Legacy Systems Job Trends in Yorkshire

Legacy System
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 160 185
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 +52
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 12 20 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.36% 0.41% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.15% 1.71% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 17
10th Percentile £60,256 £29,750 £46,250
25th Percentile - £37,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +32.50% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £89,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,750 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.58% -7.69% -5.74%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring generic IT skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,046 1,172 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.77% 23.76% 42.04%
Number of salaries quoted 495 565 1,090
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £75,000 £87,419
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in Yorkshire

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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 +22 11 £65,000 +8.33% 6
North Yorkshire -4 1 - - 3
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 3 (25.00%) Legal
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Agriculture
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
1 6 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Software Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Business Change Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Business Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Change Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Head of IT
3 1 (8.33%) IT Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Project Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (33.33%) React
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) UML
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) IBM