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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 96 108
Rank change year-on-year +67 +12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Law 4,582 2,061 2,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.46% 3.43% 3.03%
As % of the General category 11.27% 4.99% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 1,136 1,194
10th Percentile £26,300 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,781
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 £77,500 £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 40,663 41,296 42,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.34% 68.66% 60.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26,430 18,767 24,017
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £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 9 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 9 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 +167 2,624 £47,500 -9.95% 43
North of England +53 595 £50,000 - 180
Midlands -38 420 £42,500 -5.56% 91
South West +57 390 £45,000 -5.26% 61
North West +25 297 £47,500 -5.00% 89
South East -66 277 £52,500 +10.53% 103
Yorkshire +72 233 £55,000 +16.90% 76
West Midlands -39 228 £47,500 - 51
East Midlands -33 166 £40,000 -11.11% 40
East of England +50 156 £38,417 -30.15% 35
Wales +74 102 £42,500 +46.55% 10
North East +29 64 £50,000 +5.26% 16
Northern Ireland +10 22 £57,276 +34.77% 4
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 (12.85%) Apache Spark
2 137 (2.99%) Apache
3 117 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 111 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 98 (2.14%) FileNet
6 84 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 77 (1.68%) Confluence
8 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.46%) GemFire
10 20 (0.44%) Camunda
11 17 (0.37%) SAS
12 13 (0.28%) Skype for Business
13 11 (0.24%) CICS
14 10 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
14 10 (0.22%) IIS
14 10 (0.22%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.20%) WordPress
16 7 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
17 6 (0.13%) CMS
17 6 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 178 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 118 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.83%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.41%) Sketch
7 17 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.065%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.065%) Simulink
11 2 (0.044%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.33%) 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 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.11%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.11%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
11 3 (0.065%) Primavera
11 3 (0.065%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.044%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,268 (27.67%) AWS
2 469 (10.24%) Azure
3 245 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
4 173 (3.78%) Power Platform
5 168 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
6 118 (2.58%) Datadog
7 113 (2.47%) Amazon S3
8 107 (2.34%) GCP
9 99 (2.16%) Figma
10 85 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 82 (1.79%) PowerApps
12 81 (1.77%) Entra ID
13 77 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (1.64%) SurveyMonkey
15 73 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (1.31%) Serverless
17 57 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 55 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
20 52 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 83 (1.81%) Firewall
2 82 (1.79%) Kerberos
3 47 (1.03%) LAN
4 40 (0.87%) SAN
5 37 (0.81%) WAN
6 30 (0.65%) DNS
7 28 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.52%) Internet
9 22 (0.48%) DHCP
10 21 (0.46%) VPN
10 21 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (0.44%) DSL
12 17 (0.37%) Network Security
13 16 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
14 15 (0.33%) Skype
14 15 (0.33%) Wireless
15 13 (0.28%) BIG-IP
15 13 (0.28%) VLAN
16 12 (0.26%) NAS
17 9 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (14.64%) NoSQL
2 504 (11.00%) Big Data
3 233 (5.09%) Hadoop
4 152 (3.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 151 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 138 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 137 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 131 (2.86%) Apache Hive
9 114 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 102 (2.23%) HBase
11 96 (2.10%) Power BI
12 87 (1.90%) Data Lake
13 70 (1.53%) Tableau
14 67 (1.46%) Metadata
15 53 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (1.00%) Qlik Sense
17 42 (0.92%) MySQL
18 38 (0.83%) CockroachDB
19 29 (0.63%) DB2
20 24 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 315 (6.87%) Jenkins
2 212 (4.63%) JUnit
3 208 (4.54%) Git
4 129 (2.82%) JIRA
5 125 (2.73%) Jasmine
6 89 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.88%) Bitbucket Server
8 79 (1.72%) Selenium
9 77 (1.68%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.42%) Artifactory
12 64 (1.40%) Maven
13 62 (1.35%) WebDriver
14 60 (1.31%) Protractor
15 47 (1.03%) Mockito
16 41 (0.89%) Cucumber
17 32 (0.70%) GitLab
18 31 (0.68%) CircleCI
19 30 (0.65%) Gradle
20 28 (0.61%) JMeter
General
1 3,105 (67.77%) Finance
2 2,943 (64.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,523 (33.24%) Marketing
4 965 (21.06%) Legal
5 902 (19.69%) Social Skills
6 726 (15.84%) Banking
7 591 (12.90%) Investment Banking
8 407 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
9 279 (6.09%) Financial Institution
10 271 (5.91%) Influencing Skills
11 194 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
12 118 (2.58%) Manufacturing
13 92 (2.01%) Private Banking
14 70 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 58 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.18%) Front Office
17 49 (1.07%) Games
18 39 (0.85%) Retail
19 32 (0.70%) Social Science
20 30 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,002 (43.69%) Software Engineer
2 896 (19.55%) Lead
3 797 (17.39%) Java Engineer
4 795 (17.35%) Java Software Engineer
5 685 (14.95%) Lead Software Engineer
6 465 (10.15%) Senior
7 408 (8.90%) Analyst
8 390 (8.51%) Big Data Engineer
8 390 (8.51%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 386 (8.42%) Developer
10 339 (7.40%) Python Engineer
11 332 (7.25%) Python Software Engineer
12 328 (7.16%) Full Stack Engineer
13 323 (7.05%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 309 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
15 301 (6.57%) AWS Software Engineer
16 278 (6.07%) Lead Java Engineer
17 259 (5.65%) Data Engineer
18 228 (4.98%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (4.98%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 683 (14.91%) Spring
2 541 (11.81%) React
3 406 (8.86%) AngularJS
4 354 (7.73%) Kafka
5 347 (7.57%) Spring Boot
6 319 (6.96%) HTML
7 286 (6.24%) CSS
8 246 (5.37%) J2EE
9 222 (4.85%) JSON
10 205 (4.47%) Node.js
11 200 (4.36%) RESTful
12 194 (4.23%) Hibernate
13 174 (3.80%) PySpark
14 172 (3.75%) JMS
15 168 (3.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 167 (3.64%) .NET
17 159 (3.47%) jQuery
18 148 (3.23%) Web Services
19 128 (2.79%) REST
20 125 (2.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 937 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 822 (17.94%) Algorithms
3 292 (6.37%) Public Cloud
4 194 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 189 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 182 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 144 (3.14%) Market Risk
8 140 (3.06%) Reference Data
9 113 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 91 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 75 (1.64%) FMCG
11 75 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 72 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
13 71 (1.55%) Credit Risk
14 65 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
15 50 (1.09%) Legacy Code
16 49 (1.07%) Mobile App
17 45 (0.98%) Housing Association
18 38 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
19 36 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 250 (5.46%) Windows
2 153 (3.34%) Unix
3 141 (3.08%) Linux
4 108 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 69 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 47 (1.03%) Android
7 22 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.35%) VMS
9 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.13%) CentOS
10 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 8
10 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.022%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,606 (56.87%) Agile
2 2,439 (53.23%) Software Engineering
3 2,120 (46.27%) SDLC
4 2,006 (43.78%) CI/CD
5 1,893 (41.31%) Operational Stability
6 1,464 (31.95%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,463 (31.93%) Machine Learning
8 1,321 (28.83%) Community of Practice
9 1,041 (22.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 946 (20.65%) Visualisation
11 811 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
12 792 (17.29%) Risk Management
13 645 (14.08%) Decision-Making
14 491 (10.72%) Microservices
15 490 (10.69%) Continuous Delivery
16 450 (9.82%) Information Architecture
17 415 (9.06%) Architectural Design
18 413 (9.01%) Computer Science
19 385 (8.40%) Full Stack Development
20 332 (7.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,699 (37.08%) Java
2 1,334 (29.11%) SQL
3 1,039 (22.68%) Python
4 421 (9.19%) JavaScript
5 325 (7.09%) Scala
6 236 (5.15%) TypeScript
7 189 (4.12%) C#
8 152 (3.32%) PL/SQL
9 87 (1.90%) Go
10 82 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 67 (1.46%) SPARQL
12 65 (1.42%) Prolog
13 52 (1.13%) R
14 45 (0.98%) PowerShell
15 37 (0.81%) Groovy
16 32 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 28 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 23 (0.50%) C
19 21 (0.46%) C++
20 20 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 584 (12.75%) Degree
2 128 (2.79%) Master's Degree
3 69 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (1.48%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 55 (1.20%) PhD
6 49 (1.07%) Security Cleared
7 29 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 25 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (0.52%) CISSP
9 24 (0.52%) SC Cleared
10 18 (0.39%) CISM
11 14 (0.31%) HNC
11 14 (0.31%) HND
12 12 (0.26%) CIPD
13 11 (0.24%) CISA
13 11 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.24%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.20%) CRISC
14 9 (0.20%) ISEB
14 9 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (3.08%) SLA
2 105 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.20%) QA
5 51 (1.11%) GDPR
6 39 (0.85%) PMO
7 32 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 29 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 28 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 28 (0.61%) NIST
10 15 (0.33%) WAI
11 13 (0.28%) ITGC
12 12 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.24%) GRC
14 7 (0.15%) IFRS
15 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.13%) WCAG
16 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 262 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.23%) HDFS
3 75 (1.64%) Docker
4 35 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.65%) 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 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.087%) 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 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 270 (5.89%) Terraform
3 175 (3.82%) Grafana
4 79 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 29 (0.63%) 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%) SCCM
9 13 (0.28%) Graphite
9 13 (0.28%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.20%) Ansible
11 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (0.15%) Nessus
12 5 (0.11%) SCOM
13 4 (0.087%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.044%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.044%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 513 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 427 (9.32%) Oracle
3 267 (5.83%) Databricks
4 188 (4.10%) Splunk
5 162 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 96 (2.10%) Informatica
7 93 (2.03%) Alteryx
8 72 (1.57%) Cloudera
9 71 (1.55%) Google
10 70 (1.53%) Qualtrics
11 68 (1.48%) VMware
12 66 (1.44%) Citrix
13 48 (1.05%) ServiceNow
14 44 (0.96%) SAP
15 36 (0.79%) Cisco
16 35 (0.76%) iManage
17 33 (0.72%) Dell
18 27 (0.59%) Pega
19 24 (0.52%) Veeam
20 23 (0.50%) Sybase