Law Jobs in the UK excluding London

Law
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 88 111
Rank change year-on-year +58 +23 -7
Permanent jobs citing Law 4,506 2,292 2,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.43% 3.71% 3.05%
As % of the General category 11.19% 5.35% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,176 1,184
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,063 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Law 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,269 42,823 42,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.49% 69.30% 59.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,334 19,314 24,106
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,216
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £82,500 £78,575
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Law in the UK excluding London

Law
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Scotland +152 2,599 £47,500 -9.95% 41
North of England +54 585 £50,000 - 159
Midlands -38 408 £42,500 -10.53% 88
South West +23 362 £45,000 -10.00% 70
North West +39 291 £47,500 -9.52% 93
South East -68 282 £50,000 +11.11% 107
Yorkshire +66 233 £55,000 +15.79% 58
West Midlands -37 225 £47,500 -5.00% 44
East Midlands -37 157 £40,000 -11.11% 44
East of England +26 149 £47,500 -13.64% 45
Wales +78 101 £42,500 +18.88% 18
North East +27 60 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Northern Ireland +14 23 £57,276 +34.77% 6
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Law
UK

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 589 (13.07%) Apache Spark
2 137 (3.04%) Apache
3 117 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 108 (2.40%) SharePoint
5 96 (2.13%) FileNet
6 80 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 74 (1.64%) Confluence
8 31 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.47%) GemFire
10 20 (0.44%) Camunda
11 17 (0.38%) SAS
12 12 (0.27%) Skype for Business
13 11 (0.24%) CICS
14 10 (0.22%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.20%) IIS
15 9 (0.20%) WordPress
16 8 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
17 7 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
18 6 (0.13%) CMS
18 6 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 175 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 110 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 93 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.84%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.42%) Sketch
7 17 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.067%) Simulink
11 2 (0.044%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
11 2 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 12 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 12 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.24%) Endur
7 9 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 9 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.11%) SAP HCM
8 5 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
10 3 (0.067%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.044%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.044%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,252 (27.79%) AWS
2 474 (10.52%) Azure
3 249 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
4 179 (3.97%) Power Platform
5 156 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
6 115 (2.55%) Datadog
7 111 (2.46%) Amazon S3
8 102 (2.26%) GCP
9 97 (2.15%) Figma
10 82 (1.82%) Power Automate
11 80 (1.78%) Entra ID
11 80 (1.78%) PowerApps
12 77 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (1.66%) SurveyMonkey
14 73 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
15 59 (1.31%) Serverless
16 56 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 55 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
18 53 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (1.86%) Firewall
2 82 (1.82%) Kerberos
3 49 (1.09%) LAN
4 39 (0.87%) WAN
5 38 (0.84%) SAN
6 31 (0.69%) DNS
7 30 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.53%) Internet
9 23 (0.51%) DHCP
10 20 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.42%) DSL
11 19 (0.42%) VPN
12 17 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
13 16 (0.36%) Wireless
14 15 (0.33%) BIG-IP
15 14 (0.31%) VLAN
16 13 (0.29%) Network Security
16 13 (0.29%) Skype
17 11 (0.24%) NAS
18 9 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 668 (14.82%) NoSQL
2 505 (11.21%) Big Data
3 233 (5.17%) Hadoop
4 150 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 146 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
6 139 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 138 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 131 (2.91%) Apache Hive
9 112 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 106 (2.35%) Power BI
11 102 (2.26%) HBase
12 89 (1.98%) Data Lake
13 69 (1.53%) Metadata
14 68 (1.51%) Tableau
15 53 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
16 42 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
17 41 (0.91%) MySQL
18 38 (0.84%) CockroachDB
19 29 (0.64%) DB2
20 25 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 314 (6.97%) Jenkins
2 210 (4.66%) JUnit
3 205 (4.55%) Git
4 131 (2.91%) JIRA
5 122 (2.71%) Jasmine
6 88 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 77 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 77 (1.71%) Selenium
9 75 (1.66%) Karma Test Runner
10 65 (1.44%) Artifactory
11 62 (1.38%) Maven
11 62 (1.38%) WebDriver
12 60 (1.33%) Protractor
13 46 (1.02%) Mockito
14 40 (0.89%) Cucumber
15 32 (0.71%) GitLab
16 31 (0.69%) CircleCI
17 30 (0.67%) Gradle
18 27 (0.60%) JMeter
General
1 3,052 (67.73%) Finance
2 2,893 (64.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,504 (33.38%) Marketing
4 973 (21.59%) Legal
5 877 (19.46%) Social Skills
6 692 (15.36%) Banking
7 561 (12.45%) Investment Banking
8 379 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
9 275 (6.10%) Financial Institution
10 269 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
11 187 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
12 112 (2.49%) Manufacturing
13 91 (2.02%) Private Banking
14 69 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 63 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 49 (1.09%) Front Office
17 46 (1.02%) Games
18 38 (0.84%) Retail
19 32 (0.71%) Social Science
20 30 (0.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,983 (44.01%) Software Engineer
2 881 (19.55%) Lead
3 788 (17.49%) Java Engineer
4 786 (17.44%) Java Software Engineer
5 678 (15.05%) Lead Software Engineer
6 456 (10.12%) Senior
7 393 (8.72%) Analyst
8 390 (8.66%) Big Data Engineer
8 390 (8.66%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 385 (8.54%) Developer
10 336 (7.46%) Python Engineer
11 329 (7.30%) Python Software Engineer
12 323 (7.17%) Full Stack Engineer
13 318 (7.06%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 307 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
15 299 (6.64%) AWS Software Engineer
16 274 (6.08%) Lead Java Engineer
17 255 (5.66%) Data Engineer
18 228 (5.06%) Scala Engineer
18 228 (5.06%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 676 (15.00%) Spring
2 534 (11.85%) React
3 403 (8.94%) AngularJS
4 348 (7.72%) Kafka
5 343 (7.61%) Spring Boot
6 316 (7.01%) HTML
7 280 (6.21%) CSS
8 244 (5.42%) J2EE
9 223 (4.95%) JSON
10 202 (4.48%) Node.js
11 196 (4.35%) RESTful
12 192 (4.26%) Hibernate
13 172 (3.82%) PySpark
14 171 (3.79%) JMS
15 167 (3.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 163 (3.62%) .NET
17 158 (3.51%) jQuery
18 148 (3.28%) Web Services
19 127 (2.82%) REST
20 123 (2.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 927 (20.57%) Cloud Native
2 814 (18.06%) Algorithms
3 286 (6.35%) Public Cloud
4 195 (4.33%) Management Information System
5 186 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 182 (4.04%) Product Ownership
7 142 (3.15%) Market Risk
8 139 (3.08%) Reference Data
9 116 (2.57%) Data Structures
10 90 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 75 (1.66%) FMCG
12 72 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
12 72 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 68 (1.51%) Credit Risk
14 64 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
15 48 (1.07%) Legacy Code
15 48 (1.07%) Mobile App
16 37 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
17 36 (0.80%) Housing Association
18 33 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 248 (5.50%) Windows
2 152 (3.37%) Unix
3 143 (3.17%) Linux
4 107 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 66 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 46 (1.02%) Android
7 22 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.36%) VMS
9 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 8
10 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.022%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,585 (57.37%) Agile
2 2,410 (53.48%) Software Engineering
3 2,101 (46.63%) SDLC
4 1,989 (44.14%) CI/CD
5 1,876 (41.63%) Operational Stability
6 1,445 (32.07%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,440 (31.96%) Machine Learning
8 1,310 (29.07%) Community of Practice
9 1,021 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 929 (20.62%) Visualisation
11 788 (17.49%) Risk Management
12 783 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
13 642 (14.25%) Decision-Making
14 488 (10.83%) Continuous Delivery
15 480 (10.65%) Microservices
16 447 (9.92%) Information Architecture
17 414 (9.19%) Architectural Design
18 402 (8.92%) Computer Science
19 378 (8.39%) Full Stack Development
20 328 (7.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,684 (37.37%) Java
2 1,334 (29.60%) SQL
3 1,024 (22.73%) Python
4 415 (9.21%) JavaScript
5 323 (7.17%) Scala
6 233 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 186 (4.13%) C#
8 151 (3.35%) PL/SQL
9 86 (1.91%) Go
10 84 (1.86%) T-SQL
11 67 (1.49%) SPARQL
12 65 (1.44%) Prolog
13 49 (1.09%) R
14 44 (0.98%) PowerShell
15 37 (0.82%) Groovy
16 32 (0.71%) Shell Script
17 27 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 22 (0.49%) C++
19 21 (0.47%) Ruby
20 20 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 568 (12.61%) Degree
2 127 (2.82%) Master's Degree
3 68 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (1.51%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 53 (1.18%) PhD
5 48 (1.07%) Security Cleared
6 28 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 24 (0.53%) CISSP
8 22 (0.49%) SC Cleared
9 18 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.38%) CISM
11 14 (0.31%) HNC
11 14 (0.31%) HND
12 13 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.27%) CIPD
14 11 (0.24%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.22%) CISA
16 9 (0.20%) ISEB
16 9 (0.20%) MBA
17 8 (0.18%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (3.11%) SLA
2 103 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 63 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 58 (1.29%) QA
5 54 (1.20%) GDPR
6 37 (0.82%) PMO
7 32 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 30 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 29 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 28 (0.62%) NIST
11 15 (0.33%) WAI
12 13 (0.29%) ITGC
13 12 (0.27%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.24%) GRC
15 7 (0.16%) IFRS
16 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.13%) WCAG
17 5 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 262 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.26%) HDFS
3 72 (1.60%) Docker
4 35 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (0.22%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.11%) XenApp
10 4 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.044%) Firmware
11 2 (0.044%) pfSense
11 2 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.044%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.044%) vSphere
12 1 (0.022%) Snort
Systems Management
1 338 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 267 (5.93%) Terraform
3 173 (3.84%) Grafana
4 77 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 29 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.47%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.47%) Kibana
7 21 (0.47%) Zipkin
8 13 (0.29%) SCCM
9 12 (0.27%) Graphite
9 12 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.18%) Ansible
11 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.13%) Nessus
12 5 (0.11%) SCOM
13 4 (0.089%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.089%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.044%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.044%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 502 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 423 (9.39%) Oracle
3 267 (5.93%) Databricks
4 185 (4.11%) Splunk
5 161 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 98 (2.17%) Informatica
7 88 (1.95%) Alteryx
8 72 (1.60%) Cloudera
9 70 (1.55%) Citrix
9 70 (1.55%) Google
9 70 (1.55%) Qualtrics
9 70 (1.55%) VMware
10 48 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 44 (0.98%) SAP
12 37 (0.82%) Cisco
12 37 (0.82%) iManage
13 33 (0.73%) Dell
14 27 (0.60%) Pega
15 24 (0.53%) Veeam
16 23 (0.51%) Sybase