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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 108 108
Rank change year-on-year +78 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing Law 4,543 1,854 2,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.09% 3.20% 3.06%
As % of the General category 10.86% 4.68% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,126 1,247
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,375 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,000 £34,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £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 41,817 39,575 44,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.08% 68.21% 60.98%
Number of salaries quoted 26,883 18,174 24,431
10th Percentile £26,000 £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 £62,200 £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 29 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 29 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 +170 2,584 £47,500 -10.38% 34
North of England +49 586 £50,000 - 156
Midlands -37 430 £42,500 -5.56% 101
South West +88 385 £45,000 -5.26% 65
North West +32 299 £47,500 -5.00% 84
South East -35 286 £52,500 - 87
West Midlands -39 239 £45,000 -5.26% 58
Yorkshire +76 227 £55,000 +15.79% 58
East Midlands -39 165 £40,000 -11.11% 43
East of England +48 154 £31,833 -41.59% 35
Wales +82 103 £40,000 +30.40% 10
North East +29 59 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Northern Ireland +8 20 £57,276 +34.77% 6
Channel Islands - 1 - - 1
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
1 577 (12.70%) Apache Spark
2 134 (2.95%) Apache
3 115 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 105 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 98 (2.16%) FileNet
6 78 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 77 (1.69%) Confluence
8 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.46%) GemFire
10 19 (0.42%) Camunda
11 17 (0.37%) SAS
11 17 (0.37%) Skype for Business
12 12 (0.26%) IIS
13 11 (0.24%) CICS
14 10 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
14 10 (0.22%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.20%) WordPress
16 7 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
16 7 (0.15%) CMS
17 6 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 172 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 118 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.81%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.42%) Sketch
7 15 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) InVision
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
11 2 (0.044%) Simulink
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
12 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 13 (0.29%) 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 6 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.11%) SAP HR
11 5 (0.11%) Workday HCM
12 3 (0.066%) Primavera
13 2 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
13 2 (0.044%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,240 (27.29%) AWS
2 456 (10.04%) Azure
3 238 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
4 176 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
5 174 (3.83%) Power Platform
6 117 (2.58%) Datadog
7 110 (2.42%) Amazon S3
8 103 (2.27%) GCP
9 98 (2.16%) Figma
10 87 (1.92%) Power Automate
11 86 (1.89%) PowerApps
12 82 (1.80%) Entra ID
13 75 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
14 74 (1.63%) SurveyMonkey
15 72 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
16 61 (1.34%) Serverless
17 56 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 54 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
18 54 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (1.87%) Firewall
2 82 (1.80%) Kerberos
3 47 (1.03%) LAN
4 43 (0.95%) SAN
5 37 (0.81%) WAN
6 29 (0.64%) DNS
7 25 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.53%) Internet
8 24 (0.53%) VPN
9 22 (0.48%) Network Security
10 21 (0.46%) DHCP
11 20 (0.44%) DSL
11 20 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (0.42%) Skype
13 17 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
14 14 (0.31%) NAS
14 14 (0.31%) Wireless
15 13 (0.29%) VLAN
16 11 (0.24%) BIG-IP
17 9 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 661 (14.55%) NoSQL
2 489 (10.76%) Big Data
3 228 (5.02%) Hadoop
4 152 (3.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 149 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
6 136 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 134 (2.95%) Relational Database
8 128 (2.82%) Apache Hive
9 110 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 100 (2.20%) HBase
11 94 (2.07%) Power BI
12 87 (1.92%) Data Lake
13 68 (1.50%) Tableau
14 65 (1.43%) Metadata
15 52 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
17 45 (0.99%) MySQL
18 38 (0.84%) CockroachDB
19 28 (0.62%) DB2
20 25 (0.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 310 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 211 (4.64%) JUnit
3 208 (4.58%) Git
4 127 (2.80%) Jasmine
5 122 (2.69%) JIRA
6 89 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 85 (1.87%) Bitbucket Server
8 82 (1.80%) Selenium
9 76 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 74 (1.63%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.43%) Artifactory
12 63 (1.39%) 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 30 (0.66%) CircleCI
19 29 (0.64%) Gradle
20 28 (0.62%) JMeter
General
1 3,063 (67.42%) Finance
2 2,884 (63.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,502 (33.06%) Marketing
4 951 (20.93%) Legal
5 888 (19.55%) Social Skills
6 715 (15.74%) Banking
7 585 (12.88%) Investment Banking
8 419 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
9 273 (6.01%) Financial Institution
10 267 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
11 192 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
12 119 (2.62%) Manufacturing
13 87 (1.92%) Private Banking
14 62 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 58 (1.28%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.19%) Front Office
17 48 (1.06%) Games
18 36 (0.79%) Retail
19 32 (0.70%) Social Science
20 31 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,969 (43.34%) Software Engineer
2 884 (19.46%) Lead
3 785 (17.28%) Java Engineer
4 783 (17.24%) Java Software Engineer
5 671 (14.77%) Lead Software Engineer
6 457 (10.06%) Senior
7 393 (8.65%) Developer
8 383 (8.43%) Analyst
9 382 (8.41%) Big Data Engineer
9 382 (8.41%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 333 (7.33%) Python Engineer
11 327 (7.20%) Python Software Engineer
12 321 (7.07%) Full Stack Engineer
13 316 (6.96%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 302 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
15 295 (6.49%) AWS Software Engineer
16 274 (6.03%) Lead Java Engineer
17 250 (5.50%) Data Engineer
18 224 (4.93%) Scala Engineer
18 224 (4.93%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 674 (14.84%) Spring
2 533 (11.73%) React
3 399 (8.78%) AngularJS
4 350 (7.70%) Kafka
5 339 (7.46%) Spring Boot
6 321 (7.07%) HTML
7 289 (6.36%) CSS
8 244 (5.37%) J2EE
9 219 (4.82%) JSON
10 205 (4.51%) Node.js
11 199 (4.38%) RESTful
12 193 (4.25%) Hibernate
13 172 (3.79%) JMS
13 172 (3.79%) PySpark
14 171 (3.76%) .NET
15 168 (3.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 158 (3.48%) jQuery
17 150 (3.30%) Web Services
18 125 (2.75%) REST
19 124 (2.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 922 (20.29%) Cloud Native
2 813 (17.90%) Algorithms
3 282 (6.21%) Public Cloud
4 192 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 187 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 179 (3.94%) Product Ownership
7 143 (3.15%) Market Risk
8 138 (3.04%) Reference Data
9 112 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 93 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 75 (1.65%) FMCG
11 75 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 71 (1.56%) Credit Risk
12 71 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
13 65 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
14 51 (1.12%) Legacy Code
15 49 (1.08%) Mobile App
16 45 (0.99%) Housing Association
17 36 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
18 34 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 240 (5.28%) Windows
2 151 (3.32%) Unix
3 140 (3.08%) Linux
4 106 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 69 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 49 (1.08%) Android
7 24 (0.53%) 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 1 (0.022%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,558 (56.31%) Agile
2 2,406 (52.96%) Software Engineering
3 2,083 (45.85%) SDLC
4 1,977 (43.52%) CI/CD
5 1,859 (40.92%) Operational Stability
6 1,435 (31.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,434 (31.57%) Machine Learning
8 1,304 (28.70%) Community of Practice
9 1,033 (22.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 935 (20.58%) Visualisation
11 802 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 785 (17.28%) Risk Management
13 638 (14.04%) Decision-Making
14 486 (10.70%) Microservices
15 480 (10.57%) Continuous Delivery
16 442 (9.73%) Information Architecture
17 411 (9.05%) Computer Science
18 407 (8.96%) Architectural Design
19 381 (8.39%) Full Stack Development
20 330 (7.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,666 (36.67%) Java
2 1,309 (28.81%) SQL
3 1,010 (22.23%) Python
4 421 (9.27%) JavaScript
5 318 (7.00%) Scala
6 233 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 192 (4.23%) C#
8 146 (3.21%) PL/SQL
9 85 (1.87%) Go
10 81 (1.78%) 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 31 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 28 (0.62%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.46%) C
19 19 (0.42%) PHP
19 19 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 585 (12.88%) Degree
2 125 (2.75%) Master's Degree
3 68 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (1.50%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 54 (1.19%) PhD
5 45 (0.99%) Security Cleared
6 29 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 23 (0.51%) CISSP
9 21 (0.46%) SC Cleared
10 17 (0.37%) CISM
11 14 (0.31%) HNC
11 14 (0.31%) HND
12 12 (0.26%) CIPD
13 11 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.22%) CISA
15 9 (0.20%) CRISC
15 9 (0.20%) MBA
16 8 (0.18%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (3.21%) SLA
2 95 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 59 (1.30%) QA
4 57 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 48 (1.06%) GDPR
6 38 (0.84%) PMO
7 31 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (0.62%) NIST
9 26 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 25 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.31%) 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
1 254 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.20%) HDFS
3 70 (1.54%) Docker
4 33 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.35%) 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%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.11%) XenApp
10 4 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.044%) Firmware
12 2 (0.044%) pfSense
12 2 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.044%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 339 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 266 (5.86%) Terraform
3 173 (3.81%) Grafana
4 78 (1.72%) 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 15 (0.33%) 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
1 521 (11.47%) Microsoft
2 421 (9.27%) Oracle
3 261 (5.75%) Databricks
4 187 (4.12%) Splunk
5 161 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 92 (2.03%) Alteryx
7 90 (1.98%) Informatica
8 71 (1.56%) Google
9 70 (1.54%) Cloudera
10 69 (1.52%) Qualtrics
11 62 (1.36%) VMware
12 60 (1.32%) Citrix
13 48 (1.06%) SAP
14 47 (1.03%) ServiceNow
15 38 (0.84%) Cisco
16 35 (0.77%) iManage
17 26 (0.57%) Pega
18 25 (0.55%) Dell
19 24 (0.53%) Veeam
20 22 (0.48%) Sybase