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 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 122 166
Rank change year-on-year -26 +44 +88
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 36 66 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.57% 1.79% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 4.68% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 30 30 49
10th Percentile £45,686 - £41,850
25th Percentile £52,006 £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,038 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -10.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £54,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,625 £59,625 £97,500
England median annual salary £66,390 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.46% -4.55% -26.67%

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 2,041 1,409 2,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.05% 38.11% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 719 632 1,523
10th Percentile £26,375 £31,250 £26,050
25th Percentile £32,125 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,375 £64,215
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,175 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,345 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +13.64% -15.38%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +13 17 £63,076 +48.41% 8
Coventry -11 5 £50,000 - 1
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £72,500 -
Warwickshire +20 2 £65,000 +44.44%
Wolverhampton -15 2 £125,000 -
Shropshire -28 2 - - 2
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 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (8.33%) NetSuite
1 3 (8.33%) SAP CO
1 3 (8.33%) SAP FI
1 3 (8.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (8.33%) SAP FSCM
1 3 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 5 (13.89%) PowerApps
4 4 (11.11%) AWS
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (8.33%) IaaS
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DHCP
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) ISDN
1 1 (2.78%) LAN
1 1 (2.78%) PSTN
1 1 (2.78%) PuTTY
1 1 (2.78%) RTP
1 1 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (2.78%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.78%) VoIP
1 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) Power BI
3 3 (8.33%) SAP HANA
3 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.56%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.78%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.78%) Metadata
5 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) JUnit
3 2 (5.56%) Selenium
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.78%) Maven
4 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (50.00%) Finance
2 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Legal
6 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Senior
2 8 (22.22%) Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Architect
4 6 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Business Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) SAP CO Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) SAP FI Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) SAP Support
6 3 (8.33%) SAP Support Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Senior SAP Support Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) CSS
2 2 (5.56%) Django
2 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.56%) Flask
2 2 (5.56%) HTML
2 2 (5.56%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) PySpark
2 2 (5.56%) pytest
2 2 (5.56%) Spring
2 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.56%) Web Services
2 2 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) RAML
3 1 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Migration
2 12 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
4 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (19.44%) CRM
6 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (16.67%) Coaching
6 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.89%) API Design
7 5 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (13.89%) DevOps
7 5 (13.89%) Digital Strategy
7 5 (13.89%) ERP
7 5 (13.89%) ETL
7 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (11.11%) Project Management
8 4 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) Java
3 3 (8.33%) VBA
4 2 (5.56%) Delphi
4 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) PHP
5 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) APMG
4 1 (2.78%) CCNA
4 1 (2.78%) CCNP
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) ISO 20022
2 3 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) CSIRT
1 2 (5.56%) Grafana
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) SAP
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Aruba
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds