Legacy Systems Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Legacy System
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 95 152
Rank change year-on-year -24 +57 +80
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 20 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.82% 0.44% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.74% 1.10% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 18 3 3
10th Percentile £50,581 £48,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £56,736 £56,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% +42.86% -48.40%
75th Percentile £68,438 £83,750 £58,125
90th Percentile £80,750 £86,000 £59,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £63,076 £61,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.98% +16.67% -48.40%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 731 454 872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 30.14% 39.79% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 390 229 641
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,950 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £43,799 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.79% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,424 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in West Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Leeds -27 12 £62,500 -21.88% 4
Bradford - 4 £62,500 -
Wakefield - 3 £80,000 -
Legacy Systems
Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (30.00%) PowerApps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) SaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (10.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.00%) Looker
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Health Technology
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Digital Project Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Applications Support
4 3 (15.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce Support
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Applications Support
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
1 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) HTML5
2 3 (15.00%) jQuery
2 3 (15.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) Vue
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.00%) NHS
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
1 9 (45.00%) Coaching
1 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
2 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (35.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) CRM
5 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (25.00%) Supplier Management
5 5 (25.00%) User Experience
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Budget Management
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Project Management
6 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) VBA
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft