Legacy Systems Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Legacy System
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 428 330
Rank change year-on-year +64 -98 +27
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 99 170 319
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.50% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% 1.45% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 83 111 179
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% -2.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £117,000 £82,500 £119,334
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Legacy Systems 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 8,262 11,739 14,011
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.02% 34.54% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,818 8,770 10,643
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,294
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 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,836 £55,000 £64,015
% change year-on-year +5.16% -14.08% +2.42%

Legacy Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Legacy Systems salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Legacy Systems salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Systems
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 4 (4.04%) JBoss
1 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) IIS
3 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.01%) OpenEdge
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.03%) Shopify
3 2 (2.02%) Infor M3
4 1 (1.01%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (1.01%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (1.01%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.42%) Azure
2 22 (22.22%) AWS
3 20 (20.20%) Power Platform
3 20 (20.20%) SaaS
4 13 (13.13%) GCP
5 8 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.06%) GitHub
6 6 (6.06%) npm
7 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (4.04%) PaaS
9 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.03%) Azure Storage
9 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.03%) IaaS
9 3 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) VPN
2 2 (2.02%) HTTP
3 1 (1.01%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.16%) Power BI
2 12 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.07%) MySQL
4 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.05%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.04%) Oracle Database
6 4 (4.04%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (4.04%) Tableau
7 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.02%) Airbyte
8 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.01%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.01%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 23 (23.23%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) Cucumber
2 6 (6.06%) Cypress.io
2 6 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (6.06%) webpack
3 4 (4.04%) Gradle
3 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.04%) PHPUnit
3 4 (4.04%) SonarQube
3 4 (4.04%) Subversion
4 2 (2.02%) Checkstyle
4 2 (2.02%) Maven
5 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 37 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.29%) Finance
3 15 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.11%) Law
5 9 (9.09%) Banking
6 6 (6.06%) Games
6 6 (6.06%) Local Government
6 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.06%) Retail
7 5 (5.05%) Legal
7 5 (5.05%) Marketing
8 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.03%) Agriculture
9 3 (3.03%) Back Office
10 2 (2.02%) Billing
10 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.02%) Military
11 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (31.31%) Developer
2 15 (15.15%) Lead
3 14 (14.14%) Architect
4 8 (8.08%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.07%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.07%) Senior
6 6 (6.06%) Java Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Lead Java Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Applications Manager
7 5 (5.05%) Data Manager
7 5 (5.05%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.04%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.04%) Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) Analytics Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) Data Analytics Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.04%) SaaS Developer
9 3 (3.03%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.17%) RESTful
2 16 (16.16%) REST
3 13 (13.13%) .NET
4 10 (10.10%) CSS
4 10 (10.10%) HTML
4 10 (10.10%) Jest
5 9 (9.09%) Web Services
6 6 (6.06%) Kafka
6 6 (6.06%) React
6 6 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.05%) LAMP
7 5 (5.05%) OAuth
8 4 (4.04%) jQuery
8 4 (4.04%) JSON
8 4 (4.04%) Laravel
8 4 (4.04%) OpenID
8 4 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.04%) SAML
8 4 (4.04%) SOAP
9 3 (3.03%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.08%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.08%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (7.07%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.06%) Distributed Applications
4 6 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.06%) Mobile Games
5 5 (5.05%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.05%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.03%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.03%) PKI
8 2 (2.02%) NHS
8 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.02%) Replication
8 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (2.02%) Android
2 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.02%) Linux
2 2 (2.02%) Windows 10
2 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.34%) Agile
2 27 (27.27%) Migration
3 22 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.21%) Microservices
5 18 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 17 (17.17%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (17.17%) CI/CD
7 15 (15.15%) Change Management
7 15 (15.15%) CRM
7 15 (15.15%) DevOps
7 15 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (15.15%) Test Automation
8 13 (13.13%) Event-Driven
8 13 (13.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (13.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (13.13%) Roadmaps
8 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (12.12%) Analytics
10 11 (11.11%) Data Modelling
11 10 (10.10%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.25%) SQL
2 18 (18.18%) Java
3 15 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.13%) C#
4 13 (13.13%) Python
5 5 (5.05%) PHP
6 4 (4.04%) Julia
6 4 (4.04%) R
6 4 (4.04%) VBA
7 2 (2.02%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.02%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.02%) Swift
7 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.01%) ABAP
8 1 (1.01%) Erlang
8 1 (1.01%) Ruby
8 1 (1.01%) Scala
8 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.01%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Degree
2 9 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.03%) ACCA
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.02%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) CIMA
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.01%) MBA
6 1 (1.01%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.01%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) QA
2 5 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.03%) NCSC
4 2 (2.02%) GDPR
4 2 (2.02%) SLA
5 1 (1.01%) ISO 15022
5 1 (1.01%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (14.14%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.03%) Terraform
2 2 (2.02%) Argo
2 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.01%) Avamar
3 1 (1.01%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 21 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Oracle
3 6 (6.06%) Google
4 5 (5.05%) SAP
5 4 (4.04%) New Relic
5 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.03%) IBM
6 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.02%) Adobe
7 2 (2.02%) Cisco
7 2 (2.02%) HubSpot
7 2 (2.02%) Infor
7 2 (2.02%) Juniper
7 2 (2.02%) McAfee
7 2 (2.02%) NetApp
7 2 (2.02%) Splunk
7 2 (2.02%) VMware
7 2 (2.02%) Workday
8 1 (1.01%) Databricks
8 1 (1.01%) Freshdesk