Legacy Systems Jobs 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 218 221
Rank change year-on-year +76 +3 +37
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 51 39 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.24% 0.50% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.91% 1.52% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26 35 20
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,750 £41,975
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £97,500 £80,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 1,305 2,559 2,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.75% 32.93% 46.12%
Number of salaries quoted 650 1,694 974
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £33,150
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,438 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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 +40 17 £45,000 -10.00% 28
Solihull +21 12 £55,000 -18.52%
Shropshire +17 7 £47,500 -30.91% 25
Wolverhampton +23 3 - - 13
Walsall - 3 - - 1
Worcestershire +25 1 - - 18
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
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:

Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (19.61%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.92%) Infor M3
2 2 (3.92%) SAP CO
2 2 (3.92%) SAP FI
2 2 (3.92%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.73%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) SaaS
3 5 (9.80%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (9.80%) GCP
3 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.80%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 5 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (9.80%) BigQuery
3 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.88%) MS Access
4 3 (5.88%) Power BI
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.96%) Metadata
5 1 (1.96%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) ERwin
General
1 37 (72.55%) Social Skills
2 29 (56.86%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (41.18%) Finance
3 21 (41.18%) Law
4 15 (29.41%) Manufacturing
5 12 (23.53%) Electronics
6 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Lead
2 14 (27.45%) Analyst
3 12 (23.53%) Technical Leader
4 10 (19.61%) Business Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) CRM Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) CRM Business Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) CRM Systems Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Finance Business Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Financial Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Financial Business Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) Systems Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Data Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Lead Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Lead Data Architect
7 4 (7.84%) C# Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Consultant
7 4 (7.84%) Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) .NET
2 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.88%) ADO
2 3 (5.88%) Blazor
2 3 (5.88%) HTML
2 3 (5.88%) ODBC
2 3 (5.88%) Restlet
2 3 (5.88%) SOAP
2 3 (5.88%) WPF
2 3 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) IoT
1 12 (23.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 12 (23.53%) SCADA
2 8 (15.69%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (13.73%) Taxonomies
4 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.92%) NHS
7 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (29.41%) Change Management
4 13 (25.49%) Agile
5 12 (23.53%) Data Collection
5 12 (23.53%) Mechatronics
5 12 (23.53%) Project Management
5 12 (23.53%) Thought Leadership
6 10 (19.61%) CRM
6 10 (19.61%) Migration
6 10 (19.61%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (19.61%) User Stories
7 9 (17.65%) Analytics
7 9 (17.65%) Data Migration
7 9 (17.65%) Data Modelling
7 9 (17.65%) Decision-Making
7 9 (17.65%) Roadmaps
8 7 (13.73%) Backlog Management
8 7 (13.73%) Intelligent Automation
8 7 (13.73%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.84%) C#
4 3 (5.88%) Delphi
4 3 (5.88%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.96%) QA
1 1 (1.96%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Rockwell
1 12 (23.53%) Siemens
2 7 (13.73%) Salesforce
3 5 (9.80%) Google
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.92%) Infor
5 2 (3.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle