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 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 144 170
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 +82
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 11 12 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.32% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.07% 1.23% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 12
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,100 £37,825
25th Percentile £54,503 £34,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.17% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,035 £63,750 £56,563
90th Percentile £80,750 £73,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £50,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +34.33% -16.25% -17.24%

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 1,032 977 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.71% 31.37% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 533 391 939
10th Percentile £26,050 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,263 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,454 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.02% +0.76% -7.69%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -10 7 £64,038 +42.31% 6
South Yorkshire -2 3 £27,500 - 6
North Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 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 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Looker
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Digital Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Digital Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Development Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Low-Code
3 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Coaching
1 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
1 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) Budget Management
2 3 (27.27%) Conflict Resolution
2 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
2 3 (27.27%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Supplier Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Server Migrations
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) VBA
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Plesk
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Draytek
2 2 (18.18%) VMware