Law Job Trends in Leeds

Law
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 37 51
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 +23
Permanent jobs citing Law 39 52 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.92% 4.90% 5.02%
As % of the General category 5.29% 7.54% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 25 32 54
10th Percentile £22,500 £35,750 £29,400
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £64,063 £58,438
90th Percentile £107,500 £67,313 £69,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.41%

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 737 690 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 55.25% 64.97% 64.03%
Number of salaries quoted 468 372 600
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,855 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -13.42% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £85,000 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% +4.55%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Law job vacancy trend in Leeds

Law
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Law.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Law

Law
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in Leeds over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Law in Leeds

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (2.56%) Anypoint
Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (12.82%) SaaS
3 4 (10.26%) PaaS
4 3 (7.69%) IaaS
4 3 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) AWS
5 2 (5.13%) Azure
5 2 (5.13%) OCI
6 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.56%) Datadog
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Internet
2 2 (5.13%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
1 1 (2.56%) Postman
General
1 15 (38.46%) Legal
2 6 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Back Office
4 4 (10.26%) Local Government
4 4 (10.26%) Military
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Publishing
7 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) 1st Line Support
1 8 (20.51%) 1st Line Support Analyst
1 8 (20.51%) Analyst
1 8 (20.51%) IT Analyst
1 8 (20.51%) IT Support
1 8 (20.51%) IT Support Analyst
1 8 (20.51%) Support Analyst
2 4 (10.26%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.26%) Service Analyst
2 4 (10.26%) Service Desk Analyst
2 4 (10.26%) Service Desk Support
2 4 (10.26%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 4 (10.26%) Traffic Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Administrator
3 3 (7.69%) Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Head of Technology
3 3 (7.69%) Salesforce Administrator
3 3 (7.69%) Trainer
4 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) React
1 2 (5.13%) Spring
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) JWT
2 1 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.56%) OAuth
2 1 (2.56%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.56%) RAML
2 1 (2.56%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) RESTful
2 1 (2.56%) SAML
2 1 (2.56%) SOAP
2 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Windows
1 8 (20.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Customer Service
2 8 (20.51%) ITSM
3 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
4 5 (12.82%) AI
5 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.69%) Agile
6 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.69%) Conversational UI
6 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.69%) Software Licensing
6 3 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (5.13%) Change Management
7 2 (5.13%) CRM
7 2 (5.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) Java
1 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.13%) SQL
2 1 (2.56%) DataWeave
2 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) SLA
2 4 (10.26%) COSHH
3 3 (7.69%) EU AI Act
3 3 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) PayPal
2 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.56%) UiPath