Legal Jobs in the North of England

Legal
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 51 128
Rank change year-on-year -47 +77 -28
Permanent jobs citing Legal 402 684 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.45% 3.73% 2.75%
As % of the General category 4.89% 6.85% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 110 345 279
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,255 £69,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,219 9,987 11,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.46% 54.40% 69.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,716 7,472 5,006
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £33,715 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £51,603
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.95% +3.21%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Legal in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Legal in the North of England

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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 Legal within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North West -28 332 £44,000 -2.22% 466
Yorkshire -46 57 £51,250 +50.74% 398
North East -16 13 £50,000 -11.11% 112
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (1.00%) SAS
1 4 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (10.45%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.50%) Revit
5 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (4.48%) Azure
3 8 (1.99%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.24%) AWS
5 4 (1.00%) SaaS
6 3 (0.75%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (0.75%) Google Docs
6 3 (0.75%) Google Drive
6 3 (0.75%) Google Sheets
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (0.75%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.50%) GCP
7 2 (0.50%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.25%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.25%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.25%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.75%) Firewall
1 3 (0.75%) Intranet
1 3 (0.75%) Network Security
2 2 (0.50%) DHCP
2 2 (0.50%) DNS
2 2 (0.50%) LAN
2 2 (0.50%) MPLS
2 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.50%) VoIP
2 2 (0.50%) WAN
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.99%) Power BI
2 6 (1.49%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.00%) Tableau
5 3 (0.75%) Metadata
6 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.50%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.25%) Looker
7 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.25%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 5 (1.24%) JIRA
2 1 (0.25%) Git
General
1 229 (56.97%) Law
2 180 (44.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 104 (25.87%) Social Skills
4 100 (24.88%) Finance
5 41 (10.20%) Marketing
6 28 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.99%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.74%) Retail
9 9 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.99%) Prime Brokerage
10 8 (1.99%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.49%) Local Government
11 6 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.24%) Banking
13 4 (1.00%) Advertising
14 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.50%) Automotive
14 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (9.45%) Customer Executive
2 33 (8.21%) Analyst
3 16 (3.98%) Project Engineer
4 14 (3.48%) Senior
5 12 (2.99%) Risk Manager
6 10 (2.49%) Lead
7 9 (2.24%) Business Analyst
7 9 (2.24%) Consultant
8 8 (1.99%) Developer
9 7 (1.74%) Azure Specialist
9 7 (1.74%) Cloud Specialist
9 7 (1.74%) Data Manager
9 7 (1.74%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 7 (1.74%) Operations Manager
9 7 (1.74%) Report Analyst
10 6 (1.49%) Business Development Manager
10 6 (1.49%) Business Manager
10 6 (1.49%) Development Manager
10 6 (1.49%) Graduate
10 6 (1.49%) IT Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.00%) Saxon XSLT
2 3 (0.75%) .NET
2 3 (0.75%) CSS
2 3 (0.75%) HTML
3 2 (0.50%) React
4 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.25%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.25%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.25%) Keras
4 1 (0.25%) NLTK
4 1 (0.25%) PySpark
4 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.25%) RESTful
4 1 (0.25%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.25%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.25%) SpaCy
4 1 (0.25%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.25%) WCF
4 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (42.79%) Cyberattack
2 17 (4.23%) Social Media
3 12 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.49%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.99%) Blockchain
6 8 (1.99%) Derivative
6 8 (1.99%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.24%) Learning Management System
7 5 (1.24%) NHS
8 3 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.75%) Blog
8 3 (0.75%) e-Learning
8 3 (0.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.50%) CCTV
9 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.50%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.72%) Windows
2 9 (2.24%) Windows Vista
3 8 (1.99%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.00%) Linux
4 4 (1.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (45.52%) Cybersecurity
2 180 (44.78%) Line Management
3 174 (43.28%) Creative Thinking
4 51 (12.69%) Decision-Making
5 44 (10.95%) Business Development
6 42 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (10.20%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 39 (9.70%) Contract Negotiation
9 26 (6.47%) Risk Management
10 24 (5.97%) Project Management
11 21 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (4.73%) Mentoring
13 17 (4.23%) Information Security
14 15 (3.73%) Business Strategy
14 15 (3.73%) ITIL
15 14 (3.48%) Coaching
16 13 (3.23%) Data Analysis
16 13 (3.23%) Data Protection
16 13 (3.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (4.23%) Python
2 12 (2.99%) SQL
3 11 (2.74%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.24%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.00%) C#
6 3 (0.75%) PHP
7 2 (0.50%) Bash
7 2 (0.50%) Java
7 2 (0.50%) VBA
8 1 (0.25%) C++
8 1 (0.25%) Julia
8 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.25%) R
8 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (10.95%) Degree
2 16 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (2.99%) DBS Check
4 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.49%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.00%) CISA
6 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.00%) CISSP
6 4 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (0.75%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.50%) PhD
8 2 (0.50%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (43.53%) NCSC
2 18 (4.48%) GDPR
3 15 (3.73%) SLA
4 14 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.24%) NIST
7 4 (1.00%) QA
7 4 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.75%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.50%) GRC
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.25%) PERC
System Software
1 11 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.50%) Docker
6 1 (0.25%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 3 (0.75%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.25%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (9.45%) Salesforce
2 28 (6.97%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.99%) Cisco
3 12 (2.99%) iManage
4 6 (1.49%) Oracle
5 5 (1.24%) Google
6 4 (1.00%) Adobe
6 4 (1.00%) Intapp
6 4 (1.00%) Revolut
6 4 (1.00%) VMware
7 3 (0.75%) Freshdesk
8 2 (0.50%) Facebook
8 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.25%) Citrix
9 1 (0.25%) Commvault
9 1 (0.25%) IBM
9 1 (0.25%) LexisNexis
9 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.25%) New Relic
9 1 (0.25%) Veeam