Law Job Trends in the North of England

Law
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 51 61
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 +45
Permanent jobs citing Law 300 319 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.14% 4.62% 3.83%
As % of the General category 3.77% 6.41% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 237 256 449
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,875 £27,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All General Skills
North of 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 general skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 7,968 4,975 8,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 56.79% 72.10% 58.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,040 2,528 6,689
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,055 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +5.38% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,396 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -12.22%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Law job vacancy trend in the North of England

Law
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Law.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Law

Law
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Law in the North of England

Law
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
North West -6 197 £55,000 -8.33% 64
Yorkshire -61 74 £40,000 -11.11% 28
North East -18 29 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Law
England

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.67%) CMS
2 2 (0.67%) Confluence
2 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.67%) WordPress
3 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (4.33%) Visualfiles
2 10 (3.33%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.67%) Academy Housing
5 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.33%) Magento
6 1 (0.33%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.33%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (13.33%) Azure
2 25 (8.33%) SaaS
3 22 (7.33%) AWS
4 20 (6.67%) GCP
5 19 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (6.33%) GitHub
5 19 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.33%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Google Sheets
9 3 (1.00%) IaaS
9 3 (1.00%) PaaS
10 2 (0.67%) OCI
10 2 (0.67%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.67%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.33%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.67%) Firewall
2 20 (6.67%) DNS
3 19 (6.33%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.00%) HTTP
5 6 (2.00%) SAN
6 3 (1.00%) Internet
6 3 (1.00%) LAN
6 3 (1.00%) VPN
6 3 (1.00%) WAN
7 2 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.67%) DMVPN
7 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.67%) Wireless
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) SSL
8 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.33%) Tableau
2 11 (3.67%) Power BI
3 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.67%) MySQL
4 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 69 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.00%) Military
3 61 (20.33%) Telecoms
4 51 (17.00%) Legal
5 42 (14.00%) Back Office
6 31 (10.33%) Finance
7 29 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (9.67%) Local Government
8 11 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.33%) Police
10 8 (2.67%) Marketing
11 5 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.67%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.33%) Billing
13 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.00%) Retail
14 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (16.00%) Project Manager
2 42 (14.00%) Senior
3 36 (12.00%) Developer
4 30 (10.00%) Analyst
5 24 (8.00%) Traffic Manager
6 21 (7.00%) Consultant
7 18 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.33%) IT Support
9 12 (4.00%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.00%) Head of Security
10 10 (3.33%) Performance Manager
10 10 (3.33%) Proclaim Developer
10 10 (3.33%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
11 9 (3.00%) Recruitment Consultant
12 8 (2.67%) Account Manager
12 8 (2.67%) IT Consultant
12 8 (2.67%) Senior Account Manager
12 8 (2.67%) Senior Manager
12 8 (2.67%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.00%) CSS
2 3 (1.00%) HTML
3 2 (0.67%) CakePHP
3 2 (0.67%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (0.67%) Laravel
3 2 (0.67%) Node.js
3 2 (0.67%) React
3 2 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (0.67%) Symfony
4 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.33%) EDI
4 1 (0.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
1 9 (3.00%) Driving Licence
2 8 (2.67%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.00%) Life Science
4 6 (2.00%) Social Media
5 5 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.67%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.33%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.33%) IoT
9 1 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.33%) PKI
9 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.00%) Windows
2 10 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 27 (9.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 26 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (8.00%) Agile
4 24 (8.00%) Service Delivery
5 22 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (7.33%) ERP
6 21 (7.00%) CI/CD
6 21 (7.00%) Collaborative Working
6 21 (7.00%) Customer Service
6 21 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (6.33%) Containerisation
7 19 (6.33%) DevOps
7 19 (6.33%) DevSecOps
8 18 (6.00%) Change Management
8 18 (6.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (6.00%) High Availability
8 18 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (6.00%) Static Code Analysis
8 18 (6.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.33%) Python
2 18 (6.00%) Bash
2 18 (6.00%) Go
3 10 (3.33%) SQL
4 4 (1.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.67%) C#
5 2 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (5.67%) Degree
2 13 (4.33%) PMI Certification
2 13 (4.33%) PMP
3 7 (2.33%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.67%) ISEB
5 4 (1.33%) CISSP
5 4 (1.33%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.00%) CCNA
6 3 (1.00%) CCNP
6 3 (1.00%) CIPD
6 3 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.00%) CISM
7 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.33%) CCIE
7 1 (0.33%) GIAC
7 1 (0.33%) OSCP
7 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.00%) COSHH
2 15 (5.00%) GDPR
3 12 (4.00%) QA
4 7 (2.33%) SLA
5 5 (1.67%) ISO 14001
5 5 (1.67%) NEBOSH
6 3 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.00%) EU AI Act
6 3 (1.00%) GLBA
7 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.67%) WCAG
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.33%) NIST
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (6.67%) Terraform
2 19 (6.33%) Ansible
3 18 (6.00%) Grafana
3 18 (6.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.67%) SAP
3 14 (4.67%) Oracle
4 9 (3.00%) VMware
5 8 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.00%) Cisco
7 6 (2.00%) iManage
8 4 (1.33%) Aderant
8 4 (1.33%) Google
8 4 (1.33%) PayPal
9 3 (1.00%) Adobe
9 3 (1.00%) Databricks
9 3 (1.00%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.00%) IFS
9 3 (1.00%) Meraki
10 2 (0.67%) UiPath
10 2 (0.67%) Vertica
10 2 (0.67%) Workday
11 1 (0.33%) Intapp