Legacy Application
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Applications in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 767 868
Rank change year-on-year +4 +101 -126
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 133 208 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.49% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 99 149 98
10th Percentile £41,500 £47,500 £32,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £88,125 £86,250 £85,625
90th Percentile £130,089 £100,000 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +49.43% -13.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Applications is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,986 42,866 76,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 42.72% 47.73%
Number of salaries quoted 22,999 23,359 34,161
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,367 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Legacy Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Legacy Applications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Applications.

Salary trend for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Applications over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Applications in the UK

Legacy Applications
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Applications within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
England +28 114 £65,000 -16.13% 24
UK excluding London -23 85 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Work from Home +28 74 £62,500 -4.36% 8
London +75 41 £73,750 -10.61% 8
South East +32 37 £57,500 -12.01% 9
North of England +7 20 £62,788 -3.92% 2
Midlands +3 11 £58,750 +4.91% 2
North West +10 9 £70,576 +8.00% 1
Yorkshire +53 7 £77,500 +19.23% 1
West Midlands +4 7 £62,500 +11.61%
Wales - 5 £130,446 -
North East -4 4 £55,000 -
East Midlands -17 4 £40,000 -21.18% 2
Northern Ireland +28 3 £130,446 +117.41%
East of England +4 3 £70,000 +15.70% 3
South West -26 3 £77,500 +18.59%
Scotland -60 3 £130,446 +100.69% 1

Legacy Applications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.01%) Drupal
2 2 (1.50%) WordPress
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (3.76%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.58%) Azure
2 25 (18.80%) AWS
3 15 (11.28%) SaaS
4 11 (8.27%) Serverless
5 9 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.51%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.51%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (3.76%) GCP
8 5 (3.76%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.76%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.50%) GitHub
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.75%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.55%) SQL Server
2 17 (12.78%) Data Lake
3 9 (6.77%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.26%) Power BI
5 5 (3.76%) Metadata
6 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.50%) MS Access
8 2 (1.50%) MySQL
8 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Git
2 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.26%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) JMeter
4 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.75%) Sourcetree
General
1 16 (12.03%) Finance
2 15 (11.28%) Aerospace
3 13 (9.77%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Banking
5 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.26%) Front Office
6 7 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.26%) Law
7 6 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.76%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (33.08%) Developer
2 29 (21.80%) Architect
3 25 (18.80%) Senior
4 23 (17.29%) Software Engineer
5 19 (14.29%) .NET Developer
6 17 (12.78%) Junior
7 16 (12.03%) Technical Architect
8 15 (11.28%) Junior Architect
8 15 (11.28%) Junior Technical Architect
9 14 (10.53%) Lead
10 12 (9.02%) Senior Developer
11 10 (7.52%) Perl Developer
12 9 (6.77%) C# .NET Developer
12 9 (6.77%) C# Developer
12 9 (6.77%) Senior .NET Developer
13 7 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (5.26%) Senior C# .NET Developer
13 7 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
14 6 (4.51%) Data Architect
14 6 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (41.35%) .NET
2 28 (21.05%) .NET Core
3 17 (12.78%) HTML
4 14 (10.53%) CSS
5 13 (9.77%) Web Services
6 12 (9.02%) Razor View Engine
6 12 (9.02%) React
7 11 (8.27%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.77%) Node.js
9 8 (6.02%) ASP.NET
9 8 (6.02%) Blazor
10 7 (5.26%) .NET Framework
11 6 (4.51%) RESTful
11 6 (4.51%) Unity DI Container
12 5 (3.76%) Itk
12 5 (3.76%) XML
13 3 (2.26%) jQuery
13 3 (2.26%) Laravel
14 2 (1.50%) Entity Framework
14 2 (1.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.51%) Blog
2 6 (4.51%) Derivative
2 6 (4.51%) Hedge funds
2 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.51%) N-Tier
2 6 (4.51%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.76%) IoT
3 5 (3.76%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.01%) Wiki
5 2 (1.50%) DataPower
5 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.75%) Arduino
6 1 (0.75%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.04%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.59%) Agile
2 35 (26.32%) Software Engineering
3 32 (24.06%) Microservices
4 31 (23.31%) DevOps
5 21 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
5 21 (15.79%) Migration
5 21 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 18 (13.53%) Security Architecture
7 17 (12.78%) Test Automation
8 16 (12.03%) Change Management
8 16 (12.03%) Collaborative Working
8 16 (12.03%) Requirements Analysis
9 15 (11.28%) Prototyping
9 15 (11.28%) Technical Analysis
10 14 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (9.77%) Unit Testing
11 13 (9.77%) Web Development
12 12 (9.02%) CI/CD
12 12 (9.02%) Scrum
13 9 (6.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.34%) C#
2 32 (24.06%) JavaScript
3 30 (22.56%) SQL
4 21 (15.79%) Python
5 18 (13.53%) Java
6 13 (9.77%) PowerShell
7 10 (7.52%) C++
7 10 (7.52%) Perl
8 9 (6.77%) VB
9 8 (6.02%) PHP
10 7 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 7 (5.26%) VB.NET
10 7 (5.26%) VB6
11 5 (3.76%) Bash
11 5 (3.76%) C
11 5 (3.76%) Shell Script
12 4 (3.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (7.52%) Degree
2 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.76%) MCAD
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.26%) OCP
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.75%) GDPR
2 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) VirtualBox
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (6.02%) Terraform
2 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.50%) cPanel
5 1 (0.75%) Ansible
5 1 (0.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.51%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.26%) Databricks
4 3 (2.26%) Sparx
5 2 (1.50%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.50%) Epicor
5 2 (1.50%) IBM
5 2 (1.50%) SAP
6 1 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.75%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.75%) VMware