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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Code over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 761 774 855
Rank change year-on-year +13 +81 -114
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 102 120 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.34% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58 93 101
10th Percentile £39,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,375 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -4.76%
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 falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31,616 35,808 68,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.08% 43.63% 47.75%
Number of salaries quoted 21,236 20,076 30,814
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,125 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,872 £46,000
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 £87,419 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 12 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 12 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 +137 71 £90,000 +38.46% 7
Midlands -28 15 £47,500 +4.40% 3
East Midlands -23 10 £47,500 +7.95% 1
North of England -9 9 £42,500 -19.05% 4
North West -28 7 £40,000 -23.81% 2
West Midlands -7 5 - - 2
South East -58 4 - - 3
South West -57 3 £67,500 +53.41% 4
Yorkshire +51 1 £42,500 -19.05% 2
North East -17 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 37 (36.27%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (18.63%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.98%) Notion
Business Applications
1 37 (36.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.55%) AWS
2 19 (18.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 19 (18.63%) NuGet
3 10 (9.80%) SaaS
4 6 (5.88%) GitHub
4 6 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.98%) Azure
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.98%) Figma
6 1 (0.98%) GCP
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.98%) Slack
6 1 (0.98%) Stripe
6 1 (0.98%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (38.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.80%) MySQL
3 5 (4.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.98%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.98%) Redis
6 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (39.22%) JIRA
2 38 (37.25%) Git
3 37 (36.27%) Moq
3 37 (36.27%) NUnit
3 37 (36.27%) TeamCity
4 19 (18.63%) git-flow
4 19 (18.63%) Octopus Deploy
4 19 (18.63%) Sourcetree
4 19 (18.63%) SpecFlow
4 19 (18.63%) Visual Studio
5 18 (17.65%) GitLab
6 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.98%) Gradle
7 1 (0.98%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (36.27%) Marketing
2 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.82%) Law
4 4 (3.92%) Games
5 2 (1.96%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (52.94%) Developer
2 44 (43.14%) Senior
3 42 (41.18%) Full Stack Developer
4 36 (35.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (30.39%) Software Engineer
6 28 (27.45%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 28 (27.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 24 (23.53%) Senior Developer
8 22 (21.57%) C# Developer
9 21 (20.59%) Lead
10 19 (18.63%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 19 (18.63%) Senior C# Developer
10 19 (18.63%) Senior Full Stack Developer
11 18 (17.65%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 18 (17.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 16 (15.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (13.73%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (7.84%) Full Stack Engineer
14 8 (7.84%) PHP Developer
15 5 (4.90%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (50.98%) CSS
1 52 (50.98%) HTML
2 46 (45.10%) .NET
3 41 (40.20%) jQuery
4 40 (39.22%) .NET Framework
4 40 (39.22%) Web Services
5 39 (38.24%) RESTful
5 39 (38.24%) SOAP
6 38 (37.25%) ASP.NET
7 37 (36.27%) ASP.NET MVC
7 37 (36.27%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 37 (36.27%) Entity Framework
7 37 (36.27%) Semantic HTML
8 32 (31.37%) React
9 20 (19.61%) XML
10 19 (18.63%) Autofac
10 19 (18.63%) Code First Entity Framework
10 19 (18.63%) Ninject
11 18 (17.65%) Classic ASP
11 18 (17.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (35.29%) Cloud Native
1 36 (35.29%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (18.63%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (41.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 50 (49.02%) Agile
3 44 (43.14%) MVC
4 41 (40.20%) Software Engineering
5 39 (38.24%) Unit Testing
6 38 (37.25%) E-Commerce
7 37 (36.27%) Computer Science
7 37 (36.27%) Issue Tracking
7 37 (36.27%) Performance Tuning
7 37 (36.27%) Responsive Web Design
8 29 (28.43%) DevOps
9 27 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (24.51%) TDD
11 23 (22.55%) Mentoring
11 23 (22.55%) Scrum
12 22 (21.57%) OO
13 20 (19.61%) Architectural Design
13 20 (19.61%) Architectural Patterns
13 20 (19.61%) SOLID
14 19 (18.63%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (58.82%) JavaScript
2 46 (45.10%) C#
3 43 (42.16%) SQL
4 37 (36.27%) T-SQL
5 36 (35.29%) Go
6 31 (30.39%) C
7 29 (28.43%) C++
8 28 (27.45%) Rust
9 19 (18.63%) XPath
10 15 (14.71%) TypeScript
11 11 (10.78%) PHP
12 4 (3.92%) Java
13 1 (0.98%) Ada
13 1 (0.98%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (37.25%) Degree
2 1 (0.98%) Postgraduate
2 1 (0.98%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) HL7
2 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (18.63%) Adobe
1 19 (18.63%) Cognizant
2 2 (1.96%) Progress
3 1 (0.98%) Google
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft