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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 107 161
Rank change year-on-year +72 +54 -31
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,794 3,220 4,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.85% 3.18% 2.64%
As % of the General category 9.78% 4.66% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,146 1,746 2,066
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 £69,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £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 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £102,000 £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 9 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 9 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 +67 4,582 £47,500 -5.00% 504
England +26 2,953 £53,500 +1.90% 947
Scotland +167 2,624 £47,500 -9.95% 43
London +59 1,086 £67,500 +3.85% 452
Work from Home +10 1,002 £55,000 - 574
North of England +53 595 £50,000 - 179
Midlands -38 420 £42,500 -5.56% 88
South West +57 390 £45,000 -5.26% 60
North West +25 297 £47,500 -5.00% 90
South East -66 277 £52,500 +10.53% 100
Yorkshire +72 233 £55,000 +16.90% 74
West Midlands -39 228 £47,500 - 50
East Midlands -33 166 £40,000 -11.11% 38
East of England +50 156 £38,417 -30.15% 35
Wales +74 102 £42,500 +46.55% 10
North East +29 64 £50,000 +5.26% 16
Northern Ireland +10 22 £57,276 +34.77% 4
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 (10.30%) Apache Spark
2 159 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 148 (2.55%) Apache
4 127 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 126 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 98 (1.69%) FileNet
7 86 (1.48%) Confluence
8 32 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
9 30 (0.52%) SAS
10 28 (0.48%) IIS
11 22 (0.38%) Skype for Business
12 21 (0.36%) GemFire
13 20 (0.35%) Camunda
14 17 (0.29%) 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
1 248 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 172 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 125 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.66%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.33%) Sketch
7 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) SPSS
9 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.10%) InVision
11 5 (0.086%) 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%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.035%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 78 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.33%) 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 9 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
10 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (0.14%) Visualfiles
11 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,389 (23.97%) AWS
2 676 (11.67%) Azure
3 380 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
5 237 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 169 (2.92%) SaaS
7 166 (2.87%) GCP
8 133 (2.30%) Amazon S3
9 128 (2.21%) Entra ID
10 125 (2.16%) Datadog
11 105 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
12 102 (1.76%) Figma
13 100 (1.73%) Power Automate
14 96 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (1.59%) PowerApps
16 86 (1.48%) Serverless
17 77 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
18 76 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
19 75 (1.29%) SurveyMonkey
20 70 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 152 (2.62%) Firewall
2 85 (1.47%) LAN
3 82 (1.42%) Kerberos
4 73 (1.26%) WAN
5 52 (0.90%) SAN
5 52 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 51 (0.88%) DNS
7 50 (0.86%) VPN
8 47 (0.81%) Internet
9 34 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (0.59%) Wireless
10 32 (0.55%) DHCP
11 30 (0.52%) Network Security
12 28 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
12 28 (0.48%) Skype
13 25 (0.43%) MPLS
13 25 (0.43%) OSPF
13 25 (0.43%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.40%) BGP
15 22 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 678 (11.70%) NoSQL
2 515 (8.89%) Big Data
3 238 (4.11%) Hadoop
4 183 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 169 (2.92%) Relational Database
6 156 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 152 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
8 136 (2.35%) Power BI
9 133 (2.30%) Apache Hive
10 126 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 102 (1.76%) HBase
12 88 (1.52%) Data Lake
13 77 (1.33%) Tableau
14 76 (1.31%) Metadata
15 53 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 53 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
17 44 (0.76%) CockroachDB
17 44 (0.76%) MySQL
18 32 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 335 (5.78%) Jenkins
2 254 (4.38%) Git
3 212 (3.66%) JUnit
4 159 (2.74%) JIRA
5 125 (2.16%) Jasmine
6 92 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
8 84 (1.45%) Selenium
9 78 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.29%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 64 (1.10%) Maven
13 62 (1.07%) WebDriver
14 60 (1.04%) Protractor
15 47 (0.81%) GitLab
15 47 (0.81%) Mockito
16 44 (0.76%) Cucumber
17 31 (0.54%) CircleCI
18 30 (0.52%) Gradle
18 30 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,527 (60.87%) Finance
2 3,235 (55.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,598 (27.58%) Marketing
4 1,310 (22.61%) Social Skills
5 1,296 (22.37%) Legal
6 826 (14.26%) Banking
7 599 (10.34%) Investment Banking
8 541 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
9 327 (5.64%) Influencing Skills
10 297 (5.13%) Financial Institution
11 283 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
12 173 (2.99%) Manufacturing
13 100 (1.73%) Retail
14 95 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
15 92 (1.59%) Private Banking
16 71 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 63 (1.09%) Front Office
18 55 (0.95%) Games
19 46 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
20 44 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,046 (35.31%) Software Engineer
2 1,001 (17.28%) Lead
3 820 (14.15%) Java Engineer
4 809 (13.96%) Java Software Engineer
5 724 (12.50%) Senior
6 703 (12.13%) Lead Software Engineer
7 642 (11.08%) Analyst
8 492 (8.49%) Developer
9 390 (6.73%) Big Data Engineer
9 390 (6.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 354 (6.11%) Python Engineer
11 338 (5.83%) Python Software Engineer
12 337 (5.82%) Full Stack Engineer
13 323 (5.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 313 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
15 301 (5.20%) AWS Software Engineer
16 282 (4.87%) Lead Java Engineer
17 278 (4.80%) Data Engineer
18 228 (3.94%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (3.94%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 689 (11.89%) Spring
2 592 (10.22%) React
3 422 (7.28%) AngularJS
4 383 (6.61%) Kafka
5 358 (6.18%) Spring Boot
6 349 (6.02%) HTML
7 312 (5.38%) CSS
8 246 (4.25%) J2EE
9 242 (4.18%) JSON
10 222 (3.83%) RESTful
11 214 (3.69%) .NET
12 209 (3.61%) Node.js
13 194 (3.35%) Hibernate
14 182 (3.14%) PySpark
15 178 (3.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 172 (2.97%) JMS
17 169 (2.92%) jQuery
18 163 (2.81%) Web Services
19 157 (2.71%) REST
20 138 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 974 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 825 (14.24%) Algorithms
3 303 (5.23%) Public Cloud
4 250 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 202 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 192 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 145 (2.50%) Market Risk
8 141 (2.43%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.11%) FMCG
11 109 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.24%) Credit Risk
13 72 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
14 66 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 65 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
16 60 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
17 53 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
18 50 (0.86%) Legacy Code
19 49 (0.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 365 (6.30%) Windows
2 180 (3.11%) Linux
3 162 (2.80%) Unix
4 155 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 109 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 65 (1.12%) Android
7 41 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.40%) VMS
9 10 (0.17%) 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%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.10%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.052%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.017%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.017%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,781 (48.00%) Agile
2 2,525 (43.58%) Software Engineering
3 2,160 (37.28%) SDLC
4 2,096 (36.18%) CI/CD
5 1,907 (32.91%) Operational Stability
6 1,535 (26.49%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,513 (26.11%) Machine Learning
8 1,327 (22.90%) Community of Practice
9 1,135 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,009 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
11 963 (16.62%) Visualisation
12 878 (15.15%) Risk Management
13 694 (11.98%) Decision-Making
14 548 (9.46%) Microservices
15 507 (8.75%) Continuous Delivery
16 489 (8.44%) Mentoring
17 453 (7.82%) Analytics
17 453 (7.82%) Information Architecture
18 449 (7.75%) Computer Science
19 427 (7.37%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,770 (30.55%) Java
2 1,486 (25.65%) SQL
3 1,156 (19.95%) Python
4 480 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 335 (5.78%) Scala
6 267 (4.61%) TypeScript
7 246 (4.25%) C#
8 154 (2.66%) PL/SQL
9 118 (2.04%) T-SQL
10 116 (2.00%) Go
11 91 (1.57%) PowerShell
12 67 (1.16%) SPARQL
13 65 (1.12%) Prolog
14 56 (0.97%) R
15 48 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 39 (0.67%) C
17 37 (0.64%) Groovy
18 33 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 26 (0.45%) C++
20 20 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 786 (13.57%) Degree
2 151 (2.61%) Master's Degree
3 115 (1.98%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 102 (1.76%) Security Cleared
5 94 (1.62%) CISSP
6 93 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (1.05%) PhD
8 53 (0.91%) SC Cleared
9 47 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 45 (0.78%) CISM
11 38 (0.66%) CISA
12 36 (0.62%) ACCA
13 29 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.48%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (0.40%) CIPD
16 22 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
17 21 (0.36%) SSCP
18 19 (0.33%) CEH
19 17 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (4.18%) SLA
2 112 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 111 (1.92%) QA
4 109 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 89 (1.54%) GDPR
6 78 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 66 (1.14%) PMO
8 54 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 50 (0.86%) NIST
10 38 (0.66%) IFRS
11 32 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
12 30 (0.52%) GRC
13 22 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
16 15 (0.26%) WAI
17 14 (0.24%) IFRS 17
17 14 (0.24%) Solvency II
18 13 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 13 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 361 (6.23%) Active Directory
2 104 (1.79%) Docker
3 102 (1.76%) HDFS
4 47 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 34 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 23 (0.40%) 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 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.086%) XenApp
12 2 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.035%) pfSense
12 2 (0.035%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.035%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 395 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 310 (5.35%) Terraform
3 186 (3.21%) Grafana
4 80 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 55 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (0.54%) SCCM
7 26 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
8 23 (0.40%) Ansible
9 21 (0.36%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.36%) Kibana
9 21 (0.36%) vCenter Server
9 21 (0.36%) Zipkin
10 17 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.26%) Graphite
12 8 (0.14%) logstash
12 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (0.14%) vRealize
13 7 (0.12%) Nessus
14 6 (0.10%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 799 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 469 (8.09%) Oracle
3 280 (4.83%) Databricks
4 202 (3.49%) Splunk
5 162 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 159 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 118 (2.04%) Dell
8 104 (1.79%) Citrix
9 101 (1.74%) Google
9 101 (1.74%) VMware
10 96 (1.66%) Informatica
11 94 (1.62%) Alteryx
12 92 (1.59%) iManage
13 74 (1.28%) Cisco
14 72 (1.24%) Cloudera
15 70 (1.21%) Qualtrics
16 66 (1.14%) SAP
17 39 (0.67%) Aderant
17 39 (0.67%) Intapp
18 35 (0.60%) CA