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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 498 428
Rank change year-on-year +89 -70 +64
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 347 450 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.44% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 1.29% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 242 258 427
10th Percentile £42,750 £36,250 £41,150
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% -3.77%

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 21,933 34,751 35,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.59% 33.61% 41.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,543 21,906 21,577
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £35,427
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -14.10% +2.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 14 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Top 16 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 14 July 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 +100 324 £65,000 +15.56% 452
UK excluding London +72 225 £57,500 +9.52% 349
London +87 101 £75,000 -9.09% 174
Work from Home +36 99 £60,000 +14.29% 227
Midlands +90 69 £55,000 +10.00% 63
South East +64 66 £57,500 +9.52% 98
West Midlands +79 56 £55,000 +10.00% 37
North of England +5 44 £67,500 +22.73% 83
North West -3 31 £72,500 +31.82% 44
South West +102 23 £76,250 +32.61% 32
Yorkshire +37 13 £65,000 +20.93% 27
East Midlands +24 13 £46,250 +23.33% 23
Scotland +73 11 £49,672 -32.65% 35
East of England +15 8 £63,908 +65.35% 29
Northern Ireland +31 2 £30,000 -65.71% 7
Wales +21 2 £55,000 -16.92% 11

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 13 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.46%) Apache
2 12 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.15%) Apache Synapse
5 4 (1.15%) Confluence
5 4 (1.15%) JBoss
6 2 (0.58%) IIS
6 2 (0.58%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.29%) CICS
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 17 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (6.63%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (3.75%) NetSuite
3 7 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.86%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.86%) Shopify
5 2 (0.58%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.58%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.58%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.29%) Endur
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 127 (36.60%) Azure
2 85 (24.50%) AWS
3 38 (10.95%) Power Platform
4 36 (10.37%) GCP
5 32 (9.22%) SaaS
6 17 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.32%) Snowflake
9 13 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (3.75%) Serverless
10 12 (3.46%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.59%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (2.31%) GitHub
13 8 (2.31%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.31%) PaaS
14 7 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.88%) Firewall
2 7 (2.02%) DHCP
2 7 (2.02%) DNS
2 7 (2.02%) Network Security
3 6 (1.73%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (1.73%) SMTP
4 4 (1.15%) VPN
5 3 (0.86%) WAN
6 2 (0.58%) HTTP
6 2 (0.58%) LAN
6 2 (0.58%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.29%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.29%) Intranet
7 1 (0.29%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.29%) OSPF
7 1 (0.29%) SAN
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.97%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 25 (7.20%) Power BI
4 22 (6.34%) Oracle ODI
5 12 (3.46%) MySQL
5 12 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (3.17%) Big Data
6 11 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.31%) Tableau
9 7 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.02%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.73%) DocumentDB
10 6 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.44%) Apache Hive
11 5 (1.44%) HBase
11 5 (1.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (8.36%) Git
2 12 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.88%) JIRA
4 7 (2.02%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.73%) Gradle
5 6 (1.73%) Maven
5 6 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.73%) webpack
6 4 (1.15%) PHPUnit
6 4 (1.15%) Subversion
7 3 (0.86%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.86%) GitLab
7 3 (0.86%) JMeter
7 3 (0.86%) Postman
8 2 (0.58%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.58%) Gatling
8 2 (0.58%) JUnit
8 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 119 (34.29%) Finance
2 106 (30.55%) Social Skills
3 78 (22.48%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.78%) Banking
4 27 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.49%) Law
6 21 (6.05%) Marketing
7 15 (4.32%) Manufacturing
7 15 (4.32%) Retail
8 14 (4.03%) Legal
9 12 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.02%) Local Government
12 6 (1.73%) Back Office
12 6 (1.73%) Front Office
12 6 (1.73%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.44%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.15%) Agriculture
14 4 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 97 (27.95%) Developer
2 51 (14.70%) Lead
3 45 (12.97%) Architect
4 35 (10.09%) Senior
5 27 (7.78%) Analyst
6 24 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (6.34%) Consultant
8 19 (5.48%) Java Developer
9 18 (5.19%) Business Analyst
10 17 (4.90%) Lead Developer
11 16 (4.61%) .NET Developer
11 16 (4.61%) Data Consultant
11 16 (4.61%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.61%) Data Migration Consultant
11 16 (4.61%) Migration Consultant
12 15 (4.32%) Oracle Consultant
12 15 (4.32%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
12 15 (4.32%) Oracle Technical Consultant
12 15 (4.32%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.32%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (12.39%) .NET
2 32 (9.22%) REST
2 32 (9.22%) RESTful
3 24 (6.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (4.61%) Kafka
4 16 (4.61%) React
4 16 (4.61%) Spring
5 15 (4.32%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.75%) HTML
6 13 (3.75%) Laravel
7 12 (3.46%) CSS
8 11 (3.17%) Web Services
9 10 (2.88%) Blazor
9 10 (2.88%) Jest
10 9 (2.59%) JPA
11 8 (2.31%) Vue
12 7 (2.02%) OAuth
12 7 (2.02%) XML
13 6 (1.73%) .NET Framework
13 6 (1.73%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.66%) Data Structures
3 15 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.03%) Legacy Applications
5 13 (3.75%) Clustering
6 12 (3.46%) Taxonomies
7 11 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
7 11 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.17%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.59%) PKI
9 8 (2.31%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.02%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.44%) IoT
12 5 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.90%) Windows
2 14 (4.03%) Linux
3 9 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.44%) Unix
5 3 (0.86%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.86%) zOS
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (29.68%) Migration
2 102 (29.39%) Agile
3 83 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (17.87%) Data Migration
5 56 (16.14%) ETL
6 55 (15.85%) CI/CD
6 55 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (14.70%) DevOps
8 48 (13.83%) Microservices
9 46 (13.26%) Roadmaps
10 45 (12.97%) ERP
11 39 (11.24%) CRM
12 38 (10.95%) Project Management
12 38 (10.95%) SDLC
13 36 (10.37%) Validation
14 35 (10.09%) Decision-Making
15 33 (9.51%) Software Engineering
16 32 (9.22%) Artificial Intelligence
16 32 (9.22%) Change Management
16 32 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 100 (28.82%) SQL
2 43 (12.39%) C#
3 41 (11.82%) Java
4 36 (10.37%) Python
5 30 (8.65%) PL/SQL
6 28 (8.07%) JavaScript
7 22 (6.34%) PHP
8 13 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.02%) VBA
10 6 (1.73%) R
11 4 (1.15%) COBOL
11 4 (1.15%) Julia
12 3 (0.86%) Bash
12 3 (0.86%) Delphi
12 3 (0.86%) JCL
12 3 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.86%) XAML
13 2 (0.58%) Bicep
13 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 31 (8.93%) Degree
2 20 (5.76%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.75%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.31%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.31%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.02%) ACCA
6 6 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.58%) CIMA
9 2 (0.58%) CISA
9 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.58%) MOS
10 1 (0.29%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.48%) QA
2 13 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.59%) GDPR
4 8 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.15%) SLA
6 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.86%) NCSC
7 2 (0.58%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.29%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) NIST
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (12.39%) Docker
2 11 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.88%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.31%) vSphere
5 7 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.73%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.73%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (1.73%) Terminal Services
7 5 (1.44%) HDFS
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.90%) Terraform
3 8 (2.31%) Ansible
4 6 (1.73%) Nagios
4 6 (1.73%) Puppet
4 6 (1.73%) vCenter Server
4 6 (1.73%) vMotion
5 3 (0.86%) Avamar
5 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.86%) NetBackup
5 3 (0.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.29%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.29%) Grafana
6 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.29%) Kibana
6 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (22.19%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.82%) Oracle
3 22 (6.34%) Salesforce
4 16 (4.61%) Databricks
4 16 (4.61%) Google
5 14 (4.03%) SAP
6 13 (3.75%) VMware
7 12 (3.46%) IBM
8 8 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.02%) HP
10 6 (1.73%) Citrix
10 6 (1.73%) Symantec
11 5 (1.44%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.15%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.15%) Cisco
13 3 (0.86%) Anaplan
13 3 (0.86%) Apple
13 3 (0.86%) Informatica
13 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.86%) Splunk