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 16 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 317 | 270 | 447 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -47 | +177 | -34 |
| Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems | 679 | 527 | 328 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.57% | 1.08% | 0.47% |
| As % of the Miscellaneous category | 2.10% | 2.69% | 1.44% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 425 | 295 | 195 |
| 10th Percentile | £45,000 | £45,500 | £38,750 |
| 25th Percentile | £51,250 | £52,500 | £42,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £68,500 | £65,000 | £53,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.38% | +22.64% | -18.46% |
| 75th Percentile | £86,250 | £80,500 | £82,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £95,000 | £95,000 | £129,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £62,500 | £62,500 | £50,000 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +25.00% | -16.67% |
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.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills | 32,399 | 19,616 | 22,714 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 27.20% | 40.11% | 32.22% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 19,826 | 10,179 | 11,256 |
| 10th Percentile | £30,750 | £28,000 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £40,000 | £36,250 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £55,000 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -8.33% | -4.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £78,750 | £77,500 | £83,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £102,500 | £110,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £51,359 | £45,000 | £53,522 |
| % change year-on-year | +14.13% | -15.92% | -2.69% |
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 Salary Trend
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 16 October 2026.
Legacy Systems Top 16 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 16 October 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 | -50 | 617 | £68,500 | +2.62% | 401 |
| UK excluding London | -27 | 460 | £62,500 | - | 189 |
| Work from Home | +19 | 197 | £62,500 | -1.46% | 168 |
| London | -83 | 186 | £82,500 | +10.00% | 232 |
| South West | -14 | 138 | £55,000 | -14.53% | 23 |
| North of England | -2 | 114 | £69,305 | -0.99% | 49 |
| Midlands | -46 | 69 | £60,000 | -7.69% | 25 |
| South East | -50 | 64 | £65,000 | +8.33% | 42 |
| Yorkshire | 0 | 45 | £80,000 | +23.08% | 19 |
| West Midlands | -51 | 45 | £62,500 | -3.85% | 17 |
| North West | -26 | 40 | £69,305 | -4.41% | 24 |
| East of England | -23 | 35 | £50,000 | -20.00% | 14 |
| Wales | -64 | 35 | £72,500 | +31.82% | 7 |
| North East | -44 | 29 | £58,750 | -18.97% | 6 |
| East Midlands | -31 | 24 | £60,000 | +14.29% | 8 |
| Scotland | -6 | 5 | £23,500 | -55.24% | 22 |
Legacy Systems Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Miscellaneous
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloud Native | 12.5% | 85 |
| 2 | Onboarding | 5.3% | 36 |
| 3 | Greenfield Project | 4.7% | 32 |
| 3 | Mainframe | 4.7% | 32 |
| 5 | Enterprise Software | 4.6% | 31 |
| 5 | Product Ownership | 4.6% | 31 |
| 7 | Data Centre | 4.3% | 29 |
| 8 | Management Information System | 3.2% | 22 |
| 9 | IoT | 2.8% | 19 |
| 9 | iSeries | 2.8% | 19 |
| 9 | Self-Motivation | 2.8% | 19 |
| 12 | Distributed Systems | 2.7% | 18 |
| 13 | Enterprise Cloud | 2.5% | 17 |
| 13 | Legacy Applications | 2.5% | 17 |
| 15 | Distributed Computing | 2.4% | 16 |
| 16 | AS400 | 2.2% | 15 |
| 17 | Data Structures | 2.1% | 14 |
| 18 | EPoS | 1.8% | 12 |
| 18 | Robotics | 1.8% | 12 |
| 20 | AI Agents | 1.6% | 11 |