Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 29 November 2020

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 29 November 2020 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Legal
UK > Northern Ireland
6 months to
29 Nov 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 47 52 63
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -52
Permanent jobs citing Legal 3 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.95% 2.93% 1.75%
As % of the General category 3.19% 10.06% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 2
Median annual salary - £37,000 £51,250
Median salary % change year-on-year - -27.80% +20.59%
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%

Legal is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for common skills.

All General Skills
Northern Ireland
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 94 159 187
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 29.75% 29.07% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 50 97 120
Median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £44,750
Median salary % change year-on-year +5.26% +6.15% +19.33%
10th Percentile £36,125 £27,500 £25,125
90th Percentile £75,250 £70,000 £62,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% +7.00%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Northern Ireland

Legal
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Legal in Northern Ireland

Legal
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 29 November 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
County Antrim +13 3 - - 3
Legal
UK

For the 6 months to 29 November 2020, IT jobs citing Legal also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northern Ireland region with a requirement for Legal.

1 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
1 2 (66.67%) Security Management
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Records Management
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Finance

Legal
Co-occurring IT Skills in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Information Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
1 2 (66.67%) Records Management
1 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 20000