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 cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 122 129
Rank change year-on-year +65 +7 +18
Permanent jobs citing Law 3,147 1,822 4,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.81% 2.85% 3.02%
As % of the General category 6.63% 4.30% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 1,516 2,350
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,575 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%

All General Skills
UK

Law falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 47,442 42,366 104,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.48% 66.23% 67.82%
Number of salaries quoted 23,074 28,778 52,866
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,320 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,070 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,985 £50,845
% change year-on-year -1.93% +0.28% +7.04%

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 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Law in the UK

Law
Top 19 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 20 September 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
England +38 2,419 £50,000 -4.76% 671
UK excluding London +58 2,183 £45,000 -10.00% 398
London +56 903 £70,000 +7.69% 312
Work from Home +10 755 £52,500 -4.55% 285
Scotland +121 657 £54,750 -0.45% 58
North of England +13 491 £50,000 - 110
South West +131 356 £45,000 -4.26% 28
Midlands -18 330 £41,500 -12.63% 80
North West +17 265 £50,000 -9.09% 74
South East +22 234 £45,000 -15.49% 83
West Midlands -26 202 £40,000 -20.00% 33
Yorkshire +10 178 £52,500 +14.13% 24
East Midlands -22 128 £42,000 -1.18% 47
East of England -1 83 £27,117 -48.35% 30
North East -4 48 £50,000 +8.70% 12
Wales +36 24 £40,000 +21.49% 6
Northern Ireland +14 7 £30,000 -40.00% 9
Channel Islands -5 3 £61,000 +35.56%
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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
1 117 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 71 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 63 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 53 (1.68%) Confluence
5 48 (1.53%) FileNet
6 34 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.95%) Apache
8 22 (0.70%) SAS
9 20 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
10 16 (0.51%) CMS
11 15 (0.48%) Skype for Business
12 14 (0.44%) IIS
13 8 (0.25%) GemFire
14 6 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
14 6 (0.19%) Apache Solr
15 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
16 3 (0.095%) Jupyter
17 2 (0.064%) BizTalk Server
17 2 (0.064%) Moodle
18 1 (0.032%) nginx
Applications
1 147 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 128 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 104 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.32%) Sketch
7 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.16%) SPSS
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 3 (0.095%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.095%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.095%) SketchUp
10 3 (0.095%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.064%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 60 (1.91%) Ripple
2 30 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
3 23 (0.73%) Elite 3E
4 22 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 22 (0.70%) Visualfiles
5 19 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
6 18 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
6 18 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 18 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
7 12 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
7 12 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
9 9 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.29%) SAP HCM
9 9 (0.29%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.22%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
12 5 (0.16%) Relativity
13 4 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 512 (16.27%) AWS
2 445 (14.14%) Azure
3 228 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
4 184 (5.85%) GCP
5 163 (5.18%) Power Platform
6 118 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
7 109 (3.46%) SaaS
8 62 (1.97%) Amazon S3
9 61 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 59 (1.87%) Datadog
11 56 (1.78%) Power Automate
12 55 (1.75%) PowerApps
13 53 (1.68%) OCI
14 48 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
15 40 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
16 37 (1.18%) Figma
17 33 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
18 31 (0.99%) GitHub
18 31 (0.99%) Serverless
19 30 (0.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.46%) Firewall
2 80 (2.54%) LAN
3 61 (1.94%) WAN
4 56 (1.78%) Network Security
5 34 (1.08%) VPN
6 30 (0.95%) SAN
7 29 (0.92%) Internet
8 25 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (0.73%) Skype
10 19 (0.60%) TCP/IP
11 18 (0.57%) DNS
11 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.57%) Wireless
12 17 (0.54%) Kerberos
13 16 (0.51%) DHCP
14 15 (0.48%) DSL
15 13 (0.41%) Intranet
15 13 (0.41%) NAS
15 13 (0.41%) VLAN
15 13 (0.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 97 (3.08%) Big Data
3 95 (3.02%) Power BI
4 90 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 71 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
6 62 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 57 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (1.78%) MySQL
9 53 (1.68%) Tableau
10 52 (1.65%) Hadoop
11 49 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 43 (1.37%) Data Lake
13 38 (1.21%) QlikView
14 30 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 26 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (0.73%) Apache Hive
16 23 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
17 22 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
18 21 (0.67%) MongoDB
19 20 (0.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 77 (2.45%) Git
2 76 (2.41%) JIRA
3 68 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 68 (2.16%) JUnit
4 39 (1.24%) Selenium
5 35 (1.11%) Jasmine
6 32 (1.02%) TeamCity
7 30 (0.95%) Cucumber
8 29 (0.92%) Visual Studio
9 28 (0.89%) Cypress.io
10 24 (0.76%) Maven
11 23 (0.73%) Artifactory
12 22 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 21 (0.67%) Mockito
14 19 (0.60%) JMeter
15 18 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
16 13 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
17 11 (0.35%) Android Studio
18 10 (0.32%) GitLab
18 10 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 1,377 (43.76%) Finance
2 1,104 (35.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 846 (26.88%) Social Skills
4 734 (23.32%) Legal
5 515 (16.36%) Banking
6 461 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
7 445 (14.14%) Marketing
8 329 (10.45%) Investment Banking
9 160 (5.08%) Financial Institution
10 108 (3.43%) Retail
11 65 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
12 61 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 58 (1.84%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
15 48 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 47 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (1.14%) Front Office
18 35 (1.11%) Games
19 33 (1.05%) Public Sector
20 31 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 608 (19.32%) Software Engineer
2 493 (15.67%) Analyst
3 390 (12.39%) Lead
3 390 (12.39%) Senior
4 278 (8.83%) Developer
5 256 (8.13%) Java Engineer
6 242 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
7 189 (6.01%) Lead Software Engineer
8 138 (4.39%) Architect
9 116 (3.69%) Consultant
10 112 (3.56%) Project Manager
11 91 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 90 (2.86%) Senior Manager
13 87 (2.76%) Python Engineer
14 86 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 86 (2.73%) Lead Java Engineer
15 85 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
16 82 (2.61%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 79 (2.51%) Data Engineer
18 78 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (7.66%) React
2 217 (6.90%) Spring
3 204 (6.48%) HTML
4 156 (4.96%) CSS
5 143 (4.54%) Kafka
6 138 (4.39%) .NET
7 89 (2.83%) Node.js
7 89 (2.83%) REST
8 87 (2.76%) AngularJS
9 84 (2.67%) Spring Boot
10 80 (2.54%) Oracle Fusion
11 79 (2.51%) RESTful
12 75 (2.38%) GraphQL
13 73 (2.32%) Hibernate
13 73 (2.32%) J2EE
14 63 (2.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 59 (1.87%) JSON
16 52 (1.65%) JMS
17 50 (1.59%) Spring Integration
18 45 (1.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 321 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 229 (7.28%) Algorithms
3 158 (5.02%) Management Information System
4 114 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 110 (3.50%) Public Cloud
6 101 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 98 (3.11%) Product Ownership
8 77 (2.45%) Blockchain
9 58 (1.84%) Blog
10 56 (1.78%) Market Risk
11 55 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 54 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 45 (1.43%) Credit Risk
14 44 (1.40%) Housing Association
15 43 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (1.37%) Life Science
16 42 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
16 42 (1.33%) Mobile App
17 40 (1.27%) Data Structures
18 39 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 278 (8.83%) Windows
2 86 (2.73%) Windows Server
3 84 (2.67%) Linux
4 74 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 55 (1.75%) Unix
6 52 (1.65%) Android
7 35 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.22%) VMS
11 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.13%) CentOS
12 4 (0.13%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.064%) AIX
14 2 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.064%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (29.46%) Agile
2 780 (24.79%) Software Engineering
3 576 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
4 570 (18.11%) SDLC
5 569 (18.08%) CI/CD
6 514 (16.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 487 (15.48%) Machine Learning
8 483 (15.35%) Operational Stability
9 440 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 336 (10.68%) Risk Management
11 334 (10.61%) Community of Practice
12 314 (9.98%) Visualisation
13 285 (9.06%) Project Management
14 284 (9.02%) Decision-Making
15 254 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
16 253 (8.04%) Computer Science
17 241 (7.66%) Analytics
18 223 (7.09%) Microservices
19 199 (6.32%) Mentoring
20 195 (6.20%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 566 (17.99%) SQL
2 559 (17.76%) Java
3 360 (11.44%) Python
4 248 (7.88%) JavaScript
5 149 (4.73%) C#
6 112 (3.56%) TypeScript
7 92 (2.92%) Scala
8 80 (2.54%) PowerShell
9 53 (1.68%) Go
10 46 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 34 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 31 (0.99%) Bash
14 30 (0.95%) C++
14 30 (0.95%) R
14 30 (0.95%) Rust
14 30 (0.95%) Solidity
15 21 (0.67%) C
15 21 (0.67%) VB
16 18 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 570 (18.11%) Degree
2 150 (4.77%) Security Cleared
3 99 (3.15%) Master's Degree
4 94 (2.99%) CISSP
5 54 (1.72%) SC Cleared
6 51 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (1.53%) CISA
7 48 (1.53%) PhD
8 47 (1.49%) CISM
9 43 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (0.89%) CRISC
12 24 (0.76%) HNC
13 23 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 23 (0.73%) CEH
13 23 (0.73%) HND
14 22 (0.70%) ACCA
15 21 (0.67%) CCNA
15 21 (0.67%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 86 (2.73%) SLA
3 85 (2.70%) QA
4 82 (2.61%) GDPR
5 66 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 49 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 42 (1.33%) NIST
8 41 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 27 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.73%) GRC
10 23 (0.73%) PMO
11 20 (0.64%) IFRS
12 19 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.48%) ISO 9001
14 14 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 12 (0.38%) GMP
16 10 (0.32%) IFRS 17
16 10 (0.32%) Solvency II
17 9 (0.29%) IFRS 9
17 9 (0.29%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 168 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.13%) Docker
3 22 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.57%) HDFS
4 18 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.095%) Firmware
7 3 (0.095%) vSphere
7 3 (0.095%) XenApp
8 2 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.064%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.032%) Snort
9 1 (0.032%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.032%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.032%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 229 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 117 (3.72%) Terraform
3 79 (2.51%) Grafana
4 46 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.54%) vCenter Server
6 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (0.44%) Ansible
8 11 (0.35%) Nessus
9 9 (0.29%) Graphite
9 9 (0.29%) Kibana
10 8 (0.25%) HAProxy
10 8 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (0.25%) SCCM
10 8 (0.25%) Zipkin
11 6 (0.19%) AirWatch
12 5 (0.16%) Argo
12 5 (0.16%) logstash
13 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 543 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 223 (7.09%) Oracle
3 85 (2.70%) Databricks
4 72 (2.29%) Splunk
5 62 (1.97%) iManage
5 62 (1.97%) SAP
6 59 (1.87%) Cisco
6 59 (1.87%) Google
7 56 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 48 (1.53%) Alteryx
9 47 (1.49%) VMware
10 33 (1.05%) Citrix
11 25 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 23 (0.73%) Aderant
12 23 (0.73%) Palo Alto
12 23 (0.73%) Remedy
12 23 (0.73%) UiPath
13 22 (0.70%) Intapp
14 21 (0.67%) Informatica
15 19 (0.60%) BMC