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 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 127 60 130
Rank change year-on-year -67 +70 +41
Permanent jobs citing Law 50 384 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.44% 3.98% 2.19%
As % of the General category 2.25% 7.55% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28 85 69
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,450 £30,345
25th Percentile £45,313 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £64,063 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,375 £75,000 £69,000
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 2,225 5,089 4,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 64.07% 52.80% 63.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 3,454 2,331
10th Percentile £25,267 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,500 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +3.05%
75th Percentile £63,908 £60,918 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
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 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 27 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 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
Dorset -41 15 - - 14
Bristol +16 13 £60,000 -7.69% 50
Wiltshire +53 12 £55,000 +57.14% 11
Gloucestershire +58 4 £60,000 +33.33% 30
Devon +4 3 £50,000 +42.86% 22
Somerset -5 2 £31,310 -10.54% 11
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 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) AWS
2 8 (16.00%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (10.00%) Azure
3 5 (10.00%) SaaS
4 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (6.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.00%) Serverless
6 2 (4.00%) Azure AI
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
1 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.00%) Big Data
2 2 (4.00%) MySQL
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.00%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
1 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
1 2 (4.00%) JUnit
1 2 (4.00%) Selenium
2 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.00%) Locust
2 1 (2.00%) Maven
2 1 (2.00%) Mockito
2 1 (2.00%) Postman
General
1 28 (56.00%) Finance
2 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (22.00%) Marketing
5 9 (18.00%) Military
5 9 (18.00%) Telecoms
6 8 (16.00%) Banking
7 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (12.00%) Legal
8 4 (8.00%) Back Office
9 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (4.00%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (2.00%) Electronics
11 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
11 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
11 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Project Manager
3 7 (14.00%) Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Consultant
4 6 (12.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Assistant Project Manager
6 4 (8.00%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Lead
6 4 (8.00%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) C# Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Business Development Executive
8 2 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Risk Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) React
2 5 (10.00%) Kafka
2 5 (10.00%) Spring
3 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.00%) .NET
4 3 (6.00%) CSS
4 3 (6.00%) HTML
4 3 (6.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.00%) HTML5
5 2 (4.00%) REST
6 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (2.00%) Flask
6 1 (2.00%) Java EE
6 1 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (2.00%) Playwright
6 1 (2.00%) pytest
6 1 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Derivative
4 2 (4.00%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.00%) FPGA
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Verilog
5 1 (2.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) Agile
2 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
3 10 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (20.00%) Project Management
4 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (16.00%) Operational Stability
4 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.00%) SDLC
5 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (12.00%) Community of Practice
6 6 (12.00%) ERP
6 6 (12.00%) Visualisation
6 6 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.00%) Order to Cash
7 5 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
8 4 (8.00%) Commercial Awareness
8 4 (8.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) Java
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) C#
3 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
4 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
3 2 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) Databricks
4 2 (4.00%) iManage
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Sybase
5 1 (2.00%) Xilinx