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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 593 555
Rank change year-on-year +18 -38 -68
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 15 82 288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.044% 0.19% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.49% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15 68 37
10th Percentile £35,100 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -29.60% +19.05%
75th Percentile £54,375 £62,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £88,625 £120,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +71.43% +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 11,987 16,704 30,727
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.44% 38.63% 46.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,217 11,985 16,722
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 26 April 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 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Figma
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) npm
4 1 (6.67%) Slack
4 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Gradle
3 1 (6.67%) Grunt
3 1 (6.67%) Vagrant
3 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 5 (33.33%) Law
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Games
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) PHP Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Support
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) HTML
2 7 (46.67%) CSS
3 6 (40.00%) Node.js
4 4 (26.67%) .NET
4 4 (26.67%) jQuery
5 3 (20.00%) React
5 3 (20.00%) Vue
6 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
6 2 (13.33%) Blazor
6 2 (13.33%) CSS3
6 2 (13.33%) FHIR
6 2 (13.33%) HTML5
6 2 (13.33%) Laravel
6 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (13.33%) React Native
6 2 (13.33%) RESTful
6 2 (13.33%) SOAP
6 2 (13.33%) Symfony
6 2 (13.33%) Web Services
7 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
1 6 (40.00%) Microservices
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Full Stack Development
3 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Content Management
5 2 (13.33%) Load Testing
5 2 (13.33%) OOP
5 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) PHP
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) C#
5 3 (20.00%) C
6 2 (13.33%) Java
7 1 (6.67%) Ada
7 1 (6.67%) C++
7 1 (6.67%) Python
7 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) HL7
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Progress
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft