Legacy Applications Job Trends in Yorkshire

Legacy Application
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 158 177
Rank change year-on-year -37 +19 +14
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 10 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.13% 0.091% 0.061%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 0.29% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile - £72,000 £67,089
25th Percentile £27,995 £75,000 £90,848
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £80,000 £130,446
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -38.67% +160.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile £74,985 - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +6.38%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

Legacy Applications 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 requiring generic IT skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,624 1,047 1,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.32% 31.82% 23.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 498 570
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £66,646
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,625 £75,077
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Legacy Applications relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Legacy Applications job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legacy Applications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legacy Applications

Legacy Applications
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in Yorkshire

Legacy Applications
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -31 6 £60,000 -25.00% 3
East Yorkshire - 3 £29,330 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £69,305 -
Legacy Applications
England

Legacy Applications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Advertising
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Junior
4 2 (20.00%) Junior .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Junior .NET Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Junior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Junior Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Digital Project Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (30.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) Flutter
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Low-Code
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Coaching
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) C
4 2 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) Dart
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (10.00%) COBOL
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (10.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Sage