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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 438 345
Rank change year-on-year +132 -93 +34
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 110 147 385
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.43% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 1.22% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74 93 223
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £126,000 £97,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -14.81% +12.50%

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 6,001 12,027 16,410
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.17% 35.55% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,871 9,246 11,842
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -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 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 4 May 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 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.64%) Confluence
2 4 (3.64%) JBoss
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.91%) Moodle
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.91%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Endur
1 4 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.73%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.91%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.09%) Azure
2 23 (20.91%) AWS
3 21 (19.09%) GCP
4 18 (16.36%) Power Platform
5 17 (15.45%) GitHub
6 16 (14.55%) SaaS
7 14 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (7.27%) npm
9 8 (7.27%) PowerApps
10 5 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.55%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.73%) dbt
12 2 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.82%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.82%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.91%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) Power BI
2 12 (10.91%) NoSQL
3 11 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (8.18%) MySQL
5 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.64%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.64%) Tableau
7 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.82%) Airbyte
8 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.82%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.91%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (27.27%) Git
2 14 (12.73%) Gradle
3 10 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 8 (7.27%) Cucumber
4 8 (7.27%) Cypress.io
4 8 (7.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (7.27%) webpack
5 7 (6.36%) JIRA
6 6 (5.45%) Maven
7 3 (2.73%) LSMW
7 3 (2.73%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.82%) Checkstyle
8 2 (1.82%) Subversion
8 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.91%) JMeter
9 1 (0.91%) Moq
9 1 (0.91%) MSTest
9 1 (0.91%) NUnit
9 1 (0.91%) xUnit.net
General
1 45 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.18%) Finance
3 21 (19.09%) Games
4 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.45%) Law
5 11 (10.00%) Banking
6 6 (5.45%) Retail
7 5 (4.55%) Legal
8 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Marketing
8 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Local Government
9 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.91%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.91%) Back Office
11 1 (0.91%) Billing
11 1 (0.91%) Electronics
11 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (36.36%) Developer
2 21 (19.09%) Lead
3 14 (12.73%) Senior
4 10 (9.09%) Analyst
4 10 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 9 (8.18%) Architect
6 8 (7.27%) Java Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Lead Java Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Software Developer
6 8 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.36%) Android Developer
7 7 (6.36%) Consultant
7 7 (6.36%) iOS Android Developer
7 7 (6.36%) iOS Developer
7 7 (6.36%) IT Manager
7 7 (6.36%) Lead Android Developer
7 7 (6.36%) Lead iOS Developer
7 7 (6.36%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.09%) RESTful
2 16 (14.55%) .NET
3 15 (13.64%) REST
4 14 (12.73%) Kafka
5 12 (10.91%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (10.00%) Jest
7 10 (9.09%) Web Services
8 8 (7.27%) React
8 8 (7.27%) Spring Boot
8 8 (7.27%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 7 (6.36%) CSS
9 7 (6.36%) HTML
10 6 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (5.45%) OpenAPI
10 6 (5.45%) Spring
11 5 (4.55%) ASP.NET
12 4 (3.64%) JSON
13 3 (2.73%) .NET Framework
13 3 (2.73%) jQuery
13 3 (2.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.09%) Cloud Native
2 20 (18.18%) Mobile Games
3 15 (13.64%) Mobile App
4 9 (8.18%) Public Cloud
5 8 (7.27%) Distributed Applications
5 8 (7.27%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (6.36%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.55%) Replication
8 4 (3.64%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.73%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.73%) Legacy Code
9 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.82%) NHS
11 1 (0.91%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.27%) Android
1 8 (7.27%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.82%) Linux
2 2 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.09%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (37.27%) Agile
2 41 (37.27%) Migration
3 29 (26.36%) CI/CD
3 29 (26.36%) Microservices
4 24 (21.82%) Software Engineering
5 23 (20.91%) B2B
5 23 (20.91%) Computer Science
5 23 (20.91%) Mentoring
6 22 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 22 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 21 (19.09%) Test Automation
8 20 (18.18%) API Design
8 20 (18.18%) Change Management
8 20 (18.18%) Coaching
8 20 (18.18%) DevOps
9 18 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (15.45%) Design Patterns
11 16 (14.55%) Containerisation
12 15 (13.64%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 44 (40.00%) SQL
2 34 (30.91%) Java
3 17 (15.45%) C#
4 12 (10.91%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.27%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.27%) Objective-C
5 8 (7.27%) Python
5 8 (7.27%) Swift
6 5 (4.55%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.64%) PHP
8 3 (2.73%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.82%) Julia
9 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.82%) R
9 2 (1.82%) VBA
10 1 (0.91%) Bash
10 1 (0.91%) COBOL
10 1 (0.91%) Groovy
10 1 (0.91%) Ruby
10 1 (0.91%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (28.18%) Degree
2 22 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.45%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) ACCA
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.55%) QA
2 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.64%) SLA
5 1 (0.91%) GDPR
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 17 (15.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.45%) Argo
2 6 (5.45%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.73%) Terraform
4 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.91%) Avamar
4 1 (0.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) Istio
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.91%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.73%) New Relic
3 12 (10.91%) Google
4 7 (6.36%) Oracle
5 5 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.55%) SAP
6 4 (3.64%) OpenLink
7 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.82%) IBM
9 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.91%) Cisco
9 1 (0.91%) Confluent
9 1 (0.91%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.91%) HP
9 1 (0.91%) Infor
9 1 (0.91%) Meraki
9 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.91%) Sage
9 1 (0.91%) Workday