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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 577 591
Rank change year-on-year +206 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 26 15 82
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.044% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.12% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24 15 68
10th Percentile - £35,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £45,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% +2.27% -29.60%
75th Percentile £71,563 £54,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £88,625
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 5,843 12,025 16,498
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.07% 35.54% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,833 9,250 11,895
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 May 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 9 (34.62%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Adobe XD
1 2 (7.69%) Moqups
1 2 (7.69%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) npm
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (15.38%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure
4 2 (7.69%) Figma
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Firebase
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Bluetooth
1 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (11.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) MySQL
2 5 (19.23%) NoSQL
3 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.85%) DocumentDB
6 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Git
1 9 (34.62%) Grunt
1 9 (34.62%) webpack
2 4 (15.38%) Storybook
3 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.85%) Crashlytics
4 1 (3.85%) Xcode
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Electronics
3 3 (11.54%) Games
3 3 (11.54%) Wearables
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 10 (38.46%) PHP Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Lead
4 5 (19.23%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 5 (19.23%) Senior
5 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Reliability Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Reliability Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
8 1 (3.85%) C# Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Mobile Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) HTML
1 10 (38.46%) Vue
2 9 (34.62%) CakePHP
2 9 (34.62%) Doctrine
2 9 (34.62%) Pyjs
2 9 (34.62%) Sass
2 9 (34.62%) Symfony
3 8 (30.77%) React
4 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 4 (15.38%) Redux
5 3 (11.54%) .NET
5 3 (11.54%) CSS
6 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 2 (7.69%) Enzyme
6 2 (7.69%) Jest
6 2 (7.69%) Node.js
6 2 (7.69%) REST
6 2 (7.69%) RESTful
6 2 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (11.54%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (11.54%) GNSS
2 3 (11.54%) IoT
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) B2B
1 9 (34.62%) Collaborative Working
1 9 (34.62%) CRM
1 9 (34.62%) OO
1 9 (34.62%) OO PHP
1 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
2 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
3 6 (23.08%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
3 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 6 (23.08%) Microservices
4 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (15.38%) Client Onboarding
4 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum
4 4 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (11.54%) API Integration
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Embedded Software Development
5 3 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) JavaScript
2 11 (42.31%) PHP
3 7 (26.92%) SQL
4 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 4 (15.38%) C#
6 3 (11.54%) C
6 3 (11.54%) C++
6 3 (11.54%) Embedded C
6 3 (11.54%) Embedded C++
7 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.85%) Python
8 1 (3.85%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) IEC 62304
1 3 (11.54%) MISRA
2 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Adobe
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft