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 27 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 148 178
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +12
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 46 12 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.61% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 1.11% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 37 9 7
10th Percentile £50,903 £45,256 £21,250
25th Percentile £60,750 - £26,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 - £86,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £72,500 £94,500
England median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1,594 1,079 1,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.31% 31.76% 23.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 537 729
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,313 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £40,000
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 £65,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £73,886
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 27 August 2026.

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 27 August 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 -18 31 £80,000 +23.08% 7
East Yorkshire - 9 £90,000 -
South Yorkshire -18 6 £74,653 +57.16% 3
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 4 (8.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (17.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (10.87%) SAP MDG
2 5 (10.87%) SAP MDG-BP
3 1 (2.17%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.52%) GitHub
3 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.52%) SaaS
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
4 2 (4.35%) Serverless
4 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
1 3 (6.52%) Power BI
1 3 (6.52%) SAP BW
1 3 (6.52%) SAP HANA
2 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) GitLab
2 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (21.74%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Retail
3 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.52%) Legal
6 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Senior
2 11 (23.91%) Senior Software Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Software Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Architect
4 8 (17.39%) Consultant
4 8 (17.39%) SAP Consultant
4 8 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Lead
5 5 (10.87%) SAP MDG Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Finance Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) Node.js
1 5 (10.87%) SAP ALE
1 5 (10.87%) Web Dynpro
2 4 (8.70%) React
2 4 (8.70%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.17%) Middleware
4 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.87%) Replication
3 4 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) FMCG
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) NHS
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Migration
1 12 (26.09%) Software Engineering
2 9 (19.57%) Agile
2 9 (19.57%) Data Modelling
2 9 (19.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (15.22%) Data Migration
3 7 (15.22%) System Integration Testing
3 7 (15.22%) Validation
4 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 5 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (10.87%) Coaching
5 5 (10.87%) Data Governance
5 5 (10.87%) SOA
6 4 (8.70%) AI
6 4 (8.70%) Analytics
6 4 (8.70%) ERP
6 4 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (8.70%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) ABAP
2 7 (15.22%) SQL
3 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.70%) Python
4 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.52%) C#
5 3 (6.52%) Perl
5 3 (6.52%) PHP
6 2 (4.35%) C++
6 2 (4.35%) Java
6 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 3 (6.52%) HIPAA
2 3 (6.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) SAP
2 5 (10.87%) Ariba
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) OpenText
4 2 (4.35%) Databricks
4 2 (4.35%) TOWER Software