Legacy Code Job Trends in Watford

Legacy Code
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 0.27% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £71,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £67,500 - -

All Generic Skills
Watford

Legacy Code 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 in Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 108 61 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 29.03% 40.67% 39.26%
Number of salaries quoted 87 46 79
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £23,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £44,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -9.28% -22.40%
75th Percentile £91,250 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £63,750 £76,250
Hertfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -9.09%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Legacy Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Legacy Code job vacancy trend in Watford

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Legacy Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Legacy Code

Legacy Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL