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 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 36 110 161
Rank change year-on-year +74 +51 -28
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,774 2,991 4,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.59% 3.08% 2.66%
As % of the General category 9.54% 4.53% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,132 1,721 2,162
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 £67,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,250 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.50% +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 60,543 66,044 108,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.62% 67.97% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40,070 35,832 51,526
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,502
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £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 29 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 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
UK excluding London +78 4,543 £47,250 -5.50% 500
England +30 2,976 £52,500 - 891
Scotland +170 2,584 £47,500 -10.38% 32
London +46 1,104 £67,500 +3.85% 409
Work from Home +23 969 £55,000 - 595
North of England +49 586 £50,000 - 161
Midlands -37 430 £42,500 -5.56% 107
South West +88 385 £45,000 -5.26% 66
North West +32 299 £47,500 -5.00% 86
South East -35 286 £52,500 - 93
West Midlands -39 239 £45,000 -5.26% 60
Yorkshire +76 227 £55,000 +15.79% 61
East Midlands -39 165 £40,000 -11.11% 47
East of England +48 154 £31,833 -41.59% 38
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% 5
Channel Islands - 1 - - 1

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
1 587 (10.17%) Apache Spark
2 154 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 146 (2.53%) Apache
4 125 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
5 111 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 98 (1.70%) FileNet
7 88 (1.52%) Confluence
8 32 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
9 31 (0.54%) IIS
10 30 (0.52%) SAS
11 26 (0.45%) Skype for Business
12 21 (0.36%) CMS
12 21 (0.36%) GemFire
13 19 (0.33%) 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
1 241 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 170 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 124 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 37 (0.64%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.33%) Sketch
7 16 (0.28%) 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 76 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.35%) 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 13 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 11 (0.19%) Endur
8 11 (0.19%) Relativity
8 11 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 10 (0.17%) SAP HCM
9 10 (0.17%) Visualfiles
10 9 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,363 (23.61%) AWS
2 648 (11.22%) Azure
3 363 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
4 254 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
5 240 (4.16%) Power Platform
6 174 (3.01%) SaaS
7 166 (2.87%) GCP
8 131 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 124 (2.15%) Datadog
10 123 (2.13%) Entra ID
11 106 (1.84%) Figma
12 102 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
12 102 (1.77%) Power Automate
13 98 (1.70%) PowerApps
14 94 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
15 88 (1.52%) Serverless
16 78 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
17 74 (1.28%) SurveyMonkey
18 71 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
19 68 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.68%) Firewall
2 82 (1.42%) Kerberos
2 82 (1.42%) LAN
3 71 (1.23%) WAN
4 54 (0.94%) SAN
5 51 (0.88%) VPN
6 48 (0.83%) DNS
6 48 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 46 (0.80%) Internet
8 34 (0.59%) Network Security
9 32 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (0.54%) Skype
10 31 (0.54%) Wireless
11 30 (0.52%) DHCP
12 29 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
13 26 (0.45%) MPLS
13 26 (0.45%) OSPF
14 25 (0.43%) SD-WAN
15 24 (0.42%) BGP
16 23 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 501 (8.68%) Big Data
3 234 (4.05%) Hadoop
4 181 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 164 (2.84%) Relational Database
6 156 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 150 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
8 135 (2.34%) Power BI
9 130 (2.25%) Apache Hive
10 122 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 100 (1.73%) HBase
12 88 (1.52%) Data Lake
13 75 (1.30%) Metadata
13 75 (1.30%) Tableau
14 52 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
15 48 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
16 47 (0.81%) MySQL
17 46 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
18 44 (0.76%) CockroachDB
19 31 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 329 (5.70%) Jenkins
2 255 (4.42%) Git
3 211 (3.65%) JUnit
4 153 (2.65%) JIRA
5 127 (2.20%) Jasmine
6 92 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 87 (1.51%) Selenium
8 85 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
9 78 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 74 (1.28%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.13%) Artifactory
12 63 (1.09%) 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 34 (0.59%) Visual Studio
18 30 (0.52%) CircleCI
19 29 (0.50%) Gradle
General
1 3,496 (60.55%) Finance
2 3,192 (55.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,585 (27.45%) Marketing
4 1,291 (22.36%) Social Skills
5 1,273 (22.05%) Legal
6 822 (14.24%) Banking
7 594 (10.29%) Investment Banking
8 563 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
9 322 (5.58%) Influencing Skills
10 291 (5.04%) Financial Institution
11 282 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
12 176 (3.05%) Manufacturing
13 93 (1.61%) Retail
14 87 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
14 87 (1.51%) Private Banking
15 72 (1.25%) Telecoms
16 62 (1.07%) Front Office
17 54 (0.94%) Games
18 53 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 45 (0.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2,020 (34.98%) Software Engineer
2 997 (17.27%) Lead
3 810 (14.03%) Java Engineer
4 799 (13.84%) Java Software Engineer
5 718 (12.44%) Senior
6 695 (12.04%) Lead Software Engineer
7 609 (10.55%) Analyst
8 498 (8.62%) Developer
9 382 (6.62%) Big Data Engineer
9 382 (6.62%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 348 (6.03%) Python Engineer
11 333 (5.77%) Python Software Engineer
12 330 (5.72%) Full Stack Engineer
13 316 (5.47%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 305 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
15 295 (5.11%) AWS Software Engineer
16 278 (4.81%) Lead Java Engineer
17 269 (4.66%) Data Engineer
18 224 (3.88%) Scala Engineer
18 224 (3.88%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 680 (11.78%) Spring
2 586 (10.15%) React
3 416 (7.20%) AngularJS
4 379 (6.56%) Kafka
5 350 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 348 (6.03%) HTML
7 313 (5.42%) CSS
8 244 (4.23%) J2EE
9 231 (4.00%) JSON
10 223 (3.86%) RESTful
11 218 (3.78%) .NET
12 211 (3.65%) Node.js
13 193 (3.34%) Hibernate
14 180 (3.12%) PySpark
15 178 (3.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 172 (2.98%) JMS
17 169 (2.93%) jQuery
18 164 (2.84%) Web Services
19 152 (2.63%) REST
20 134 (2.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 964 (16.70%) Cloud Native
2 816 (14.13%) Algorithms
3 298 (5.16%) Public Cloud
4 250 (4.33%) Management Information System
5 199 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 189 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 144 (2.49%) Market Risk
8 139 (2.41%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.11%) FMCG
11 120 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.25%) Credit Risk
13 72 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
14 65 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
15 64 (1.11%) Mobile App
16 59 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
17 57 (0.99%) Life Science
18 54 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
19 51 (0.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 351 (6.08%) Windows
2 181 (3.13%) Linux
3 161 (2.79%) Unix
4 148 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 107 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 68 (1.18%) Android
7 42 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.40%) VMS
9 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.14%) CentOS
11 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.10%) AIX
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 (0.069%) 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 2,742 (47.49%) Agile
2 2,504 (43.37%) Software Engineering
3 2,122 (36.75%) SDLC
4 2,064 (35.75%) CI/CD
5 1,877 (32.51%) Operational Stability
6 1,514 (26.22%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,487 (25.75%) Machine Learning
8 1,313 (22.74%) Community of Practice
9 1,130 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,011 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
11 953 (16.51%) Visualisation
12 888 (15.38%) Risk Management
13 697 (12.07%) Decision-Making
14 545 (9.44%) Microservices
15 497 (8.61%) Continuous Delivery
15 497 (8.61%) Mentoring
16 451 (7.81%) Analytics
17 449 (7.78%) Computer Science
18 448 (7.76%) Information Architecture
19 421 (7.29%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,745 (30.22%) Java
2 1,463 (25.34%) SQL
3 1,128 (19.54%) Python
4 482 (8.35%) JavaScript
5 328 (5.68%) Scala
6 266 (4.61%) TypeScript
7 250 (4.33%) C#
8 148 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 117 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 116 (2.01%) Go
11 84 (1.45%) 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 32 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 23 (0.40%) C++
19 19 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 803 (13.91%) Degree
2 148 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 115 (1.99%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 99 (1.71%) Security Cleared
5 96 (1.66%) CISSP
6 90 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.20%) PhD
8 49 (0.85%) CISM
9 48 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 45 (0.78%) SC Cleared
11 40 (0.69%) CISA
12 36 (0.62%) ACCA
13 34 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (0.55%) Azure Certification
15 27 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
16 23 (0.40%) CIPD
17 21 (0.36%) SSCP
18 20 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
19 17 (0.29%) CEH
20 15 (0.26%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (4.26%) SLA
2 119 (2.06%) QA
3 107 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 89 (1.54%) GDPR
6 75 (1.30%) Data Quality
7 63 (1.09%) PMO
8 52 (0.90%) NIST
9 50 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 38 (0.66%) IFRS
11 31 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 30 (0.52%) GRC
13 19 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
14 18 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
16 14 (0.24%) IFRS 17
16 14 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 14 (0.24%) Solvency II
16 14 (0.24%) WAI
System Software
1 344 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 100 (1.73%) HDFS
3 98 (1.70%) Docker
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
11 5 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.087%) XenApp
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 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 308 (5.33%) Terraform
3 184 (3.19%) Grafana
4 79 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 51 (0.88%) 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 (0.36%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.36%) Kibana
9 21 (0.36%) 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
1 807 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 470 (8.14%) Oracle
3 274 (4.75%) Databricks
4 201 (3.48%) Splunk
5 161 (2.79%) Dynatrace
6 155 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 110 (1.91%) Dell
8 104 (1.80%) Google
9 93 (1.61%) Alteryx
10 91 (1.58%) Citrix
10 91 (1.58%) VMware
11 90 (1.56%) Informatica
12 85 (1.47%) iManage
13 77 (1.33%) Cisco
14 70 (1.21%) Cloudera
15 69 (1.20%) Qualtrics
15 69 (1.20%) SAP
16 35 (0.61%) Aderant
16 35 (0.61%) CA
17 33 (0.57%) Veeam