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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 153 173
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +61
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 10 14 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.29% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 1.30% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,100 £47,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +70.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £55,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,500 £71,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -19.23% -10.34%

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 923 1,079 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 27.07% 26.28% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 523 455 838
10th Percentile £25,140 £29,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,750 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,189 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -2.34%

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 November 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 27 November 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 +6 8 £67,500 -20.59% 5
South Yorkshire +4 2 £27,500 - 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Looker
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Software Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Server Migrations
3 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Draytek
2 2 (20.00%) VMware