Legal Job Trends in the East of England

Legal
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 85 77
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 -26
Permanent jobs citing Legal 145 104 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.32% 3.42% 2.60%
As % of the General category 5.14% 5.03% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 117 51 75
10th Percentile £25,500 £41,250 £29,629
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £75,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.09%

All General Skills
East of England

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 general skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,820 2,066 3,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 45.09% 67.89% 51.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,712 908 2,568
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,375 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Legal job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Legal in the East of England

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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 Legal within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Norfolk +1 39 £27,000 -50.91% 8
Cambridgeshire -12 38 £50,000 +5.26% 21
Hertfordshire -11 34 £72,500 +64.77% 14
Suffolk +31 20 £35,000 -44.00% 6
Essex -36 9 £55,000 +8.73% 4
Bedfordshire +11 4 £51,359 - 4
Legal
England

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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 5 (3.45%) CMS
2 4 (2.76%) Apache
2 4 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.69%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.69%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.97%) Azure
2 10 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (5.52%) AWS
4 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (4.14%) SaaS
5 4 (2.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.76%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.76%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.07%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.38%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.69%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.69%) Contentsquare
8 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.69%) Figma
8 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Broadband
1 1 (0.69%) Intranet
1 1 (0.69%) LAN
1 1 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (0.69%) VoIP
1 1 (0.69%) VPN
1 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.76%) Apache Hive
1 4 (2.76%) Impala
1 4 (2.76%) Oracle Database
1 4 (2.76%) Parquet
1 4 (2.76%) Spark SQL
1 4 (2.76%) Tableau
2 2 (1.38%) Metadata
3 1 (0.69%) Power BI
3 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Git
2 4 (2.76%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 79 (54.48%) Finance
2 58 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 39 (26.90%) Organisational Skills
4 34 (23.45%) Law
5 15 (10.34%) Banking
6 10 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.21%) Telecoms
8 8 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.45%) Aerospace
9 5 (3.45%) Legal Technology
9 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.76%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.07%) Marketing
12 2 (1.38%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.38%) Publishing
13 1 (0.69%) Advertising
13 1 (0.69%) Automotive
13 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.69%) Electronics
13 1 (0.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 36 (24.83%) Consultant
1 36 (24.83%) Recruitment Consultant
2 21 (14.48%) Recruitment Resourcer
2 21 (14.48%) Resourcer
2 21 (14.48%) Trainee
2 21 (14.48%) Trainee Consultant
2 21 (14.48%) Trainee Recruitment Consultant
2 21 (14.48%) Trainee Resourcer
3 18 (12.41%) Analyst
4 14 (9.66%) IT Support
4 14 (9.66%) Product Manager
5 12 (8.28%) Legal Analyst
6 11 (7.59%) Business Analyst
6 11 (7.59%) IT Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Support Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 10 (6.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.76%) PySpark
2 2 (1.38%) .NET
2 2 (1.38%) HTML
3 1 (0.69%) React
3 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.21%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (8.28%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.52%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.14%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.38%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.38%) Social Media
8 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.83%) Windows
2 2 (1.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.69%) VMS
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.93%) Agile
2 23 (15.86%) AI
3 22 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (11.72%) Commercial Awareness
5 17 (11.72%) Roadmaps
6 16 (11.03%) Workflow
7 15 (10.34%) LLM
8 14 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (8.28%) Risk Management
9 12 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (7.59%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (7.59%) Product Roadmap
10 11 (7.59%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 11 (7.59%) Scrum
11 10 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (6.90%) Regulatory Compliance
11 10 (6.90%) Service Delivery
11 10 (6.90%) Workshop Facilitation
12 9 (6.21%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.52%) Python
1 8 (5.52%) SQL
2 2 (1.38%) C#
2 2 (1.38%) Java
2 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (8.28%) SC Cleared
1 12 (8.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.52%) Degree
3 4 (2.76%) CISSP
3 4 (2.76%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (2.07%) CCSK
4 3 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.38%) HNC
5 2 (1.38%) HND
6 1 (0.69%) CISA
6 1 (0.69%) CISM
6 1 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) CRISC
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) GDPR
2 6 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.45%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.76%) NIST
4 4 (2.76%) NIST 800
5 3 (2.07%) NCSC
6 2 (1.38%) GRC
6 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.38%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.69%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.14%) Oracle
3 4 (2.76%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.07%) Aderant
4 3 (2.07%) iManage
4 3 (2.07%) Intapp
4 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.38%) Google
5 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe
6 1 (0.69%) VMware