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 10 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 338 546
Rank change year-on-year +48 +208 -130
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 703 414 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.83% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.54% 2.00% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 457 267 205
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £39,170
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,921 £65,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% +2.82% -2.74%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%

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 27,677 20,690 27,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.14% 41.44% 33.12%
Number of salaries quoted 17,397 10,400 16,305
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,980 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.75% -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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +37 635 £67,500 +3.85% 323
UK excluding London +49 478 £60,000 - 155
Work from Home +65 204 £62,500 +4.17% 120
London -24 182 £81,750 +9.00% 194
South West +48 149 £55,000 -21.43% 19
North of England +21 117 £69,305 -0.99% 36
Midlands -32 73 £62,500 +13.64% 26
South East -45 57 £57,303 -0.34% 41
West Midlands -37 48 £60,000 +9.09% 13
North West +1 46 £69,305 -2.73% 24
Yorkshire -6 46 £80,000 +23.08% 12
East of England -1 39 £50,000 -20.00% 16
Wales -22 36 £72,500 +31.82% 2
East Midlands -11 25 £67,500 +42.11% 13
North East -33 25 £52,500 -27.59% 1
Scotland 0 5 £23,500 -53.47% 13
Northern Ireland -70 2 - - 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 90 (12.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (4.41%) Confluence
3 16 (2.28%) SharePoint Server
4 13 (1.85%) Anypoint
4 13 (1.85%) Mule
5 11 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.85%) Apache
7 5 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.71%) WordPress
8 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (2.13%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.14%) Simulink
6 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.00%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.71%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (0.71%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.57%) SAP FSCM
5 4 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.43%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.28%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.14%) Misys Equation
8 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 256 (36.42%) Azure
2 132 (18.78%) AWS
3 104 (14.79%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (5.83%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.26%) Serverless
7 29 (4.13%) SaaS
8 27 (3.84%) Dynamics 365
8 27 (3.84%) GCP
9 26 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (3.41%) GitHub
11 20 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.99%) Entra ID
13 14 (1.99%) Snowflake
14 13 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (1.85%) Lucidchart
15 12 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (1.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (13.51%) DNS
2 88 (12.52%) DHCP
3 15 (2.13%) SSL
4 14 (1.99%) Firewall
5 12 (1.71%) Network Security
6 11 (1.56%) WAN
7 10 (1.42%) VPN
8 6 (0.85%) HTTP
8 6 (0.85%) LAN
8 6 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.71%) SAN
9 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.43%) NAS
10 3 (0.43%) Wireless
11 2 (0.28%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.28%) VoIP
12 1 (0.14%) Internet
12 1 (0.14%) PBX
12 1 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.81%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (6.26%) SQL Server
3 34 (4.84%) Power BI
4 26 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.70%) Db2
6 14 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.71%) MySQL
8 11 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.42%) DTS
10 8 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.14%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.00%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.85%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.71%) Metadata
13 5 (0.71%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.71%) Redis
13 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (6.12%) Git
2 40 (5.69%) JIRA
3 18 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.42%) Selenium
5 15 (2.13%) JUnit
6 12 (1.71%) GitLab
6 12 (1.71%) NUnit
7 10 (1.42%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.00%) JMeter
9 6 (0.85%) Mocha
9 6 (0.85%) Mockito
9 6 (0.85%) Postman
10 5 (0.71%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.71%) MSI
10 5 (0.71%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.43%) Eclipse RCP
11 3 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.43%) TestRail
11 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 204 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 162 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
3 148 (21.05%) Finance
4 80 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.26%) Manufacturing
6 37 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (5.12%) Retail
8 35 (4.98%) Law
9 28 (3.98%) Aerospace
10 18 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.42%) Banking
12 15 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.56%) Legal
13 11 (1.56%) Military
13 11 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.28%) Electronics
14 9 (1.28%) Marketing
15 8 (1.14%) Aviation
15 8 (1.14%) Games
16 7 (1.00%) Cyber-Physical System
Job Titles
1 140 (19.91%) Senior
2 114 (16.22%) Developer
3 106 (15.08%) Architect
4 101 (14.37%) Software Engineer
5 89 (12.66%) Systems Engineer
6 69 (9.82%) Lead
7 55 (7.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 50 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
9 48 (6.83%) Consultant
10 30 (4.27%) Analyst
11 22 (3.13%) Software Developer
12 21 (2.99%) Senior Developer
13 20 (2.84%) Business Analyst
13 20 (2.84%) Migration Consultant
14 19 (2.70%) Senior Architect
15 18 (2.56%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.13%) Data Engineer
17 14 (1.99%) MuleSoft Developer
17 14 (1.99%) Senior Consultant
18 13 (1.85%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (9.96%) .NET
2 59 (8.39%) React
3 48 (6.83%) Node.js
4 46 (6.54%) Spring Boot
5 43 (6.12%) Spring
6 38 (5.41%) WPF
7 36 (5.12%) RESTful
8 34 (4.84%) HTML
9 31 (4.41%) CSS
10 30 (4.27%) REST
10 30 (4.27%) Vue
11 28 (3.98%) Kafka
12 24 (3.41%) Middleware
13 20 (2.84%) .NET Core
14 17 (2.42%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.42%) OAuth
15 14 (1.99%) OAuth2
15 14 (1.99%) Ruby on Rails
16 13 (1.85%) HTML5
16 13 (1.85%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 34 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
4 33 (4.69%) Mainframe
5 28 (3.98%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.70%) iSeries
9 18 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 18 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
9 18 (2.56%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
11 15 (2.13%) AI Agents
11 15 (2.13%) AS400
11 15 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.85%) IoT
13 13 (1.85%) Private Cloud
14 11 (1.56%) EPoS
15 10 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 118 (16.79%) Windows
2 98 (13.94%) Linux
3 89 (12.66%) Windows Server
4 80 (11.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.57%) AIX
6 3 (0.43%) Android
6 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Unix
7 2 (0.28%) zOS
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (39.26%) Migration
2 188 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
3 159 (22.62%) Agile
3 159 (22.62%) CI/CD
4 135 (19.20%) Software Engineering
5 115 (16.36%) DevOps
6 110 (15.65%) Mentoring
7 109 (15.50%) Microservices
8 108 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (14.08%) AI
9 99 (14.08%) Customer Experience
10 94 (13.37%) Roadmaps
11 85 (12.09%) Customer Service
11 85 (12.09%) Kalman Filter
12 82 (11.66%) Web Filtering
13 81 (11.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 80 (11.38%) Email Filtering
14 80 (11.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 72 (10.24%) Test Automation
16 69 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 95 (13.51%) C#
2 86 (12.23%) SQL
3 81 (11.52%) Python
4 77 (10.95%) JavaScript
5 74 (10.53%) Java
6 42 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.13%) C++
8 20 (2.84%) PHP
9 19 (2.70%) RPG
10 16 (2.28%) Ruby
11 14 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.99%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.85%) DataWeave
13 10 (1.42%) Go
14 9 (1.28%) C
15 8 (1.14%) ABAP
15 8 (1.14%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.00%) Bicep
17 6 (0.85%) RPG III
18 4 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 176 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 152 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.83%) Degree
4 20 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 14 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.57%) CISM
11 4 (0.57%) CISSP
11 4 (0.57%) OCP
11 4 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.57%) PMP
12 3 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 81 (11.52%) PCI DSS
3 34 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 30 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.99%) QA
6 18 (2.56%) WCAG
7 15 (2.13%) GDPR
8 11 (1.56%) SLA
9 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.00%) NCSC
10 6 (0.85%) NIST
11 4 (0.57%) PMO
12 3 (0.43%) GRC
12 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.28%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 104 (14.79%) Active Directory
2 90 (12.80%) Hyper-V
3 80 (11.38%) Terminal Server
4 46 (6.54%) Docker
5 18 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (1.99%) Firmware
7 8 (1.14%) vSphere
8 6 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.43%) KVM
10 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.14%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (7.25%) Terraform
2 46 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.99%) Puppet
4 13 (1.85%) CloudHub
4 13 (1.85%) Progress Chef
5 10 (1.42%) Ansible
6 6 (0.85%) Kibana
7 5 (0.71%) SCCM
7 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.43%) Grafana
9 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.28%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 175 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 99 (14.08%) VMware
3 87 (12.38%) Splunk
4 83 (11.81%) Veeam
5 80 (11.38%) Brocade
5 80 (11.38%) Nimble Storage
5 80 (11.38%) SolarWinds
5 80 (11.38%) Tanium
6 54 (7.68%) SAP
7 27 (3.84%) ServiceNow
8 26 (3.70%) IBM
9 22 (3.13%) Oracle
10 16 (2.28%) MuleSoft
11 15 (2.13%) Databricks
11 15 (2.13%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.42%) Google
12 10 (1.42%) Workday
13 8 (1.14%) Sage
14 7 (1.00%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.00%) IFS