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 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 153 180
Rank change year-on-year +9 +27 +57
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 10 19 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.30% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.95% 1.84% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 12
10th Percentile £47,250 £36,700 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +60.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £92,500 £53,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,500 £57,250
England median annual salary £66,500 £53,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +24.30% -17.69% -7.14%

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 1,055 1,030 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.73% 23.69% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 503 434 1,005
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £30,125 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,419
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend 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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +11 8 £65,000 -23.53% 11
South Yorkshire +16 1 £27,500 - 4
North Yorkshire -17 1 - - 2
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Looker
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Agriculture
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Software Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Head of IT
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Architecture Governance
1 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) ArchiMate
2 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) UML
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Draytek
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) VMware