Legacy Code Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 562 550
Rank change year-on-year +112 -12 +48
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 14 23 67
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.067% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.19% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 56
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,475 -
25th Percentile £53,125 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,750 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -3.31% -32.96%
75th Percentile £69,375 £54,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,954
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +71.43% +5.00%

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 8,142 11,956 13,964
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.32% 34.66% 38.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,753 8,973 10,546
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,544
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +7.27% -14.10% +2.45%

Legacy Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Code trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Legacy Code
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Legacy Code.

Legacy Code salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Legacy Code over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Legacy Code salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Apache
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe XD
1 1 (7.14%) Moqups
1 1 (7.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
2 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
3 2 (14.29%) npm
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) Figma
4 1 (7.14%) Firebase
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) DocumentDB
4 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Crashlytics
2 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.14%) Grunt
2 1 (7.14%) webpack
2 1 (7.14%) Xcode
General
1 3 (21.43%) Law
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Games
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Senior
3 6 (42.86%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) PHP Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Python Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Python Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Reliability Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Reliability Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Backend Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) CSS
1 4 (28.57%) Kafka
1 4 (28.57%) React
1 4 (28.57%) Vue
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) Laravel
2 3 (21.43%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Sass
3 2 (14.29%) Symfony
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) CakePHP
4 1 (7.14%) Doctrine
4 1 (7.14%) Enzyme
4 1 (7.14%) Jest
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) Pyjs
4 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (21.43%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Micro Frontends
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (14.29%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) PHP
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 3 (21.43%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe