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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 368 583
Rank change year-on-year +83 +215 -125
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 631 326 349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.73% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.66% 1.70% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 417 208 251
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £81,000 £80,313 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% -4.55%

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 23,695 19,180 36,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.34% 43.03% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15,086 9,070 23,523
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,750 £28,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,524
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.12% - -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 17 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 17 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 +81 579 £65,000 - 331
UK excluding London +84 442 £62,500 +8.70% 330
Work from Home +94 188 £63,076 +5.13% 272
London +3 144 £80,000 +3.23% 90
North of England +62 137 £65,000 - 76
South West +43 126 £56,250 -27.42% 40
Midlands -15 71 £60,000 +26.32% 35
Yorkshire -7 49 £65,000 - 23
South East -25 49 £57,303 -0.34% 75
North West +18 47 £69,305 -4.07% 39
West Midlands -28 45 £57,973 +18.92% 11
North East - 41 £63,076 - 16
East of England +13 32 £50,000 -31.51% 38
East Midlands -13 26 £65,000 +44.44% 24
Wales - 24 £72,500 - 19
Northern Ireland -29 3 - - 25
Scotland -1 2 £48,500 -2.36% 29

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 89 (14.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.01%) Confluence
3 16 (2.54%) SharePoint Server
4 15 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.11%) Appian
6 5 (0.79%) WordPress
7 4 (0.63%) Apache
7 4 (0.63%) IIS
8 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.48%) Mule
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.32%) CMS
9 2 (0.32%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) CICS
10 1 (0.16%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.27%) SAP MDG
3 7 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.79%) SAP FSCM
4 5 (0.79%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.48%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.48%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.16%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 223 (35.34%) Azure
2 102 (16.16%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (12.04%) AWS
4 56 (8.87%) Power Platform
5 34 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.28%) PowerApps
7 26 (4.12%) GCP
8 24 (3.80%) Serverless
9 23 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (3.33%) SaaS
11 17 (2.69%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (2.22%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.22%) GitHub
13 13 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (2.06%) PaaS
13 13 (2.06%) Snowflake
14 12 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (14.10%) DNS
2 87 (13.79%) DHCP
3 9 (1.43%) Firewall
4 8 (1.27%) Network Security
4 8 (1.27%) WAN
5 5 (0.79%) VPN
6 4 (0.63%) SSL
7 3 (0.48%) HTTP
8 2 (0.32%) LAN
8 2 (0.32%) SAN
8 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.32%) Wireless
9 1 (0.16%) Broadband
9 1 (0.16%) Internet
9 1 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (13.31%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (7.45%) SQL Server
3 33 (5.23%) Power BI
4 19 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.22%) Db2
6 13 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.27%) MySQL
9 7 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.11%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.11%) Pinecone
9 7 (1.11%) SAP HANA
10 6 (0.95%) Tableau
11 5 (0.79%) DTS
11 5 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.79%) SAP BW
11 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (5.71%) Git
2 21 (3.33%) JIRA
3 14 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.58%) JUnit
5 9 (1.43%) MLflow
6 8 (1.27%) JMeter
7 7 (1.11%) GitLab
8 6 (0.95%) Mockito
9 5 (0.79%) Selenium
10 4 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.63%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.48%) Storybook
12 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.32%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.32%) Maven
12 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.16%) MSI
General
1 184 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 144 (22.82%) Finance
3 135 (21.39%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.39%) Manufacturing
6 33 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (4.75%) Retail
8 21 (3.33%) Law
9 20 (3.17%) Banking
9 20 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (2.38%) Legal
11 14 (2.22%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.27%) Games
13 8 (1.27%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.11%) Cyber-Physical System
15 6 (0.95%) Billing
15 6 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.79%) Back Office
16 5 (0.79%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 139 (22.03%) Senior
2 115 (18.23%) Developer
3 89 (14.10%) Architect
4 87 (13.79%) Systems Engineer
5 78 (12.36%) Software Engineer
6 48 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (6.81%) Lead
8 38 (6.02%) Analyst
9 35 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
10 31 (4.91%) Project Manager
11 29 (4.60%) Senior Manager
12 23 (3.65%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.33%) Consultant
13 21 (3.33%) Software Developer
14 18 (2.85%) Senior Developer
14 18 (2.85%) Senior Project Manager
15 17 (2.69%) Digital Project Manager
15 17 (2.69%) Senior Digital Project Manager
16 16 (2.54%) Senior Architect
17 15 (2.38%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.72%) .NET
2 49 (7.77%) React
3 31 (4.91%) Node.js
4 30 (4.75%) REST
5 29 (4.60%) HTML
5 29 (4.60%) RESTful
6 27 (4.28%) CSS
7 26 (4.12%) Spring
8 25 (3.96%) Spring Boot
9 21 (3.33%) Vue
10 19 (3.01%) WPF
11 18 (2.85%) Middleware
11 18 (2.85%) Web Services
12 16 (2.54%) Laravel
13 14 (2.22%) Kafka
14 13 (2.06%) XML
15 11 (1.74%) .NET Framework
15 11 (1.74%) OAuth
16 10 (1.58%) .NET Core
16 10 (1.58%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.07%) Legacy Applications
3 27 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (3.49%) Low-Code
6 20 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.74%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.58%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.43%) AS400
10 9 (1.43%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.43%) IoT
10 9 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.43%) Operational Technology
10 9 (1.43%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.27%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 98 (15.53%) Windows
2 95 (15.06%) Linux
3 87 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 80 (12.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.48%) Android
5 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
7 1 (0.16%) CentOS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (38.35%) Migration
2 164 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (21.24%) Agile
4 116 (18.38%) CI/CD
5 101 (16.01%) Customer Experience
6 98 (15.53%) Software Engineering
7 97 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 91 (14.42%) Mentoring
9 89 (14.10%) DevOps
10 86 (13.63%) Kalman Filter
11 82 (13.00%) Web Filtering
12 81 (12.84%) Customer Service
12 81 (12.84%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 80 (12.68%) AI
13 80 (12.68%) Email Filtering
13 80 (12.68%) Roadmaps
13 80 (12.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 76 (12.04%) Microservices
15 63 (9.98%) Analytics
16 58 (9.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 93 (14.74%) SQL
2 72 (11.41%) Python
3 71 (11.25%) C#
3 71 (11.25%) JavaScript
4 51 (8.08%) Java
5 29 (4.60%) PHP
6 28 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.69%) C++
7 17 (2.69%) PowerShell
8 16 (2.54%) VBA
9 12 (1.90%) RPG
10 8 (1.27%) ABAP
10 8 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.95%) Bash
11 6 (0.95%) Ruby
12 5 (0.79%) RPG III
13 4 (0.63%) C
13 4 (0.63%) Perl
14 3 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (21.55%) Security Cleared
2 125 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.28%) Degree
4 8 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.27%) DBS Check
4 8 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.48%) CISM
6 3 (0.48%) CISSP
6 3 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.32%) PMP
8 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.16%) CIMA
8 1 (0.16%) CRISC
8 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (13.31%) PCI DSS
2 82 (13.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 43 (6.81%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.22%) GDPR
6 10 (1.58%) QA
7 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.79%) WCAG
8 4 (0.63%) SLA
9 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.48%) NCSC
9 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.32%) GRC
10 2 (0.32%) NIST
10 2 (0.32%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) GxP
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.16%) PERC
System Software
1 96 (15.21%) Active Directory
2 83 (13.15%) Hyper-V
3 80 (12.68%) Terminal Server
4 45 (7.13%) Docker
5 10 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (1.11%) Firmware
6 7 (1.11%) vSphere
7 2 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.16%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.39%) Terraform
3 7 (1.11%) Kibana
4 6 (0.95%) Ansible
5 4 (0.63%) SCCM
6 3 (0.48%) CloudHub
6 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.32%) Grafana
7 2 (0.32%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.16%) Podman
8 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 172 (27.26%) Microsoft
2 91 (14.42%) VMware
3 89 (14.10%) Splunk
4 84 (13.31%) Veeam
5 80 (12.68%) Brocade
5 80 (12.68%) Nimble Storage
5 80 (12.68%) SolarWinds
5 80 (12.68%) Tanium
6 36 (5.71%) SAP
7 15 (2.38%) Databricks
7 15 (2.38%) IBM
8 14 (2.22%) Oracle
9 10 (1.58%) Guidewire
10 9 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.27%) Google
11 8 (1.27%) Sage
12 7 (1.11%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (1.11%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.11%) UiPath