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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 110 162
Rank change year-on-year +74 +52 -30
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,753 2,923 4,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.47% 3.08% 2.66%
As % of the General category 9.41% 4.56% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,134 1,725 2,192
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £29,000
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 £68,000 £67,746
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% +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 61,146 64,155 110,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.10% 67.68% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40,306 35,663 51,819
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £81,250 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +75 4,508 £47,000 -6.00% 489
England +29 2,997 £52,500 - 1,033
Scotland +162 2,541 £47,500 -12.04% 38
London +45 1,118 £67,500 +3.85% 573
Work from Home +12 969 £55,000 - 580
North of England +42 591 £50,000 - 144
Midlands -41 430 £42,500 -8.11% 95
South West +98 386 £45,000 -5.26% 61
North West +29 306 £47,500 -5.00% 79
South East -41 289 £50,000 -4.76% 103
West Midlands -42 241 £45,000 -10.00% 53
Yorkshire +74 225 £55,000 +16.34% 51
East Midlands -36 163 £40,000 -11.11% 42
East of England +40 152 £31,833 -41.59% 43
Wales +80 103 £40,000 +30.40% 9
North East +20 59 £50,000 - 14
Northern Ireland +13 20 £57,276 +34.77% 9
Channel Islands - 2 £60,000 -

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
1 574 (9.98%) Apache Spark
2 155 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 143 (2.49%) Apache
4 124 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
5 111 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 98 (1.70%) FileNet
7 91 (1.58%) Confluence
8 32 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
9 31 (0.54%) IIS
10 30 (0.52%) SAS
11 26 (0.45%) Skype for Business
12 21 (0.37%) CMS
12 21 (0.37%) GemFire
13 18 (0.31%) Camunda
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
1 240 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 172 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 125 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 36 (0.63%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.33%) Sketch
7 15 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) SPSS
9 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.10%) InVision
11 5 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.052%) Adobe XD
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%) Simulink
13 2 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.017%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 74 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.38%) 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 14 (0.24%) Visualfiles
7 13 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.19%) Endur
9 11 (0.19%) Relativity
9 11 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
10 10 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.17%) SAP HCM
11 9 (0.16%) Ripple
12 7 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,341 (23.31%) AWS
2 643 (11.18%) Azure
3 367 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
4 255 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
5 240 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 175 (3.04%) SaaS
7 169 (2.94%) GCP
8 131 (2.28%) Amazon S3
9 124 (2.16%) Datadog
9 124 (2.16%) Entra ID
10 106 (1.84%) Figma
11 102 (1.77%) Power Automate
12 100 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
13 98 (1.70%) PowerApps
14 93 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
15 87 (1.51%) Serverless
16 77 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
17 74 (1.29%) SurveyMonkey
18 72 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
19 67 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 154 (2.68%) Firewall
2 85 (1.48%) LAN
3 82 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 71 (1.23%) WAN
5 54 (0.94%) SAN
6 52 (0.90%) VPN
7 49 (0.85%) DNS
7 49 (0.85%) Internet
8 48 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 36 (0.63%) Network Security
10 32 (0.56%) Skype
10 32 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (0.56%) Wireless
11 31 (0.54%) DHCP
12 29 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
13 27 (0.47%) OSPF
14 26 (0.45%) MPLS
15 25 (0.43%) BGP
15 25 (0.43%) SD-WAN
16 23 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (11.44%) NoSQL
2 486 (8.45%) Big Data
3 227 (3.95%) Hadoop
4 176 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 160 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 157 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
7 148 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
8 135 (2.35%) Power BI
9 125 (2.17%) Apache Hive
10 119 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 98 (1.70%) HBase
12 85 (1.48%) Data Lake
13 75 (1.30%) Metadata
14 74 (1.29%) Tableau
15 51 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
16 49 (0.85%) MySQL
17 48 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
18 46 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
19 44 (0.76%) CockroachDB
20 32 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 325 (5.65%) Jenkins
2 254 (4.42%) Git
3 210 (3.65%) JUnit
4 154 (2.68%) JIRA
5 126 (2.19%) Jasmine
6 92 (1.60%) Cypress.io
7 87 (1.51%) Selenium
8 84 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
9 78 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 73 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
11 67 (1.16%) Artifactory
12 62 (1.08%) Maven
12 62 (1.08%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.04%) Protractor
14 47 (0.82%) GitLab
14 47 (0.82%) Mockito
15 44 (0.76%) Cucumber
16 34 (0.59%) Visual Studio
17 29 (0.50%) CircleCI
18 28 (0.49%) Gradle
General
1 3,460 (60.14%) Finance
2 3,150 (54.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,558 (27.08%) Marketing
4 1,294 (22.49%) Social Skills
5 1,272 (22.11%) Legal
6 818 (14.22%) Banking
7 591 (10.27%) Investment Banking
8 568 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
9 318 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
10 296 (5.15%) Financial Institution
11 279 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
12 174 (3.02%) Manufacturing
13 92 (1.60%) Retail
14 83 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
15 82 (1.43%) Private Banking
16 72 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 61 (1.06%) Front Office
18 55 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
19 54 (0.94%) Games
20 45 (0.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1,989 (34.57%) Software Engineer
2 988 (17.17%) Lead
3 798 (13.87%) Java Engineer
4 787 (13.68%) Java Software Engineer
5 722 (12.55%) Senior
6 683 (11.87%) Lead Software Engineer
7 611 (10.62%) Analyst
8 496 (8.62%) Developer
9 372 (6.47%) Big Data Engineer
9 372 (6.47%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 342 (5.94%) Python Engineer
11 327 (5.68%) Python Software Engineer
12 323 (5.61%) Full Stack Engineer
13 308 (5.35%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 299 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
15 289 (5.02%) AWS Software Engineer
16 274 (4.76%) Lead Java Engineer
17 262 (4.55%) Data Engineer
18 220 (3.82%) Scala Engineer
18 220 (3.82%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 674 (11.72%) Spring
2 583 (10.13%) React
3 408 (7.09%) AngularJS
4 375 (6.52%) Kafka
5 345 (6.00%) HTML
6 342 (5.94%) Spring Boot
7 309 (5.37%) CSS
8 242 (4.21%) J2EE
9 231 (4.02%) JSON
10 220 (3.82%) RESTful
11 215 (3.74%) .NET
12 210 (3.65%) Node.js
13 192 (3.34%) Hibernate
14 179 (3.11%) PySpark
15 178 (3.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 171 (2.97%) JMS
17 167 (2.90%) jQuery
18 163 (2.83%) Web Services
19 149 (2.59%) REST
20 134 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 947 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 803 (13.96%) Algorithms
3 290 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 251 (4.36%) Management Information System
5 197 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 187 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 143 (2.49%) Market Risk
8 138 (2.40%) Reference Data
9 127 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.12%) FMCG
11 120 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
12 78 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.25%) Credit Risk
13 72 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
14 65 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
14 65 (1.13%) Mobile App
15 62 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
16 58 (1.01%) Life Science
17 53 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
18 50 (0.87%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 355 (6.17%) Windows
2 179 (3.11%) Linux
3 159 (2.76%) Unix
4 150 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 109 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 69 (1.20%) Android
7 43 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.40%) VMS
9 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.14%) CentOS
11 7 (0.12%) AIX
11 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.10%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.087%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.052%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.017%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,705 (47.02%) Agile
2 2,468 (42.90%) Software Engineering
3 2,084 (36.22%) SDLC
4 2,030 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 1,843 (32.04%) Operational Stability
6 1,491 (25.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,465 (25.46%) Machine Learning
8 1,294 (22.49%) Community of Practice
9 1,120 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,016 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
11 938 (16.30%) Visualisation
12 878 (15.26%) Risk Management
13 683 (11.87%) Decision-Making
14 541 (9.40%) Microservices
15 502 (8.73%) Mentoring
16 488 (8.48%) Continuous Delivery
17 454 (7.89%) Computer Science
18 450 (7.82%) Analytics
19 440 (7.65%) Information Architecture
20 414 (7.20%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,721 (29.91%) Java
2 1,436 (24.96%) SQL
3 1,111 (19.31%) Python
4 481 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 320 (5.56%) Scala
6 263 (4.57%) TypeScript
7 246 (4.28%) C#
8 142 (2.47%) PL/SQL
9 117 (2.03%) Go
10 113 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 85 (1.48%) PowerShell
12 67 (1.16%) SPARQL
13 65 (1.13%) Prolog
14 56 (0.97%) R
15 53 (0.92%) Kotlin
16 37 (0.64%) C
16 37 (0.64%) Groovy
17 31 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 23 (0.40%) C++
19 21 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 805 (13.99%) Degree
2 151 (2.62%) Master's Degree
3 115 (2.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 102 (1.77%) Security Cleared
5 96 (1.67%) CISSP
6 91 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (1.23%) PhD
8 48 (0.83%) CISM
9 47 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 43 (0.75%) SC Cleared
11 42 (0.73%) CISA
12 36 (0.63%) ACCA
13 34 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.57%) Azure Certification
15 28 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 22 (0.38%) CIPD
17 21 (0.37%) SSCP
18 20 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
19 18 (0.31%) CEH
20 17 (0.30%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (4.21%) SLA
2 120 (2.09%) QA
3 105 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 89 (1.55%) GDPR
6 74 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 61 (1.06%) PMO
8 50 (0.87%) NIST
9 49 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 38 (0.66%) IFRS
11 30 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
11 30 (0.52%) GRC
12 19 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 19 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
13 18 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
15 14 (0.24%) IFRS 17
15 14 (0.24%) Solvency II
16 13 (0.23%) CDISC
16 13 (0.23%) WAI
System Software
1 347 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 100 (1.74%) Docker
3 98 (1.70%) HDFS
4 45 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.23%) Terminal Services
8 11 (0.19%) Firmware
8 11 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.10%) XenApp
11 5 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
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
1 392 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 304 (5.28%) Terraform
3 183 (3.18%) Grafana
4 79 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 51 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
7 23 (0.40%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.38%) Ansible
8 22 (0.38%) SCCM
9 21 (0.37%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.37%) Kibana
9 21 (0.37%) Zipkin
10 16 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.26%) Graphite
12 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
13 8 (0.14%) logstash
13 8 (0.14%) Nessus
14 7 (0.12%) vRealize
15 6 (0.10%) Progress Chef
15 6 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 808 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 468 (8.13%) Oracle
3 267 (4.64%) Databricks
4 200 (3.48%) Splunk
5 160 (2.78%) Dynatrace
6 156 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 108 (1.88%) Dell
8 104 (1.81%) Google
9 94 (1.63%) Citrix
10 92 (1.60%) Alteryx
11 91 (1.58%) VMware
12 89 (1.55%) Informatica
13 87 (1.51%) iManage
14 78 (1.36%) Cisco
15 70 (1.22%) SAP
16 68 (1.18%) Cloudera
16 68 (1.18%) Qualtrics
17 35 (0.61%) CA
18 34 (0.59%) Aderant
19 33 (0.57%) Veeam