Legacy Systems Job Trends in Worcestershire

Legacy System
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in Worcestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Worcestershire 0.54% - 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% - 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £27,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £36,250
90th Percentile £51,750 - £40,750
West Midlands median annual salary £61,538 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +36.75% -10.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 247 55 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Worcestershire 44.42% 44.00% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 77 27 122
10th Percentile £30,200 £15,000 £23,500
25th Percentile - £29,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £58,191 £34,071
Median % change year-on-year -32.98% +70.79% -28.27%
75th Percentile £43,750 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,250 - £57,500
West Midlands median annual salary £49,500 £52,398 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.53% +4.80% -9.09%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in Worcestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Stourport-on-Severn - 2 £42,500 - 2
Worcester - 1 £52,500 - 1
Legacy Systems
West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Avalonia
2 1 (33.33%) OpenCV
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (33.33%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Image Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Video Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware