Law Job Trends in the East of England

Law
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 89 90
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +39
Permanent jobs citing Law 114 87 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.84% 2.92% 2.50%
As % of the General category 4.07% 4.24% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 76 69 117
10th Percentile £31,746 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,999 £25,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £64,063 £87,500 £57,000
90th Percentile £77,500 - £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -

All General Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,800 2,050 3,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 45.07% 68.70% 55.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,559 905 2,454
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,809
25th Percentile £31,746 £32,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,100 £73,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Law job vacancy trend in the East of England

Law
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Law.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Law

Law
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Law in the East of England

Law
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Hertfordshire +11 59 £56,750 -33.24% 14
Cambridgeshire -33 19 £50,000 -5.66% 6
Norfolk -11 16 - -
Essex -26 11 £31,746 -37.24%
Bedfordshire +21 6 £56,156 -40.10% 1
Suffolk +10 3 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Law
England

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.81%) Azure
2 17 (14.91%) AWS
3 10 (8.77%) IaaS
4 9 (7.89%) Azure AKS
4 9 (7.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 9 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
4 9 (7.89%) Azure Storage
5 7 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (6.14%) Boomi
5 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (6.14%) SaaS
6 6 (5.26%) Matillion
6 6 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.39%) AWS KMS
7 5 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.39%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.89%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) Network Security
3 2 (1.75%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.75%) Modbus
4 1 (0.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (5.26%) Pentaho
1 6 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (4.39%) Star Schema
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.88%) Metadata
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.88%) Power BI
3 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.75%) Git
General
1 39 (34.21%) Finance
2 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.18%) Legal
4 18 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.77%) Manufacturing
6 9 (7.89%) Marketing
6 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (7.02%) Banking
8 7 (6.14%) Billing
8 7 (6.14%) Military
9 4 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.51%) Retail
10 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Police
11 1 (0.88%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 16 (14.04%) Sales Representative
2 13 (11.40%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (9.65%) Senior
4 10 (8.77%) Consultant
4 10 (8.77%) SCCM Consultant
5 9 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 9 (7.89%) Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) Legal Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) Project Manager
6 8 (7.02%) Senior Sales Representative
7 7 (6.14%) Traffic Manager
7 7 (6.14%) Trainee
7 7 (6.14%) Trainee Project Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Technical Trainer
9 5 (4.39%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) PySpark
2 5 (4.39%) REST
2 5 (4.39%) SOAP
3 4 (3.51%) HTML
4 3 (2.63%) CSS
4 3 (2.63%) JSON
4 3 (2.63%) XML
5 2 (1.75%) .NET
5 2 (1.75%) JWT
6 1 (0.88%) Kafka
6 1 (0.88%) OAuth
6 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.88%) React
6 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.19%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.14%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.26%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.75%) Robotics
5 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.88%) Anti-Piracy
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.40%) Windows
2 5 (4.39%) Android
2 5 (4.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (15.79%) Roadmaps
1 18 (15.79%) Service Management
2 14 (12.28%) Agile
3 13 (11.40%) Collaborative Working
3 13 (11.40%) Impact Assessments
3 13 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (10.53%) ETL
5 11 (9.65%) High Availability
6 10 (8.77%) AI
6 10 (8.77%) Event-Driven
6 10 (8.77%) Integration Patterns
7 9 (7.89%) Client Onboarding
7 9 (7.89%) Computer Science
7 9 (7.89%) Configuration Management
7 9 (7.89%) Containerisation
7 9 (7.89%) Customer Service
7 9 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (7.89%) Data Transformation
7 9 (7.89%) Load Balancing
7 9 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.67%) Python
2 9 (7.89%) JavaScript
2 9 (7.89%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.14%) SQL
4 6 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (1.75%) C#
6 1 (0.88%) C++
6 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.65%) Degree
4 10 (8.77%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.63%) CIPD
7 2 (1.75%) CCNA
7 2 (1.75%) CCNP
7 2 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) GDPR
2 7 (6.14%) QA
3 6 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.39%) HIPAA
4 5 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.39%) NIST
4 5 (4.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (4.39%) SLA
Systems Management
1 13 (11.40%) SCCM
2 9 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.39%) FTK
3 5 (4.39%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (3.51%) Ansible
5 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.40%) Remedy
3 12 (10.53%) MuleSoft
4 10 (8.77%) ServiceNow
5 7 (6.14%) Informatica
6 6 (5.26%) Talend
7 5 (4.39%) Apple
7 5 (4.39%) Cellebrite
7 5 (4.39%) Pega
7 5 (4.39%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.39%) Samsung
7 5 (4.39%) SAP
8 3 (2.63%) Cisco
9 2 (1.75%) Aderant
9 2 (1.75%) iManage
9 2 (1.75%) Intapp
9 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.88%) Databricks
10 1 (0.88%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto