Legacy Code Jobs with Work from Home Options

Legacy Code
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 581 588
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -88
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 17 82 273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.051% 0.20% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.51% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 17 68 34
10th Percentile £35,150 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -28.16% +28.95%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £88,625 £112,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +66.67% +5.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Legacy Code is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,976 16,013 32,008
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.60% 38.51% 46.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,213 11,630 16,857
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Legacy Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Code trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Code
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Legacy Code over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 1 (5.88%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Figma
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) npm
4 1 (5.88%) Slack
4 1 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MongoDB
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Gradle
3 1 (5.88%) Grunt
3 1 (5.88%) Vagrant
3 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 7 (41.18%) Law
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) PHP Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Support
3 3 (17.65%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Lead C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (11.76%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Remote Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) HTML
1 8 (47.06%) Node.js
2 7 (41.18%) CSS
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
3 4 (23.53%) jQuery
4 3 (17.65%) React
4 3 (17.65%) Vue
5 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
5 2 (11.76%) Blazor
5 2 (11.76%) CSS3
5 2 (11.76%) FHIR
5 2 (11.76%) HTML5
5 2 (11.76%) Laravel
5 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (11.76%) React Native
5 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) SOAP
5 2 (11.76%) Symfony
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
6 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
1 8 (47.06%) Microservices
2 6 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 3 (17.65%) OO
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
6 2 (11.76%) Load Testing
6 2 (11.76%) OOP
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (11.76%) Refactoring
6 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
6 2 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) PHP
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) C
6 2 (11.76%) Java
7 1 (5.88%) Ada
7 1 (5.88%) C++
7 1 (5.88%) Python
7 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) HL7
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Progress
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft