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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 551 451
Rank change year-on-year +164 -100 +75
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 330 362 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.37% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 1.03% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 199 242 472
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,025
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £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 £82,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,375 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
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 30 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 30 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 +175 309 £57,500 - 320
UK excluding London +158 207 £55,000 +4.76% 196
Work from Home +142 108 £52,500 -4.55% 177
London +126 108 £70,000 -15.15% 133
Midlands +68 73 £45,000 -10.00% 39
West Midlands +76 65 £45,000 -10.00% 29
South East +95 49 £57,500 +9.52% 53
North of England +67 42 £50,000 -9.09% 56
North West +31 29 £50,000 -9.09% 28
South West +127 24 £92,319 +36.77% 23
Yorkshire +67 10 £65,000 +68.83% 19
East Midlands +30 8 £55,000 +46.67% 10
Scotland +101 6 £48,343 -23.84% 8
East of England +47 6 £73,000 +108.57% 12
Wales +42 5 £49,104 - 3
North East +40 3 £29,500 -46.36% 10
Northern Ireland +35 2 £30,000 -36.84% 4

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 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.82%) Confluence
5 4 (1.21%) JBoss
5 4 (1.21%) Luigi
6 3 (0.91%) Apache
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) CICS
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Moodle
7 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
7 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 33 (10.00%) NetSuite
2 16 (4.85%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.82%) Endur
5 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.21%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.61%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.61%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.73%) Azure
2 64 (19.39%) AWS
3 47 (14.24%) 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 ElastiCache
13 6 (1.82%) CloudFront
13 6 (1.82%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.82%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.12%) Firewall
2 5 (1.52%) DHCP
2 5 (1.52%) DNS
2 5 (1.52%) Network Security
2 5 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (1.52%) 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 16 (4.85%) 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 5 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.21%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
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 3 (0.91%) JMeter
8 3 (0.91%) LSMW
9 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.61%) Checkstyle
9 2 (0.61%) Gatling
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.61%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.61%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.61%) Subversion
9 2 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 142 (43.03%) Social Skills
2 110 (33.33%) Finance
3 76 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (13.64%) 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 15 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.24%) Retail
11 12 (3.64%) Legal
12 10 (3.03%) Marketing
13 8 (2.42%) Front Office
14 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.82%) Retail Banking
15 4 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.91%) Back Office
16 3 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 77 (23.33%) Developer
2 56 (16.97%) Lead
3 46 (13.94%) Consultant
4 42 (12.73%) Senior
5 37 (11.21%) Analyst
5 37 (11.21%) Technical Consultant
6 32 (9.70%) Architect
7 22 (6.67%) 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 36 (10.91%) .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%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (4.24%) Web Services
10 10 (3.03%) CSS
10 10 (3.03%) GraphQL
10 10 (3.03%) Jest
10 10 (3.03%) Node.js
11 8 (2.42%) Spring
11 8 (2.42%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.42%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 7 (2.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.73%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.79%) 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 11 (3.33%) Taxonomies
9 10 (3.03%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.12%) Clustering
11 6 (1.82%) Legacy Code
11 6 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.52%) PKI
13 4 (1.21%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.94%) Linux
2 12 (3.64%) Windows
3 8 (2.42%) Android
3 8 (2.42%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.82%) 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 94 (28.48%) Agile
4 70 (21.21%) Data Migration
5 51 (15.45%) Data Modelling
6 49 (14.85%) CI/CD
7 46 (13.94%) Software Engineering
8 45 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (12.73%) ERP
10 40 (12.12%) ETL
10 40 (12.12%) Mentoring
11 39 (11.82%) Microservices
12 36 (10.91%) Change Management
12 36 (10.91%) DevOps
12 36 (10.91%) Project Management
13 35 (10.61%) Analytics
14 31 (9.39%) Event-Driven
14 31 (9.39%) Full-Stack Development
15 30 (9.09%) Validation
16 29 (8.79%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 97 (29.39%) SQL
2 48 (14.55%) JavaScript
3 44 (13.33%) Java
4 40 (12.12%) C#
5 20 (6.06%) PL/SQL
6 16 (4.85%) Python
7 10 (3.03%) PHP
7 10 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.42%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.42%) Objective-C
8 8 (2.42%) Swift
9 6 (1.82%) VB.NET
10 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.21%) Bash
11 4 (1.21%) VBA
12 3 (0.91%) COBOL
12 3 (0.91%) Delphi
12 3 (0.91%) XAML
13 2 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (13.94%) 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
6 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.91%) ACCA
7 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.91%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.61%) MOS
8 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.30%) CISA
9 1 (0.30%) CISM
9 1 (0.30%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.88%) Data Quality
1 26 (7.88%) QA
2 12 (3.64%) GDPR
3 9 (2.73%) 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 37 (11.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.12%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.52%) BitLocker
4 5 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (1.52%) Terminal Services
4 5 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.52%) vSphere
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.33%) Terraform
3 6 (1.82%) Ansible
3 6 (1.82%) Argo
3 6 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.52%) Nagios
4 5 (1.52%) Puppet
4 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.52%) vMotion
5 3 (0.91%) Avamar
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.91%) NetBackup
5 3 (0.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.30%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.30%) Grafana
6 1 (0.30%) Istio
6 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.30%) SCCM
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.70%) Oracle
3 24 (7.27%) Google
4 20 (6.06%) Rockwell
4 20 (6.06%) Siemens
5 19 (5.76%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.24%) New Relic
7 10 (3.03%) SAP
8 9 (2.73%) VMware
9 6 (1.82%) HP
9 6 (1.82%) OpenLink
10 5 (1.52%) Citrix
10 5 (1.52%) Symantec
11 4 (1.21%) IBM
11 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.91%) Databricks
12 3 (0.91%) OpenText
13 2 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.61%) Sage
13 2 (0.61%) Siebel