Legal Jobs in Berkshire

Legal
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 56 62
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +21
Permanent jobs citing Legal 90 129 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.51% 4.02% 4.84%
As % of the General category 7.23% 8.72% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4 40 14
10th Percentile - £27,750 £32,800
25th Percentile £155,000 £37,598 £37,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £160,000 £55,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +190.91% +5.26% -8.33%
75th Percentile £165,000 £73,438 £64,750
90th Percentile - £87,500 £72,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £37,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -28.57% -2.00%

All General Skills
Berkshire

Legal falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,245 1,480 1,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 76.24% 46.08% 64.99%
Number of salaries quoted 331 857 883
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £38,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.63% -9.91%
75th Percentile £76,250 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £76,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Berkshire

Legal
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legal in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Legal in Berkshire

Legal
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Maidenhead -14 26 - -
Slough -16 23 - - 281
Windsor -11 21 - -
Reading +4 18 £160,000 +128.57% 62
Legal
South East

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (3.33%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) SAP GTS
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.56%) Azure
1 14 (15.56%) Salsify
2 11 (12.22%) AWS
2 11 (12.22%) Azure Monitor
2 11 (12.22%) GCP
3 6 (6.67%) SaaS
4 3 (3.33%) iPaaS
4 3 (3.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.56%) Metadata
2 3 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
General
1 70 (77.78%) Law
2 60 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 44 (48.89%) Finance
4 30 (33.33%) Marketing
5 26 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (23.33%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (10.00%) Telecoms
8 8 (8.89%) Retail
9 7 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (4.44%) Banking
12 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
13 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 1 (1.11%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 57 (63.33%) Senior
2 38 (42.22%) Senior Manager
3 18 (20.00%) Lead
4 9 (10.00%) Deployment Manager
5 4 (4.44%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Applications Architect
6 3 (3.33%) Architect
6 3 (3.33%) Data Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (3.33%) IT Architect
6 3 (3.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.22%) Compliance Manager
7 2 (2.22%) Technologist
8 1 (1.11%) Programme Manager
8 1 (1.11%) Risk Manager
8 1 (1.11%) Senior Programme Manager
8 1 (1.11%) Senior Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.22%) Hugging Face
1 11 (12.22%) LangChain
1 11 (12.22%) PyTorch
1 11 (12.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Management Information System
1 14 (15.56%) Taxonomies
2 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.11%) Derivative
3 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.78%) Roadmaps
2 37 (41.11%) Change Management
3 32 (35.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (35.56%) Strategic Roadmap
4 31 (34.44%) Agile
5 29 (32.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (32.22%) Computer Science
5 29 (32.22%) Strategic Thinking
6 28 (31.11%) Analytics
7 27 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (28.89%) Data Privacy
8 26 (28.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (27.78%) Generative AI
9 25 (27.78%) Information Security
10 23 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (24.44%) Project Management
12 18 (20.00%) Business Case
12 18 (20.00%) IT Strategy
12 18 (20.00%) Project Delivery
12 18 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (51.11%) Degree
2 26 (28.89%) Master's Degree
3 11 (12.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 11 (12.22%) Grafana
1 11 (12.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (12.22%) OpenAI
2 9 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.22%) SAP