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 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 350 562
Rank change year-on-year +35 +212 -93
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 516 329 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.78% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 1.95% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 339 197 243
10th Percentile £45,883 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £81,125 £80,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -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 25,325 16,897 34,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.28% 39.93% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,080 9,221 22,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 28 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Top 18 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 28 April 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 +43 466 £65,000 +13.04% 188
UK excluding London +18 332 £60,000 +9.09% 137
Work from Home +50 171 £63,076 +20.14% 100
London +17 130 £75,000 +7.14% 80
North of England -14 84 £63,076 +26.15% 32
South West +7 81 £65,000 -27.78% 24
Midlands -39 70 £57,500 +27.78% 22
South East -37 52 £57,303 -0.34% 36
West Midlands -41 44 £55,100 +22.44% 17
Yorkshire -38 33 £63,076 -2.96% 7
North East -17 27 £63,076 +113.82% 7
East Midlands -26 26 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North West -32 24 £63,076 +26.15% 18
East of England -7 23 £50,000 -31.51% 15
Wales -16 18 £55,200 +12.41% 8
Northern Ireland -36 3 - - 3
Scotland -24 2 £46,750 -3.30% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 58 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.33%) Appian
3 11 (2.13%) Confluence
3 11 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.94%) Apache
5 9 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.55%) IIS
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.39%) CMS
7 2 (0.39%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.39%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.19%) CICS
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.39%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.19%) Sketch
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.36%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.97%) SAP FSCM
4 5 (0.97%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.78%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.78%) SAP MDG-BP
6 3 (0.58%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.58%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.19%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 186 (36.05%) Azure
2 75 (14.53%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (12.79%) AWS
4 64 (12.40%) Power Platform
5 28 (5.43%) PowerApps
6 24 (4.65%) GCP
7 23 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.07%) GitHub
8 21 (4.07%) Power Automate
8 21 (4.07%) SaaS
9 19 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (2.52%) Snowflake
12 12 (2.33%) Anthropic Claude
12 12 (2.33%) Azure AI
13 11 (2.13%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.13%) PaaS
14 10 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.24%) DNS
2 57 (11.05%) DHCP
3 10 (1.94%) Network Security
4 7 (1.36%) Firewall
5 5 (0.97%) WAN
6 3 (0.58%) HTTP
6 3 (0.58%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.39%) DMZ
7 2 (0.39%) Modbus
7 2 (0.39%) SSL
7 2 (0.39%) VPN
8 1 (0.19%) Broadband
8 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.19%) Internet
8 1 (0.19%) LAN
8 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 58 (11.24%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (7.17%) Power BI
4 18 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (2.33%) Pinecone
7 11 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.55%) DB2
10 8 (1.55%) Metadata
11 7 (1.36%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.36%) MySQL
11 7 (1.36%) SAP HANA
12 6 (1.16%) Tableau
13 4 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.78%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 29 (5.62%) Git
2 20 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.10%) JIRA
4 14 (2.71%) GitLab
5 12 (2.33%) JUnit
5 12 (2.33%) MLflow
6 10 (1.94%) Selenium
7 9 (1.74%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.16%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.97%) Maven
10 3 (0.58%) JMeter
10 3 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.58%) Storybook
10 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.39%) Mockito
11 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 178 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 137 (26.55%) Finance
3 102 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (5.62%) Retail
7 23 (4.46%) Manufacturing
8 21 (4.07%) Banking
9 18 (3.49%) Law
10 14 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.71%) Legal
11 13 (2.52%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.36%) Cyber-Physical System
13 6 (1.16%) Billing
13 6 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.78%) Automotive
14 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Games
14 4 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 108 (20.93%) Developer
2 98 (18.99%) Senior
3 72 (13.95%) Architect
4 58 (11.24%) Systems Engineer
5 39 (7.56%) Analyst
6 34 (6.59%) Lead
7 31 (6.01%) Project Manager
8 30 (5.81%) Software Engineer
9 29 (5.62%) Business Analyst
10 27 (5.23%) Senior Manager
11 25 (4.84%) Software Developer
12 22 (4.26%) Senior Developer
13 20 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (3.49%) Consultant
14 18 (3.49%) Senior Project Manager
15 17 (3.29%) Digital Project Manager
15 17 (3.29%) Senior Digital Project Manager
16 16 (3.10%) Enterprise Architect
17 15 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
18 14 (2.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.69%) .NET
2 40 (7.75%) React
3 32 (6.20%) RESTful
4 30 (5.81%) REST
5 23 (4.46%) CSS
6 22 (4.26%) Web Services
7 21 (4.07%) Flask
7 21 (4.07%) HTML
8 20 (3.88%) Django
8 20 (3.88%) Node.js
8 20 (3.88%) pytest
8 20 (3.88%) Spring
9 19 (3.68%) Pandas
9 19 (3.68%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.91%) Laravel
10 15 (2.91%) OAuth
11 14 (2.71%) FastAPI
11 14 (2.71%) OpenAPI
11 14 (2.71%) Swagger
12 13 (2.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.43%) Low-Code
3 27 (5.23%) Legacy Applications
4 25 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.74%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.55%) NHS
11 7 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.36%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.15%) Linux
2 67 (12.98%) Windows
3 58 (11.24%) Windows Server
4 56 (10.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.58%) Android
5 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.58%) VMS
6 2 (0.39%) CentOS
6 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (42.05%) Migration
2 130 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (19.57%) Agile
4 95 (18.41%) DevOps
5 91 (17.64%) CI/CD
6 86 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 75 (14.53%) Roadmaps
8 72 (13.95%) Customer Experience
9 69 (13.37%) Mentoring
10 63 (12.21%) AI
11 60 (11.63%) Analytics
11 60 (11.63%) Kalman Filter
11 60 (11.63%) Microservices
12 59 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (11.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 56 (10.85%) Customer Service
14 56 (10.85%) Email Filtering
14 56 (10.85%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 56 (10.85%) Web Filtering
15 55 (10.66%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (17.25%) SQL
2 76 (14.73%) Python
3 54 (10.47%) JavaScript
4 45 (8.72%) C#
5 37 (7.17%) Java
6 27 (5.23%) PHP
7 18 (3.49%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.29%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.71%) VBA
10 10 (1.94%) Delphi
11 9 (1.74%) Bash
12 8 (1.55%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.36%) ABAP
14 4 (0.78%) Bicep
14 4 (0.78%) C++
14 4 (0.78%) Go
14 4 (0.78%) Perl
14 4 (0.78%) RPG
14 4 (0.78%) Scala
15 3 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 100 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 92 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.40%) Degree
4 14 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (0.58%) HND
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.39%) PhD
10 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.39%) PMP
11 1 (0.19%) ACCA
11 1 (0.19%) CIMA
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) CRISC
11 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.63%) PCI DSS
2 56 (10.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 48 (9.30%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.52%) GDPR
5 11 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.55%) QA
7 3 (0.58%) COBIT
7 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.58%) SLA
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) GxP
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (11.82%) Active Directory
2 58 (11.24%) Hyper-V
3 56 (10.85%) Terminal Server
4 53 (10.27%) Docker
5 3 (0.58%) Firmware
6 2 (0.39%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.20%) Terraform
3 11 (2.13%) Grafana
4 5 (0.97%) Ansible
5 3 (0.58%) Kibana
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 63 (12.21%) Splunk
3 59 (11.43%) Veeam
3 59 (11.43%) VMware
4 56 (10.85%) Brocade
4 56 (10.85%) Nimble Storage
4 56 (10.85%) SolarWinds
4 56 (10.85%) Tanium
5 28 (5.43%) Oracle
6 27 (5.23%) SAP
7 13 (2.52%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.33%) Automation Anywhere
8 12 (2.33%) UiPath
9 11 (2.13%) HubSpot
10 9 (1.74%) Google
10 9 (1.74%) Sage
11 8 (1.55%) Databricks
12 7 (1.36%) IBM
13 6 (1.16%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.97%) Guidewire