Law Jobs in England

Law
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 73 97
Rank change year-on-year +26 +24 +63
Permanent jobs citing Law 2,513 2,934 2,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.17% 3.39% 3.33%
As % of the General category 7.39% 5.73% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 978 2,005 1,669
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £84,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

All General Skills
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 common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,994 51,167 60,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 69.92% 59.12% 68.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,766 35,701 32,666
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,817 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Law in England

Law
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Law in England.

Salary trend for Law in England

Law
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Law in England

Law
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
London +14 803 £65,000 -3.70% 1,570
South East +130 591 £55,000 +4.76% 443
Midlands +40 487 £42,500 - 219
North of England -8 463 £50,000 - 312
North West -12 301 £60,000 +26.32% 179
West Midlands +50 273 £45,000 - 122
East Midlands +25 214 £40,000 - 87
Yorkshire +4 141 £42,500 -22.73% 110
East of England -7 89 £56,250 +76.70% 145
South West -77 45 £55,000 +22.22% 145
North East +5 21 £33,750 -32.50% 26
Law
UK

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 87 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 56 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.87%) Confluence
4 28 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.60%) Apache
6 13 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.24%) CMS
8 5 (0.20%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.12%) GemFire
10 3 (0.12%) SugarCRM
11 2 (0.080%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.040%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.040%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.040%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.040%) nginx
12 1 (0.040%) Traefik
12 1 (0.040%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.47%) Maya
5 20 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.36%) Acrobat
7 9 (0.36%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.32%) Sketch
9 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.24%) InVision
11 5 (0.20%) Trello
12 1 (0.040%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 34 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.80%) Elite 3E
3 19 (0.76%) SAP FI
3 19 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.64%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 10 (0.40%) SAP IBP
5 10 (0.40%) TrackWise
6 7 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 7 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.24%) Carpe Diem
8 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle Payroll
10 3 (0.12%) Relativity
10 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 452 (17.99%) Azure
2 199 (7.92%) AWS
3 193 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
4 174 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 127 (5.05%) GCP
6 98 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
7 92 (3.66%) SaaS
8 63 (2.51%) Power Automate
9 52 (2.07%) PowerApps
10 44 (1.75%) Entra ID
11 41 (1.63%) Serverless
12 40 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
13 38 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 38 (1.51%) Snowflake
14 37 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
15 36 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
16 31 (1.23%) PaaS
17 29 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
18 25 (0.99%) Boomi
19 24 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.55%) DNS
2 35 (1.39%) Firewall
3 23 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.92%) VPN
4 19 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
5 18 (0.72%) DHCP
5 18 (0.72%) Wireless
6 14 (0.56%) Intranet
6 14 (0.56%) WebEx
7 13 (0.52%) VLAN
8 11 (0.44%) HTTP
9 10 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.36%) LAN
10 9 (0.36%) SMTP
11 8 (0.32%) Network Security
11 8 (0.32%) SAN
12 7 (0.28%) WAN
13 6 (0.24%) Internet
14 4 (0.16%) VoIP
15 3 (0.12%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (5.25%) Data Lake
2 120 (4.78%) Power BI
3 74 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (2.67%) Tableau
5 66 (2.63%) Big Data
6 63 (2.51%) Metadata
7 51 (2.03%) SQL Server
8 42 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 32 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 27 (1.07%) Data Mining
10 27 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 24 (0.96%) Hadoop
12 18 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (0.72%) MySQL
13 17 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (0.64%) MongoDB
14 16 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (0.40%) SAP BW
16 9 (0.36%) Delta Lake
16 9 (0.36%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 79 (3.14%) JIRA
2 40 (1.59%) Git
3 27 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.84%) Selenium
5 13 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.36%) webpack
7 8 (0.32%) Axure RP
7 8 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.32%) Vite
8 5 (0.20%) NUnit
9 4 (0.16%) Babel
9 4 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.16%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.12%) Appium
10 3 (0.12%) JUnit
10 3 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.12%) MSTest
10 3 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 701 (27.89%) Legal
2 624 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 554 (22.05%) Finance
4 507 (20.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 380 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
6 207 (8.24%) Marketing
7 105 (4.18%) Telecoms
8 101 (4.02%) Banking
9 92 (3.66%) Games
10 90 (3.58%) Retail
11 75 (2.98%) Manufacturing
12 68 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
13 62 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.91%) Public Sector
15 44 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
16 37 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
17 34 (1.35%) Military
18 33 (1.31%) Financial Institution
19 23 (0.92%) Advertising
20 21 (0.84%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 477 (18.98%) Lead
2 422 (16.79%) Senior
3 319 (12.69%) Analyst
4 177 (7.04%) Principal Engineer
5 173 (6.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 155 (6.17%) Developer
7 152 (6.05%) Support Analyst
8 135 (5.37%) IT Support
9 131 (5.21%) IT Analyst
10 123 (4.89%) Architect
11 112 (4.46%) Software Engineer
12 103 (4.10%) Consultant
13 98 (3.90%) IT Support Analyst
14 87 (3.46%) Senior Manager
15 54 (2.15%) Project Manager
15 54 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
16 52 (2.07%) 2nd Line Support
16 52 (2.07%) IT Manager
16 52 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
17 50 (1.99%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (3.30%) React
2 64 (2.55%) .NET
3 59 (2.35%) REST
4 55 (2.19%) RESTful
5 53 (2.11%) Kafka
6 44 (1.75%) Node.js
7 41 (1.63%) CSS
7 41 (1.63%) Middleware
8 40 (1.59%) HTML
9 34 (1.35%) Spring
10 29 (1.15%) SOAP
11 25 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 23 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
13 20 (0.80%) OAuth
14 19 (0.76%) Spring Boot
15 18 (0.72%) JWT
15 18 (0.72%) Playwright
16 15 (0.60%) JSON
16 15 (0.60%) Vue
16 15 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 291 (11.58%) Cyberattack
2 117 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
2 117 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 93 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 83 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 72 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 62 (2.47%) FMCG
7 48 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 38 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 37 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 37 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
10 35 (1.39%) Derivative
11 31 (1.23%) Blockchain
12 29 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 29 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (1.11%) IoT
13 28 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 25 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 167 (6.65%) Windows
2 74 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 65 (2.59%) Linux
4 41 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.76%) Mac OS X
6 14 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.56%) Unix
7 13 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.48%) Android
9 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.20%) Rocky
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (19.86%) Agile
2 496 (19.74%) Analytics
3 473 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
4 410 (16.32%) Cybersecurity
5 362 (14.41%) Line Management
6 350 (13.93%) Artificial Intelligence
7 323 (12.85%) Project Management
8 301 (11.98%) Roadmaps
9 292 (11.62%) Creative Thinking
10 252 (10.03%) Computer Science
11 251 (9.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 245 (9.75%) Mathematics
13 242 (9.63%) Business Strategy
13 242 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 233 (9.27%) DevOps
15 212 (8.44%) Collaborative Working
16 203 (8.08%) Logistics
17 199 (7.92%) CI/CD
18 198 (7.88%) Data Management
19 196 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 261 (10.39%) SQL
2 257 (10.23%) Python
3 128 (5.09%) Java
4 97 (3.86%) C#
5 83 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 51 (2.03%) TypeScript
7 46 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 37 (1.47%) Go
9 23 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 23 (0.92%) Scala
10 22 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 22 (0.88%) X++
11 19 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 17 (0.68%) C++
13 14 (0.56%) PHP
14 13 (0.52%) C
15 8 (0.32%) Rust
16 7 (0.28%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.20%) Clojure
17 5 (0.20%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 779 (31.00%) Degree
2 166 (6.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 134 (5.33%) Master's Degree
4 130 (5.17%) Security Cleared
5 123 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (2.15%) SC Cleared
7 49 (1.95%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 25 (0.99%) AWS Certification
10 25 (0.99%) PhD
10 25 (0.99%) PMP
11 23 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.68%) A+ Certification
13 15 (0.60%) CISSP
14 14 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.52%) DV Cleared
16 11 (0.44%) MCSA
17 10 (0.40%) CCNP
18 9 (0.36%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (11.46%) NCSC
2 132 (5.25%) Data Quality
3 124 (4.93%) Accessibility
4 99 (3.94%) GDPR
5 84 (3.34%) QA
6 64 (2.55%) SLA
7 43 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 43 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 38 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 14 (0.56%) GMP
10 13 (0.52%) NIST
11 11 (0.44%) WCAG
12 10 (0.40%) GRC
12 10 (0.40%) PERC
13 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 120 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 35 (1.39%) Docker
3 14 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.32%) HDFS
4 8 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.20%) vSphere
6 2 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.040%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.040%) Firmware
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.040%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 114 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 59 (2.35%) Terraform
3 50 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.35%) SCCM
5 30 (1.19%) Ansible
6 9 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.36%) Puppet
7 7 (0.28%) Grafana
7 7 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.20%) QRadar
9 4 (0.16%) CASB
9 4 (0.16%) SCOM
10 3 (0.12%) EnCase
10 3 (0.12%) FTK
10 3 (0.12%) Mesos
11 2 (0.080%) Argo
11 2 (0.080%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.080%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 497 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.33%) SAP
3 127 (5.05%) ServiceNow
4 98 (3.90%) Google
5 77 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.75%) Oracle
7 47 (1.87%) Workday
8 45 (1.79%) Adobe
8 45 (1.79%) Cisco
9 44 (1.75%) iManage
10 39 (1.55%) OpenAI
11 32 (1.27%) Databricks
12 30 (1.19%) IBM
13 29 (1.15%) VMware
14 28 (1.11%) Aderant
14 28 (1.11%) Informatica
14 28 (1.11%) MuleSoft
15 27 (1.07%) Intapp
16 21 (0.84%) Concur
16 21 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud