Legacy Systems Jobs

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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 558 450
Rank change year-on-year +175 -108 +74
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 330 367 716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.37% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 1.05% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 198 246 485
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,875 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

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 17,692 34,920 45,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.28% 35.57% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,832 22,987 24,196
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £43,099 £38,000 £46,250
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 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

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 26 April 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 +160 308 £57,500 +2.22% 412
UK excluding London +166 206 £55,000 +4.76% 219
Work from Home +125 111 £52,500 -4.55% 208
London +137 108 £70,000 -15.15% 218
Midlands +79 73 £45,000 -10.00% 51
West Midlands +92 65 £45,000 -10.00% 29
South East +91 48 £57,500 +9.52% 59
North of England +61 42 £50,000 -9.09% 52
North West +30 29 £50,000 -9.09% 25
South West +129 24 £92,319 +36.77% 22
Yorkshire +69 10 £65,000 +68.83% 19
East Midlands +38 8 £55,000 +46.67% 22
Scotland +106 6 £48,343 -30.39% 12
East of England +52 6 £73,000 +108.57% 17
Wales +46 5 £49,104 - 5
North East +40 3 £29,500 -46.36% 9
Northern Ireland +37 2 £30,000 -36.84% 8

Legacy Systems
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 10 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.82%) Confluence
3 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.21%) JBoss
4 4 (1.21%) Luigi
5 3 (0.91%) Apache
5 3 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) CICS
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) Moodle
6 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.30%) Totara
Applications
1 19 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 32 (9.70%) NetSuite
2 15 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (2.12%) Endur
5 5 (1.52%) SAP MDG
6 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.61%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.61%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 107 (32.42%) Azure
2 63 (19.09%) AWS
3 46 (13.94%) GCP
4 37 (11.21%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.97%) SaaS
6 20 (6.06%) GitHub
7 19 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (4.55%) PowerApps
9 15 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 14 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.42%) npm
11 8 (2.42%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (2.12%) dbt
13 6 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 6 (1.82%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.82%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.82%) Firewall
2 4 (1.21%) DHCP
2 4 (1.21%) DNS
2 4 (1.21%) Network Security
2 4 (1.21%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (1.21%) SMTP
3 2 (0.61%) HTTP
3 2 (0.61%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.30%) LAN
4 1 (0.30%) OSPF
4 1 (0.30%) SSL
4 1 (0.30%) VPN
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
4 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 32 (9.70%) SQL Server
3 24 (7.27%) Power BI
4 17 (5.15%) MySQL
5 15 (4.55%) Oracle ODI
6 12 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (3.33%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.42%) Tableau
10 6 (1.82%) DocumentDB
10 6 (1.82%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.82%) Redis
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.21%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 36 (10.91%) Git
2 15 (4.55%) JIRA
3 14 (4.24%) Gradle
4 13 (3.94%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.42%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.42%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.42%) webpack
7 6 (1.82%) Maven
8 4 (1.21%) LSMW
9 3 (0.91%) JMeter
10 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.61%) Checkstyle
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.61%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.61%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.61%) Subversion
10 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (43.03%) Social Skills
2 110 (33.33%) Finance
3 75 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (13.94%) Law
5 31 (9.39%) Manufacturing
6 30 (9.09%) Banking
7 21 (6.36%) Electronics
7 21 (6.36%) Games
8 19 (5.76%) Public Sector
9 14 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (4.24%) Retail
10 13 (3.94%) Legal
11 10 (3.03%) Marketing
12 8 (2.42%) Front Office
13 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.82%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.21%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.91%) Back Office
15 3 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 76 (23.03%) Developer
2 56 (16.97%) Lead
3 48 (14.55%) Consultant
4 42 (12.73%) Senior
5 38 (11.52%) Technical Consultant
6 37 (11.21%) Analyst
7 32 (9.70%) Architect
8 21 (6.36%) Business Analyst
8 21 (6.36%) NetSuite Consultant
8 21 (6.36%) Technical Leader
9 19 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (5.45%) Senior Developer
11 17 (5.15%) .NET Developer
12 15 (4.55%) Data Consultant
12 15 (4.55%) Data Migration Consultant
12 15 (4.55%) Migration Consultant
12 15 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
12 15 (4.55%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
12 15 (4.55%) Oracle Technical Consultant
12 15 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.21%) .NET
2 31 (9.39%) RESTful
3 29 (8.79%) HTML
4 27 (8.18%) SOAP
4 27 (8.18%) XML
5 21 (6.36%) REST
5 21 (6.36%) Restlet
6 19 (5.76%) Kafka
7 17 (5.15%) React
8 16 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (4.24%) Web Services
11 10 (3.03%) CSS
11 10 (3.03%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.03%) Jest
11 10 (3.03%) Node.js
12 8 (2.42%) Spring
12 8 (2.42%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.42%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 7 (2.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.73%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.48%) Data Structures
3 24 (7.27%) IoT
4 20 (6.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 20 (6.06%) Mobile Games
4 20 (6.06%) SCADA
5 16 (4.85%) Mobile App
6 14 (4.24%) Distributed Applications
6 14 (4.24%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
8 10 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 10 (3.03%) Taxonomies
9 6 (1.82%) Clustering
9 6 (1.82%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.52%) Replication
10 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.64%) Linux
2 11 (3.33%) Windows
3 8 (2.42%) Android
3 8 (2.42%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.61%) zOS
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (41.21%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (37.58%) Migration
3 93 (28.18%) Agile
4 70 (21.21%) Data Migration
5 52 (15.76%) Data Modelling
6 49 (14.85%) CI/CD
7 46 (13.94%) Software Engineering
8 44 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (12.73%) ERP
10 40 (12.12%) Mentoring
11 39 (11.82%) ETL
11 39 (11.82%) Microservices
12 36 (10.91%) DevOps
12 36 (10.91%) Project Management
13 35 (10.61%) Analytics
13 35 (10.61%) Change Management
14 31 (9.39%) Event-Driven
14 31 (9.39%) Full-Stack Development
15 29 (8.79%) Validation
16 28 (8.48%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 99 (30.00%) SQL
2 48 (14.55%) JavaScript
3 45 (13.64%) Java
4 41 (12.42%) C#
5 19 (5.76%) PL/SQL
6 16 (4.85%) Python
7 10 (3.03%) PHP
7 10 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.73%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.42%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.42%) Objective-C
9 8 (2.42%) Swift
10 6 (1.82%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.21%) Bash
12 4 (1.21%) VBA
13 3 (0.91%) COBOL
13 3 (0.91%) Delphi
13 3 (0.91%) XAML
14 2 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (14.24%) Degree
2 22 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.73%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.91%) ACCA
8 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.91%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.61%) MOS
9 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.30%) CISA
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.88%) Data Quality
1 26 (7.88%) QA
2 12 (3.64%) GDPR
3 10 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.30%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (10.91%) Docker
2 7 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.21%) BitLocker
4 4 (1.21%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (1.21%) Terminal Services
4 4 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.21%) vSphere
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.33%) Terraform
3 6 (1.82%) Argo
3 6 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.52%) Ansible
5 4 (1.21%) Nagios
5 4 (1.21%) Puppet
5 4 (1.21%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.21%) vMotion
6 3 (0.91%) Avamar
6 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.91%) NetBackup
6 3 (0.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.30%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Istio
7 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.30%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.39%) Oracle
3 23 (6.97%) Google
4 20 (6.06%) Rockwell
4 20 (6.06%) Siemens
5 19 (5.76%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.24%) New Relic
7 11 (3.33%) SAP
8 8 (2.42%) VMware
9 7 (2.12%) OpenLink
10 5 (1.52%) HP
11 4 (1.21%) Citrix
11 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.21%) Symantec
12 3 (0.91%) Databricks
12 3 (0.91%) IBM
12 3 (0.91%) OpenText
12 3 (0.91%) Sage
13 2 (0.61%) Cisco
13 2 (0.61%) Siebel