Legacy Systems Job Trends in Somerset

Legacy System
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +20 0 +39
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 25 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 5.52% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.16% 2.03% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £64,350 £55,000 £83,750
% change year-on-year +17.00% -34.33% +25.04%

All Generic Skills
Somerset

Legacy Systems 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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 190 148 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 41.94% 21.80% 39.05%
Number of salaries quoted 98 87 138
10th Percentile £24,250 - £30,700
25th Percentile £26,625 £10,258 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -36.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £69,313
90th Percentile £57,875 £74,500 £71,250
South West median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.50% -9.09% +9.53%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Legacy Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Legacy Systems job vacancy trend in Somerset

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Legacy Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Legacy Systems

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. 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
Bath - 25 £57,500 - 1
Clevedon - 8 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 8 - -
Legacy Systems
South West

Legacy Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (96.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) Azure
1 24 (96.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (96.00%) DHCP
1 24 (96.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (96.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 24 (96.00%) Analytical Skills
1 24 (96.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (96.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) Developer
2 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 24 (96.00%) Linux
1 24 (96.00%) Windows
1 24 (96.00%) Windows Server
1 24 (96.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) Customer Experience
1 24 (96.00%) Customer Service
1 24 (96.00%) Email Filtering
1 24 (96.00%) Kalman Filter
1 24 (96.00%) Migration
1 24 (96.00%) Problem-Solving
1 24 (96.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 24 (96.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 24 (96.00%) Web Filtering
2 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (4.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) C#
1 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (96.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (96.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (96.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 24 (96.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (96.00%) Active Directory
1 24 (96.00%) Hyper-V
1 24 (96.00%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) Brocade
1 24 (96.00%) Microsoft
1 24 (96.00%) Nimble Storage
1 24 (96.00%) SolarWinds
1 24 (96.00%) Splunk
1 24 (96.00%) Tanium
1 24 (96.00%) Veeam
1 24 (96.00%) VMware