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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 104 157
Rank change year-on-year +69 +53 -21
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,713 3,348 4,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.82% 3.22% 2.67%
As % of the General category 9.73% 4.69% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,136 1,799 2,084
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,250
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 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,300 £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 58,714 71,372 98,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.85% 68.60% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,481 38,391 51,151
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +65 4,521 £47,500 -5.00% 534
England +23 2,890 £55,000 +4.76% 1,000
Scotland +165 2,603 £47,500 -9.95% 43
London +58 1,062 £67,500 +3.85% 477
Work from Home +7 995 £55,000 - 608
North of England +51 585 £50,000 - 157
Midlands -37 408 £42,500 -10.53% 94
South West +47 372 £45,000 -10.00% 71
North West +37 291 £47,500 -9.52% 90
South East -62 282 £50,000 +5.26% 113
Yorkshire +70 233 £55,000 +15.79% 59
West Midlands -33 225 £47,500 -5.00% 51
East Midlands -37 157 £40,000 -11.11% 43
East of England +34 150 £47,500 -13.64% 49
Wales +82 101 £42,500 +18.88% 19
North East +28 60 £50,000 - 9
Northern Ireland +11 23 £57,276 +34.77% 6
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
1 593 (10.38%) Apache Spark
2 161 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 142 (2.49%) Apache
4 130 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 121 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
6 96 (1.68%) FileNet
7 83 (1.45%) Confluence
8 31 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
9 30 (0.53%) SAS
10 29 (0.51%) IIS
11 21 (0.37%) GemFire
11 21 (0.37%) Skype for Business
12 20 (0.35%) Camunda
13 16 (0.28%) CMS
14 11 (0.19%) CICS
14 11 (0.19%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.16%) WordPress
16 8 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
17 7 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
18 6 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 248 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
2 164 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 121 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.67%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.33%) Sketch
7 18 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) SPSS
9 6 (0.11%) InVision
9 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 5 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.053%) Simulink
12 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.035%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.035%) CANalyzer
12 2 (0.035%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.035%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 78 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 17 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
5 17 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 17 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 12 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
8 11 (0.19%) Endur
8 11 (0.19%) Relativity
9 10 (0.18%) Visualfiles
10 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
11 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.12%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,355 (23.72%) AWS
2 693 (12.13%) Azure
3 390 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 236 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
6 165 (2.89%) SaaS
7 152 (2.66%) GCP
8 129 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 124 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 121 (2.12%) Datadog
11 105 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
12 99 (1.73%) Power Automate
13 98 (1.72%) Figma
14 92 (1.61%) PowerApps
15 87 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
16 86 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
17 80 (1.40%) Serverless
18 75 (1.31%) SurveyMonkey
19 71 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
20 68 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.71%) Firewall
2 86 (1.51%) LAN
3 82 (1.44%) Kerberos
4 74 (1.30%) WAN
5 53 (0.93%) DNS
6 52 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 51 (0.89%) SAN
8 50 (0.88%) VPN
9 48 (0.84%) Internet
10 36 (0.63%) Wireless
11 34 (0.60%) DHCP
12 33 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
13 29 (0.51%) Network Security
14 26 (0.46%) Skype
15 25 (0.44%) OSPF
16 23 (0.40%) BGP
16 23 (0.40%) MPLS
16 23 (0.40%) SD-WAN
17 21 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (11.71%) NoSQL
2 515 (9.01%) Big Data
3 238 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 190 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 165 (2.89%) Relational Database
6 153 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 147 (2.57%) Power BI
8 146 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
9 133 (2.33%) Apache Hive
10 124 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 102 (1.79%) HBase
12 92 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 76 (1.33%) Tableau
14 74 (1.30%) Metadata
15 55 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
16 53 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
17 44 (0.77%) CockroachDB
18 43 (0.75%) MySQL
18 43 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
19 32 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 333 (5.83%) Jenkins
2 246 (4.31%) Git
3 210 (3.68%) JUnit
4 162 (2.84%) JIRA
5 122 (2.14%) Jasmine
6 88 (1.54%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
8 80 (1.40%) Selenium
9 78 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.14%) Artifactory
12 62 (1.09%) Maven
12 62 (1.09%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.05%) Protractor
14 46 (0.81%) GitLab
14 46 (0.81%) Mockito
15 43 (0.75%) Cucumber
16 31 (0.54%) CircleCI
17 30 (0.53%) Gradle
18 29 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,471 (60.76%) Finance
2 3,168 (55.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,576 (27.59%) Marketing
4 1,296 (22.69%) Legal
5 1,285 (22.49%) Social Skills
6 798 (13.97%) Banking
7 577 (10.10%) Investment Banking
8 510 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
9 326 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
10 292 (5.11%) Financial Institution
11 275 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
12 167 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 103 (1.80%) Retail
14 94 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
15 91 (1.59%) Private Banking
16 78 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 55 (0.96%) Front Office
18 52 (0.91%) Games
19 45 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
20 43 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,008 (35.15%) Software Engineer
2 981 (17.17%) Lead
3 806 (14.11%) Java Engineer
4 797 (13.95%) Java Software Engineer
5 707 (12.38%) Senior
6 685 (11.99%) Lead Software Engineer
7 636 (11.13%) Analyst
8 494 (8.65%) Developer
9 390 (6.83%) Big Data Engineer
9 390 (6.83%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 349 (6.11%) Python Engineer
11 335 (5.86%) Python Software Engineer
12 332 (5.81%) Full Stack Engineer
13 318 (5.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 311 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
15 299 (5.23%) AWS Software Engineer
16 277 (4.85%) Lead Java Engineer
17 269 (4.71%) Data Engineer
18 228 (3.99%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (3.99%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 681 (11.92%) Spring
2 573 (10.03%) React
3 419 (7.33%) AngularJS
4 374 (6.55%) Kafka
5 353 (6.18%) Spring Boot
6 348 (6.09%) HTML
7 306 (5.36%) CSS
8 247 (4.32%) JSON
9 244 (4.27%) J2EE
10 216 (3.78%) RESTful
11 206 (3.61%) .NET
12 202 (3.54%) Node.js
13 192 (3.36%) Hibernate
14 178 (3.12%) PySpark
15 177 (3.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 171 (2.99%) JMS
17 168 (2.94%) jQuery
18 165 (2.89%) Web Services
19 154 (2.70%) REST
20 144 (2.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 958 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 818 (14.32%) Algorithms
3 297 (5.20%) Public Cloud
4 247 (4.32%) Management Information System
5 200 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 192 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 143 (2.50%) Market Risk
8 140 (2.45%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.14%) FMCG
11 107 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
12 74 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 69 (1.21%) Credit Risk
15 65 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 64 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
17 58 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
18 52 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
19 48 (0.84%) Legacy Code
20 47 (0.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 368 (6.44%) Windows
2 183 (3.20%) Linux
3 161 (2.82%) Unix
4 158 (2.77%) Windows Server
5 108 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 65 (1.14%) Android
7 42 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.40%) VMS
9 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.12%) CentOS
11 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.11%) AIX
12 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.11%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.053%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,752 (48.17%) Agile
2 2,474 (43.30%) Software Engineering
3 2,142 (37.49%) SDLC
4 2,076 (36.34%) CI/CD
5 1,889 (33.06%) Operational Stability
6 1,508 (26.40%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,486 (26.01%) Machine Learning
8 1,315 (23.02%) Community of Practice
9 1,120 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 979 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
11 949 (16.61%) Visualisation
12 865 (15.14%) Risk Management
13 687 (12.03%) Decision-Making
14 531 (9.29%) Microservices
15 505 (8.84%) Continuous Delivery
16 485 (8.49%) Mentoring
17 447 (7.82%) Information Architecture
18 436 (7.63%) Computer Science
19 434 (7.60%) Analytics
20 419 (7.33%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,735 (30.37%) Java
2 1,480 (25.91%) SQL
3 1,121 (19.62%) Python
4 465 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 334 (5.85%) Scala
6 254 (4.45%) TypeScript
7 238 (4.17%) C#
8 154 (2.70%) PL/SQL
9 117 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 112 (1.96%) Go
11 95 (1.66%) PowerShell
12 67 (1.17%) SPARQL
13 65 (1.14%) Prolog
14 54 (0.95%) R
15 39 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 37 (0.65%) C
16 37 (0.65%) Groovy
17 33 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 27 (0.47%) C++
19 24 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 766 (13.41%) Degree
2 148 (2.59%) Master's Degree
3 115 (2.01%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 102 (1.79%) Security Cleared
5 95 (1.66%) CISSP
6 90 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (1.02%) PhD
8 52 (0.91%) SC Cleared
9 44 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 43 (0.75%) CISM
11 39 (0.68%) CISA
12 36 (0.63%) ACCA
13 33 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.49%) Azure Certification
15 25 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
16 23 (0.40%) CIPD
17 22 (0.39%) CEH
18 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (0.37%) SSCP
19 18 (0.32%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (4.22%) SLA
2 116 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 104 (1.82%) QA
5 92 (1.61%) GDPR
6 77 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 64 (1.12%) PMO
8 56 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 49 (0.86%) NIST
10 38 (0.67%) IFRS
11 32 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 29 (0.51%) GRC
13 25 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
16 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 15 (0.26%) WAI
17 14 (0.25%) IFRS 17
17 14 (0.25%) Solvency II
18 13 (0.23%) ITGC
System Software
1 365 (6.39%) Active Directory
2 102 (1.79%) HDFS
3 97 (1.70%) Docker
4 49 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.23%) Terminal Services
8 11 (0.19%) Firmware
8 11 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.088%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.088%) XenApp
12 2 (0.035%) pfSense
12 2 (0.035%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.035%) vSphere
13 1 (0.018%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 380 (6.65%) Kubernetes
2 302 (5.29%) Terraform
3 183 (3.20%) Grafana
4 77 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 55 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (0.53%) SCCM
7 26 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.37%) Ansible
8 21 (0.37%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.37%) Kibana
8 21 (0.37%) Zipkin
9 20 (0.35%) vCenter Server
10 17 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.25%) Graphite
12 8 (0.14%) logstash
12 8 (0.14%) vRealize
13 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.11%) Nessus
14 6 (0.11%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 794 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 464 (8.12%) Oracle
3 278 (4.87%) Databricks
4 198 (3.47%) Splunk
5 162 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 161 (2.82%) Dynatrace
7 118 (2.07%) Dell
8 111 (1.94%) Citrix
9 107 (1.87%) VMware
10 98 (1.72%) Informatica
11 96 (1.68%) Google
12 95 (1.66%) iManage
13 90 (1.58%) Alteryx
14 77 (1.35%) Cisco
15 72 (1.26%) Cloudera
16 70 (1.23%) Qualtrics
17 66 (1.16%) SAP
18 40 (0.70%) Intapp
19 38 (0.67%) Aderant
20 36 (0.63%) CA