Hybrid/Remote Legacy Code Job Trends

Legacy Code
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 418 479
Rank change year-on-year +26 +61 +171
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 16 48 31
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.098% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.68% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 13 45 30
10th Percentile £52,750 - £32,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £31,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -33.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £60,186 £68,849
90th Percentile £96,250 £76,500 £70,954
UK median annual salary £90,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.85% +10.42% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Legacy Code 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,625 7,067 9,589
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.76% 34.84% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,405 4,083 7,573
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £38,856
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £89,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Legacy Code and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Code job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Legacy Code
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Legacy Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Legacy Code

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Legacy Code over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Legacy Code salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Legacy Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (37.50%) Apache
2 5 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.25%) CMS
3 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) SaaS
2 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (18.75%) MySQL
5 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
General
1 5 (31.25%) Law
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Games
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
1 6 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Python Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Python Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Software Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) PHP Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) React
2 5 (31.25%) Kafka
3 3 (18.75%) CSS
3 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
3 3 (18.75%) gRPC
3 3 (18.75%) Next.js
3 3 (18.75%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (12.50%) Laravel
4 2 (12.50%) Symfony
4 2 (12.50%) Vue
5 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.25%) HTML
5 1 (6.25%) JSF
5 1 (6.25%) PrimeFaces
5 1 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) Sass
5 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Data Structures
2 3 (18.75%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) AI
3 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
4 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Micro Frontends
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
5 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (31.25%) ETL
5 5 (31.25%) Microservices
5 5 (31.25%) Scrum
5 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Coaching
6 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
3 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 6 (37.50%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) PHP
5 2 (12.50%) Java
6 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
1 3 (18.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle