Legacy System
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 452 528
Rank change year-on-year -73 +76 -174
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 413 666 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.67% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 1.57% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 241 453 531
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,603 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +11.01% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £119,168 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +12.90%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Systems 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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 £109,865 £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 Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the UK

Legacy Systems
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 Systems within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 -75 340 £58,750 -10.65% 141
UK excluding London -51 301 £52,500 -4.55% 98
Work from Home -86 158 £55,000 -17.42% 80
London -64 91 £82,500 -2.94% 58
North of England +50 74 £55,000 -15.38% 31
South East +3 72 £52,500 +10.53% 22
Midlands -6 67 £50,000 +2.56% 20
Scotland -46 42 £73,750 -1.67% 7
North West -8 40 £55,000 -15.38% 15
West Midlands +10 38 £50,000 -23.08% 17
East Midlands -2 29 £38,750 -11.93% 3
Yorkshire +81 19 £38,500 -30.00% 13
East of England -6 17 £35,000 -36.36% 4
South West -66 16 £67,500 +22.73% 8
North East +7 15 £55,000 -16.67% 3
Northern Ireland +21 7 £47,500 -44.12% 3
Wales +4 7 - - 3

Legacy Systems
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 22 (5.33%) SAS
2 15 (3.63%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.15%) Apache
4 9 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.18%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.45%) Mendix
6 5 (1.21%) Drupal
6 5 (1.21%) K2 blackpearl
7 4 (0.97%) IIS
7 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.73%) CMS
9 2 (0.48%) Confluence
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.48%) Resin
9 2 (0.48%) WordPress
10 1 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.24%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 12 (2.91%) Sketch
2 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.39%) NetSuite
2 10 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.45%) Elite 3E
4 6 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.97%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.73%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.73%) SAP MDM
6 3 (0.73%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.48%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.48%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.24%) Magento
8 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-BP
8 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 135 (32.69%) Azure
2 124 (30.02%) AWS
3 27 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 26 (6.30%) GCP
5 19 (4.60%) SaaS
6 15 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (3.39%) Figma
7 14 (3.39%) GitHub
8 12 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.42%) Serverless
10 9 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.18%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.18%) PowerApps
10 9 (2.18%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (1.94%) Stackdriver
12 6 (1.45%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.45%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.73%) Firewall
1 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.73%) VPN
2 2 (0.48%) 4G
2 2 (0.48%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.48%) Multicast
2 2 (0.48%) VoIP
3 1 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.24%) DHCP
3 1 (0.24%) DNS
3 1 (0.24%) FTP
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) Network Security
3 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.77%) SQL Server
2 56 (13.56%) Geospatial Data
3 40 (9.69%) Relational Database
4 35 (8.47%) NoSQL
5 32 (7.75%) MySQL
6 25 (6.05%) Power BI
7 19 (4.60%) Big Data
8 18 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.42%) Oracle Database
9 10 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.94%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.94%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.69%) Apache Hive
11 7 (1.69%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.69%) HBase
12 6 (1.45%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.73%) Flink
Development Applications
1 48 (11.62%) Git
2 39 (9.44%) JIRA
3 35 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.66%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (2.66%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (1.45%) JUnit
6 6 (1.45%) NUnit
6 6 (1.45%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (1.21%) LabVIEW
8 4 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.48%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.48%) Balsamiq
10 2 (0.48%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.48%) Postman
10 2 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.24%) GitLab
11 1 (0.24%) WiX
General
1 152 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 89 (21.55%) Finance
3 40 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.02%) Law
4 29 (7.02%) Retail
5 28 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (6.05%) Marketing
7 17 (4.12%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.63%) Banking
9 13 (3.15%) Back Office
10 12 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.94%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.69%) Legal
14 6 (1.45%) Local Government
14 6 (1.45%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.97%) Police
16 3 (0.73%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 141 (34.14%) Developer
2 123 (29.78%) Architect
3 59 (14.29%) Senior
4 56 (13.56%) Geospatial Architect
4 56 (13.56%) Software Architect
5 36 (8.72%) Senior Developer
6 35 (8.47%) Lead
7 25 (6.05%) PHP Developer
7 25 (6.05%) Technical Architect
8 24 (5.81%) Consultant
9 22 (5.33%) ServiceNow Developer
10 19 (4.60%) C# Developer
11 18 (4.36%) Full Stack Developer
12 16 (3.87%) Data Architect
13 15 (3.63%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.63%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.39%) Functional Consultant
14 14 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.15%) .NET Developer
15 13 (3.15%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.98%) HTML
2 57 (13.80%) Web Services
3 54 (13.08%) .NET
4 48 (11.62%) CSS
5 33 (7.99%) REST
6 32 (7.75%) AngularJS
7 25 (6.05%) Laravel
8 23 (5.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 22 (5.33%) HTML5
10 21 (5.08%) Symfony
11 19 (4.60%) Spring
12 18 (4.36%) .NET Core
12 18 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (4.12%) jQuery
13 17 (4.12%) Kafka
14 16 (3.87%) JSON
14 16 (3.87%) SOAP
14 16 (3.87%) Spring Boot
15 15 (3.63%) ASP.NET
16 14 (3.39%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.56%) Management Information System
2 22 (5.33%) CMDB
3 17 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.39%) Clustering
5 12 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.66%) Replication
7 9 (2.18%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.94%) NHS
9 7 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.69%) PMI
10 6 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.21%) BBC
11 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.21%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.60%) Windows
2 18 (4.36%) Linux
3 9 (2.18%) Unix
4 5 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (39.71%) Agile
2 127 (30.75%) Migration
3 117 (28.33%) DevOps
4 76 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (15.74%) Software Testing
6 57 (13.80%) Software Architecture
7 54 (13.08%) Microservices
8 50 (12.11%) Mentoring
9 49 (11.86%) Project Management
10 44 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (10.65%) Software Engineering
11 41 (9.93%) Data Management
12 39 (9.44%) Data Migration
13 37 (8.96%) Analytics
13 37 (8.96%) Visualisation
14 36 (8.72%) SDLC
15 34 (8.23%) Code Quality
15 34 (8.23%) Computer Science
16 32 (7.75%) Actionable Insight
16 32 (7.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 100 (24.21%) SQL
2 69 (16.71%) JavaScript
3 57 (13.80%) C#
4 35 (8.47%) Java
5 34 (8.23%) Python
6 31 (7.51%) PHP
7 14 (3.39%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.91%) Go
9 10 (2.42%) Delphi
9 10 (2.42%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.94%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.45%) Perl
11 6 (1.45%) VB
11 6 (1.45%) VB.NET
12 5 (1.21%) Bash
13 4 (0.97%) C
13 4 (0.97%) FoxPro (VFP)
14 3 (0.73%) C++
14 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (9.69%) Degree
2 27 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.42%) CISM
4 10 (2.42%) CISSP
5 9 (2.18%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) CBAP
9 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.48%) IIBA
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) CIMA
10 1 (0.24%) CISA
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CRISC
10 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.57%) QA
2 20 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.69%) GDPR
4 7 (1.69%) GRC
4 7 (1.69%) NIST
5 6 (1.45%) NCSC
5 6 (1.45%) NIST 800
6 3 (0.73%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.73%) PMO
7 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.48%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.24%) COBIT
8 1 (0.24%) COSO
8 1 (0.24%) PSD2
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (9.44%) Docker
2 8 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.69%) HDFS
4 6 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (7.26%) Terraform
2 28 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.84%) Ansible
4 8 (1.94%) Grafana
5 5 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (1.21%) Puppet
6 3 (0.73%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.24%) MIIS
8 1 (0.24%) Nagios
8 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 62 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.69%) ServiceNow
3 36 (8.72%) Oracle
4 23 (5.57%) SAP
5 15 (3.63%) Databricks
6 9 (2.18%) WSO2
7 8 (1.94%) Informatica
8 7 (1.69%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.45%) BMC
9 6 (1.45%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.45%) HP
9 6 (1.45%) Remedy
9 6 (1.45%) Splunk
10 5 (1.21%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (1.21%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.73%) Cisco
12 3 (0.73%) JDA
13 2 (0.48%) Cognos
13 2 (0.48%) Salesforce