Law
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies. 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 36 109 158
Rank change year-on-year +73 +49 -27
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,778 3,061 4,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.78% 3.09% 2.66%
As % of the General category 9.70% 4.52% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,132 1,732 2,140
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,575 67,663 103,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.23% 64.52%
Number of salaries quoted 39,717 36,616 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,059 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK

Law
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Law.

Salary trend for Law in the UK

Law
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Law in the UK

Law
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the UK 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
UK excluding London +75 4,566 £47,500 -5.00% 525
England +28 2,938 £52,500 - 976
Scotland +166 2,625 £47,500 -10.38% 30
London +57 1,085 £67,500 +3.85% 505
Work from Home +19 971 £55,000 - 550
North of England +52 591 £50,000 - 155
Midlands -37 415 £42,500 -5.56% 102
South West +68 388 £45,000 -5.26% 59
North West +28 293 £47,500 -5.00% 81
South East -43 276 £52,500 +5.00% 139
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% 48
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 597 (10.33%) Apache Spark
2 157 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 148 (2.56%) Apache
4 127 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 122 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 98 (1.70%) FileNet
7 86 (1.49%) Confluence
8 32 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
9 31 (0.54%) IIS
10 30 (0.52%) SAS
11 24 (0.42%) Skype for Business
12 21 (0.36%) GemFire
13 20 (0.35%) Camunda
14 19 (0.33%) CMS
15 11 (0.19%) CICS
15 11 (0.19%) Tomcat
16 10 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
17 9 (0.16%) WordPress
18 7 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
19 6 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 246 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 170 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 125 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.66%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.33%) Sketch
7 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) SPSS
9 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.10%) InVision
11 5 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.052%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.052%) Simulink
13 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.035%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.035%) CANalyzer
13 2 (0.035%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.035%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 78 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 11 (0.19%) Endur
8 11 (0.19%) Relativity
9 10 (0.17%) SAP HCM
10 8 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
10 8 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (0.14%) Visualfiles
11 7 (0.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,387 (24.00%) AWS
2 672 (11.63%) Azure
3 376 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
4 246 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
5 234 (4.05%) Power Platform
6 170 (2.94%) SaaS
7 167 (2.89%) GCP
8 132 (2.28%) Amazon S3
9 130 (2.25%) Entra ID
10 125 (2.16%) Datadog
11 105 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
12 104 (1.80%) Figma
13 102 (1.77%) Power Automate
14 96 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (1.59%) PowerApps
16 88 (1.52%) Serverless
17 78 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
18 76 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
19 75 (1.30%) SurveyMonkey
20 70 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.68%) Firewall
2 85 (1.47%) LAN
3 82 (1.42%) Kerberos
4 73 (1.26%) WAN
5 54 (0.93%) SAN
6 52 (0.90%) DNS
6 52 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 52 (0.90%) VPN
7 46 (0.80%) Internet
8 34 (0.59%) Wireless
9 33 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (0.55%) DHCP
11 31 (0.54%) Network Security
12 30 (0.52%) Skype
13 28 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
14 26 (0.45%) MPLS
14 26 (0.45%) OSPF
14 26 (0.45%) SD-WAN
15 24 (0.42%) BGP
16 23 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 679 (11.75%) NoSQL
2 514 (8.90%) Big Data
3 238 (4.12%) Hadoop
4 184 (3.18%) SQL Server
5 169 (2.92%) Relational Database
6 156 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 152 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
8 133 (2.30%) Apache Hive
8 133 (2.30%) Power BI
9 126 (2.18%) MongoDB
10 102 (1.77%) HBase
11 88 (1.52%) Data Lake
12 76 (1.32%) Tableau
13 75 (1.30%) Metadata
14 53 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
15 50 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
16 46 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
17 45 (0.78%) MySQL
18 44 (0.76%) CockroachDB
19 31 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 335 (5.80%) Jenkins
2 257 (4.45%) Git
3 212 (3.67%) JUnit
4 156 (2.70%) JIRA
5 127 (2.20%) Jasmine
6 92 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
7 86 (1.49%) Selenium
8 78 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 75 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
10 65 (1.12%) Artifactory
11 64 (1.11%) Maven
12 62 (1.07%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.04%) Protractor
14 47 (0.81%) GitLab
14 47 (0.81%) Mockito
15 44 (0.76%) Cucumber
16 33 (0.57%) Visual Studio
17 31 (0.54%) CircleCI
18 30 (0.52%) Gradle
General
1 3,514 (60.82%) Finance
2 3,230 (55.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,602 (27.73%) Marketing
4 1,299 (22.48%) Social Skills
5 1,286 (22.26%) Legal
6 829 (14.35%) Banking
7 598 (10.35%) Investment Banking
8 546 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
9 327 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
10 297 (5.14%) Financial Institution
11 283 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
12 177 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 98 (1.70%) Retail
14 92 (1.59%) Private Banking
15 90 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 63 (1.09%) Front Office
18 55 (0.95%) Games
19 44 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
19 44 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,046 (35.41%) Software Engineer
2 1,001 (17.32%) Lead
3 820 (14.19%) Java Engineer
4 809 (14.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 721 (12.48%) Senior
6 704 (12.18%) Lead Software Engineer
7 632 (10.94%) Analyst
8 491 (8.50%) Developer
9 390 (6.75%) Big Data Engineer
9 390 (6.75%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 352 (6.09%) Python Engineer
11 337 (5.83%) Full Stack Engineer
11 337 (5.83%) Python Software Engineer
12 323 (5.59%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 313 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
14 301 (5.21%) AWS Software Engineer
15 282 (4.88%) Lead Java Engineer
16 276 (4.78%) Data Engineer
17 228 (3.95%) Scala Engineer
17 228 (3.95%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 690 (11.94%) Spring
2 593 (10.26%) React
3 422 (7.30%) AngularJS
4 383 (6.63%) Kafka
5 358 (6.20%) Spring Boot
6 348 (6.02%) HTML
7 312 (5.40%) CSS
8 246 (4.26%) J2EE
9 236 (4.08%) JSON
10 224 (3.88%) RESTful
11 216 (3.74%) .NET
12 209 (3.62%) Node.js
13 194 (3.36%) Hibernate
14 182 (3.15%) PySpark
15 178 (3.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 172 (2.98%) JMS
17 169 (2.92%) jQuery
18 161 (2.79%) Web Services
19 155 (2.68%) REST
20 136 (2.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 975 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 825 (14.28%) Algorithms
3 306 (5.30%) Public Cloud
4 251 (4.34%) Management Information System
5 202 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 192 (3.32%) Product Ownership
7 145 (2.51%) Market Risk
8 141 (2.44%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.11%) FMCG
11 115 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.25%) Credit Risk
14 70 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
15 65 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
16 64 (1.11%) Mobile App
17 60 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
18 53 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
19 52 (0.90%) Life Science
20 50 (0.87%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 362 (6.27%) Windows
2 181 (3.13%) Linux
3 163 (2.82%) Unix
4 158 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 107 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 65 (1.12%) Android
7 41 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.40%) VMS
9 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.14%) CentOS
10 8 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.10%) AIX
12 6 (0.10%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.087%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.052%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.017%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,779 (48.10%) Agile
2 2,530 (43.79%) Software Engineering
3 2,159 (37.37%) SDLC
4 2,095 (36.26%) CI/CD
5 1,908 (33.02%) Operational Stability
6 1,534 (26.55%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,512 (26.17%) Machine Learning
8 1,328 (22.98%) Community of Practice
9 1,135 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,004 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
11 962 (16.65%) Visualisation
12 884 (15.30%) Risk Management
13 695 (12.03%) Decision-Making
14 550 (9.52%) Microservices
15 507 (8.77%) Continuous Delivery
16 491 (8.50%) Mentoring
17 455 (7.87%) Analytics
18 454 (7.86%) Information Architecture
19 451 (7.81%) Computer Science
20 428 (7.41%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,772 (30.67%) Java
2 1,487 (25.74%) SQL
3 1,150 (19.90%) Python
4 482 (8.34%) JavaScript
5 335 (5.80%) Scala
6 267 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 247 (4.27%) C#
8 152 (2.63%) PL/SQL
9 117 (2.02%) Go
9 117 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 89 (1.54%) PowerShell
11 67 (1.16%) SPARQL
12 65 (1.12%) Prolog
13 56 (0.97%) R
14 49 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 39 (0.67%) C
16 37 (0.64%) Groovy
17 33 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 25 (0.43%) C++
19 20 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 787 (13.62%) Degree
2 148 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 115 (1.99%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 97 (1.68%) Security Cleared
5 93 (1.61%) CISSP
6 92 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (1.09%) PhD
8 49 (0.85%) SC Cleared
9 48 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 46 (0.80%) CISM
11 37 (0.64%) CISA
12 36 (0.62%) ACCA
13 31 (0.54%) Azure Certification
14 30 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
16 23 (0.40%) CIPD
17 21 (0.36%) SSCP
18 20 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
19 17 (0.29%) CCNA
19 17 (0.29%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (4.24%) SLA
2 112 (1.94%) QA
3 108 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 104 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 89 (1.54%) GDPR
6 77 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 66 (1.14%) PMO
8 52 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 51 (0.88%) NIST
10 38 (0.66%) IFRS
11 32 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
12 29 (0.50%) GRC
13 20 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
16 15 (0.26%) WAI
17 14 (0.24%) IFRS 17
17 14 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 14 (0.24%) Solvency II
18 13 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 362 (6.27%) Active Directory
2 103 (1.78%) Docker
3 102 (1.77%) HDFS
4 48 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 25 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.22%) Terminal Services
8 11 (0.19%) Firmware
8 11 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.087%) XenApp
12 3 (0.052%) vSphere
13 2 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.035%) pfSense
13 2 (0.035%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 396 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 311 (5.38%) Terraform
3 186 (3.22%) Grafana
4 80 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 54 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (0.50%) SCCM
7 26 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
8 23 (0.40%) Ansible
8 23 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 21 (0.36%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.36%) Kibana
9 21 (0.36%) Zipkin
10 18 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.26%) Graphite
12 10 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
13 8 (0.14%) vRealize
14 7 (0.12%) Nessus
15 6 (0.10%) Progress Chef
15 6 (0.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 802 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 471 (8.15%) Oracle
3 280 (4.85%) Databricks
4 202 (3.50%) Splunk
5 162 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 158 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 112 (1.94%) Dell
8 102 (1.77%) Google
9 101 (1.75%) Citrix
10 100 (1.73%) VMware
11 94 (1.63%) Alteryx
12 93 (1.61%) Informatica
13 87 (1.51%) iManage
14 76 (1.32%) Cisco
15 72 (1.25%) Cloudera
16 70 (1.21%) Qualtrics
17 68 (1.18%) SAP
18 36 (0.62%) Aderant
19 35 (0.61%) CA
20 34 (0.59%) Veeam