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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 793 822
Rank change year-on-year +42 +29 -77
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Code 89 132 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.35% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 53 102 117
10th Percentile £40,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,500 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £105,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £82,500 £84,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +71.43% +5.00% -9.09%

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 29,837 38,145 64,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.50% 43.11% 46.91%
Number of salaries quoted 20,861 20,975 30,570
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,668 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,650 £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 £110,000 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +140 67 £90,000 +50.00% 8
Midlands -6 10 £47,500 +7.95% 9
East Midlands -16 8 £47,500 +9.83% 3
North of England +15 6 £52,750 +0.48% 5
North West -7 4 £55,000 -2.22% 5
South East -18 4 - - 4
West Midlands +12 2 - - 6
South West -43 2 £53,750 +22.16%
Yorkshire +67 1 £42,500 -19.05%
North East -1 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 32 (35.96%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 32 (35.96%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
1 16 (17.98%) AWS
1 16 (17.98%) NuGet
2 8 (8.99%) SaaS
3 4 (4.49%) GitHub
3 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (2.25%) Azure
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.12%) Figma
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.12%) Slack
5 1 (1.12%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.08%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.74%) MySQL
3 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.12%) Redis
6 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (38.20%) JIRA
2 33 (37.08%) Git
3 32 (35.96%) Moq
3 32 (35.96%) NUnit
3 32 (35.96%) TeamCity
4 16 (17.98%) git-flow
4 16 (17.98%) GitLab
4 16 (17.98%) Octopus Deploy
4 16 (17.98%) Sourcetree
4 16 (17.98%) SpecFlow
4 16 (17.98%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.12%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.12%) Gradle
6 1 (1.12%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.12%) XCTest
6 1 (1.12%) XCUITest
General
1 32 (35.96%) Marketing
2 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.87%) Law
4 3 (3.37%) Games
5 2 (2.25%) Retail
6 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (49.44%) Developer
2 38 (42.70%) Senior
3 36 (40.45%) Full Stack Developer
4 34 (38.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (28.09%) Software Engineer
6 22 (24.72%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 22 (24.72%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 19 (21.35%) Lead
7 19 (21.35%) Senior Developer
8 18 (20.22%) C# Developer
9 17 (19.10%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 17 (19.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 17 (19.10%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 16 (17.98%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 16 (17.98%) Senior C# Developer
11 13 (14.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (13.48%) Full Stack Engineer
13 11 (12.36%) Lead Software Engineer
14 6 (6.74%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
15 5 (5.62%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (47.19%) CSS
1 42 (47.19%) HTML
2 38 (42.70%) .NET
3 36 (40.45%) jQuery
4 34 (38.20%) .NET Framework
4 34 (38.20%) RESTful
4 34 (38.20%) SOAP
4 34 (38.20%) Web Services
5 33 (37.08%) React
6 32 (35.96%) ASP.NET
6 32 (35.96%) ASP.NET MVC
6 32 (35.96%) ASP.NET MVC 5
6 32 (35.96%) Entity Framework
6 32 (35.96%) Semantic HTML
7 20 (22.47%) Node.js
8 17 (19.10%) XML
9 16 (17.98%) Autofac
9 16 (17.98%) Classic ASP
9 16 (17.98%) Code First Entity Framework
9 16 (17.98%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 34 (38.20%) Cloud Native
1 34 (38.20%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (17.98%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.87%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.12%) Xbox
Operating Systems
1 37 (41.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (56.18%) Full Stack Development
2 40 (44.94%) Agile
3 39 (43.82%) Software Engineering
4 36 (40.45%) MVC
5 34 (38.20%) E-Commerce
5 34 (38.20%) Unit Testing
6 33 (37.08%) Computer Science
7 32 (35.96%) Issue Tracking
7 32 (35.96%) Performance Tuning
7 32 (35.96%) Responsive Web Design
8 24 (26.97%) DevOps
9 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
10 20 (22.47%) TDD
11 19 (21.35%) Scrum
12 18 (20.22%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (20.22%) OO
13 17 (19.10%) Architectural Design
13 17 (19.10%) SOLID
14 16 (17.98%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (60.67%) JavaScript
2 38 (42.70%) C#
3 37 (41.57%) SQL
4 34 (38.20%) Go
5 32 (35.96%) T-SQL
6 25 (28.09%) C
7 24 (26.97%) C++
8 22 (24.72%) Rust
9 16 (17.98%) XPath
10 15 (16.85%) TypeScript
11 7 (7.87%) PHP
12 4 (4.49%) Java
13 1 (1.12%) Ada
13 1 (1.12%) Objective-C
13 1 (1.12%) Python
13 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (38.20%) Degree
2 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) HL7
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (38.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Adobe
1 16 (17.98%) Cognizant
2 2 (2.25%) Progress
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.12%) SAP