Legacy Code Jobs with Work from Home Options

Legacy Code
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Code in remote or hybrid work. 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 581 566 582
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -58
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 21 67 332
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.18% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.46% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 20 56 32
10th Percentile £35,975 - £37,875
25th Percentile £37,188 £32,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £44,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -34.81% +42.11%
75th Percentile £54,063 £58,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -13.04%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,386 14,549 35,885
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.84% 38.82% 47.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,322 10,904 17,354
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,364 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,977 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,531 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Legacy Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Legacy Code trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Code
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Legacy Code.

Legacy Code salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Code
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Legacy Code over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Legacy Code salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Legacy Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (4.76%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) SaaS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) Figma
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) npm
4 1 (4.76%) Slack
4 1 (4.76%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) MySQL
2 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.76%) Redis
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Gradle
3 1 (4.76%) Grunt
3 1 (4.76%) Vagrant
3 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 9 (42.86%) Law
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Applications Support
3 4 (19.05%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (19.05%) PHP Developer
4 3 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Lead C# Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (9.52%) React Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Remote Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Node.js
2 8 (38.10%) HTML
3 7 (33.33%) CSS
4 6 (28.57%) .NET
5 4 (19.05%) jQuery
6 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 3 (14.29%) Blazor
6 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (14.29%) React
6 3 (14.29%) Vue
6 3 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.52%) CSS3
7 2 (9.52%) FHIR
7 2 (9.52%) HTML5
7 2 (9.52%) Laravel
7 2 (9.52%) React Native
7 2 (9.52%) RESTful
7 2 (9.52%) SOAP
7 2 (9.52%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Microservices
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Agile
5 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 5 (23.81%) Design Patterns
5 5 (23.81%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) OO
7 3 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 2 (9.52%) Content Management
8 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Load Testing
8 2 (9.52%) MVC
8 2 (9.52%) Refactoring
8 2 (9.52%) Scrum
8 2 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
2 6 (28.57%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) PHP
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) C
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) Ada
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) HL7
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Progress
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft