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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 111 157
Rank change year-on-year +77 +46 -27
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,800 3,120 4,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.84% 3.08% 2.66%
As % of the General category 9.77% 4.51% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,149 1,753 2,096
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 59,384 69,119 101,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.82% 68.21% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,693 37,378 50,873
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 12 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 12 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 +70 4,587 £47,500 -5.00% 504
England +29 2,958 £52,500 - 957
Scotland +172 2,625 £47,500 -9.95% 40
London +58 1,086 £67,500 +3.85% 460
Work from Home +20 997 £55,000 - 558
North of England +57 600 £50,000 - 173
Midlands -35 422 £42,500 -5.56% 91
South West +73 389 £45,000 -5.26% 62
North West +30 299 £47,500 -5.00% 86
South East -48 277 £52,500 +5.00% 99
Yorkshire +67 236 £55,000 +15.79% 74
West Midlands -33 230 £46,250 -2.63% 51
East Midlands -30 166 £40,000 -11.11% 40
East of England +45 155 £31,833 -42.12% 38
Wales +83 101 £42,250 +45.69% 9
North East +31 64 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Northern Ireland +7 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 (10.29%) Apache Spark
2 159 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 148 (2.55%) Apache
4 127 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 125 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 98 (1.69%) FileNet
7 86 (1.48%) 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 (0.34%) 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
1 247 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 171 (2.95%) 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 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.052%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.052%) Simulink
13 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.034%) CANalyzer
13 2 (0.034%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.034%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.034%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 78 (1.34%) 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 1,388 (23.93%) AWS
2 677 (11.67%) Azure
3 381 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
5 235 (4.05%) Power Platform
6 169 (2.91%) SaaS
7 166 (2.86%) GCP
8 133 (2.29%) Amazon S3
9 131 (2.26%) Entra ID
10 125 (2.16%) Datadog
11 105 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
12 103 (1.78%) Figma
13 100 (1.72%) Power Automate
14 96 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
15 92 (1.59%) PowerApps
16 87 (1.50%) Serverless
17 77 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
18 76 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
19 75 (1.29%) SurveyMonkey
20 70 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 153 (2.64%) Firewall
2 85 (1.47%) LAN
3 82 (1.41%) Kerberos
4 73 (1.26%) WAN
5 54 (0.93%) SAN
6 52 (0.90%) DNS
7 51 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 51 (0.88%) VPN
8 47 (0.81%) 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 (11.69%) NoSQL
2 515 (8.88%) Big Data
3 238 (4.10%) Hadoop
4 185 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 169 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 156 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 152 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
8 134 (2.31%) Power BI
9 133 (2.29%) 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 45 (0.78%) MySQL
18 44 (0.76%) CockroachDB
19 31 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
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 (1.34%) 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 (1.03%) Protractor
15 47 (0.81%) GitLab
15 47 (0.81%) Mockito
16 44 (0.76%) Cucumber
17 31 (0.53%) CircleCI
18 30 (0.52%) Gradle
18 30 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,528 (60.83%) Finance
2 3,236 (55.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,600 (27.59%) Marketing
4 1,313 (22.64%) Social Skills
5 1,297 (22.36%) Legal
6 827 (14.26%) Banking
7 599 (10.33%) Investment Banking
8 546 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
9 327 (5.64%) Influencing Skills
10 297 (5.12%) Financial Institution
11 283 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
12 173 (2.98%) Manufacturing
13 100 (1.72%) Retail
14 93 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 92 (1.59%) Private Banking
16 71 (1.22%) 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 2,046 (35.28%) Software Engineer
2 1,001 (17.26%) Lead
3 820 (14.14%) Java Engineer
4 809 (13.95%) Java Software Engineer
5 724 (12.48%) Senior
6 703 (12.12%) Lead Software Engineer
7 641 (11.05%) Analyst
8 490 (8.45%) Developer
9 390 (6.72%) Big Data Engineer
9 390 (6.72%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 355 (6.12%) Python Engineer
11 338 (5.83%) Python Software Engineer
12 337 (5.81%) Full Stack Engineer
13 323 (5.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 313 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
15 301 (5.19%) AWS Software Engineer
16 282 (4.86%) Lead Java Engineer
17 278 (4.79%) Data Engineer
18 228 (3.93%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (3.93%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 689 (11.88%) Spring
2 592 (10.21%) React
3 422 (7.28%) AngularJS
4 383 (6.60%) Kafka
5 358 (6.17%) Spring Boot
6 349 (6.02%) HTML
7 312 (5.38%) CSS
8 246 (4.24%) J2EE
9 240 (4.14%) JSON
10 222 (3.83%) RESTful
11 214 (3.69%) .NET
12 209 (3.60%) Node.js
13 194 (3.34%) Hibernate
14 182 (3.14%) PySpark
15 178 (3.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 172 (2.97%) JMS
17 169 (2.91%) jQuery
18 162 (2.79%) Web Services
19 156 (2.69%) REST
20 136 (2.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 974 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 825 (14.22%) Algorithms
3 305 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 251 (4.33%) Management Information System
5 202 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 192 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 145 (2.50%) Market Risk
8 141 (2.43%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.22%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.10%) FMCG
11 112 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.24%) Credit Risk
13 72 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
14 65 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
14 65 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 60 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
16 53 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
17 50 (0.86%) Legacy Code
18 48 (0.83%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 367 (6.33%) Windows
2 182 (3.14%) Linux
3 163 (2.81%) Unix
4 158 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 110 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 66 (1.14%) Android
7 42 (0.72%) 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 2,785 (48.02%) Agile
2 2,526 (43.55%) Software Engineering
3 2,160 (37.24%) SDLC
4 2,096 (36.14%) CI/CD
5 1,907 (32.88%) Operational Stability
6 1,533 (26.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,513 (26.09%) Machine Learning
8 1,327 (22.88%) Community of Practice
9 1,136 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,013 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
11 963 (16.60%) Visualisation
12 878 (15.14%) Risk Management
13 694 (11.97%) Decision-Making
14 549 (9.47%) Microservices
15 507 (8.74%) Continuous Delivery
16 492 (8.48%) Mentoring
17 454 (7.83%) Analytics
18 453 (7.81%) Information Architecture
19 450 (7.76%) Computer Science
20 427 (7.36%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,770 (30.52%) Java
2 1,488 (25.66%) SQL
3 1,155 (19.91%) Python
4 480 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 335 (5.78%) Scala
6 267 (4.60%) TypeScript
7 246 (4.24%) C#
8 153 (2.64%) PL/SQL
9 118 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 116 (2.00%) 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 26 (0.45%) C++
20 20 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 786 (13.55%) Degree
2 149 (2.57%) Master's Degree
3 115 (1.98%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 104 (1.79%) Security Cleared
5 94 (1.62%) CISSP
6 93 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (1.05%) 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 (4.21%) SLA
2 111 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 111 (1.91%) QA
3 110 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 89 (1.53%) GDPR
5 78 (1.34%) Data Quality
6 66 (1.14%) PMO
7 53 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 51 (0.88%) NIST
9 38 (0.66%) IFRS
10 32 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 30 (0.52%) GRC
12 22 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
15 15 (0.26%) WAI
16 14 (0.24%) IFRS 17
16 14 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 14 (0.24%) Solvency II
17 13 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 364 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 104 (1.79%) Docker
3 102 (1.76%) 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 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.086%) XenApp
12 3 (0.052%) vSphere
13 2 (0.034%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.034%) pfSense
13 2 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.034%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 395 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 310 (5.34%) Terraform
3 186 (3.21%) 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 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 468 (8.07%) Oracle
3 280 (4.83%) Databricks
4 202 (3.48%) Splunk
5 162 (2.79%) Dynatrace
6 160 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 116 (2.00%) Dell
8 104 (1.79%) Citrix
9 103 (1.78%) VMware
10 101 (1.74%) Google
11 96 (1.66%) Informatica
12 94 (1.62%) Alteryx
13 91 (1.57%) iManage
14 74 (1.28%) Cisco
15 72 (1.24%) Cloudera
16 70 (1.21%) Qualtrics
17 66 (1.14%) SAP
18 39 (0.67%) Aderant
19 37 (0.64%) Intapp
20 35 (0.60%) CA