Legal Jobs in London

Legal
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 64 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +55
Permanent jobs citing Legal 639 974 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.97% 4.14% 3.77%
As % of the General category 6.53% 6.14% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 342 658 677
10th Percentile £42,519 £35,889 £42,272
25th Percentile £55,688 £47,039 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,250 £97,875 £97,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% -

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,792 15,865 24,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.15% 67.40% 69.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,643 11,334 17,006
10th Percentile £41,393 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £117,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,255
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.87% +0.43%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in London

Legal
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Legal in London

Legal
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Legal in London

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Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +6 144 £65,000 +4.00% 82
West London +59 34 £42,500 -50.00% 29
East London +22 34 £47,500 -1.12% 15
South London +13 30 £37,643 -33.55% 11
North London - 4 £60,000 -
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 46 (7.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.25%) CMS
4 3 (0.47%) SAS
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
6 1 (0.16%) Mule
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 101 (15.81%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.94%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.78%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.78%) InDesign
6 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.47%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.16%) Stata
Business Applications
1 24 (3.76%) Elite 3E
2 6 (0.94%) Relativity
3 5 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.47%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 123 (19.25%) Azure
2 90 (14.08%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (6.73%) Power Platform
4 34 (5.32%) AWS
5 32 (5.01%) GCP
6 31 (4.85%) Entra ID
7 26 (4.07%) OneDrive
8 20 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (3.13%) Power Automate
8 20 (3.13%) SaaS
9 19 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (2.03%) IaaS
11 12 (1.88%) Serverless
12 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.72%) PaaS
13 10 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.41%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.89%) Firewall
2 17 (2.66%) DNS
3 16 (2.50%) DHCP
3 16 (2.50%) Network Security
4 14 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.88%) VPN
6 8 (1.25%) WAN
7 6 (0.94%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.94%) WebEx
8 5 (0.78%) LAN
9 4 (0.63%) Internet
9 4 (0.63%) Intranet
9 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.63%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.31%) NAS
10 2 (0.31%) SAN
10 2 (0.31%) Value-Added Service
10 2 (0.31%) Wireless
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
11 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.63%) Power BI
2 18 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.50%) Metadata
4 15 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.78%) Tableau
9 4 (0.63%) EDRMS
9 4 (0.63%) Power Query
10 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.31%) Big Data
11 2 (0.31%) Flink
11 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.31%) MySQL
12 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (1.56%) Selenium
2 9 (1.41%) Git
3 4 (0.63%) Bazaar
4 3 (0.47%) GitLab
4 3 (0.47%) InstallShield
4 3 (0.47%) JIRA
4 3 (0.47%) Katalon Studio
4 3 (0.47%) MLflow
5 2 (0.31%) Appium
5 2 (0.31%) AutoIt
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.16%) MSI
6 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 265 (41.47%) Law
2 256 (40.06%) Social Skills
3 217 (33.96%) Finance
4 98 (15.34%) Marketing
5 95 (14.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.60%) Retail
10 22 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (3.13%) Advertising
11 20 (3.13%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.82%) Billing
13 17 (2.66%) Games
14 13 (2.03%) Banking
14 13 (2.03%) Publishing
15 9 (1.41%) Front Office
16 7 (1.10%) Public Sector
17 6 (0.94%) iGaming
17 6 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 110 (17.21%) Analyst
2 109 (17.06%) Senior
3 56 (8.76%) Lead
4 50 (7.82%) IT Support
5 48 (7.51%) Customer Executive
6 47 (7.36%) Support Analyst
7 46 (7.20%) IT Analyst
8 37 (5.79%) IT Support Analyst
9 36 (5.63%) Senior Manager
10 26 (4.07%) Architect
11 23 (3.60%) Project Manager
12 21 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
13 20 (3.13%) IT Manager
14 17 (2.66%) Security Manager
14 17 (2.66%) Support Specialist
15 16 (2.50%) Developer
15 16 (2.50%) IT Support Specialist
16 15 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (2.35%) Head of Content
16 15 (2.35%) Head of Production
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.72%) .NET
2 10 (1.56%) REST
3 9 (1.41%) HTML
4 8 (1.25%) CSS
4 8 (1.25%) Django
4 8 (1.25%) WebSockets
5 7 (1.10%) React
6 6 (0.94%) LangChain
7 4 (0.63%) EDI
7 4 (0.63%) Kafka
7 4 (0.63%) Middleware
8 3 (0.47%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.47%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.47%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.47%) RESTful
8 3 (0.47%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.47%) XML
9 2 (0.31%) Apache Beam
9 2 (0.31%) Blazor
9 2 (0.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.76%) Management Information System
2 47 (7.36%) Cyberattack
3 24 (3.76%) Video Conferencing
4 22 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.29%) Security Posture
6 19 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
8 15 (2.35%) Digital Media
8 15 (2.35%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.35%) Social Media
9 14 (2.19%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.03%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.88%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.72%) e-Learning
13 10 (1.56%) IoT
13 10 (1.56%) PKI
14 9 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.41%) iPhone
14 9 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (11.27%) Windows
2 30 (4.69%) Windows 10
3 19 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.35%) Linux
5 7 (1.10%) Android
6 6 (0.94%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.63%) Unix
7 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.31%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (16.74%) Cybersecurity
2 103 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (15.49%) Agile
4 97 (15.18%) Decision-Making
5 89 (13.93%) Project Management
6 76 (11.89%) Risk Management
7 75 (11.74%) Contract Negotiation
8 74 (11.58%) Artificial Intelligence
9 69 (10.80%) Business Development
10 68 (10.64%) Information Security
11 64 (10.02%) Analytics
12 57 (8.92%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 55 (8.61%) Roadmaps
14 54 (8.45%) Document Management
15 48 (7.51%) Data Management
15 48 (7.51%) Line Management
16 47 (7.36%) Creative Thinking
17 45 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 44 (6.89%) Computer Science
18 44 (6.89%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 69 (10.80%) SQL
2 49 (7.67%) Python
3 42 (6.57%) PowerShell
4 19 (2.97%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.19%) C#
5 14 (2.19%) Java
5 14 (2.19%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.72%) C
7 10 (1.56%) C++
8 8 (1.25%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.94%) Ladder Logic
10 5 (0.78%) Scala
11 4 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.63%) R
11 4 (0.63%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.31%) Ruby
13 2 (0.31%) VB
14 1 (0.16%) Bash
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 145 (22.69%) Degree
2 32 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (3.13%) CISSP
3 20 (3.13%) DBS Check
4 18 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 16 (2.50%) A+ Certification
5 16 (2.50%) MRICS
6 8 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.25%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.10%) CRISC
8 6 (0.94%) CISM
8 6 (0.94%) ISEB
9 5 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (0.78%) ACCA
9 5 (0.78%) CIMA
9 5 (0.78%) CISA
9 5 (0.78%) GCIA
9 5 (0.78%) GCIH
9 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.29%) GDPR
2 45 (7.04%) NCSC
3 42 (6.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (5.79%) QA
5 29 (4.54%) Accessibility
6 25 (3.91%) NIST
7 20 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (2.82%) PCI DSS
9 15 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (1.41%) Data Quality
11 7 (1.10%) GRC
11 7 (1.10%) SLA
12 6 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.63%) PMO
14 3 (0.47%) GAAP
15 2 (0.31%) COBIT
15 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.31%) MiFID
15 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (7.20%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (1.88%) Docker
4 9 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 43 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (4.07%) SCCM
3 18 (2.82%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.41%) Terraform
6 5 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.63%) Argo
7 4 (0.63%) CASB
7 4 (0.63%) CSIRT
7 4 (0.63%) Kustomize
7 4 (0.63%) SCOM
8 2 (0.31%) Istio
9 1 (0.16%) Ansible
9 1 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.16%) EnCase
9 1 (0.16%) FTK
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 120 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.29%) iManage
3 52 (8.14%) Salesforce
4 32 (5.01%) Intapp
5 25 (3.91%) Aderant
6 19 (2.97%) Google
7 17 (2.66%) Cisco
8 16 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.19%) Citrix
10 12 (1.88%) VMware
11 11 (1.72%) Adobe
12 9 (1.41%) Databricks
13 8 (1.25%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.10%) Informatica
15 6 (0.94%) Siemens
16 5 (0.78%) DocuSign
17 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
17 4 (0.63%) NetMotion Wireless
17 4 (0.63%) Palo Alto
17 4 (0.63%) YouTube