Legal Jobs in England

Legal
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 72 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +65
Permanent jobs citing Legal 1,697 2,908 3,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.68% 3.41% 4.07%
As % of the General category 5.47% 5.76% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 695 1,618 1,494
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £35,631 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -4.55% -

All General Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 31,047 50,509 63,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 67.42% 59.28% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16,351 35,638 34,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,445 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £83,426
90th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in England

Legal
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Legal in England

Legal
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Legal in England

Legal
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +3 633 £72,500 +7.41% 1,557
North of England -18 421 £45,000 - 329
North West -8 347 £44,000 -7.37% 206
South East +2 296 £52,500 +32.91% 382
Midlands -4 181 £45,000 -10.00% 167
West Midlands -17 121 £41,000 -18.00% 107
East of England -4 72 £52,500 +5.00% 92
Yorkshire -16 66 £45,000 +32.35% 92
South West -12 61 £44,795 +5.40% 154
East Midlands +21 60 £52,500 +16.67% 51
North East -15 8 £43,968 -16.25% 35
Legal
UK

Legal
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 75 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 65 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (1.59%) CMS
4 19 (1.12%) SAS
5 7 (0.41%) WordPress
6 3 (0.18%) Confluence
6 3 (0.18%) Mule
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.059%) Strapi
Applications
1 244 (14.38%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.71%) Acrobat
5 6 (0.35%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (0.29%) InDesign
7 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.059%) Blender
10 1 (0.059%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.059%) CATIA
10 1 (0.059%) Stata
Business Applications
1 26 (1.53%) Elite 3E
2 10 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.35%) Relativity
5 5 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.29%) SAP GTS
5 5 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.18%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.12%) PeopleSoft Financials
8 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.12%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.059%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.059%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 221 (13.02%) Azure
2 185 (10.90%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (4.48%) Power Platform
4 63 (3.71%) SaaS
5 49 (2.89%) Entra ID
6 48 (2.83%) AWS
7 43 (2.53%) OneDrive
8 36 (2.12%) GCP
9 29 (1.71%) Power Automate
10 27 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 25 (1.47%) PaaS
12 22 (1.30%) PowerApps
13 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
14 16 (0.94%) IaaS
15 15 (0.88%) iPaaS
16 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
17 12 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (0.71%) Google Workspace
18 11 (0.65%) Serverless
19 9 (0.53%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.95%) Firewall
2 26 (1.53%) DHCP
2 26 (1.53%) DNS
3 23 (1.36%) VLAN
4 21 (1.24%) Network Security
4 21 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.06%) VoIP
5 18 (1.06%) WAN
6 17 (1.00%) Intranet
6 17 (1.00%) VPN
7 16 (0.94%) SAN
8 14 (0.82%) MPLS
9 13 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.71%) LAN
11 9 (0.53%) Broadband
11 9 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.35%) Bluetooth
12 6 (0.35%) Internet
12 6 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (0.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.42%) Power BI
2 26 (1.53%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (1.47%) Metadata
4 16 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (0.71%) Tableau
6 11 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.24%) EDRMS
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.24%) Power Query
10 3 (0.18%) Big Data
10 3 (0.18%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.18%) MySQL
11 2 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 40 (2.36%) JIRA
2 28 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
3 13 (0.77%) Git
4 12 (0.71%) Selenium
5 6 (0.35%) GitLab
6 4 (0.24%) Bazaar
6 4 (0.24%) MLflow
7 3 (0.18%) InstallShield
7 3 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (0.18%) LSMW
8 2 (0.12%) Appium
8 2 (0.12%) AutoIt
8 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.059%) MSI
9 1 (0.059%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.059%) Visual Studio
General
1 653 (38.48%) Law
2 566 (33.35%) Social Skills
3 529 (31.17%) Finance
4 377 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 224 (13.20%) Marketing
6 182 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 65 (3.83%) Banking
8 65 (3.83%) Retail
9 59 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
10 56 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
11 54 (3.18%) Manufacturing
12 49 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 30 (1.77%) Advertising
15 25 (1.47%) Public Sector
16 22 (1.30%) Billing
17 21 (1.24%) Games
18 14 (0.82%) Publishing
19 12 (0.71%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 228 (13.44%) Senior
2 200 (11.79%) Analyst
3 123 (7.25%) Customer Executive
4 93 (5.48%) Lead
5 77 (4.54%) IT Support
6 57 (3.36%) Senior Manager
7 50 (2.95%) Support Analyst
8 49 (2.89%) Project Manager
9 48 (2.83%) IT Analyst
10 44 (2.59%) Architect
11 40 (2.36%) IT Manager
12 38 (2.24%) IT Support Analyst
13 35 (2.06%) Consultant
14 33 (1.94%) Graduate
15 32 (1.89%) Cloud Engineer
16 31 (1.83%) Developer
17 28 (1.65%) Product Manager
18 27 (1.59%) Data Manager
18 27 (1.59%) Senior Analyst
19 24 (1.41%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.36%) HTML
2 22 (1.30%) CSS
3 20 (1.18%) .NET
4 15 (0.88%) REST
5 11 (0.65%) React
6 8 (0.47%) Django
6 8 (0.47%) EDI
6 8 (0.47%) WebSockets
7 7 (0.41%) LangChain
8 6 (0.35%) ASP.NET
8 6 (0.35%) RESTful
9 5 (0.29%) Kafka
9 5 (0.29%) SOAP
9 5 (0.29%) XML
10 4 (0.24%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.24%) Middleware
10 4 (0.24%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.24%) Saxon XSLT
10 4 (0.24%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 290 (17.09%) Cyberattack
2 106 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 56 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (2.59%) Social Media
5 37 (2.18%) Learning Management System
6 36 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 35 (2.06%) Security Posture
8 33 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
9 30 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (1.77%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.53%) e-Learning
10 26 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.30%) Product Ownership
12 21 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
13 19 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.88%) CCTV
16 15 (0.88%) Digital Media
16 15 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 156 (9.19%) Windows
2 52 (3.06%) Windows 10
3 46 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.47%) Windows Vista
5 24 (1.41%) Linux
6 18 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.82%) Android
8 9 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.24%) Unix
12 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (25.04%) Cybersecurity
2 343 (20.21%) Creative Thinking
3 317 (18.68%) Line Management
4 235 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
5 224 (13.20%) Agile
6 222 (13.08%) Decision-Making
7 203 (11.96%) Project Management
8 166 (9.78%) Contract Negotiation
9 161 (9.49%) Information Security
10 155 (9.13%) Risk Management
11 154 (9.07%) Business Development
12 143 (8.43%) Analytics
13 139 (8.19%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 127 (7.48%) Roadmaps
15 126 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 124 (7.31%) Mentoring
17 120 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence
18 108 (6.36%) Project Delivery
19 106 (6.25%) Coaching
19 106 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (7.48%) SQL
2 90 (5.30%) Python
3 62 (3.65%) PowerShell
4 45 (2.65%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.89%) C#
6 27 (1.59%) Java
7 18 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.82%) PHP
9 13 (0.77%) C++
10 12 (0.71%) C
10 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.59%) R
12 8 (0.47%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.41%) Go
14 6 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
14 6 (0.35%) Ruby
14 6 (0.35%) VBA
15 5 (0.29%) Scala
16 4 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 354 (20.86%) Degree
2 72 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 60 (3.54%) Master's Degree
4 50 (2.95%) CISSP
5 49 (2.89%) DBS Check
6 43 (2.53%) CISM
7 39 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
8 28 (1.65%) PhD
9 25 (1.47%) CRISC
10 22 (1.30%) Security Cleared
11 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.18%) CISA
13 17 (1.00%) A+ Certification
13 17 (1.00%) MRICS
14 13 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.77%) ISEB
15 11 (0.65%) PMP
16 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (16.79%) NCSC
2 131 (7.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 104 (6.13%) GDPR
4 65 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 63 (3.71%) QA
6 62 (3.65%) NIST
7 42 (2.47%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.71%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 21 (1.24%) SLA
11 20 (1.18%) Data Quality
12 15 (0.88%) COBIT
12 15 (0.88%) GRC
13 13 (0.77%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 10 (0.59%) PERC
16 8 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.41%) PMO
18 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 104 (6.13%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.00%) Docker
5 10 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.18%) vSphere
9 1 (0.059%) Firmware
9 1 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.059%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 56 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.53%) SCCM
4 18 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.65%) Terraform
6 6 (0.35%) CSIRT
7 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.24%) Argo
8 4 (0.24%) CASB
8 4 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.24%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.18%) SCOM
10 2 (0.12%) Ansible
10 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 1 (0.059%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.059%) cPanel
11 1 (0.059%) EnCase
11 1 (0.059%) FTK
Vendors
1 296 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 143 (8.43%) Salesforce
3 61 (3.59%) iManage
4 46 (2.71%) Google
5 42 (2.47%) VMware
6 41 (2.42%) Cisco
7 37 (2.18%) Intapp
8 30 (1.77%) Aderant
9 25 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 23 (1.36%) Adobe
11 17 (1.00%) Citrix
11 17 (1.00%) Oracle
12 16 (0.94%) SAP
13 15 (0.88%) IBM
14 11 (0.65%) Veeam
15 10 (0.59%) Databricks
15 10 (0.59%) OneTrust
16 9 (0.53%) Workday
17 8 (0.47%) OpenAI
18 7 (0.41%) Meraki