Law Job Trends in the East Midlands

Law
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Law 148 118 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.29% 5.84% 5.51%
As % of the General category 10.03% 9.47% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 133 105 156
10th Percentile £24,750 £31,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £38,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £59,750 £68,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £56,875 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -

All General Skills
East Midlands

Law falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,475 1,246 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 52.75% 61.65% 55.51%
Number of salaries quoted 841 558 1,280
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £56,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,375 £65,100
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Law relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Law job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Law
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Law.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Law

Law
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Law in the East Midlands

Law
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire +37 68 £35,000 -35.78% 5
Lincolnshire -9 27 £42,500 -10.53% 4
Leicestershire -17 24 £45,000 - 1
Derbyshire -11 19 £25,500 -44.86% 5
Northamptonshire +2 9 £51,250 +13.89% 1
Law
England

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (14.86%) SharePoint
2 16 (10.81%) Confluence
3 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Academy Housing
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.68%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.24%) Azure
2 24 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (8.78%) SaaS
4 11 (7.43%) AWS
5 8 (5.41%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.73%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.05%) iPaaS
7 6 (4.05%) Smartsheet
8 4 (2.70%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.68%) Datadog
10 1 (0.68%) GCP
10 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.05%) DHCP
1 6 (4.05%) DNS
1 6 (4.05%) Firewall
1 6 (4.05%) SAN
1 6 (4.05%) TCP/IP
1 6 (4.05%) VLAN
2 1 (0.68%) RFID
2 1 (0.68%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.08%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (4.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (4.05%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.05%) MySQL
3 6 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.03%) Power BI
6 1 (0.68%) Metadata
6 1 (0.68%) Power Query
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (12.16%) JIRA
2 2 (1.35%) Postman
2 2 (1.35%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.86%) Organisational Skills
3 21 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 20 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (11.49%) Marketing
7 16 (10.81%) Military
7 16 (10.81%) Telecoms
8 12 (8.11%) Legal
9 9 (6.08%) Finance
10 7 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.03%) Aviation
12 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.35%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.35%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.68%) Local Government
14 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (20.27%) Analyst
2 25 (16.89%) Support Analyst
3 24 (16.22%) IT Support
4 19 (12.84%) Support Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) 2nd Line Support
5 16 (10.81%) IT Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) Administrator
6 14 (9.46%) IT Analyst
6 14 (9.46%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (8.11%) Developer
8 11 (7.43%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 10 (6.76%) Service Manager
10 9 (6.08%) IT Manager
10 9 (6.08%) IT Support Analyst
10 9 (6.08%) Service Support Manager
10 9 (6.08%) Support Manager
11 8 (5.41%) IT Administrator
12 7 (4.73%) Project Manager
13 6 (4.05%) DBA
13 6 (4.05%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.73%) .NET
2 6 (4.05%) CakePHP
2 6 (4.05%) CodeIgniter
2 6 (4.05%) CSS
2 6 (4.05%) HTML
2 6 (4.05%) Laravel
2 6 (4.05%) Symfony
3 4 (2.70%) React
4 3 (2.03%) BREW
5 2 (1.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.35%) Node.js
5 2 (1.35%) Playwright
5 2 (1.35%) Redux
5 2 (1.35%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.68%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.68%) REST
6 1 (0.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.05%) Clustering
1 6 (4.05%) Data Structures
1 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.03%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.68%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.68%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (0.68%) iPhone
4 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.41%) Windows
2 6 (4.05%) Android
2 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.38%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.03%) Linux
5 2 (1.35%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.59%) Agile
2 27 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (16.22%) Service Delivery
4 22 (14.86%) Incident Management
5 21 (14.19%) ITSM
6 17 (11.49%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (10.14%) Project Management
8 14 (9.46%) Collaborative Working
8 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (9.46%) Service Management
8 14 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (8.78%) ITIL
10 12 (8.11%) Process Improvement
10 12 (8.11%) Risk Management
11 11 (7.43%) Batch Management
11 11 (7.43%) Patch Management
12 9 (6.08%) AI
12 9 (6.08%) Data Analysis
12 9 (6.08%) Service Delivery Management
13 8 (5.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (29.05%) SQL
2 12 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 8 (5.41%) C#
3 8 (5.41%) TypeScript
4 7 (4.73%) PHP
4 7 (4.73%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.03%) Python
7 2 (1.35%) Ruby
8 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 16 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.38%) Degree
3 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.35%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.35%) MOS
5 1 (0.68%) CIPD
5 1 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.92%) SLA
2 11 (7.43%) QA
3 8 (5.41%) GDPR
4 6 (4.05%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.68%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 13 (8.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (3.38%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.68%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Argo
4 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.73%) Oracle
3 6 (4.05%) Veeam
4 5 (3.38%) Apple
4 5 (3.38%) Samsung
5 4 (2.70%) Cisco
6 2 (1.35%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) iManage
7 1 (0.68%) NEC
7 1 (0.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Workday