Legacy Code Job Trends in the West Midlands

Legacy Code
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 217 196
Rank change year-on-year +50 -21 +111
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 2 7 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.061% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.40% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile - £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £63,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +56.52% -14.81%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,316 1,763 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 40.36% 29.27% 39.04%
Number of salaries quoted 767 777 1,037
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,147 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% - +14.82%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the West Midlands

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Legacy Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Legacy Code

Legacy Code
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Birmingham +34 1 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Legacy Code
England

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript