15.26%) Mentoring
9 106 (15.12%) Microservices
10 101 (14.41%) Customer Experience
11 96 (13.69%) AI
12 95 (13.55%) Roadmaps
13 86 (12.27%) Kalman Filter
14 85 (12.13%) Customer Service
15 82 (11.70%) Web Filtering
16 81 (11.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 80 (11.41%) Email Filtering
17 80 (11.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
18 71 (10.13%) Test Automation
19 67 (9.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 91 (12.98%) C#
2 86 (12.27%) SQL
3 78 (11.13%) JavaScript
3 78 (11.13%) Python
4 71 (10.13%) Java
5 41 (5.85%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.00%) C++
7 20 (2.85%) PHP
8 19 (2.71%) RPG
9 15 (2.14%) Ruby
10 14 (2.00%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.71%) DataWeave
12 9 (1.28%) Go
13 8 (1.14%) ABAP
13 8 (1.14%) C
13 8 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.00%) Bicep
15 6 (0.86%) RPG III
16 4 (0.57%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 174 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 150 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.56%) Degree
4 18 (2.57%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.71%) PMP
12 4 (0.57%) CISM
12 4 (0.57%) CISSP
12 4 (0.57%) OCP
12 4 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 83 (11.84%) PCI DSS
3 34 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 31 (4.42%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.85%) QA
6 18 (2.57%) WCAG
7 16 (2.28%) GDPR
8 11 (1.57%) SLA
9 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.00%) NCSC
10 6 (0.86%) NIST
11 4 (0.57%) PMO
12 3 (0.43%) GRC
12 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.14%) GxP
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 104 (14.84%) Active Directory
2 90 (12.84%) Hyper-V
3 80 (11.41%) Terminal Server
4 45 (6.42%) Docker
5 18 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (2.00%) Firmware
7 8 (1.14%) vSphere
8 6 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.43%) KVM
10 2 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.14%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (7.28%) Terraform
2 45 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.00%) Puppet
4 13 (1.85%) Progress Chef
5 12 (1.71%) CloudHub
6 10 (1.43%) Ansible
7 6 (0.86%) Kibana
8 5 (0.71%) SCCM
8 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.43%) Grafana
10 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.29%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 178 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 99 (14.12%) VMware
3 87 (12.41%) Splunk
4 83 (11.84%) Veeam
5 80 (11.41%) Brocade
5 80 (11.41%) Nimble Storage
5 80 (11.41%) SolarWinds
5 80 (11.41%) Tanium
6 54 (7.70%) SAP
7 26 (3.71%) IBM
7 26 (3.71%) ServiceNow
8 21 (3.00%) Oracle
9 15 (2.14%) MuleSoft
10 14 (2.00%) Databricks
10 14 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.43%) Google
11 10 (1.43%) Workday
12 9 (1.28%) Sage
13 7 (1.00%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.00%) IFS