Legacy Systems Jobs in the West Midlands

Legacy System
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 228 196
Rank change year-on-year +84 -32 +56
Permanent jobs citing Legacy Systems 55 33 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.31% 0.40% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.08% 1.26% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 37 29 27
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £86,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,348 2,624 2,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.16% 32.16% 43.22%
Number of salaries quoted 780 1,545 1,053
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,225 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,600
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -15.38% +4.00%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Legacy Systems in the West Midlands

Legacy Systems
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Solihull +19 14 £55,000 -18.52%
Birmingham +42 12 £45,000 -10.00% 11
Shropshire +20 12 £47,500 -50.00% 9
Coventry - 4 £55,000 - 4
Worcestershire +25 1 - - 3
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (12.73%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.64%) Infor M3
2 2 (3.64%) SAP CO
2 2 (3.64%) SAP FI
2 2 (3.64%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.73%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 6 (10.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (10.91%) GCP
3 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
3 6 (10.91%) SaaS
3 6 (10.91%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.91%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (10.91%) BigQuery
3 4 (7.27%) Power BI
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.45%) MS Access
5 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.82%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.82%) Git
1 1 (1.82%) JIRA
1 1 (1.82%) JUnit
1 1 (1.82%) Postman
General
1 30 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 28 (50.91%) Finance
3 21 (38.18%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (18.18%) Law
6 6 (10.91%) Marketing
6 6 (10.91%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (7.27%) Legal
7 4 (7.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (5.45%) Agriculture
8 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.64%) Retail
10 1 (1.82%) Local Government
10 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Analyst
2 10 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Developer
4 7 (12.73%) CRM Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) CRM Business Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) CRM Systems Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Finance Business Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Financial Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Financial Business Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Business Development Director
5 5 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 5 (9.09%) Development Director
5 5 (9.09%) Lead
5 5 (9.09%) Lead Architect
5 5 (9.09%) Lead Data Architect
6 4 (7.27%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) .NET
2 3 (5.45%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.45%) ADO
2 3 (5.45%) Blazor
2 3 (5.45%) OAuth
2 3 (5.45%) OAuth2
2 3 (5.45%) ODBC
2 3 (5.45%) OpenID
2 3 (5.45%) RESTful
2 3 (5.45%) SAML
2 3 (5.45%) Spring
2 3 (5.45%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.45%) WPF
3 1 (1.82%) Java EE
3 1 (1.82%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (12.73%) Taxonomies
3 6 (10.91%) Data Structures
4 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.27%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.45%) PKI
5 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.64%) NHS
7 1 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Agile
2 19 (34.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (27.27%) Change Management
4 13 (23.64%) Decision-Making
4 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (21.82%) Project Management
5 12 (21.82%) Thought Leadership
6 11 (20.00%) Analytics
6 11 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (20.00%) CRM
6 11 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 10 (18.18%) Business Development
7 10 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (18.18%) User Stories
8 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
9 8 (14.55%) Migration
9 8 (14.55%) Presales
9 8 (14.55%) Test Scripting
10 7 (12.73%) Data Modelling
10 7 (12.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) SQL
2 5 (9.09%) C#
3 4 (7.27%) Java
4 3 (5.45%) Delphi
4 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.45%) XAML
5 1 (1.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.82%) ACCA
4 1 (1.82%) CIMA
4 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.82%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Salesforce
2 6 (10.91%) Google
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.45%) SAP
4 2 (3.64%) Infor
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
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