Legal Jobs in the UK excluding London

Legal
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legal 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 62 78 125
Rank change year-on-year +16 +47 +28
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2,753 2,466 1,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.88% 4.10% 2.77%
As % of the General category 6.77% 5.97% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 819 898
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,900 £27,675
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,688 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Legal 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%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
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 Legal 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 +61 776 £55,000 - 52
North of England +62 655 £45,750 +0.55% 280
South East -36 551 £37,875 -27.86% 264
North West +86 373 £47,500 - 176
Midlands +10 336 £50,000 - 173
West Midlands +5 237 £52,325 -0.33% 115
South West -46 224 £43,000 -4.44% 181
Yorkshire +34 204 £34,000 -24.44% 75
East of England -37 155 £50,000 - 117
East Midlands +16 99 £45,000 +20.00% 58
North East +37 78 £53,750 -10.42% 33
Wales +14 32 £50,000 -17.65% 40
Northern Ireland +38 18 £30,000 -46.43% 11
Channel Islands - 6 £85,000 - 1
Legal
UK

Legal
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
1 271 (9.84%) Apache Spark
2 146 (5.30%) SharePoint
3 101 (3.67%) Apache
4 66 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 61 (2.22%) SAS
6 47 (1.71%) FileNet
7 45 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
8 20 (0.73%) Camunda
9 12 (0.44%) CMS
10 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.15%) Confluence
12 4 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
13 2 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
13 2 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2013
13 2 (0.073%) IBM Domino
14 1 (0.036%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.036%) IIS
Applications
1 243 (8.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 221 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (2.47%) AutoCAD
4 60 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.62%) Revit
7 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.51%) Simulink
8 7 (0.25%) Stateflow
9 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
12 3 (0.11%) ProjectWise
13 1 (0.036%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.036%) InDesign
13 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.036%) SPSS
13 1 (0.036%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) iTrent
3 10 (0.36%) Infor SunSystems
3 10 (0.36%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.25%) BPCS
4 7 (0.25%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.18%) SAP HCM
6 5 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.073%) ResourceLink
9 2 (0.073%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.073%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 414 (15.04%) AWS
2 295 (10.72%) Azure
3 179 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
4 169 (6.14%) Power Platform
5 69 (2.51%) GCP
6 67 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
7 61 (2.22%) SaaS
8 60 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 54 (1.96%) Serverless
10 52 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
11 51 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (1.78%) Amazon S3
12 49 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
13 47 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
14 37 (1.34%) PowerApps
15 36 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
16 29 (1.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.14%) Firewall
2 31 (1.13%) Wireless
3 29 (1.05%) LAN
4 28 (1.02%) WAN
5 27 (0.98%) Internet
6 24 (0.87%) SAN
7 21 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.73%) Intranet
9 19 (0.69%) DHCP
9 19 (0.69%) TCP/IP
10 16 (0.58%) DNS
10 16 (0.58%) VoIP
11 14 (0.51%) VPN
12 10 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (0.36%) SSL
12 10 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
12 10 (0.36%) VLAN
13 9 (0.33%) Broadband
13 9 (0.33%) Network Security
13 9 (0.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (11.73%) NoSQL
2 234 (8.50%) Big Data
3 213 (7.74%) Hadoop
4 136 (4.94%) Power BI
5 99 (3.60%) Apache Hive
6 83 (3.01%) HBase
7 81 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 56 (2.03%) Data Lake
9 54 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
10 53 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 47 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 47 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
13 39 (1.42%) Qlik Sense
14 31 (1.13%) Tableau
15 20 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
16 19 (0.69%) DB2
17 16 (0.58%) Impala
18 15 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
19 14 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 122 (4.43%) Jenkins
2 111 (4.03%) Git
3 72 (2.62%) JIRA
4 67 (2.43%) Bitbucket Server
4 67 (2.43%) JUnit
5 27 (0.98%) Mockito
6 26 (0.94%) Jasmine
7 20 (0.73%) CircleCI
7 20 (0.73%) Gradle
7 20 (0.73%) Maven
7 20 (0.73%) Travis CI
8 11 (0.40%) GitLab
8 11 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.18%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.15%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.036%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.036%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,495 (54.30%) Finance
2 1,019 (37.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 965 (35.05%) Law
4 816 (29.64%) Social Skills
5 375 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
6 275 (9.99%) Banking
7 178 (6.47%) Retail
8 146 (5.30%) Marketing
9 112 (4.07%) Manufacturing
10 92 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 84 (3.05%) Local Government
12 77 (2.80%) Public Sector
13 63 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 59 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.71%) Publishing
16 43 (1.56%) Investment Banking
17 39 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
18 35 (1.27%) Automotive
19 26 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
20 25 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 701 (25.46%) Software Engineer
2 428 (15.55%) Analyst
3 280 (10.17%) Senior
4 261 (9.48%) Java Engineer
4 261 (9.48%) Java Software Engineer
5 227 (8.25%) Big Data Engineer
5 227 (8.25%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 206 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
6 206 (7.48%) AWS Software Engineer
7 194 (7.05%) Data Engineer
8 140 (5.09%) Lead
9 133 (4.83%) Full Stack Engineer
9 133 (4.83%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 126 (4.58%) Developer
11 123 (4.47%) Python Engineer
11 123 (4.47%) Python Software Engineer
12 110 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
13 101 (3.67%) Scala Engineer
13 101 (3.67%) Scala Software Engineer
14 98 (3.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (7.08%) Spring
2 141 (5.12%) React
3 124 (4.50%) Kafka
4 119 (4.32%) AngularJS
5 116 (4.21%) HTML
6 110 (4.00%) J2EE
7 88 (3.20%) .NET
8 84 (3.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 83 (3.01%) CSS
9 83 (3.01%) Node.js
10 79 (2.87%) JMS
11 72 (2.62%) JSON
11 72 (2.62%) XML
12 68 (2.47%) PySpark
12 68 (2.47%) Spring Boot
13 66 (2.40%) Hibernate
14 47 (1.71%) GraphQL
14 47 (1.71%) Spring Integration
15 46 (1.67%) Web Services
16 43 (1.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 525 (19.07%) Algorithms
2 215 (7.81%) Onboarding
3 204 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 119 (4.32%) Cloud Native
5 94 (3.41%) Driving Licence
6 72 (2.62%) Credit Risk
7 64 (2.32%) Housing Association
8 53 (1.93%) Public Cloud
9 51 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 47 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.56%) Legacy Code
11 43 (1.56%) Product Ownership
12 33 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 22 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (0.76%) Reinsurance
15 20 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
16 18 (0.65%) Robotics
16 18 (0.65%) SCADA
17 17 (0.62%) Operational Technology
18 16 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 140 (5.09%) Windows
2 108 (3.92%) Unix
3 54 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 53 (1.93%) Linux
5 51 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 38 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 37 (1.34%) Android
8 14 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.29%) VMS
10 8 (0.29%) Windows 8
11 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,092 (39.67%) Agile
2 948 (34.44%) Risk Management
3 739 (26.84%) Software Engineering
4 724 (26.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 677 (24.59%) CI/CD
6 645 (23.43%) SDLC
7 523 (19.00%) Operational Stability
8 521 (18.92%) Visualisation
9 506 (18.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 476 (17.29%) Machine Learning
11 451 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
12 403 (14.64%) Community of Practice
13 348 (12.64%) Decision-Making
14 244 (8.86%) Customer Service
15 233 (8.46%) Project Management
16 230 (8.35%) Data Protection
17 215 (7.81%) Coaching
18 211 (7.66%) Microservices
19 202 (7.34%) Data Management
20 201 (7.30%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 599 (21.76%) SQL
2 526 (19.11%) Java
3 410 (14.89%) Python
4 117 (4.25%) Scala
5 99 (3.60%) JavaScript
6 97 (3.52%) PL/SQL
7 86 (3.12%) C#
8 59 (2.14%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.94%) C
10 22 (0.80%) Ruby
11 21 (0.76%) PowerShell
12 19 (0.69%) C++
13 18 (0.65%) VB.NET
14 15 (0.54%) MATLAB
15 14 (0.51%) PHP
16 11 (0.40%) R
16 11 (0.40%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.36%) Embedded C
18 8 (0.29%) VB
19 7 (0.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 458 (16.64%) Degree
2 90 (3.27%) HNC
3 71 (2.58%) HND
4 58 (2.11%) Master's Degree
5 49 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (1.34%) Security Cleared
7 33 (1.20%) CISSP
8 31 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (0.80%) CISM
9 22 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 21 (0.76%) ACCA
11 17 (0.62%) MBA
12 16 (0.58%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.58%) CIMA
13 15 (0.54%) SC Cleared
14 13 (0.47%) AAT
15 12 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.44%) OSCP
15 12 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (8.10%) GDPR
2 161 (5.85%) QA
3 92 (3.34%) Data Quality
4 67 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.29%) SLA
6 43 (1.56%) IFRS
7 36 (1.31%) IFRS 9
8 32 (1.16%) PMO
9 30 (1.09%) ISO 9001
9 30 (1.09%) NIST
10 24 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.80%) NEBOSH
13 21 (0.76%) GRC
14 19 (0.69%) Accessibility
15 18 (0.65%) ISO 22301
16 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
17 11 (0.40%) ISO 14001
18 9 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
19 7 (0.25%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 101 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 83 (3.01%) HDFS
3 46 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 37 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (0.62%) Docker
6 13 (0.47%) Firmware
7 12 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.29%) Terminal Services
8 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.15%) XenApp
11 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.073%) pfSense
12 2 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.073%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 122 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.80%) Terraform
3 21 (0.76%) SCCM
4 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.54%) Functional Safety
6 13 (0.47%) SCOM
7 7 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.18%) Ansible
8 5 (0.18%) Grafana
8 5 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.073%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.073%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.073%) Nessus
10 1 (0.036%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.036%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.036%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.036%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.036%) QRadar
10 1 (0.036%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 521 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 160 (5.81%) Databricks
3 159 (5.78%) Oracle
4 114 (4.14%) SAP
5 68 (2.47%) Informatica
6 61 (2.22%) VMware
7 53 (1.93%) Cloudera
8 52 (1.89%) Alteryx
9 47 (1.71%) Citrix
10 42 (1.53%) Google
11 38 (1.38%) iManage
12 35 (1.27%) IBM
13 26 (0.94%) Cisco
13 26 (0.94%) Pega
14 25 (0.91%) NCR
15 21 (0.76%) HP
16 14 (0.51%) NEC
16 14 (0.51%) ServiceNow
17 13 (0.47%) EMC
18 12 (0.44%) CA