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 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 136 194
Rank change year-on-year -22 +58 +85
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 25 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.59% 0.45% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 1.22% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23 4 7
10th Percentile £46,104 £31,650 £35,050
25th Percentile £57,223 £38,625 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +14.29% -48.40%
75th Percentile £65,640 £81,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £85,250 £58,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -4.55% -26.67%

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 1,210 904 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.41% 36.84% 32.68%
Number of salaries quoted 638 404 1,176
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,325 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £69,914
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -23 19 £63,076 +5.13% 10
South Yorkshire -18 5 £58,446 - 4
North Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 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 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (32.00%) PowerApps
3 6 (24.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (12.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) AWS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.00%) IaaS
6 2 (8.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DHCP
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (4.00%) Looker
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Senior
2 9 (36.00%) Senior Manager
3 6 (24.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 6 (24.00%) Project Manager
3 6 (24.00%) Senior Digital Project Manager
3 6 (24.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Applications Support
5 3 (12.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) IT Manager
5 3 (12.00%) IT Services Manager
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior IT Manager
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Service Manager
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Support Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
1 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (12.00%) CSS
2 3 (12.00%) HTML
2 3 (12.00%) HTML5
2 3 (12.00%) jQuery
3 2 (8.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (24.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (24.00%) Low-Code
3 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
1 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Coaching
1 12 (48.00%) Mentoring
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) Migration
5 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (28.00%) Project Delivery
5 7 (28.00%) Supplier Management
6 6 (24.00%) Budget Management
6 6 (24.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 6 (24.00%) Digital Strategy
6 6 (24.00%) Project Management
6 6 (24.00%) User Experience
7 5 (20.00%) CRM
7 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 4 (16.00%) Analytics
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (16.00%) ETL
8 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) VBA
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Draytek
2 2 (8.00%) VMware