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 29 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 388 574
Rank change year-on-year +106 +186 -114
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 656 325 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.70% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 1.67% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 444 220 262
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £36,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £100,000 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £58,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% +11.90% -6.67%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,697 19,421 35,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.74% 42.00% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 15,793 9,391 23,094
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +4.55% -14.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +93 599 £65,000 - 176
UK excluding London +86 452 £62,500 +6.38% 122
Work from Home +106 204 £63,076 +2.98% 68
London +42 157 £80,000 +6.67% 83
North of England +37 139 £65,000 -5.45% 27
South West +27 125 £55,000 -27.87% 21
Midlands -20 74 £62,500 +21.95% 17
Yorkshire +10 52 £65,000 - 11
North West +20 50 £69,305 -4.41% 15
South East -38 50 £57,303 -0.34% 42
West Midlands -23 46 £58,446 +11.33% 7
North East - 37 £63,076 - 3
East of England +13 34 £50,000 -26.96% 10
East Midlands 0 28 £67,500 +35.00% 10
Wales -14 27 £72,500 +31.82% 3
Northern Ireland -30 3 - - 3
Scotland +10 2 £48,500 -2.36% 2

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 82 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.66%) Confluence
3 16 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.44%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (0.91%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.91%) Mule
5 5 (0.76%) Appian
5 5 (0.76%) WordPress
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.61%) IIS
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) CICS
9 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (2.29%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.22%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.76%) SAP FSCM
4 5 (0.76%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.46%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.46%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.15%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.15%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.15%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 227 (34.60%) Azure
2 96 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 93 (14.18%) AWS
4 59 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 40 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (4.42%) PowerApps
7 28 (4.27%) GCP
7 28 (4.27%) Serverless
8 26 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (3.66%) SaaS
10 18 (2.74%) GitHub
11 17 (2.59%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (2.44%) Entra ID
13 15 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (1.98%) PaaS
15 12 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (1.83%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 83 (12.65%) DNS
2 81 (12.35%) DHCP
3 9 (1.37%) Firewall
4 8 (1.22%) Network Security
4 8 (1.22%) WAN
5 7 (1.07%) SSL
6 5 (0.76%) VPN
7 3 (0.46%) HTTP
8 2 (0.30%) LAN
8 2 (0.30%) SAN
8 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.30%) Wireless
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) DMARC
9 1 (0.15%) Internet
9 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.59%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 35 (5.34%) Power BI
4 22 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.29%) Db2
7 12 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.22%) MySQL
9 8 (1.22%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.07%) DTS
10 7 (1.07%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.76%) Redis
11 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (5.79%) Git
2 24 (3.66%) JIRA
3 14 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.83%) JUnit
5 8 (1.22%) GitLab
6 7 (1.07%) JMeter
6 7 (1.07%) MLflow
6 7 (1.07%) Selenium
7 6 (0.91%) Mockito
8 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.30%) Newman
10 2 (0.30%) NUnit
10 2 (0.30%) Postman
10 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.30%) TestRail
10 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 178 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 149 (22.71%) Finance
3 131 (19.97%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 40 (6.10%) Manufacturing
6 33 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (5.03%) Retail
7 24 (3.66%) Law
8 21 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.90%) Banking
10 15 (2.29%) Legal
11 14 (2.13%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.22%) Games
14 7 (1.07%) Cyber-Physical System
14 7 (1.07%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.91%) Billing
15 6 (0.91%) Electronics
15 6 (0.91%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.76%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 143 (21.80%) Senior
2 115 (17.53%) Developer
3 94 (14.33%) Architect
4 82 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 80 (12.20%) Systems Engineer
6 52 (7.93%) Lead
7 49 (7.47%) Senior Software Engineer
8 40 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (5.64%) Analyst
10 32 (4.88%) Consultant
11 31 (4.73%) Project Manager
12 30 (4.57%) Senior Manager
13 23 (3.51%) Business Analyst
13 23 (3.51%) Software Developer
14 18 (2.74%) Senior Project Manager
15 17 (2.59%) Digital Project Manager
15 17 (2.59%) Senior Developer
15 17 (2.59%) Senior Digital Project Manager
16 16 (2.44%) Senior Architect
17 14 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.15%) .NET
2 50 (7.62%) React
3 39 (5.95%) Node.js
4 33 (5.03%) Spring
4 33 (5.03%) Spring Boot
5 30 (4.57%) REST
6 29 (4.42%) HTML
7 27 (4.12%) CSS
8 26 (3.96%) RESTful
9 23 (3.51%) Vue
10 22 (3.35%) Middleware
10 22 (3.35%) WPF
11 18 (2.74%) Kafka
12 15 (2.29%) Web Services
13 14 (2.13%) Laravel
14 13 (1.98%) .NET Framework
14 13 (1.98%) OAuth
14 13 (1.98%) XML
15 12 (1.83%) .NET Core
16 11 (1.68%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.88%) Legacy Applications
3 29 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.05%) Low-Code
6 20 (3.05%) Mainframe
7 15 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.83%) IoT
9 11 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.52%) iSeries
10 10 (1.52%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.37%) AS400
11 9 (1.37%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.37%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 94 (14.33%) Windows
2 86 (13.11%) Linux
3 81 (12.35%) Windows Server
4 72 (10.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.46%) Android
5 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) AIX
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (38.11%) Migration
2 164 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 146 (22.26%) Agile
4 129 (19.66%) CI/CD
5 105 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 104 (15.85%) Software Engineering
7 102 (15.55%) Mentoring
8 94 (14.33%) DevOps
9 93 (14.18%) Customer Experience
10 88 (13.41%) AI
11 85 (12.96%) Microservices
11 85 (12.96%) Roadmaps
12 78 (11.89%) Kalman Filter
13 74 (11.28%) Web Filtering
14 73 (11.13%) Customer Service
14 73 (11.13%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 72 (10.98%) Email Filtering
15 72 (10.98%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 66 (10.06%) Analytics
17 61 (9.30%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 93 (14.18%) SQL
2 76 (11.59%) C#
3 71 (10.82%) JavaScript
4 69 (10.52%) Python
5 57 (8.69%) Java
6 31 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.12%) PHP
8 18 (2.74%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.59%) C++
10 16 (2.44%) VBA
11 14 (2.13%) RPG
12 11 (1.68%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.37%) Ruby
14 8 (1.22%) ABAP
14 8 (1.22%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.91%) Bash
15 6 (0.91%) DataWeave
16 5 (0.76%) C
16 5 (0.76%) RPG III
17 4 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 137 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 119 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.03%) Degree
4 11 (1.68%) DBS Check
5 9 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.61%) CISM
8 4 (0.61%) CISSP
9 3 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.15%) CRISC
11 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
1 75 (11.43%) PCI DSS
2 42 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.13%) GDPR
5 10 (1.52%) QA
6 8 (1.22%) WCAG
7 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.61%) SLA
9 3 (0.46%) GRC
9 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
9 3 (0.46%) NIST
9 3 (0.46%) PMO
9 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) PERC
System Software
1 91 (13.87%) Active Directory
2 76 (11.59%) Hyper-V
3 72 (10.98%) Terminal Server
4 45 (6.86%) Docker
5 12 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (1.22%) Firmware
6 8 (1.22%) vSphere
7 2 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.15%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (5.95%) Terraform
2 36 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.07%) Ansible
3 7 (1.07%) Puppet
4 6 (0.91%) CloudHub
4 6 (0.91%) Kibana
4 6 (0.91%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.76%) SCCM
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.30%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.15%) Grafana
8 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.15%) Podman
8 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 171 (26.07%) Microsoft
2 85 (12.96%) VMware
3 80 (12.20%) Splunk
4 76 (11.59%) Veeam
5 72 (10.98%) Brocade
5 72 (10.98%) Nimble Storage
5 72 (10.98%) SolarWinds
5 72 (10.98%) Tanium
6 42 (6.40%) SAP
7 17 (2.59%) IBM
8 14 (2.13%) Oracle
9 13 (1.98%) Databricks
10 12 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.68%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.52%) Google
13 9 (1.37%) Guidewire
13 9 (1.37%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.22%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.22%) Sage
15 7 (1.07%) Dynatrace