Law Jobs in the UK excluding London

Law
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 106 109
Rank change year-on-year +77 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Law 4,558 1,893 2,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.23% 3.24% 3.05%
As % of the General category 11.03% 4.74% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 1,130 1,241
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,000 £34,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,050 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 41,320 39,924 44,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.44% 68.41% 60.92%
Number of salaries quoted 26,698 18,282 24,382
10th Percentile £26,043 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Scotland +168 2,626 £47,500 -9.95% 43
North of England +50 578 £50,000 - 157
Midlands -37 422 £42,500 -5.56% 112
South West +66 384 £45,000 -5.26% 62
North West +29 294 £47,500 -5.00% 86
South East -47 279 £52,500 - 204
West Midlands -41 230 £45,000 -5.26% 62
Yorkshire +78 225 £55,000 +15.79% 53
East Midlands -32 166 £40,000 -11.11% 50
East of England +56 151 £31,833 -41.59% 37
Wales +88 102 £40,000 +37.93% 12
North East +24 58 £50,000 +11.11% 18
Northern Ireland +4 20 £57,276 +34.77% 5
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Law
UK

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 589 (12.92%) Apache Spark
2 137 (3.01%) Apache
3 117 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 107 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 98 (2.15%) FileNet
6 78 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 77 (1.69%) Confluence
8 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.46%) GemFire
10 20 (0.44%) Camunda
11 17 (0.37%) SAS
12 16 (0.35%) Skype for Business
13 13 (0.29%) IIS
14 11 (0.24%) CICS
15 10 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
15 10 (0.22%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.20%) WordPress
17 7 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
17 7 (0.15%) CMS
18 6 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 174 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 118 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.83%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.42%) Sketch
7 15 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) InVision
9 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.066%) Simulink
12 2 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.044%) CANalyzer
12 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 61 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.24%) Endur
7 9 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.15%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.11%) SAP HR
10 5 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
12 3 (0.066%) Primavera
13 2 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
13 2 (0.044%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,266 (27.78%) AWS
2 461 (10.11%) Azure
3 240 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
4 171 (3.75%) Power Platform
5 167 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
6 118 (2.59%) Datadog
7 110 (2.41%) Amazon S3
8 107 (2.35%) GCP
9 99 (2.17%) Figma
10 85 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 83 (1.82%) PowerApps
12 81 (1.78%) Entra ID
13 77 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (1.65%) SurveyMonkey
15 73 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
16 62 (1.36%) Serverless
17 57 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 55 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
19 53 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (1.84%) Firewall
2 82 (1.80%) Kerberos
3 47 (1.03%) LAN
4 41 (0.90%) SAN
5 37 (0.81%) WAN
6 29 (0.64%) DNS
7 26 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.53%) Internet
8 24 (0.53%) VPN
9 21 (0.46%) DHCP
9 21 (0.46%) DSL
10 20 (0.44%) Network Security
10 20 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.39%) Skype
12 16 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
13 15 (0.33%) Wireless
14 13 (0.29%) NAS
14 13 (0.29%) VLAN
15 11 (0.24%) BIG-IP
16 9 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (14.72%) NoSQL
2 502 (11.01%) Big Data
3 233 (5.11%) Hadoop
4 152 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 151 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
6 139 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 137 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 131 (2.87%) Apache Hive
9 114 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 102 (2.24%) HBase
11 93 (2.04%) Power BI
12 87 (1.91%) Data Lake
13 69 (1.51%) Tableau
14 65 (1.43%) Metadata
15 53 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
17 44 (0.97%) MySQL
18 38 (0.83%) CockroachDB
19 29 (0.64%) DB2
20 24 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 314 (6.89%) Jenkins
2 212 (4.65%) JUnit
3 210 (4.61%) Git
4 127 (2.79%) Jasmine
5 123 (2.70%) JIRA
6 89 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
8 81 (1.78%) Selenium
9 76 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.65%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.43%) Artifactory
12 64 (1.40%) Maven
13 62 (1.36%) WebDriver
14 60 (1.32%) Protractor
15 47 (1.03%) Mockito
16 41 (0.90%) Cucumber
17 32 (0.70%) GitLab
18 31 (0.68%) CircleCI
19 30 (0.66%) Gradle
20 28 (0.61%) JMeter
General
1 3,091 (67.81%) Finance
2 2,928 (64.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,525 (33.46%) Marketing
4 959 (21.04%) Legal
5 889 (19.50%) Social Skills
6 723 (15.86%) Banking
7 589 (12.92%) Investment Banking
8 412 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
9 279 (6.12%) Financial Institution
10 271 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
11 194 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
12 120 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 92 (2.02%) Private Banking
14 62 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 59 (1.29%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.18%) Front Office
17 47 (1.03%) Games
18 38 (0.83%) Retail
19 32 (0.70%) Social Science
20 31 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,002 (43.92%) Software Engineer
2 897 (19.68%) Lead
3 797 (17.49%) Java Engineer
4 795 (17.44%) Java Software Engineer
5 685 (15.03%) Lead Software Engineer
6 462 (10.14%) Senior
7 390 (8.56%) Big Data Engineer
7 390 (8.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 385 (8.45%) Analyst
8 385 (8.45%) Developer
9 338 (7.42%) Python Engineer
10 332 (7.28%) Python Software Engineer
11 328 (7.20%) Full Stack Engineer
12 323 (7.09%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 308 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
14 301 (6.60%) AWS Software Engineer
15 278 (6.10%) Lead Java Engineer
16 256 (5.62%) Data Engineer
17 228 (5.00%) Scala Engineer
17 228 (5.00%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (15.01%) Spring
2 538 (11.80%) React
3 406 (8.91%) AngularJS
4 354 (7.77%) Kafka
5 347 (7.61%) Spring Boot
6 323 (7.09%) HTML
7 291 (6.38%) CSS
8 246 (5.40%) J2EE
9 220 (4.83%) JSON
10 204 (4.48%) Node.js
11 201 (4.41%) RESTful
12 194 (4.26%) Hibernate
13 174 (3.82%) PySpark
14 172 (3.77%) JMS
15 168 (3.69%) .NET
15 168 (3.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 159 (3.49%) jQuery
17 148 (3.25%) Web Services
18 128 (2.81%) REST
19 125 (2.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 937 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 822 (18.03%) Algorithms
3 292 (6.41%) Public Cloud
4 194 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 189 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 182 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 144 (3.16%) Market Risk
8 140 (3.07%) Reference Data
9 113 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 94 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 75 (1.65%) FMCG
11 75 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 71 (1.56%) Credit Risk
13 69 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
14 65 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
15 51 (1.12%) Legacy Code
16 49 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 45 (0.99%) Housing Association
18 36 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
19 34 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 239 (5.24%) Windows
2 153 (3.36%) Unix
3 140 (3.07%) Linux
4 105 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 70 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 48 (1.05%) Android
7 23 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.35%) VMS
9 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.13%) CentOS
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 8
10 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.022%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,594 (56.91%) Agile
2 2,442 (53.58%) Software Engineering
3 2,118 (46.47%) SDLC
4 2,007 (44.03%) CI/CD
5 1,893 (41.53%) Operational Stability
6 1,460 (32.03%) Machine Learning
7 1,459 (32.01%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,321 (28.98%) Community of Practice
9 1,043 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 945 (20.73%) Visualisation
11 805 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
12 794 (17.42%) Risk Management
13 647 (14.19%) Decision-Making
14 492 (10.79%) Microservices
15 490 (10.75%) Continuous Delivery
16 450 (9.87%) Information Architecture
17 415 (9.10%) Architectural Design
18 413 (9.06%) Computer Science
19 387 (8.49%) Full Stack Development
20 332 (7.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,699 (37.28%) Java
2 1,330 (29.18%) SQL
3 1,031 (22.62%) Python
4 424 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 325 (7.13%) Scala
6 236 (5.18%) TypeScript
7 189 (4.15%) C#
8 149 (3.27%) PL/SQL
9 87 (1.91%) Go
10 82 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 67 (1.47%) SPARQL
12 65 (1.43%) Prolog
13 52 (1.14%) R
14 44 (0.97%) PowerShell
15 37 (0.81%) Groovy
16 32 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 28 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 24 (0.53%) C
19 22 (0.48%) C++
20 20 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 582 (12.77%) Degree
2 126 (2.76%) Master's Degree
3 69 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (1.49%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 55 (1.21%) PhD
6 44 (0.97%) Security Cleared
7 29 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 23 (0.50%) CISSP
9 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.46%) SC Cleared
11 17 (0.37%) CISM
12 14 (0.31%) HNC
12 14 (0.31%) HND
13 12 (0.26%) CIPD
14 11 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.22%) CISA
16 9 (0.20%) CRISC
16 9 (0.20%) MBA
17 8 (0.18%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (3.23%) SLA
2 98 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 58 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.21%) QA
5 48 (1.05%) GDPR
6 39 (0.86%) PMO
7 32 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (0.61%) NIST
9 26 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 25 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.33%) WAI
12 13 (0.29%) ITGC
13 12 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.24%) GRC
14 11 (0.24%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.15%) IFRS
16 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.13%) WCAG
17 5 (0.11%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 258 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.24%) HDFS
3 73 (1.60%) Docker
4 33 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.22%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.11%) XenApp
10 4 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.044%) Firmware
11 2 (0.044%) pfSense
11 2 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.044%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 345 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 270 (5.92%) Terraform
3 175 (3.84%) Grafana
4 79 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 29 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.46%) Kibana
7 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
8 14 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 13 (0.29%) Graphite
10 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (0.20%) Ansible
11 9 (0.20%) SCCM
12 8 (0.18%) Nessus
13 4 (0.088%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.044%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.044%) SCOM
14 2 (0.044%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 510 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 424 (9.30%) Oracle
3 267 (5.86%) Databricks
4 188 (4.12%) Splunk
5 162 (3.55%) Dynatrace
6 93 (2.04%) Alteryx
7 91 (2.00%) Informatica
8 72 (1.58%) Cloudera
9 71 (1.56%) Google
10 70 (1.54%) Qualtrics
11 63 (1.38%) VMware
12 62 (1.36%) Citrix
13 47 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 46 (1.01%) SAP
15 37 (0.81%) Cisco
16 35 (0.77%) iManage
17 27 (0.59%) Pega
18 25 (0.55%) Dell
19 24 (0.53%) Veeam
20 23 (0.50%) Sybase