Legacy Code Jobs in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 714 633 771
Rank change year-on-year -81 +138 -145
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 66 95 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.41% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 21 75 78
10th Percentile £36,250 - £40,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -13.04%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,421 23,055 34,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.73% 41.72% 44.78%
Number of salaries quoted 15,538 10,828 16,079
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,750
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Code in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Legacy Code in the UK excluding London

Legacy Code
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
Scotland -34 34 - - 1
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
Wales +11 1 £32,500 -35.00%
North East -17 1 £63,000 +26.00%
Legacy Code
UK

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 34 (51.52%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.58%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.33%) AWS
2 10 (15.15%) SaaS
3 5 (7.58%) GitHub
3 5 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.52%) GCP
5 1 (1.52%) npm
5 1 (1.52%) NuGet
5 1 (1.52%) Stripe
5 1 (1.52%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (51.52%) Big Data
1 34 (51.52%) Hadoop
2 10 (15.15%) MySQL
3 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.58%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.52%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.52%) Redis
6 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) JIRA
2 6 (9.09%) Git
3 4 (6.06%) Moq
3 4 (6.06%) NUnit
3 4 (6.06%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.55%) GitLab
4 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.52%) git-flow
5 1 (1.52%) Grunt
5 1 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.52%) Sourcetree
5 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 43 (65.15%) Law
2 34 (51.52%) Finance
2 34 (51.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (51.52%) Legal
3 13 (19.70%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Games
4 4 (6.06%) Marketing
5 2 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 34 (51.52%) Big Data Engineer
2 34 (51.52%) Big Data Software Engineer
2 34 (51.52%) Data Engineer
2 34 (51.52%) Java Engineer
2 34 (51.52%) Java Software Engineer
3 21 (31.82%) Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Full Stack Developer
4 9 (13.64%) PHP Developer
5 8 (12.12%) Senior
6 6 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.58%) Applications Support
7 5 (7.58%) Senior PHP Developer
8 4 (6.06%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Lead
9 3 (4.55%) Lead C# Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (54.55%) Spring
1 36 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 18 (27.27%) HTML
3 17 (25.76%) CSS
4 13 (19.70%) .NET
5 10 (15.15%) Node.js
6 8 (12.12%) Laravel
7 7 (10.61%) .NET Framework
7 7 (10.61%) jQuery
7 7 (10.61%) Web Services
8 6 (9.09%) HTML5
8 6 (9.09%) React
8 6 (9.09%) RESTful
8 6 (9.09%) SOAP
8 6 (9.09%) Vue
9 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET
10 4 (6.06%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (6.06%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 4 (6.06%) Entity Framework
10 4 (6.06%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (51.52%) Algorithms
1 34 (51.52%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (75.76%) Agile
2 42 (63.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 39 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 38 (57.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (56.06%) Software Engineering
6 34 (51.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 34 (51.52%) Data Modelling
6 34 (51.52%) Machine Learning
6 34 (51.52%) Risk Management
6 34 (51.52%) Visualisation
7 11 (16.67%) Microservices
7 11 (16.67%) MVC
8 10 (15.15%) DevOps
8 10 (15.15%) TDD
9 9 (13.64%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.61%) User Experience
11 6 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (9.09%) Unit Testing
12 5 (7.58%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 43 (65.15%) SQL
2 36 (54.55%) Java
3 19 (28.79%) JavaScript
4 13 (19.70%) C#
5 12 (18.18%) PHP
6 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.06%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.03%) C
9 1 (1.52%) Ada
9 1 (1.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) Postgraduate
2 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.03%) Progress
2 1 (1.52%) Adobe
2 1 (1.52%) Cognizant
2 1 (1.52%) Google