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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 407 462
Rank change year-on-year -50 +55 +35
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 10 17 42
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.041% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.25% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 40
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £78,125 £88,438 £60,186
90th Percentile £126,000 £96,250 £72,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +24.14% +26.09%

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 9,283 6,878 7,941
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.89% 42.16% 33.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,487 3,541 4,787
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 September 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
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Back Office
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Applications Support
4 2 (20.00%) Billing Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Applications Support
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Systems Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) Classic ASP
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) CRM
2 3 (30.00%) Logistics
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) Kanban
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Market Surveillance
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) New Relic
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI