Legal Jobs in the UK excluding London

Legal
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 83 111
Rank change year-on-year +23 +28 +38
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2,900 2,221 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.82% 3.93% 3.04%
As % of the General category 6.86% 5.78% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 834 909
10th Percentile £25,500 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,813 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £77,715 £81,350
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Legal 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 42,255 38,446 45,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.62% 68.00% 61.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27,055 18,057 24,502
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,400 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £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 £62,200 £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%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
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 Legal within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +58 765 £55,000 -0.77% 64
North of England +79 692 £45,000 -5.26% 292
South East -37 552 £37,500 -28.57% 280
Midlands +28 434 £50,000 -4.76% 184
North West +87 398 £45,000 -7.22% 180
West Midlands +11 280 £50,000 -4.76% 110
South West -22 240 £45,000 -5.26% 177
Yorkshire +50 210 £34,000 -24.44% 81
East of England -39 168 £50,000 -9.09% 119
East Midlands +56 154 £45,000 +24.14% 73
North East +45 84 £55,000 -8.33% 36
Wales +14 29 £50,000 +17.65% 47
Northern Ireland +31 17 £30,000 -46.43% 16
Channel Islands - 5 - - 2
Legal
UK

Legal
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
1 260 (8.97%) Apache Spark
2 144 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 97 (3.34%) Apache
4 66 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 61 (2.10%) SAS
6 47 (1.62%) FileNet
7 41 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.62%) Camunda
9 11 (0.38%) CMS
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.14%) Office Communications Server
13 3 (0.10%) Confluence
14 2 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
14 2 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2013
14 2 (0.069%) IBM Domino
15 1 (0.034%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.034%) IIS
Applications
1 273 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 267 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (2.34%) AutoCAD
5 21 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.59%) Revit
7 15 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.52%) Simulink
8 7 (0.24%) Stateflow
9 6 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.17%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
11 3 (0.10%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.034%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.034%) InDesign
12 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.034%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 20 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.48%) NEC Housing
3 11 (0.38%) iTrent
3 11 (0.38%) ResourceLink
4 10 (0.34%) Infor SunSystems
5 9 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
7 7 (0.24%) BPCS
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.17%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.17%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 4 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.10%) SAP HCM
12 2 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
12 2 (0.069%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.069%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 405 (13.97%) AWS
2 285 (9.83%) Azure
3 171 (5.90%) Power Platform
4 169 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (3.52%) Entra ID
6 68 (2.34%) GCP
7 63 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (2.00%) SaaS
9 52 (1.79%) Serverless
10 51 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
12 49 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 49 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
13 43 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
14 37 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
14 37 (1.28%) PowerApps
15 30 (1.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.79%) Firewall
2 33 (1.14%) Wireless
3 29 (1.00%) LAN
4 26 (0.90%) Internet
5 24 (0.83%) WAN
6 21 (0.72%) SAN
7 20 (0.69%) Intranet
8 18 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (0.59%) TCP/IP
10 16 (0.55%) DHCP
11 13 (0.45%) VPN
12 12 (0.41%) VoIP
13 11 (0.38%) DNS
13 11 (0.38%) Network Security
14 10 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
14 10 (0.34%) OSPF
14 10 (0.34%) SSL
14 10 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
15 9 (0.31%) Extranet
15 9 (0.31%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (10.90%) NoSQL
2 220 (7.59%) Big Data
3 203 (7.00%) Hadoop
4 139 (4.79%) Power BI
5 95 (3.28%) Apache Hive
6 81 (2.79%) HBase
7 79 (2.72%) SQL Server
8 57 (1.97%) Data Lake
9 51 (1.76%) Electronic Patient Records
9 51 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 48 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
11 47 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
12 39 (1.34%) Qlik Sense
13 38 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
14 33 (1.14%) Tableau
15 21 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
16 19 (0.66%) DB2
17 17 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 14 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 120 (4.14%) Jenkins
2 111 (3.83%) Git
3 70 (2.41%) JIRA
4 67 (2.31%) Bitbucket Server
4 67 (2.31%) JUnit
5 27 (0.93%) Mockito
6 26 (0.90%) Jasmine
7 18 (0.62%) CircleCI
7 18 (0.62%) Gradle
7 18 (0.62%) Maven
7 18 (0.62%) Travis CI
8 11 (0.38%) GitLab
8 11 (0.38%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.17%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.14%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.034%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.034%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,538 (53.03%) Finance
2 1,012 (34.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 945 (32.59%) Law
4 849 (29.28%) Social Skills
5 369 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
6 316 (10.90%) Banking
7 266 (9.17%) Retail
8 156 (5.38%) Marketing
9 113 (3.90%) Manufacturing
10 91 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 87 (3.00%) Local Government
12 80 (2.76%) Public Sector
13 64 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 62 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.62%) Publishing
16 43 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 39 (1.34%) Automotive
17 39 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
18 30 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
19 25 (0.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 686 (23.66%) Software Engineer
2 525 (18.10%) Analyst
3 337 (11.62%) Senior
4 256 (8.83%) Java Engineer
4 256 (8.83%) Java Software Engineer
5 216 (7.45%) Big Data Engineer
5 216 (7.45%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 202 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
6 202 (6.97%) AWS Software Engineer
7 187 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 163 (5.62%) Lead
9 150 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
10 148 (5.10%) Developer
11 132 (4.55%) Full Stack Engineer
11 132 (4.55%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 117 (4.03%) Python Engineer
12 117 (4.03%) Python Software Engineer
13 113 (3.90%) Project Manager
14 97 (3.34%) Scala Engineer
14 97 (3.34%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (6.38%) Spring
2 140 (4.83%) React
3 121 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 121 (4.17%) HTML
4 119 (4.10%) Kafka
5 109 (3.76%) J2EE
6 91 (3.14%) .NET
7 87 (3.00%) CSS
8 84 (2.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 83 (2.86%) Node.js
10 78 (2.69%) JMS
11 72 (2.48%) JSON
12 71 (2.45%) XML
13 67 (2.31%) PySpark
14 66 (2.28%) Hibernate
15 61 (2.10%) Spring Boot
16 47 (1.62%) GraphQL
16 47 (1.62%) Spring Integration
16 47 (1.62%) Web Services
17 44 (1.52%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 518 (17.86%) Algorithms
2 248 (8.55%) Management Information System
3 210 (7.24%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 95 (3.28%) Driving Licence
6 68 (2.34%) Credit Risk
7 64 (2.21%) Housing Association
8 53 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 48 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.48%) Product Ownership
12 41 (1.41%) Legacy Code
13 40 (1.38%) Data Centre
14 21 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (0.69%) Reinsurance
15 20 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
16 19 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
17 18 (0.62%) Operational Technology
17 18 (0.62%) SCADA
18 17 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 132 (4.55%) Windows
2 106 (3.66%) Unix
3 56 (1.93%) Linux
3 56 (1.93%) Windows 10
4 50 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.21%) Android
7 11 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.28%) VMS
9 8 (0.28%) Windows 8
10 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.069%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.034%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,116 (38.48%) Agile
2 930 (32.07%) Risk Management
3 738 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 725 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 679 (23.41%) SDLC
6 660 (22.76%) CI/CD
7 515 (17.76%) Visualisation
8 508 (17.52%) Operational Stability
9 501 (17.28%) Artificial Intelligence
10 468 (16.14%) Machine Learning
11 450 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
12 398 (13.72%) Community of Practice
13 363 (12.52%) Decision-Making
14 321 (11.07%) Coaching
15 247 (8.52%) Project Management
16 245 (8.45%) Process Improvement
17 236 (8.14%) Customer Service
18 232 (8.00%) Data Protection
19 206 (7.10%) Data Management
20 202 (6.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 641 (22.10%) SQL
2 511 (17.62%) Java
3 402 (13.86%) Python
4 111 (3.83%) Scala
5 107 (3.69%) JavaScript
6 97 (3.34%) PL/SQL
7 87 (3.00%) C#
8 68 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 62 (2.14%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.93%) C
11 23 (0.79%) C++
12 21 (0.72%) Ruby
13 19 (0.66%) MATLAB
13 19 (0.66%) VB.NET
14 15 (0.52%) PHP
15 11 (0.38%) Embedded C
15 11 (0.38%) R
15 11 (0.38%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.28%) VB
17 7 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 520 (17.93%) Degree
2 92 (3.17%) HNC
3 71 (2.45%) HND
4 55 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 48 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (1.24%) Security Cleared
7 28 (0.97%) CISSP
8 26 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 26 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (0.76%) ACCA
10 18 (0.62%) CIMA
11 17 (0.59%) CISM
11 17 (0.59%) MBA
12 16 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.48%) AAT
14 12 (0.41%) CIPD
14 12 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.41%) MCP
14 12 (0.41%) PhD
15 11 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (7.66%) GDPR
2 212 (7.31%) QA
3 90 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 65 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (2.07%) SLA
6 43 (1.48%) IFRS
7 36 (1.24%) IFRS 9
8 34 (1.17%) PMO
9 30 (1.03%) ISO 9001
9 30 (1.03%) NIST
10 23 (0.79%) Accessibility
10 23 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.76%) NEBOSH
12 21 (0.72%) GRC
13 20 (0.69%) ISO 22301
14 19 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.45%) ISO 14001
16 12 (0.41%) PCI DSS
17 9 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
18 7 (0.24%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 141 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.79%) HDFS
3 45 (1.55%) Hyper-V
4 44 (1.52%) RACF
5 33 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.48%) Docker
7 13 (0.45%) Firmware
8 12 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.28%) Terminal Services
9 8 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.14%) XenApp
12 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.10%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.069%) pfSense
13 2 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
14 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 119 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 78 (2.69%) Terraform
3 19 (0.66%) SCCM
4 16 (0.55%) Functional Safety
4 16 (0.55%) SCOM
5 13 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.17%) Ansible
7 5 (0.17%) Grafana
7 5 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.069%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.069%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.069%) Nessus
9 1 (0.034%) FTK
9 1 (0.034%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.034%) QRadar
9 1 (0.034%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 590 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 159 (5.48%) Oracle
3 155 (5.34%) Databricks
4 120 (4.14%) SAP
5 68 (2.34%) Informatica
6 55 (1.90%) VMware
7 52 (1.79%) Alteryx
8 51 (1.76%) Cloudera
9 48 (1.66%) Citrix
10 44 (1.52%) CyberArk
11 39 (1.34%) Google
12 37 (1.28%) iManage
13 35 (1.21%) IBM
14 25 (0.86%) NCR
15 24 (0.83%) Cisco
15 24 (0.83%) Pega
16 21 (0.72%) HP
17 19 (0.66%) NEC
18 15 (0.52%) ServiceNow
19 13 (0.45%) EMC