Law Jobs in the South West

Law
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law 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 121 57 145
Rank change year-on-year -64 +88 +27
Permanent jobs citing Law 62 385 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.76% 3.94% 1.89%
As % of the General category 2.72% 7.51% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 28 85 67
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,450 £30,431
25th Percentile £45,313 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £59,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,281 5,129 4,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 64.80% 52.51% 63.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 3,474 2,305
10th Percentile £25,267 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +3.29%
75th Percentile £64,075 £60,814 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Law in the South West

Law
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Law in the South West

Law
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the South West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Law in the South West

Law
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the South West 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
Dorset -30 27 - - 48
Bristol +16 13 £60,000 -4.00% 71
Wiltshire +56 12 £55,000 +57.14% 46
Gloucestershire +61 4 £60,000 +33.33% 101
Devon +2 3 £50,000 +42.86% 94
Somerset -6 2 £31,310 -10.54% 68
Law
England

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) AWS
2 8 (12.90%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (9.68%) Azure
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
5 4 (6.45%) Serverless
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.23%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.23%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (3.23%) GCP
7 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Internet
2 1 (1.61%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (6.45%) MySQL
2 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.84%) Big Data
3 3 (4.84%) Power BI
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.23%) CockroachDB
4 2 (3.23%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Selenium
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) JUnit
3 2 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.23%) Git
3 2 (3.23%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) Locust
3 2 (3.23%) Mockito
4 1 (1.61%) Maven
4 1 (1.61%) Postman
General
1 40 (64.52%) Finance
2 27 (43.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
4 17 (27.42%) Marketing
5 14 (22.58%) Banking
6 9 (14.52%) Military
6 9 (14.52%) Telecoms
7 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (8.06%) Legal
9 4 (6.45%) Back Office
9 4 (6.45%) Financial Institution
10 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
10 2 (3.23%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (1.61%) Electronics
11 1 (1.61%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Software Engineer
2 9 (14.52%) Project Manager
3 8 (12.90%) Python Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Python Software Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Java Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Lead
5 6 (9.68%) Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) Assistant Project Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Web Manager
8 3 (4.84%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.23%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
9 2 (3.23%) Functional Consultant
9 2 (3.23%) Software Test Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) React
2 9 (14.52%) Kafka
2 9 (14.52%) Spring
3 8 (12.90%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.06%) CSS
4 5 (8.06%) HTML
5 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.45%) Node.js
5 4 (6.45%) REST
6 3 (4.84%) .NET
6 3 (4.84%) HTML5
7 2 (3.23%) Playwright
7 2 (3.23%) pytest
7 2 (3.23%) RESTful
8 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (1.61%) Flask
8 1 (1.61%) Java EE
8 1 (1.61%) jQuery
8 1 (1.61%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Algorithms
2 8 (12.90%) Public Cloud
3 6 (9.68%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.45%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.23%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.23%) Derivative
5 2 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.61%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.61%) FPGA
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) Verilog
6 1 (1.61%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Android
1 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) Agile
2 21 (33.87%) Software Engineering
3 17 (27.42%) Artificial Intelligence
4 16 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 16 (25.81%) Operational Stability
5 15 (24.19%) Machine Learning
5 15 (24.19%) SDLC
6 13 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (19.35%) Community of Practice
8 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.74%) Project Management
8 11 (17.74%) Visualisation
9 8 (12.90%) Decision-Making
10 6 (9.68%) Architectural Design
10 6 (9.68%) ERP
10 6 (9.68%) Information Architecture
10 6 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
11 5 (8.06%) Business Analysis
11 5 (8.06%) DevOps
11 5 (8.06%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Java
2 10 (16.13%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.90%) SQL
4 5 (8.06%) C#
5 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Terraform
3 2 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) Oracle
3 5 (8.06%) Databricks
4 2 (3.23%) iManage
4 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) Sybase
5 1 (1.61%) Xilinx