Legacy Code
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code 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 761 840 731
Rank change year-on-year +79 -109 +32
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 129 137 575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.32% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 54 104 134
10th Percentile £38,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,375 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £105,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £82,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%

All Generic Skills
UK

Legacy Code 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 Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Legacy Code in the UK

Legacy Code
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code 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 +43 85 £90,000 +71.43% 26
UK excluding London -60 66 £45,000 -10.00% 19
London +138 63 £90,000 +50.00% 9
Scotland -20 43 - -
Work from Home +11 17 £45,000 +2.27% 14
Midlands -8 10 £47,500 +7.95% 7
East Midlands -6 8 £47,500 +9.83% 3
North of England +31 6 £52,750 +0.48% 6
North West -1 4 £55,000 -2.22% 6
South East -27 4 - - 3
West Midlands +11 2 - - 4
South West -47 2 £53,750 +22.16%
Yorkshire +68 1 £42,500 -19.05%
Wales +5 1 £32,500 -35.00%
North East -6 1 £63,000 +26.00%

Legacy Code
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 43 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 29 (22.48%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.78%) Notion
Business Applications
1 28 (21.71%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.40%) AWS
2 15 (11.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 15 (11.63%) NuGet
3 8 (6.20%) SaaS
4 4 (3.10%) GitHub
4 4 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (1.55%) Azure
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.78%) Figma
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.78%) npm
6 1 (0.78%) Slack
6 1 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (33.33%) Big Data
1 43 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 29 (22.48%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.43%) MySQL
4 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
7 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (23.26%) Git
1 30 (23.26%) JIRA
2 28 (21.71%) Moq
2 28 (21.71%) NUnit
2 28 (21.71%) TeamCity
3 15 (11.63%) git-flow
3 15 (11.63%) Octopus Deploy
3 15 (11.63%) Sourcetree
3 15 (11.63%) SpecFlow
3 15 (11.63%) Visual Studio
4 13 (10.08%) GitLab
5 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.78%) Gradle
6 1 (0.78%) Grunt
6 1 (0.78%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.78%) webpack
6 1 (0.78%) XCTest
6 1 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 50 (38.76%) Law
2 43 (33.33%) Finance
2 43 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (33.33%) Legal
3 28 (21.71%) Marketing
4 20 (15.50%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.33%) Games
6 2 (1.55%) Retail
7 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (52.71%) Software Engineer
2 43 (33.33%) Big Data Engineer
2 43 (33.33%) Big Data Software Engineer
2 43 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 43 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 43 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 41 (31.78%) Developer
4 37 (28.68%) Senior
5 34 (26.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (24.81%) Full Stack Developer
7 22 (17.05%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 22 (17.05%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 19 (14.73%) Lead
9 18 (13.95%) Senior Developer
10 17 (13.18%) C# Developer
10 17 (13.18%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 17 (13.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 16 (12.40%) Senior Full Stack Developer
12 15 (11.63%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 15 (11.63%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.88%) Spring
2 44 (34.11%) Spring Boot
3 39 (30.23%) HTML
4 38 (29.46%) CSS
5 34 (26.36%) .NET
6 32 (24.81%) jQuery
6 32 (24.81%) React
7 30 (23.26%) .NET Framework
7 30 (23.26%) RESTful
7 30 (23.26%) SOAP
7 30 (23.26%) Web Services
8 28 (21.71%) ASP.NET
8 28 (21.71%) ASP.NET MVC
8 28 (21.71%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 28 (21.71%) Entity Framework
8 28 (21.71%) Semantic HTML
9 20 (15.50%) Node.js
10 16 (12.40%) XML
11 15 (11.63%) Autofac
11 15 (11.63%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 77 (59.69%) Cloud Native
2 43 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 34 (26.36%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (11.63%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.78%) Xbox
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (63.57%) Software Engineering
2 79 (61.24%) Agile
3 49 (37.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 48 (37.21%) CI/CD
4 48 (37.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (35.66%) Full Stack Development
6 43 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 43 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 43 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 43 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 43 (33.33%) Visualisation
7 32 (24.81%) MVC
8 30 (23.26%) E-Commerce
8 30 (23.26%) Unit Testing
9 29 (22.48%) Computer Science
10 28 (21.71%) Issue Tracking
10 28 (21.71%) Performance Tuning
10 28 (21.71%) Responsive Web Design
11 23 (17.83%) DevOps
12 21 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 76 (58.91%) SQL
2 51 (39.53%) JavaScript
3 47 (36.43%) Java
4 34 (26.36%) C#
4 34 (26.36%) Go
5 28 (21.71%) T-SQL
6 25 (19.38%) C
7 24 (18.60%) C++
8 22 (17.05%) Rust
9 15 (11.63%) TypeScript
9 15 (11.63%) XPath
10 8 (6.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) Ada
11 1 (0.78%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.78%) Python
11 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (23.26%) Degree
2 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.55%) HL7
2 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (26.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (11.63%) Adobe
1 15 (11.63%) Cognizant
2 2 (1.55%) Progress
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.78%) SAP