Legal Job Trends in Leicester

Legal
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies in Leicester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 27 45
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 +11
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.29% 2.00% 1.79%
As % of the General category 0.67% 3.00% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34,650
25th Percentile £60,750 - £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +106.52%
75th Percentile £62,250 - £63,125
90th Percentile - - £71,750
Leicestershire median annual salary £73,250 £70,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.64% +18.64% +133.66%

All General Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 298 100 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 43.82% 66.67% 54.81%
Number of salaries quoted 170 63 177
10th Percentile £31,150 £25,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,125 £34,875 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £45,001
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% +2.62%
75th Percentile £71,250 £58,125 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,750 £72,500 £74,250
Leicestershire median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - +5.88%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Legal job vacancy trend in Leicester

Legal
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Legal.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Legal

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Accountant
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Accountant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase