Legal Jobs 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 88 48
Rank change year-on-year -15 -40 +90
Permanent jobs citing Legal 79 154 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.32% 2.51% 5.75%
As % of the General category 3.46% 4.52% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 43 58 50
10th Percentile £42,250 £29,178 £27,200
25th Percentile £47,250 £33,320 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,600 £58,983 £66,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% -

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 common skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,285 3,407 3,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 67.25% 55.60% 70.84%
Number of salaries quoted 964 2,463 1,328
10th Percentile £26,325 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,425 £31,250 £35,764
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.67% +13.68%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,875 £73,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legal in the East of England.

Salary trend for Legal in the East of England

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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 13 May 2025.

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 13 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
Essex -1 22 £50,584 +1.17% 23
Cambridgeshire +25 20 £49,000 -10.91% 61
Hertfordshire +29 15 £54,500 -3.39% 36
Suffolk -35 8 £80,500 +171.69% 9
Norfolk +2 6 £55,000 +15.84% 10
Bedfordshire -5 5 - - 13
East Anglia - 5 £57,500 - 39
Legal
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.46%) Azure
2 11 (13.92%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 2 (2.53%) LAN
2 2 (2.53%) VLAN
2 2 (2.53%) VPN
2 2 (2.53%) WAN
2 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.27%) DHCP
3 1 (1.27%) DNS
3 1 (1.27%) Network Security
3 1 (1.27%) NGFW
3 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) JIRA
1 6 (7.59%) Selenium
2 1 (1.27%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (45.57%) Law
2 28 (35.44%) Finance
3 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.66%) Billing
4 10 (12.66%) Electronics
4 10 (12.66%) Marketing
5 7 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (8.86%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Local Government
7 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.27%) Aviation
8 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 10 (12.66%) Operations Manager
1 10 (12.66%) Operations Project Manager
1 10 (12.66%) Project Manager
1 10 (12.66%) Sales Manager
1 10 (12.66%) Sales Operations Manager
2 8 (10.13%) Customer Executive
3 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Manager
4 6 (7.59%) Analyst
4 6 (7.59%) QA Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Senior
4 6 (7.59%) Senior QA Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Consultant
5 5 (6.33%) IT Manager
5 5 (6.33%) IT Support
5 5 (6.33%) IT Support Manager
5 5 (6.33%) Recruitment Consultant
5 5 (6.33%) Support Manager
6 4 (5.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.27%) .NET
1 1 (1.27%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.27%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.27%) GraphQL
1 1 (1.27%) IDoc
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Cyberattack
2 6 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.53%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.53%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.53%) SCADA
4 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) CSOC
5 1 (1.27%) Cybercrime
5 1 (1.27%) PMI
5 1 (1.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Windows
2 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) Project Management
2 18 (22.78%) Commercial Awareness
3 14 (17.72%) Agile
4 12 (15.19%) B2B
4 12 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (13.92%) Contract Negotiation
5 11 (13.92%) CRM
5 11 (13.92%) Decision-Making
6 10 (12.66%) Business Development
6 10 (12.66%) Change Management
6 10 (12.66%) Customer Retention
6 10 (12.66%) Customer Service
6 10 (12.66%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 10 (12.66%) Market Research
6 10 (12.66%) Order Management
6 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (12.66%) Project Planning
6 10 (12.66%) Service Delivery
7 9 (11.39%) Line Management
8 7 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.80%) SQL
2 2 (2.53%) Python
3 1 (1.27%) C#
3 1 (1.27%) Java
3 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (15.19%) Degree
2 6 (7.59%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.53%) CIPD
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CISSP
4 1 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.27%) ISEB
4 1 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.19%) QA
2 7 (8.86%) NCSC
3 5 (6.33%) GDPR
4 4 (5.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.53%) NIST
7 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.27%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Oracle
3 8 (10.13%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.06%) Cisco
5 2 (2.53%) HubSpot
5 2 (2.53%) Sage
6 1 (1.27%) Facebook
6 1 (1.27%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) Veritas