Law Jobs in the UK excluding London

Law
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 105 107
Rank change year-on-year +75 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Law 4,566 1,928 2,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.38% 3.27% 3.05%
As % of the General category 11.15% 4.76% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 1,132 1,233
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,638 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Law is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,940 40,486 43,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.17% 68.66% 60.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,522 18,466 24,237
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,284 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
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 Law within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Scotland +166 2,625 £47,500 -10.38% 29
North of England +52 591 £50,000 - 155
Midlands -37 415 £42,500 -5.56% 101
South West +68 388 £45,000 -5.26% 60
North West +28 293 £47,500 -5.00% 81
South East -43 276 £52,500 +5.00% 138
Yorkshire +77 234 £55,000 +16.34% 63
West Midlands -38 226 £45,000 -5.26% 54
East Midlands -30 163 £40,000 -11.11% 47
East of England +43 153 £31,833 -42.12% 38
Wales +81 101 £41,000 +41.38% 10
North East +30 63 £50,000 +11.11% 11
Northern Ireland +4 21 £57,276 +34.77% 5
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Law
UK

Law
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
1 589 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 137 (3.00%) Apache
3 117 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 110 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 98 (2.15%) FileNet
6 83 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 77 (1.69%) Confluence
8 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.46%) GemFire
10 20 (0.44%) Camunda
11 17 (0.37%) SAS
12 15 (0.33%) Skype for Business
13 12 (0.26%) IIS
14 11 (0.24%) CICS
15 10 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
15 10 (0.22%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.20%) WordPress
17 7 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
18 6 (0.13%) CMS
18 6 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 176 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 118 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.83%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.42%) Sketch
7 17 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) InVision
9 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.066%) Simulink
12 2 (0.044%) CANalyzer
12 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.24%) Endur
7 9 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.15%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.11%) SAP HR
10 5 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
12 3 (0.066%) Primavera
13 2 (0.044%) SAP IBP
13 2 (0.044%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,265 (27.70%) AWS
2 470 (10.29%) Azure
3 245 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
4 172 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 169 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 118 (2.58%) Datadog
7 111 (2.43%) Amazon S3
8 107 (2.34%) GCP
9 99 (2.17%) Figma
10 87 (1.91%) Power Automate
11 82 (1.80%) Entra ID
11 82 (1.80%) PowerApps
12 77 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (1.64%) SurveyMonkey
14 73 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
15 61 (1.34%) Serverless
16 57 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 55 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (1.86%) Firewall
2 82 (1.80%) Kerberos
3 46 (1.01%) LAN
4 42 (0.92%) SAN
5 36 (0.79%) WAN
6 30 (0.66%) DNS
7 28 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.53%) Internet
9 23 (0.50%) VPN
10 22 (0.48%) DHCP
11 21 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (0.44%) DSL
13 19 (0.42%) Network Security
14 17 (0.37%) Skype
15 16 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
16 15 (0.33%) Wireless
17 13 (0.28%) NAS
17 13 (0.28%) VLAN
18 12 (0.26%) BIG-IP
19 9 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (14.70%) NoSQL
2 503 (11.02%) Big Data
3 233 (5.10%) Hadoop
4 152 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 151 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
6 138 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 138 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 131 (2.87%) Apache Hive
8 114 (2.50%) MongoDB
9 102 (2.23%) HBase
10 95 (2.08%) Power BI
11 87 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 69 (1.51%) Tableau
13 66 (1.45%) Metadata
14 53 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
15 46 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
16 43 (0.94%) MySQL
17 38 (0.83%) CockroachDB
18 29 (0.64%) DB2
19 24 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 315 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 212 (4.64%) JUnit
3 210 (4.60%) Git
4 127 (2.78%) Jasmine
4 127 (2.78%) JIRA
5 89 (1.95%) Cypress.io
6 86 (1.88%) Bitbucket Server
7 81 (1.77%) Selenium
8 77 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 75 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
10 65 (1.42%) Artifactory
11 64 (1.40%) Maven
12 62 (1.36%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.31%) Protractor
14 47 (1.03%) Mockito
15 41 (0.90%) Cucumber
16 32 (0.70%) GitLab
17 31 (0.68%) CircleCI
18 30 (0.66%) Gradle
19 28 (0.61%) JMeter
General
1 3,094 (67.76%) Finance
2 2,933 (64.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,524 (33.38%) Marketing
4 959 (21.00%) Legal
5 893 (19.56%) Social Skills
6 725 (15.88%) Banking
7 590 (12.92%) Investment Banking
8 410 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
9 279 (6.11%) Financial Institution
10 271 (5.94%) Influencing Skills
11 194 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
12 120 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 92 (2.01%) Private Banking
14 65 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 58 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.18%) Front Office
17 49 (1.07%) Games
18 39 (0.85%) Retail
19 32 (0.70%) Social Science
20 31 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,002 (43.85%) Software Engineer
2 895 (19.60%) Lead
3 797 (17.46%) Java Engineer
4 795 (17.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 685 (15.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 465 (10.18%) Senior
7 401 (8.78%) Analyst
8 390 (8.54%) Big Data Engineer
8 390 (8.54%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 388 (8.50%) Developer
10 338 (7.40%) Python Engineer
11 332 (7.27%) Python Software Engineer
12 328 (7.18%) Full Stack Engineer
13 323 (7.07%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 309 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
15 301 (6.59%) AWS Software Engineer
16 278 (6.09%) Lead Java Engineer
17 257 (5.63%) Data Engineer
18 228 (4.99%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (4.99%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (14.98%) Spring
2 541 (11.85%) React
3 406 (8.89%) AngularJS
4 354 (7.75%) Kafka
5 347 (7.60%) Spring Boot
6 320 (7.01%) HTML
7 288 (6.31%) CSS
8 246 (5.39%) J2EE
9 221 (4.84%) JSON
10 205 (4.49%) Node.js
11 202 (4.42%) RESTful
12 194 (4.25%) Hibernate
13 174 (3.81%) PySpark
14 172 (3.77%) JMS
15 169 (3.70%) .NET
16 168 (3.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 159 (3.48%) jQuery
18 148 (3.24%) Web Services
19 128 (2.80%) REST
20 125 (2.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 937 (20.52%) Cloud Native
2 822 (18.00%) Algorithms
3 292 (6.40%) Public Cloud
4 194 (4.25%) Management Information System
5 189 (4.14%) Onboarding
6 182 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 144 (3.15%) Market Risk
8 140 (3.07%) Reference Data
9 113 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 94 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 75 (1.64%) FMCG
11 75 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 71 (1.55%) Credit Risk
13 70 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
14 65 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
15 50 (1.10%) Legacy Code
16 48 (1.05%) Mobile App
17 45 (0.99%) Housing Association
18 38 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
19 35 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 247 (5.41%) Windows
2 153 (3.35%) Unix
3 141 (3.09%) Linux
4 111 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 68 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 47 (1.03%) Android
7 22 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.35%) VMS
9 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.13%) CentOS
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 8
10 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.022%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,599 (56.92%) Agile
2 2,441 (53.46%) Software Engineering
3 2,119 (46.41%) SDLC
4 2,006 (43.93%) CI/CD
5 1,893 (41.46%) Operational Stability
6 1,462 (32.02%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,462 (32.02%) Machine Learning
7 1,321 (28.93%) Community of Practice
8 1,042 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 945 (20.70%) Visualisation
10 806 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
11 794 (17.39%) Risk Management
12 645 (14.13%) Decision-Making
13 491 (10.75%) Microservices
14 490 (10.73%) Continuous Delivery
15 450 (9.86%) Information Architecture
16 415 (9.09%) Architectural Design
17 414 (9.07%) Computer Science
18 387 (8.48%) Full Stack Development
19 334 (7.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,699 (37.21%) Java
2 1,333 (29.19%) SQL
3 1,034 (22.65%) Python
4 423 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 325 (7.12%) Scala
6 236 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 190 (4.16%) C#
8 150 (3.29%) PL/SQL
9 87 (1.91%) Go
10 81 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 67 (1.47%) SPARQL
12 65 (1.42%) Prolog
13 52 (1.14%) R
14 44 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 37 (0.81%) Groovy
16 32 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 28 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 23 (0.50%) C
19 21 (0.46%) C++
20 20 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 581 (12.72%) Degree
2 126 (2.76%) Master's Degree
3 69 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (1.49%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 55 (1.20%) PhD
6 43 (0.94%) Security Cleared
7 29 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 26 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (0.50%) CISSP
10 22 (0.48%) SC Cleared
11 17 (0.37%) CISM
12 14 (0.31%) HNC
12 14 (0.31%) HND
13 12 (0.26%) CIPD
14 11 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.22%) CISA
16 9 (0.20%) CRISC
16 9 (0.20%) MBA
17 8 (0.18%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (3.15%) SLA
2 98 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 59 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 54 (1.18%) QA
5 50 (1.10%) GDPR
6 39 (0.85%) PMO
7 32 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.61%) NIST
9 27 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.33%) WAI
11 13 (0.28%) ITGC
12 12 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.24%) GRC
13 11 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.15%) IFRS
15 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.13%) WCAG
16 5 (0.11%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 263 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.23%) HDFS
3 75 (1.64%) Docker
4 35 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.22%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.11%) XenApp
10 4 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.044%) Firmware
11 2 (0.044%) pfSense
11 2 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.044%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 345 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 270 (5.91%) Terraform
3 175 (3.83%) Grafana
4 79 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 29 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.46%) Kibana
7 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
8 14 (0.31%) SCCM
8 14 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 13 (0.28%) Graphite
10 9 (0.20%) Ansible
10 9 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (0.15%) Nessus
12 5 (0.11%) SCOM
13 4 (0.088%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.044%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.044%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 515 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 427 (9.35%) Oracle
3 267 (5.85%) Databricks
4 188 (4.12%) Splunk
5 162 (3.55%) Dynatrace
6 93 (2.04%) Alteryx
6 93 (2.04%) Informatica
7 72 (1.58%) Cloudera
8 71 (1.55%) Google
9 70 (1.53%) Qualtrics
10 68 (1.49%) VMware
11 65 (1.42%) Citrix
12 48 (1.05%) ServiceNow
13 46 (1.01%) SAP
14 36 (0.79%) Cisco
15 35 (0.77%) iManage
16 27 (0.59%) Dell
16 27 (0.59%) Pega
17 24 (0.53%) Veeam
18 23 (0.50%) Sybase