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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 102 158
Rank change year-on-year +67 +56 -22
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,698 3,550 4,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.81% 3.39% 2.67%
As % of the General category 9.71% 4.94% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,135 1,820 2,074
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,250
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 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 58,670 71,907 98,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,462 38,624 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +58 4,506 £47,500 -5.00% 513
England +18 2,879 £55,000 +4.76% 950
Scotland +152 2,599 £47,500 -9.95% 41
London +49 1,062 £67,500 +3.85% 446
Work from Home 0 995 £55,000 - 578
North of England +54 585 £50,000 - 160
Midlands -38 408 £42,500 -10.53% 86
South West +23 362 £45,000 -10.00% 70
North West +39 291 £47,500 -9.52% 94
South East -68 282 £50,000 +11.11% 106
Yorkshire +66 233 £55,000 +15.79% 58
West Midlands -37 225 £47,500 -5.00% 43
East Midlands -37 157 £40,000 -11.11% 43
East of England +26 149 £47,500 -13.64% 45
Wales +78 101 £42,500 +18.88% 18
North East +27 60 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Northern Ireland +14 23 £57,276 +34.77% 5
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -

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
1 593 (10.41%) Apache Spark
2 160 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 142 (2.49%) Apache
4 129 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 121 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
6 96 (1.68%) FileNet
7 83 (1.46%) Confluence
8 31 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
9 30 (0.53%) SAS
10 29 (0.51%) IIS
11 21 (0.37%) GemFire
11 21 (0.37%) Skype for Business
12 20 (0.35%) Camunda
13 16 (0.28%) CMS
14 11 (0.19%) CICS
14 11 (0.19%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.16%) WordPress
16 8 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
17 7 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
18 6 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 247 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 162 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 119 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.67%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.33%) Sketch
7 18 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) SPSS
9 6 (0.11%) InVision
9 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 5 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.053%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.053%) Simulink
12 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.035%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.035%) CANalyzer
12 2 (0.035%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.035%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 78 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.39%) 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 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 12 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
8 11 (0.19%) Endur
8 11 (0.19%) Relativity
9 10 (0.18%) Visualfiles
10 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
11 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.12%) SAP HCM
11 7 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,352 (23.73%) AWS
2 693 (12.16%) Azure
3 390 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 236 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
6 165 (2.90%) SaaS
7 152 (2.67%) GCP
8 129 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 124 (2.18%) Amazon S3
10 121 (2.12%) Datadog
11 105 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
12 98 (1.72%) Figma
12 98 (1.72%) Power Automate
13 92 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 87 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
15 86 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
16 80 (1.40%) Serverless
17 75 (1.32%) SurveyMonkey
18 71 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
19 68 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.72%) Firewall
2 86 (1.51%) LAN
3 82 (1.44%) Kerberos
4 74 (1.30%) WAN
5 53 (0.93%) DNS
6 52 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 51 (0.90%) SAN
8 50 (0.88%) VPN
9 47 (0.82%) Internet
10 36 (0.63%) Wireless
11 34 (0.60%) DHCP
12 33 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
14 28 (0.49%) Network Security
15 26 (0.46%) Skype
16 25 (0.44%) OSPF
17 23 (0.40%) BGP
17 23 (0.40%) MPLS
17 23 (0.40%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (11.74%) NoSQL
2 515 (9.04%) Big Data
3 238 (4.18%) Hadoop
4 190 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 165 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 153 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 147 (2.58%) Power BI
8 146 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
9 133 (2.33%) Apache Hive
10 124 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 102 (1.79%) HBase
12 92 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 75 (1.32%) Tableau
14 74 (1.30%) Metadata
15 55 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
16 53 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
17 44 (0.77%) CockroachDB
18 43 (0.75%) MySQL
19 42 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
20 32 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 333 (5.84%) Jenkins
2 246 (4.32%) Git
3 210 (3.69%) JUnit
4 162 (2.84%) JIRA
5 122 (2.14%) Jasmine
6 88 (1.54%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
8 80 (1.40%) Selenium
9 78 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.14%) Artifactory
12 62 (1.09%) Maven
12 62 (1.09%) WebDriver
13 60 (1.05%) Protractor
14 46 (0.81%) GitLab
14 46 (0.81%) Mockito
15 43 (0.75%) Cucumber
16 31 (0.54%) CircleCI
17 30 (0.53%) Gradle
18 29 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,457 (60.67%) Finance
2 3,154 (55.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,572 (27.59%) Marketing
4 1,295 (22.73%) Legal
5 1,277 (22.41%) Social Skills
6 789 (13.85%) Banking
7 569 (9.99%) Investment Banking
8 503 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
9 325 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
10 292 (5.12%) Financial Institution
11 275 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
12 167 (2.93%) Manufacturing
13 103 (1.81%) Retail
14 93 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 91 (1.60%) Private Banking
16 78 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 53 (0.93%) Front Office
18 52 (0.91%) Games
19 45 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
20 43 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2,005 (35.19%) Software Engineer
2 978 (17.16%) Lead
3 806 (14.15%) Java Engineer
4 797 (13.99%) Java Software Engineer
5 705 (12.37%) Senior
6 683 (11.99%) Lead Software Engineer
7 629 (11.04%) Analyst
8 494 (8.67%) Developer
9 390 (6.84%) Big Data Engineer
9 390 (6.84%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 347 (6.09%) Python Engineer
11 333 (5.84%) Python Software Engineer
12 332 (5.83%) Full Stack Engineer
13 318 (5.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 311 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
15 299 (5.25%) AWS Software Engineer
16 277 (4.86%) Lead Java Engineer
17 268 (4.70%) Data Engineer
18 228 (4.00%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (4.00%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 681 (11.95%) Spring
2 573 (10.06%) React
3 419 (7.35%) AngularJS
4 374 (6.56%) Kafka
5 353 (6.20%) Spring Boot
6 348 (6.11%) HTML
7 306 (5.37%) CSS
8 247 (4.33%) JSON
9 244 (4.28%) J2EE
10 216 (3.79%) RESTful
11 206 (3.62%) .NET
12 202 (3.55%) Node.js
13 192 (3.37%) Hibernate
14 178 (3.12%) PySpark
15 177 (3.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 171 (3.00%) JMS
17 168 (2.95%) jQuery
18 165 (2.90%) Web Services
19 154 (2.70%) REST
20 144 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 956 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 817 (14.34%) Algorithms
3 296 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 247 (4.33%) Management Information System
5 199 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 192 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 143 (2.51%) Market Risk
8 140 (2.46%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.14%) FMCG
11 107 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 73 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 69 (1.21%) Credit Risk
15 65 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 64 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
17 58 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
18 52 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
19 48 (0.84%) Legacy Code
20 47 (0.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 368 (6.46%) Windows
2 183 (3.21%) Linux
3 161 (2.83%) Unix
4 158 (2.77%) Windows Server
5 108 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 65 (1.14%) Android
7 42 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.40%) VMS
9 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.12%) CentOS
11 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.11%) AIX
12 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.11%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.053%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,748 (48.23%) Agile
2 2,470 (43.35%) Software Engineering
3 2,138 (37.52%) SDLC
4 2,073 (36.38%) CI/CD
5 1,886 (33.10%) Operational Stability
6 1,504 (26.40%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,482 (26.01%) Machine Learning
8 1,313 (23.04%) Community of Practice
9 1,117 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 973 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
11 946 (16.60%) Visualisation
12 863 (15.15%) Risk Management
13 685 (12.02%) Decision-Making
14 530 (9.30%) Microservices
15 505 (8.86%) Continuous Delivery
16 485 (8.51%) Mentoring
17 447 (7.84%) Information Architecture
18 434 (7.62%) Analytics
19 433 (7.60%) Computer Science
20 419 (7.35%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,733 (30.41%) Java
2 1,478 (25.94%) SQL
3 1,118 (19.62%) Python
4 465 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 333 (5.84%) Scala
6 254 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 238 (4.18%) C#
8 153 (2.69%) PL/SQL
9 117 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 112 (1.97%) Go
11 95 (1.67%) PowerShell
12 67 (1.18%) SPARQL
13 65 (1.14%) Prolog
14 53 (0.93%) R
15 39 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 37 (0.65%) Groovy
17 36 (0.63%) C
18 33 (0.58%) Shell Script
19 27 (0.47%) C++
20 24 (0.42%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 763 (13.39%) Degree
2 148 (2.60%) Master's Degree
3 115 (2.02%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 102 (1.79%) Security Cleared
5 94 (1.65%) CISSP
6 89 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (1.02%) PhD
8 52 (0.91%) SC Cleared
9 43 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 42 (0.74%) CISM
11 38 (0.67%) CISA
12 36 (0.63%) ACCA
13 33 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.49%) Azure Certification
15 25 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
16 23 (0.40%) CIPD
17 22 (0.39%) CEH
18 21 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (0.37%) SSCP
19 18 (0.32%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (4.23%) SLA
2 116 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 104 (1.83%) QA
5 92 (1.61%) GDPR
6 77 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 64 (1.12%) PMO
8 56 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 48 (0.84%) NIST
10 38 (0.67%) IFRS
11 32 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 29 (0.51%) GRC
13 25 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
16 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 15 (0.26%) WAI
17 14 (0.25%) IFRS 17
17 14 (0.25%) Solvency II
18 13 (0.23%) ITGC
System Software
1 365 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 102 (1.79%) HDFS
3 97 (1.70%) Docker
4 49 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.23%) Terminal Services
8 11 (0.19%) Firmware
8 11 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.088%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.088%) XenApp
12 2 (0.035%) pfSense
12 2 (0.035%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.035%) vSphere
13 1 (0.018%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 380 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 302 (5.30%) Terraform
3 183 (3.21%) Grafana
4 77 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 55 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (0.53%) SCCM
7 26 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.37%) Ansible
8 21 (0.37%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.37%) Kibana
8 21 (0.37%) Zipkin
9 20 (0.35%) vCenter Server
10 17 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.25%) Graphite
12 8 (0.14%) logstash
12 8 (0.14%) vRealize
13 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.11%) Nessus
14 6 (0.11%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 791 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 464 (8.14%) Oracle
3 278 (4.88%) Databricks
4 198 (3.47%) Splunk
5 162 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 161 (2.83%) Dynatrace
7 118 (2.07%) Dell
8 111 (1.95%) Citrix
9 107 (1.88%) VMware
10 98 (1.72%) Informatica
11 96 (1.68%) Google
12 95 (1.67%) iManage
13 89 (1.56%) Alteryx
14 77 (1.35%) Cisco
15 72 (1.26%) Cloudera
16 70 (1.23%) Qualtrics
17 66 (1.16%) SAP
18 40 (0.70%) Intapp
19 38 (0.67%) Aderant
20 36 (0.63%) CA