Law Jobs in the South East

Law
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 154 117
Rank change year-on-year +123 -37 +7
Permanent jobs citing Law 623 287 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.43% 1.63% 2.73%
As % of the General category 9.39% 2.91% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 48 203 114
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,200 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £35,000 £35,816
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,125 £73,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

All General Skills
South East

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 common skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,633 9,851 8,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 68.49% 55.91% 63.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,781 6,140 4,314
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,575
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -12.50% -

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the South East

Law
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Law in the South East.

Salary trend for Law in the South East

Law
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Law in the South East

Law
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley +92 445 £53,750 -2.27% 108
Berkshire +108 428 £55,000 -13.39% 68
Middlesex +33 80 - - 6
Surrey +67 50 £50,000 +42.86% 34
Hampshire +41 24 £56,250 +50.00% 58
Kent +43 12 £70,000 +100.00% 17
West Sussex +32 10 £42,500 +6.25% 9
Oxfordshire -6 10 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Buckinghamshire -11 7 £42,500 -15.00% 23
East Sussex +20 2 £23,000 -41.40% 11
Law
England

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 28 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.44%) Apache
4 6 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.16%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) GemFire
Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.12%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.57%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (2.57%) SAP FI
2 10 (1.61%) TrackWise
3 4 (0.64%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.16%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 166 (26.65%) Azure
2 69 (11.08%) GCP
3 60 (9.63%) AWS
4 35 (5.62%) Power Platform
5 28 (4.49%) Power Automate
5 28 (4.49%) PowerApps
6 24 (3.85%) Snowflake
7 21 (3.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 20 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (2.73%) Vertex AI
10 16 (2.57%) SaaS
11 14 (2.25%) Salsify
12 13 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (1.61%) OpenShift
14 10 (1.61%) PaaS
14 10 (1.61%) Veeva
15 8 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.28%) Intranet
2 4 (0.64%) Firewall
3 3 (0.48%) DNS
3 3 (0.48%) HTTP
3 3 (0.48%) SMTP
3 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.32%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (16.69%) Data Lake
2 40 (6.42%) Big Data
2 40 (6.42%) Metadata
3 39 (6.26%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (4.82%) Power BI
5 29 (4.65%) Tableau
6 24 (3.85%) Data Mining
7 18 (2.89%) Hadoop
7 18 (2.89%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.96%) Apache Hudi
8 6 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (0.96%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.64%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.32%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.32%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.32%) Bigtable
11 2 (0.32%) HBase
11 2 (0.32%) Impala
Development Applications
1 11 (1.77%) Git
2 9 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.96%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.32%) JIRA
5 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.32%) Vite
5 2 (0.32%) webpack
6 1 (0.16%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.16%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.16%) MSTest
6 1 (0.16%) NUnit
6 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 253 (40.61%) Social Skills
2 189 (30.34%) Finance
3 149 (23.92%) Legal
4 126 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (13.80%) Marketing
6 64 (10.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (9.15%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (7.38%) Retail
9 24 (3.85%) Advertising
10 23 (3.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 22 (3.53%) Telecoms
12 21 (3.37%) Games
13 13 (2.09%) Banking
14 7 (1.12%) Automotive
14 7 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.80%) Aeronautics
16 5 (0.80%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 249 (39.97%) Lead
2 207 (33.23%) Senior
3 48 (7.70%) Senior Manager
4 32 (5.14%) Analyst
5 30 (4.82%) Developer
6 25 (4.01%) Data Analytics Director
7 23 (3.69%) Product Manager
8 22 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
9 21 (3.37%) Architect
9 21 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
9 21 (3.37%) Salesforce Architect
10 17 (2.73%) Financial Analyst
10 17 (2.73%) IT Analyst
10 17 (2.73%) Service Analyst
11 16 (2.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 16 (2.57%) Senior Financial Analyst
12 10 (1.61%) Gen AI Engineer
13 9 (1.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (1.44%) Deployment Manager
13 9 (1.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.65%) REST
2 25 (4.01%) SOAP
3 23 (3.69%) Middleware
4 21 (3.37%) Lightning Web Components
5 18 (2.89%) Kafka
6 15 (2.41%) .NET
7 13 (2.09%) Hugging Face
7 13 (2.09%) LangChain
7 13 (2.09%) PyTorch
7 13 (2.09%) TensorFlow
8 9 (1.44%) Node.js
9 6 (0.96%) .NET Framework
9 6 (0.96%) CSS
9 6 (0.96%) HTML
9 6 (0.96%) PyArrow
9 6 (0.96%) PySpark
10 4 (0.64%) React
11 2 (0.32%) HTML5
11 2 (0.32%) Vue
11 2 (0.32%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.06%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (6.42%) Cyberattack
4 36 (5.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 35 (5.62%) Management Information System
6 34 (5.46%) Algorithms
7 33 (5.30%) FMCG
8 17 (2.73%) PMI
9 14 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.25%) Taxonomies
10 13 (2.09%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.93%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.12%) e-Learning
14 6 (0.96%) Derivative
15 5 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
16 4 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.25%) Windows
2 8 (1.28%) Linux
3 7 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (42.38%) Analytics
2 167 (26.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 165 (26.48%) Agile
4 161 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
5 154 (24.72%) Roadmaps
6 141 (22.63%) Data Management
7 135 (21.67%) Data Science
8 126 (20.22%) Computer Science
9 125 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (19.58%) Machine Learning
11 120 (19.26%) Data Modelling
12 114 (18.30%) Artificial Intelligence
13 105 (16.85%) Data Governance
14 101 (16.21%) Strategic Thinking
15 100 (16.05%) DevOps
16 99 (15.89%) Business Transformation
17 98 (15.73%) Data Architecture
18 97 (15.57%) Product Management
19 96 (15.41%) Business Strategy
20 91 (14.61%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (10.11%) Python
2 55 (8.83%) SQL
3 21 (3.37%) Apex Code
4 16 (2.57%) C#
5 9 (1.44%) Go
5 9 (1.44%) Java
5 9 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.96%) X++
7 5 (0.80%) MATLAB
7 5 (0.80%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.64%) Clojure
8 4 (0.64%) Elixir
8 4 (0.64%) Rust
8 4 (0.64%) Scala
9 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.32%) Ruby
10 2 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 262 (42.05%) Degree
2 84 (13.48%) Master's Degree
3 51 (8.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (5.78%) PMI Certification
5 19 (3.05%) PMP
6 9 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.80%) MBA
7 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.80%) PhD
8 3 (0.48%) ACCA
8 3 (0.48%) CIMA
8 3 (0.48%) CISSP
8 3 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (0.48%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 3 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 3 (0.48%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
9 2 (0.32%) CCFP
9 2 (0.32%) GCFE
9 2 (0.32%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.73%) Data Quality
2 73 (11.72%) Accessibility
3 40 (6.42%) NCSC
4 34 (5.46%) QA
5 22 (3.53%) GDPR
6 12 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (1.61%) GMP
7 10 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.12%) PERC
10 1 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.16%) GAMP
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (1.28%) HDFS
2 4 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.64%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.32%) Docker
3 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.09%) Grafana
2 13 (2.09%) Prometheus
3 12 (1.93%) Ansible
4 10 (1.61%) Terraform
5 3 (0.48%) Puppet
6 2 (0.32%) EnCase
6 2 (0.32%) FTK
6 2 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (0.32%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 118 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 100 (16.05%) SAP
3 40 (6.42%) Salesforce
4 38 (6.10%) Google
5 28 (4.49%) OpenAI
6 27 (4.33%) ServiceNow
7 21 (3.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 20 (3.21%) IBM
9 19 (3.05%) Concur
9 19 (3.05%) Workday
10 12 (1.93%) Databricks
11 7 (1.12%) Adobe
11 7 (1.12%) OneTrust
12 6 (0.96%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.80%) Citrix
13 5 (0.80%) Informatica
14 4 (0.64%) Dell
14 4 (0.64%) Splunk
14 4 (0.64%) Veeam
14 4 (0.64%) VMware