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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 383 590
Rank change year-on-year +99 +207 -131
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 642 329 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.73% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.67% 1.71% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 425 211 252
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 £81,250 £84,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £100,000 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,100 £58,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.30% +11.90% -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 24,018 19,262 36,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.51% 42.92% 33.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15,300 9,143 23,648
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,125 £40,000 £38,750
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 £51,359 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.72% - -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 20 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 20 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 +69 588 £65,000 - 172
UK excluding London +99 450 £60,100 +2.30% 128
Work from Home +91 191 £63,076 +2.98% 71
London +13 147 £80,000 +3.23% 80
North of England +66 136 £65,000 -1.89% 32
South West +33 128 £55,000 -31.25% 26
Midlands -18 73 £60,000 +23.08% 16
South East -31 51 £57,303 -0.34% 36
Yorkshire -2 50 £65,000 - 12
North West +23 47 £69,305 -4.07% 17
West Midlands -30 45 £57,973 +15.95% 7
North East - 39 £63,076 - 5
East of England +16 34 £50,000 -31.51% 9
East Midlands -14 28 £66,250 +47.22% 8
Wales - 25 £72,500 - 3
Northern Ireland -30 3 - - 4
Scotland +2 2 £48,500 -2.36% 4

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 (14.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.43%) Confluence
3 16 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.49%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (0.93%) Appian
5 5 (0.78%) WordPress
6 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.62%) Apache
6 4 (0.62%) IIS
6 4 (0.62%) Mule
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.18%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.25%) SAP MDG
3 7 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.78%) SAP FSCM
4 5 (0.78%) SAP MDG-BP
4 5 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.47%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.47%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.16%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG-F
7 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 230 (35.83%) Azure
2 104 (16.20%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (12.62%) AWS
4 57 (8.88%) Power Platform
5 38 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.21%) GCP
6 27 (4.21%) PowerApps
7 24 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (3.74%) Serverless
8 22 (3.43%) SaaS
9 16 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 16 (2.49%) GitHub
9 16 (2.49%) Power Automate
10 15 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.02%) PaaS
11 13 (2.02%) Snowflake
12 12 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (1.71%) Lucidchart
14 10 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 91 (14.17%) DNS
2 89 (13.86%) DHCP
3 9 (1.40%) Firewall
4 8 (1.25%) Network Security
4 8 (1.25%) WAN
5 5 (0.78%) SSL
5 5 (0.78%) VPN
6 3 (0.47%) HTTP
7 2 (0.31%) LAN
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.31%) Wireless
8 1 (0.16%) Broadband
8 1 (0.16%) DMARC
8 1 (0.16%) Internet
8 1 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (13.08%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (7.48%) SQL Server
3 33 (5.14%) Power BI
4 21 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.34%) Db2
7 13 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.25%) MySQL
9 8 (1.25%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.09%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.93%) DTS
11 6 (0.93%) Pinecone
12 5 (0.78%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.78%) SAP BW
12 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (5.76%) Git
2 22 (3.43%) JIRA
3 14 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.56%) JUnit
5 8 (1.25%) JMeter
5 8 (1.25%) MLflow
6 7 (1.09%) GitLab
7 6 (0.93%) Mockito
8 5 (0.78%) Selenium
8 5 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.47%) Storybook
11 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.31%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.31%) Maven
11 2 (0.31%) NUnit
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 184 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 146 (22.74%) Finance
3 138 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.92%) Manufacturing
6 33 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (4.98%) Retail
8 21 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.27%) Law
9 20 (3.12%) Banking
10 15 (2.34%) Legal
11 14 (2.18%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.25%) Games
13 8 (1.25%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.09%) Cyber-Physical System
15 6 (0.93%) Billing
15 6 (0.93%) Electronics
15 6 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 141 (21.96%) Senior
2 114 (17.76%) Developer
3 92 (14.33%) Architect
4 88 (13.71%) Systems Engineer
5 80 (12.46%) Software Engineer
6 49 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
7 47 (7.32%) Lead
8 38 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (5.76%) Analyst
10 31 (4.83%) Project Manager
11 29 (4.52%) Senior Manager
12 24 (3.74%) Consultant
13 23 (3.58%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.43%) Software Developer
15 18 (2.80%) Senior Developer
15 18 (2.80%) Senior Project Manager
16 17 (2.65%) Digital Project Manager
16 17 (2.65%) Senior Digital Project Manager
17 16 (2.49%) Senior Architect
18 14 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.19%) .NET
2 47 (7.32%) React
3 34 (5.30%) Node.js
4 29 (4.52%) REST
4 29 (4.52%) Spring
5 28 (4.36%) HTML
5 28 (4.36%) Spring Boot
6 27 (4.21%) RESTful
7 26 (4.05%) CSS
8 22 (3.43%) Vue
9 21 (3.27%) WPF
10 20 (3.12%) Middleware
11 16 (2.49%) Kafka
11 16 (2.49%) Web Services
12 15 (2.34%) Laravel
13 13 (2.02%) XML
14 12 (1.87%) .NET Core
14 12 (1.87%) .NET Framework
14 12 (1.87%) OAuth
15 10 (1.56%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.37%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.98%) Legacy Applications
3 27 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.27%) Low-Code
5 21 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.87%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.87%) Mainframe
9 11 (1.71%) IoT
9 11 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.40%) AS400
10 9 (1.40%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.40%) iSeries
10 9 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.40%) Operational Technology
10 9 (1.40%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 102 (15.89%) Windows
2 94 (14.64%) Linux
3 89 (13.86%) Windows Server
4 80 (12.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.47%) Android
5 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
7 1 (0.16%) CentOS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (38.47%) Migration
2 169 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 137 (21.34%) Agile
4 122 (19.00%) CI/CD
5 101 (15.73%) Customer Experience
6 100 (15.58%) Software Engineering
7 99 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (14.80%) Mentoring
9 92 (14.33%) DevOps
10 86 (13.40%) Kalman Filter
11 83 (12.93%) AI
12 82 (12.77%) Web Filtering
13 81 (12.62%) Customer Service
13 81 (12.62%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 80 (12.46%) Email Filtering
14 80 (12.46%) Microservices
14 80 (12.46%) Roadmaps
14 80 (12.46%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 63 (9.81%) Analytics
16 60 (9.35%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 94 (14.64%) SQL
2 74 (11.53%) C#
3 71 (11.06%) Python
4 70 (10.90%) JavaScript
5 54 (8.41%) Java
6 29 (4.52%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.21%) PHP
8 19 (2.96%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.65%) C++
10 16 (2.49%) VBA
11 13 (2.02%) RPG
12 9 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.25%) ABAP
13 8 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.93%) Bash
14 6 (0.93%) Ruby
15 5 (0.78%) C
15 5 (0.78%) RPG III
16 4 (0.62%) DataWeave
16 4 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 139 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 125 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.67%) Degree
4 9 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.40%) DBS Check
5 8 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.47%) CISM
8 3 (0.47%) CISSP
8 3 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.31%) PMP
10 1 (0.16%) ACCA
10 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.16%) HND
10 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (13.08%) PCI DSS
2 82 (12.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 43 (6.70%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.18%) GDPR
6 10 (1.56%) QA
7 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.78%) WCAG
8 4 (0.62%) SLA
9 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.47%) NCSC
9 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.31%) GRC
10 2 (0.31%) NIST
10 2 (0.31%) 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 99 (15.42%) Active Directory
2 84 (13.08%) Hyper-V
3 80 (12.46%) Terminal Server
4 45 (7.01%) Docker
5 12 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (1.25%) vSphere
7 7 (1.09%) Firmware
8 2 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.16%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 36 (5.61%) Terraform
3 7 (1.09%) Ansible
3 7 (1.09%) Kibana
4 5 (0.78%) SCCM
5 4 (0.62%) CloudHub
6 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.47%) Puppet
6 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.31%) Grafana
7 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.31%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.16%) Podman
8 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 174 (27.10%) Microsoft
2 93 (14.49%) VMware
3 89 (13.86%) Splunk
4 84 (13.08%) Veeam
5 80 (12.46%) Brocade
5 80 (12.46%) Nimble Storage
5 80 (12.46%) SolarWinds
5 80 (12.46%) Tanium
6 39 (6.07%) SAP
7 16 (2.49%) IBM
8 14 (2.18%) Databricks
8 14 (2.18%) Oracle
9 10 (1.56%) Guidewire
10 9 (1.40%) Google
10 9 (1.40%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.25%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.25%) Sage
11 8 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.09%) Salesforce