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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 423 493
Rank change year-on-year -19 +70 +34
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 10 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.046% 0.085% 0.090%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 24
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,125 £32,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +58.82% -15.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £69,000 £90,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -30.56% - +63.64%

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 8,244 7,053 9,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.92% 42.88% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,082 3,628 7,083
10th Percentile £34,275 £31,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.79% +3.64% -14.06%

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 25 July 2026.

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 1 (10.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Back Office
1 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Senior
2 7 (70.00%) Senior Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Applications Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Applications Support
3 6 (60.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Senior Applications Support
4 2 (20.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Billing Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Principal Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) Classic ASP
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Kanban
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) API Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Coaching
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) New Relic
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI