Legacy Systems Job Trends in the West Midlands

Legacy System
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 138 141
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +112
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 38 61 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.72% 1.44% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 3.92% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 29 23 40
10th Percentile £51,000 - £44,700
25th Percentile £62,500 £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -15.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £56,833
90th Percentile £94,500 £58,750 £72,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -18.64%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,982 1,558 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.52% 36.81% 36.15%
Number of salaries quoted 689 628 1,053
10th Percentile £26,375 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,800
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Birmingham +7 14 £66,250 +55.88% 2
Coventry +1 5 £48,250 - 1
Staffordshire -10 4 - - 1
Wolverhampton -8 3 £125,000 - 2
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Warwickshire +24 2 £65,000 +44.44% 6
Kingswinford - 1 £60,000 -
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (10.53%) WinCC
2 2 (5.26%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.63%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) SAP FI
2 3 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (7.89%) NetSuite
3 2 (5.26%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.26%) GitHub
4 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.63%) Serverless
5 1 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 4 (10.53%) Modbus
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) ISDN
3 1 (2.63%) LAN
3 1 (2.63%) PSTN
3 1 (2.63%) PuTTY
3 1 (2.63%) RTP
3 1 (2.63%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.63%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.63%) VoIP
3 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (18.42%) Power BI
3 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.63%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (2.63%) Metadata
6 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.26%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) JUnit
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (52.63%) Finance
2 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Law
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) Architect
3 7 (18.42%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (15.79%) Data Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Accountant
5 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Systems Accountant
6 4 (10.53%) Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Head of Engineering
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Business Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead
8 2 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) Django
2 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.26%) Flask
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) PySpark
2 2 (5.26%) pytest
2 2 (5.26%) Spring
2 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.26%) Web Services
3 1 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.63%) RAML
3 1 (2.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
1 4 (10.53%) Driving Licence
1 4 (10.53%) Operational Technology
1 4 (10.53%) SCADA
2 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.26%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
1 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
1 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Migration
2 12 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 12 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.05%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 7 (18.42%) ERP
5 7 (18.42%) ETL
5 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
6 6 (15.79%) Data Architecture
6 6 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (15.79%) DevOps
6 6 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (15.79%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (13.16%) API Design
7 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.16%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) Java
3 3 (7.89%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.26%) Delphi
5 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) ACCA
1 5 (13.16%) CIMA
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.63%) APMG
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) CCNP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) IEC 61508
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) IEC 61131
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V
1 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) CSIRT
1 2 (5.26%) Grafana
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.05%) SAP
3 4 (10.53%) Rockwell
3 4 (10.53%) Siemens
3 4 (10.53%) VMware
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) Aruba
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.63%) Kronos
5 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.63%) Workday