Legacy Applications Jobs

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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 768 762 885
Rank change year-on-year -6 +123 -130
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Applications 137 184 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.45% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 99 149 93
10th Percentile £41,500 £47,500 £30,650
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +15.20% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £130,446 £96,000 £123,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,351 £42,500
% change year-on-year -12.01% +53.77% -15.00%

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 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +19 115 £65,000 -16.13% 20
UK excluding London -40 86 £57,500 -12.01% 16
Work from Home +2 74 £63,750 -2.45% 5
London +54 41 £80,000 -3.03% 6
South East +20 39 £57,500 -12.01% 5
North of England +6 19 £55,000 -15.84% 4
Midlands -11 11 £52,500 -6.25% 3
North West -9 8 £70,576 +8.00% 3
Yorkshire +29 7 £77,500 +19.23% 1
West Midlands -13 6 £58,750 +4.91% 2
East Midlands -12 5 £45,000 - 1
Wales - 5 £130,446 -
North East -9 4 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland +21 3 £130,446 +86.35% 1
East of England -5 3 £70,000 +15.70% 2
South West -32 3 £77,500 +18.59%
Scotland -76 3 £130,446 +100.69% 2

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 (2.92%) Drupal
2 2 (1.46%) WordPress
3 1 (0.73%) IIS
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) Tornado
Applications
1 5 (3.65%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (3.65%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (1.46%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 40 (29.20%) Azure
2 29 (21.17%) AWS
3 15 (10.95%) SaaS
4 12 (8.76%) Serverless
5 9 (6.57%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.11%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (3.65%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.65%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.92%) GCP
10 2 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.46%) GitHub
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.19%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.98%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.68%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.30%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.11%) Power BI
5 5 (3.65%) Metadata
6 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.46%) MS Access
7 2 (1.46%) MySQL
7 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.73%) Big Data
8 1 (0.73%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Git
2 6 (4.38%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.19%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.73%) GitLab
4 1 (0.73%) JIRA
4 1 (0.73%) JMeter
4 1 (0.73%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.73%) Sourcetree
General
1 15 (10.95%) Aerospace
1 15 (10.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.49%) Finance
3 11 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.84%) Front Office
4 8 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (5.84%) Law
4 8 (5.84%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.38%) Banking
5 6 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.65%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.46%) Automotive
7 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.73%) Back Office
8 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (34.31%) Developer
2 28 (20.44%) Architect
3 26 (18.98%) Senior
4 23 (16.79%) Software Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) .NET Developer
5 17 (12.41%) Junior
6 16 (11.68%) Technical Architect
7 15 (10.95%) Junior Architect
7 15 (10.95%) Junior Technical Architect
8 14 (10.22%) Lead
9 13 (9.49%) Perl Developer
9 13 (9.49%) Senior Developer
10 10 (7.30%) C# Developer
11 9 (6.57%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (6.57%) Senior .NET Developer
12 8 (5.84%) Analyst
12 8 (5.84%) Senior C# Developer
13 7 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (5.11%) Senior C# .NET Developer
14 6 (4.38%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (41.61%) .NET
2 27 (19.71%) .NET Core
3 18 (13.14%) HTML
4 14 (10.22%) CSS
4 14 (10.22%) React
5 13 (9.49%) Web Services
6 12 (8.76%) Razor View Engine
7 11 (8.03%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.30%) Node.js
9 8 (5.84%) .NET Framework
9 8 (5.84%) ASP.NET
9 8 (5.84%) Blazor
10 7 (5.11%) Unity DI Container
11 6 (4.38%) RESTful
12 5 (3.65%) Itk
12 5 (3.65%) XML
13 4 (2.92%) Laravel
14 3 (2.19%) jQuery
14 3 (2.19%) MERN Stack
14 3 (2.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.84%) N-Tier
3 7 (5.11%) Blog
3 7 (5.11%) Derivative
3 7 (5.11%) Hedge funds
3 7 (5.11%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.65%) IoT
5 5 (3.65%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.65%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.92%) Wiki
7 3 (2.19%) Arduino
7 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.19%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (2.19%) SCADA
8 2 (1.46%) DataPower
8 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.46%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.60%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Windows
3 3 (2.19%) VxWorks
4 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.58%) Agile
2 37 (27.01%) Software Engineering
3 31 (22.63%) DevOps
3 31 (22.63%) Microservices
4 22 (16.06%) Migration
5 21 (15.33%) Roadmaps
6 19 (13.87%) Full Stack Development
7 18 (13.14%) Test Automation
8 17 (12.41%) Security Architecture
9 16 (11.68%) Change Management
9 16 (11.68%) Collaborative Working
9 16 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (10.95%) Prototyping
10 15 (10.95%) Requirements Analysis
10 15 (10.95%) Technical Analysis
10 15 (10.95%) Unit Testing
11 13 (9.49%) Scrum
12 12 (8.76%) CI/CD
13 11 (8.03%) Web Development
14 10 (7.30%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.50%) C#
2 34 (24.82%) JavaScript
3 29 (21.17%) SQL
4 21 (15.33%) Python
5 18 (13.14%) Java
6 15 (10.95%) PowerShell
7 13 (9.49%) Perl
8 12 (8.76%) C++
9 9 (6.57%) PHP
9 9 (6.57%) TypeScript
9 9 (6.57%) VB
9 9 (6.57%) VB.NET
10 7 (5.11%) VB6
11 5 (3.65%) Bash
11 5 (3.65%) C
11 5 (3.65%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.19%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.73%) Ada
Qualifications
1 12 (8.76%) Degree
2 7 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.65%) MCAD
3 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.65%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.46%) OCP
5 2 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.57%) QA
2 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.73%) GDPR
2 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) Docker
2 3 (2.19%) VirtualBox
2 3 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.84%) Terraform
2 7 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.19%) Grafana
5 2 (1.46%) cPanel
6 1 (0.73%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.11%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.92%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.19%) Sparx
4 3 (2.19%) VMware
5 2 (1.46%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.46%) Epicor
5 2 (1.46%) IBM
5 2 (1.46%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.46%) Oracle
5 2 (1.46%) SAP
6 1 (0.73%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.73%) Databricks
6 1 (0.73%) Google
6 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow