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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 112 157
Rank change year-on-year +77 +45 -26
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,778 3,120 4,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.83% 3.08% 2.65%
As % of the General category 9.75% 4.52% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,136 1,753 2,111
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 £68,750 £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 59,246 69,052 102,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.83% 68.22% 64.23%
Number of salaries quoted 39,585 37,352 51,252
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 £82,000 £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 13 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 13 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 +69 4,567 £47,500 -5.00% 509
England +27 2,939 £52,500 - 959
Scotland +172 2,625 £47,500 -9.95% 40
London +62 1,085 £67,500 +3.85% 456
Work from Home +22 980 £55,000 - 525
North of England +52 589 £50,000 - 172
Midlands -37 419 £42,500 -5.56% 90
South West +74 387 £45,000 -5.26% 65
North West +29 290 £47,500 -5.00% 86
South East -48 277 £52,500 +5.00% 102
Yorkshire +69 235 £55,000 +15.79% 73
West Midlands -38 229 £45,000 -5.26% 50
East Midlands -30 164 £40,000 -11.11% 40
East of England +51 153 £45,000 -18.18% 39
Wales +84 100 £42,000 +44.83% 9
North East +31 63 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Northern Ireland +9 21 £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 (10.33%) Apache Spark
2 158 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 148 (2.56%) Apache
4 127 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 125 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 98 (1.70%) FileNet
7 86 (1.49%) Confluence
8 32 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
9 30 (0.52%) IIS
9 30 (0.52%) SAS
10 23 (0.40%) Skype for Business
11 21 (0.36%) GemFire
12 20 (0.35%) Camunda
13 18 (0.31%) CMS
14 11 (0.19%) CICS
14 11 (0.19%) Tomcat
15 10 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
16 9 (0.16%) WordPress
17 7 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
18 6 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 245 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 169 (2.92%) 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 8 (0.14%) 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%) Gliffy
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%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (0.14%) Visualfiles
11 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,385 (23.97%) AWS
2 676 (11.70%) Azure
3 381 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
5 233 (4.03%) Power Platform
6 169 (2.92%) SaaS
7 166 (2.87%) GCP
8 131 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 131 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 125 (2.16%) Datadog
10 105 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (1.78%) Figma
12 100 (1.73%) Power Automate
13 96 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
14 92 (1.59%) PowerApps
15 87 (1.51%) Serverless
16 77 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
17 76 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
18 75 (1.30%) SurveyMonkey
19 70 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 153 (2.65%) Firewall
2 85 (1.47%) LAN
3 82 (1.42%) Kerberos
4 73 (1.26%) WAN
5 53 (0.92%) SAN
6 52 (0.90%) DNS
7 51 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 51 (0.88%) VPN
8 46 (0.80%) Internet
9 34 (0.59%) Wireless
10 33 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (0.55%) DHCP
12 29 (0.50%) Network Security
12 29 (0.50%) Skype
13 28 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
14 25 (0.43%) MPLS
14 25 (0.43%) OSPF
14 25 (0.43%) SD-WAN
15 23 (0.40%) BGP
16 22 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 678 (11.73%) 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
9 132 (2.28%) Power BI
10 126 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 102 (1.77%) HBase
12 88 (1.52%) Data Lake
13 76 (1.32%) Metadata
13 76 (1.32%) Tableau
14 53 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
15 51 (0.88%) 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
2 254 (4.40%) Git
3 212 (3.67%) JUnit
4 158 (2.73%) JIRA
5 125 (2.16%) Jasmine
6 92 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
8 84 (1.45%) Selenium
9 78 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 64 (1.11%) 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 3,519 (60.90%) Finance
2 3,228 (55.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,600 (27.69%) Marketing
4 1,301 (22.52%) Social Skills
5 1,296 (22.43%) Legal
6 826 (14.30%) 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
12 173 (2.99%) Manufacturing
13 100 (1.73%) 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 45 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
20 44 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,045 (35.39%) Software Engineer
2 999 (17.29%) Lead
3 820 (14.19%) Java Engineer
4 809 (14.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 719 (12.44%) Senior
6 703 (12.17%) Lead Software Engineer
7 638 (11.04%) Analyst
8 488 (8.45%) 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
1 689 (11.92%) Spring
2 592 (10.25%) React
3 422 (7.30%) AngularJS
4 383 (6.63%) Kafka
5 358 (6.20%) Spring Boot
6 348 (6.02%) HTML
7 311 (5.38%) CSS
8 246 (4.26%) J2EE
9 239 (4.14%) JSON
10 222 (3.84%) RESTful
11 214 (3.70%) .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
18 162 (2.80%) Web Services
19 155 (2.68%) REST
20 135 (2.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 974 (16.86%) Cloud Native
2 825 (14.28%) Algorithms
3 305 (5.28%) Public Cloud
4 251 (4.34%) Management Information System
5 202 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 191 (3.31%) 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
11 112 (1.94%) 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 50 (0.87%) Legacy Code
20 49 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 365 (6.32%) Windows
2 181 (3.13%) Linux
3 163 (2.82%) Unix
4 158 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 110 (1.90%) 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%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.10%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.052%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.017%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,777 (48.06%) Agile
2 2,525 (43.70%) Software Engineering
3 2,159 (37.37%) SDLC
4 2,096 (36.28%) CI/CD
5 1,907 (33.00%) Operational Stability
6 1,532 (26.51%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,513 (26.19%) Machine Learning
8 1,327 (22.97%) Community of Practice
9 1,136 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,005 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
11 963 (16.67%) Visualisation
12 879 (15.21%) Risk Management
13 695 (12.03%) Decision-Making
14 549 (9.50%) Microservices
15 507 (8.77%) Continuous Delivery
16 491 (8.50%) Mentoring
17 453 (7.84%) Analytics
17 453 (7.84%) Information Architecture
18 450 (7.79%) Computer Science
19 427 (7.39%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,770 (30.63%) Java
2 1,485 (25.70%) SQL
3 1,151 (19.92%) Python
4 480 (8.31%) JavaScript
5 335 (5.80%) Scala
6 267 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 246 (4.26%) C#
8 153 (2.65%) PL/SQL
9 117 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 116 (2.01%) Go
11 92 (1.59%) 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 25 (0.43%) C++
20 20 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 786 (13.60%) Degree
2 149 (2.58%) Master's Degree
3 115 (1.99%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 97 (1.68%) Security Cleared
5 94 (1.63%) CISSP
6 92 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (1.07%) PhD
8 51 (0.88%) SC Cleared
9 47 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 45 (0.78%) CISM
11 38 (0.66%) CISA
12 36 (0.62%) ACCA
13 30 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 29 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 29 (0.50%) 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
1 244 (4.22%) SLA
2 111 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 110 (1.90%) QA
4 103 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 89 (1.54%) GDPR
6 78 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 66 (1.14%) PMO
8 53 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 51 (0.88%) 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 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
1 364 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 104 (1.80%) 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
1 395 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 310 (5.37%) Terraform
3 186 (3.22%) Grafana
4 80 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 55 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (0.52%) 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 9 (0.16%) 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
1 803 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 468 (8.10%) Oracle
3 280 (4.85%) Databricks
4 202 (3.50%) Splunk
5 162 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 160 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 113 (1.96%) Dell
8 104 (1.80%) Citrix
9 103 (1.78%) VMware
10 101 (1.75%) Google
11 94 (1.63%) Alteryx
11 94 (1.63%) Informatica
12 91 (1.57%) iManage
13 74 (1.28%) Cisco
14 72 (1.25%) Cloudera
15 70 (1.21%) Qualtrics
16 65 (1.12%) SAP
17 39 (0.67%) Aderant
18 36 (0.62%) Intapp
19 35 (0.61%) CA