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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 403 448
Rank change year-on-year +38 +45 +224
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 11 60 19
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.073% 0.31% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.84% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11 52 18
10th Percentile £52,500 - £41,225
25th Percentile £60,000 £31,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -30.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £93,125 £70,000 £70,954
90th Percentile £96,250 £75,000 £71,582
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £67,950
% change year-on-year +38.46% -4.34% +0.67%

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 5,318 7,132 8,077
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.12% 37.35% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,440 4,096 6,362
10th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £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 2 December 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 4 (36.36%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) SaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) Azure AI
3 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Firebase
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Games
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
1 3 (27.27%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Python Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Snowflake Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Architect
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) React
2 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
2 3 (27.27%) gRPC
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Next.js
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 1 (9.09%) JSF
3 1 (9.09%) Laravel
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 1 (9.09%) OpenID
3 1 (9.09%) PrimeFaces
3 1 (9.09%) React Native
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Symfony
3 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) AI
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) User Experience
5 3 (27.27%) B2C
5 3 (27.27%) Coaching
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (27.27%) ETL
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
1 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.09%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
1 3 (27.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
1 1 (9.09%) Foundry
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle