Legacy Systems Job Trends in Watford

Legacy System
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 0.88% - 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% - 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £77,500
75th Percentile £57,500 - £78,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £73,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -31.51% -5.81% +31.91%

All Generic Skills
Watford

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 in Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 90 66 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 26.55% 48.89% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 61 29 75
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £23,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £46,842 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.44% -3.42% -22.40%
75th Percentile £91,250 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £64,500 £76,250
Hertfordshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -13.04%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Watford

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) People Management
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft