Legacy Code Jobs in England

Legacy Code
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Code over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 768 773 835
Rank change year-on-year +5 +62 -95
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 97 128 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.35% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 54 100 106
10th Percentile £38,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £105,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -13.04%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30,484 36,695 66,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.50% 43.61% 47.39%
Number of salaries quoted 20,995 20,279 30,587
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,761 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,686 £46,250
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 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Legacy Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Code in England

Legacy Code
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Code within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +150 68 £90,000 +38.46% 8
Midlands -6 14 £47,500 +7.95% 3
East Midlands -13 10 £47,500 +11.76%
North of England +13 9 £42,500 -19.05% 5
North West -9 7 £40,000 -23.81% 3
West Midlands -12 4 - - 3
South East -37 4 - - 1
South West -46 2 £53,750 +22.16% 3
Yorkshire +48 1 £42,500 -19.05% 2
North East -10 1 £63,000 +26.00%
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 35 (36.08%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (19.59%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.03%) Notion
Business Applications
1 35 (36.08%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.68%) AWS
2 19 (19.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 19 (19.59%) NuGet
3 10 (10.31%) SaaS
4 6 (6.19%) GitHub
4 6 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (2.06%) Azure
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.03%) Figma
7 1 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.03%) Slack
7 1 (1.03%) Stripe
7 1 (1.03%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (37.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.28%) MySQL
3 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (39.18%) JIRA
2 36 (37.11%) Git
3 35 (36.08%) Moq
3 35 (36.08%) NUnit
3 35 (36.08%) TeamCity
4 19 (19.59%) git-flow
4 19 (19.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 19 (19.59%) Sourcetree
4 19 (19.59%) SpecFlow
4 19 (19.59%) Visual Studio
5 16 (16.49%) GitLab
6 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.03%) Gradle
7 1 (1.03%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.03%) XCTest
7 1 (1.03%) XCUITest
General
1 35 (36.08%) Marketing
2 26 (26.80%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Law
4 5 (5.15%) Games
5 2 (2.06%) Retail
6 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (53.61%) Developer
2 42 (43.30%) Senior
3 41 (42.27%) Full Stack Developer
4 32 (32.99%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (27.84%) Software Engineer
6 24 (24.74%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 24 (24.74%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 24 (24.74%) Senior Developer
7 22 (22.68%) C# Developer
8 20 (20.62%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 19 (19.59%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 19 (19.59%) Lead
9 19 (19.59%) Senior C# Developer
10 16 (16.49%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 16 (16.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 14 (14.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (12.37%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (8.25%) Full Stack Engineer
14 7 (7.22%) PHP Developer
15 5 (5.15%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (49.48%) CSS
1 48 (49.48%) HTML
2 43 (44.33%) .NET
3 39 (40.21%) jQuery
4 38 (39.18%) .NET Framework
4 38 (39.18%) Web Services
5 37 (38.14%) RESTful
5 37 (38.14%) SOAP
6 36 (37.11%) ASP.NET
7 35 (36.08%) ASP.NET MVC
7 35 (36.08%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 35 (36.08%) Entity Framework
7 35 (36.08%) Semantic HTML
8 32 (32.99%) React
9 20 (20.62%) XML
10 19 (19.59%) Autofac
10 19 (19.59%) Code First Entity Framework
10 19 (19.59%) Ninject
11 18 (18.56%) Node.js
12 16 (16.49%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (32.99%) Cloud Native
1 32 (32.99%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (19.59%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (9.28%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.03%) Xbox
Operating Systems
1 37 (38.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) Full Stack Development
2 46 (47.42%) Agile
3 42 (43.30%) MVC
4 37 (38.14%) E-Commerce
4 37 (38.14%) Software Engineering
4 37 (38.14%) Unit Testing
5 36 (37.11%) Computer Science
6 35 (36.08%) Issue Tracking
6 35 (36.08%) Performance Tuning
6 35 (36.08%) Responsive Web Design
7 29 (29.90%) DevOps
8 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (24.74%) Mentoring
10 22 (22.68%) OO
10 22 (22.68%) Scrum
10 22 (22.68%) TDD
11 21 (21.65%) Architectural Patterns
12 20 (20.62%) Architectural Design
12 20 (20.62%) SOLID
13 19 (19.59%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (57.73%) JavaScript
2 43 (44.33%) C#
3 41 (42.27%) SQL
4 35 (36.08%) T-SQL
5 32 (32.99%) Go
6 27 (27.84%) C
7 26 (26.80%) C++
8 24 (24.74%) Rust
9 19 (19.59%) XPath
10 14 (14.43%) TypeScript
11 10 (10.31%) PHP
12 4 (4.12%) Java
13 1 (1.03%) Ada
13 1 (1.03%) Objective-C
13 1 (1.03%) Python
13 1 (1.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (38.14%) Degree
2 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.03%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) HL7
2 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (32.99%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (19.59%) Adobe
1 19 (19.59%) Cognizant
2 2 (2.06%) Progress
3 1 (1.03%) Google
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.03%) SAP