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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 160 113
Rank change year-on-year +130 -47 +15
Permanent jobs citing Law 602 279 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.41% 1.62% 2.83%
As % of the General category 9.35% 2.88% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 41 199 113
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,500 £35,671
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £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 6,439 9,689 8,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 68.53% 56.16% 63.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,664 6,096 4,368
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,438
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 £77,500 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,121 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -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 27 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 27 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 +89 428 £52,500 -4.55% 98
Berkshire +106 412 £53,750 -15.35% 65
Middlesex +34 79 - - 7
Surrey +76 49 £57,500 +64.29% 39
Hampshire +34 23 £56,250 +50.00% 54
Kent +45 12 £70,000 +75.00% 11
West Sussex +35 11 £53,750 +34.38% 8
Oxfordshire -5 10 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Buckinghamshire -11 6 £42,500 -15.00% 19
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 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.50%) Apache
4 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.17%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) GemFire
Applications
1 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.50%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.66%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (2.66%) SAP FI
2 10 (1.66%) TrackWise
3 4 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.33%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 149 (24.75%) Azure
2 62 (10.30%) GCP
3 53 (8.80%) AWS
4 33 (5.48%) Power Platform
5 28 (4.65%) Power Automate
5 28 (4.65%) PowerApps
6 24 (3.99%) Snowflake
7 21 (3.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 18 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (2.82%) Vertex AI
10 16 (2.66%) SaaS
11 14 (2.33%) Salsify
12 12 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.66%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.66%) PaaS
13 10 (1.66%) Veeva
14 9 (1.50%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.66%) Intranet
2 4 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.50%) DNS
3 3 (0.50%) HTTP
3 3 (0.50%) SMTP
3 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.33%) Network Security
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
5 1 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (16.28%) Data Lake
2 40 (6.64%) Big Data
2 40 (6.64%) Metadata
3 39 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (4.82%) Tableau
5 28 (4.65%) Power BI
6 24 (3.99%) Data Mining
7 18 (2.99%) Hadoop
7 18 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.00%) Apache Hudi
8 6 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (1.00%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.50%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.33%) Bigtable
10 2 (0.33%) HBase
10 2 (0.33%) Impala
Development Applications
1 11 (1.83%) Git
2 9 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.33%) JIRA
5 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.33%) Vite
5 2 (0.33%) webpack
6 1 (0.17%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.17%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.17%) MSTest
6 1 (0.17%) NUnit
6 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 237 (39.37%) Social Skills
2 174 (28.90%) Finance
3 139 (23.09%) Legal
4 118 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (13.79%) Marketing
6 64 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (8.31%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (7.97%) Retail
9 24 (3.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 23 (3.82%) Advertising
10 23 (3.82%) Telecoms
11 20 (3.32%) Games
12 12 (1.99%) Banking
13 7 (1.16%) Automotive
13 7 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.83%) Aeronautics
15 5 (0.83%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 250 (41.53%) Lead
2 194 (32.23%) Senior
3 41 (6.81%) Senior Manager
4 33 (5.48%) Analyst
5 27 (4.49%) Developer
6 25 (4.15%) Data Analytics Director
7 22 (3.65%) Product Manager
7 22 (3.65%) Senior Analyst
8 21 (3.49%) Architect
8 21 (3.49%) Enterprise Architect
8 21 (3.49%) Salesforce Architect
9 17 (2.82%) Financial Analyst
10 16 (2.66%) IT Analyst
10 16 (2.66%) Senior Financial Analyst
10 16 (2.66%) Service Analyst
11 13 (2.16%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 10 (1.66%) Gen AI Engineer
13 9 (1.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (1.50%) Compliance Advisor
13 9 (1.50%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.82%) REST
2 25 (4.15%) SOAP
3 23 (3.82%) Middleware
4 21 (3.49%) Lightning Web Components
5 18 (2.99%) Kafka
6 12 (1.99%) .NET
7 9 (1.50%) Node.js
8 6 (1.00%) CSS
8 6 (1.00%) HTML
8 6 (1.00%) Hugging Face
8 6 (1.00%) LangChain
8 6 (1.00%) PyArrow
8 6 (1.00%) PySpark
8 6 (1.00%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.00%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.66%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.66%) React
10 2 (0.33%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.33%) Enzyme
10 2 (0.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.31%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (6.64%) Cyberattack
4 35 (5.81%) Algorithms
5 34 (5.65%) Management Information System
6 33 (5.48%) FMCG
7 30 (4.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.82%) PMI
9 14 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.33%) Taxonomies
10 13 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.99%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.50%) e-Learning
14 6 (1.00%) Derivative
15 5 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
16 4 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.66%) Virtual Team
17 3 (0.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.33%) Windows
2 8 (1.33%) Linux
3 7 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (42.52%) Analytics
2 166 (27.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 159 (26.41%) Agile
4 154 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
5 140 (23.26%) Roadmaps
6 138 (22.92%) Data Management
7 122 (20.27%) Data Science
8 120 (19.93%) Data Modelling
9 119 (19.77%) Computer Science
9 119 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 110 (18.27%) Machine Learning
11 107 (17.77%) Artificial Intelligence
12 105 (17.44%) Data Governance
13 99 (16.45%) Business Transformation
14 98 (16.28%) Data Architecture
15 97 (16.11%) DevOps
15 97 (16.11%) Product Management
16 96 (15.95%) Business Strategy
17 94 (15.61%) Strategic Thinking
18 91 (15.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (10.63%) Python
2 51 (8.47%) SQL
3 21 (3.49%) Apex Code
4 13 (2.16%) C#
5 10 (1.66%) Go
6 9 (1.50%) Java
6 9 (1.50%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.00%) X++
8 5 (0.83%) MATLAB
8 5 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.66%) Clojure
9 4 (0.66%) Elixir
9 4 (0.66%) Rust
9 4 (0.66%) Scala
10 3 (0.50%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.33%) Ruby
11 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 251 (41.69%) Degree
2 75 (12.46%) Master's Degree
3 44 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (5.98%) PMI Certification
5 19 (3.16%) PMP
6 9 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.83%) MBA
7 5 (0.83%) PhD
8 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.50%) ACCA
9 3 (0.50%) CIMA
9 3 (0.50%) CISSP
9 3 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 3 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 3 (0.50%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
10 2 (0.33%) EnCE
10 2 (0.33%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (16.28%) Data Quality
2 74 (12.29%) Accessibility
3 40 (6.64%) NCSC
4 34 (5.65%) QA
5 24 (3.99%) GDPR
6 12 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.66%) GMP
9 9 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.50%) PERC
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (1.33%) HDFS
2 4 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.99%) Ansible
3 10 (1.66%) Terraform
4 6 (1.00%) Grafana
4 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.50%) Puppet
6 2 (0.33%) EnCase
6 2 (0.33%) FTK
6 2 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (0.33%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 115 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 100 (16.61%) SAP
3 40 (6.64%) Google
3 40 (6.64%) Salesforce
4 27 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.49%) OpenAI
5 21 (3.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 20 (3.32%) IBM
7 19 (3.16%) Concur
7 19 (3.16%) Workday
8 12 (1.99%) Databricks
9 9 (1.50%) Adobe
9 9 (1.50%) OneTrust
10 6 (1.00%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.83%) Citrix
11 5 (0.83%) Informatica
12 4 (0.66%) Dell
12 4 (0.66%) Splunk
12 4 (0.66%) Veeam
12 4 (0.66%) VMware