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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 30 88
Rank change year-on-year -18 +58 +21
Permanent jobs citing Law 1,703 4,503 2,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.66% 6.42% 3.69%
As % of the General category 7.27% 11.17% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 653 1,366 1,166
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £60,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 23,429 40,304 42,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 64.05% 57.48% 69.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,822 26,395 19,323
10th Percentile £25,625 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,745 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.09% -12.50% -

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 2025.

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 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
South East +126 558 £56,250 +12.50% 397
Midlands +41 529 £45,000 +5.88% 147
North of England +4 471 £50,000 - 219
West Midlands +48 318 £45,000 -10.00% 88
North West +4 318 £60,000 +25.00% 135
East Midlands +39 211 £42,500 +6.25% 56
Yorkshire +2 124 £45,000 -18.18% 68
East of England +2 74 £57,500 +21.05% 73
Scotland -116 31 £62,500 +31.58% 111
North East +17 29 £45,000 -10.00% 18
South West -87 28 £57,500 +24.32% 104
Northern Ireland +22 8 £50,000 -12.70% 49
Channel Islands +2 3 £78,750 -7.35% 1
Isle of Man - 1 - -
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 51 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 49 (2.88%) Confluence
3 17 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.94%) Apache
5 10 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.29%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) GemFire
8 3 (0.18%) SugarCRM
9 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.059%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 44 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.53%) Acrobat
5 7 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.94%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (0.94%) SAP FI
2 10 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.59%) TrackWise
3 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.35%) Endur
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.18%) Ripple
7 3 (0.18%) Ripple XRP
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.12%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.059%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.059%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.059%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 248 (14.56%) Azure
2 101 (5.93%) AWS
3 97 (5.70%) Power Platform
4 84 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (4.29%) SaaS
6 70 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
7 46 (2.70%) GCP
8 41 (2.41%) PowerApps
9 40 (2.35%) Power Automate
10 28 (1.64%) Serverless
11 22 (1.29%) Snowflake
12 21 (1.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 19 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (1.06%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.06%) PaaS
15 17 (1.00%) Vertex AI
16 16 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (0.94%) OpenShift
17 15 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.23%) Firewall
2 19 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
3 17 (1.00%) DNS
4 14 (0.82%) DHCP
4 14 (0.82%) Wireless
5 12 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.65%) Intranet
7 10 (0.59%) SAN
8 9 (0.53%) WAN
9 8 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.47%) VPN
10 7 (0.41%) VLAN
11 6 (0.35%) LAN
12 5 (0.29%) Network Security
13 4 (0.23%) DAB
14 3 (0.18%) HTTP
14 3 (0.18%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.18%) SMTP
15 2 (0.12%) CHAP
15 2 (0.12%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.52%) Data Lake
2 58 (3.41%) Power BI
3 53 (3.11%) Big Data
4 46 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 35 (2.06%) Tableau
8 27 (1.59%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.53%) Metadata
10 24 (1.41%) Data Mining
11 18 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (0.88%) Hadoop
13 13 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.70%) MySQL
14 12 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.59%) Apache Hudi
15 10 (0.59%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (0.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (3.70%) JIRA
2 23 (1.35%) Git
3 21 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.70%) Visual Studio
4 12 (0.70%) webpack
5 11 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.47%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.41%) Babel
8 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.29%) NUnit
9 5 (0.29%) Vite
10 4 (0.23%) Ant
10 4 (0.23%) GitLab
10 4 (0.23%) Storybook
11 3 (0.18%) Appium
11 3 (0.18%) MSTest
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.18%) Selenium
11 3 (0.18%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 388 (22.78%) Legal
2 320 (18.79%) Social Skills
3 284 (16.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 272 (15.97%) Finance
5 229 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
6 105 (6.17%) Manufacturing
7 78 (4.58%) Marketing
8 54 (3.17%) Retail
9 37 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 32 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 29 (1.70%) Banking
11 29 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.41%) Electronics
12 24 (1.41%) Games
12 24 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.12%) Advertising
14 17 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.65%) Front Office
17 9 (0.53%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 327 (19.20%) Lead
2 214 (12.57%) Senior
3 198 (11.63%) Principal Engineer
4 190 (11.16%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 166 (9.75%) Analyst
6 139 (8.16%) Developer
7 73 (4.29%) IT Analyst
8 68 (3.99%) IT Support
9 64 (3.76%) Support Analyst
10 61 (3.58%) Project Engineer
11 55 (3.23%) Logistics Engineer
12 54 (3.17%) Consultant
13 47 (2.76%) IT Support Analyst
14 40 (2.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 39 (2.29%) Project Manager
16 38 (2.23%) Business Analyst
17 36 (2.11%) Architect
18 35 (2.06%) Senior Manager
18 35 (2.06%) Software Engineer
19 33 (1.94%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.64%) .NET
2 59 (3.46%) React
3 47 (2.76%) REST
4 44 (2.58%) Node.js
5 35 (2.06%) RESTful
6 33 (1.94%) Middleware
7 26 (1.53%) SOAP
8 25 (1.47%) CSS
8 25 (1.47%) HTML
9 21 (1.23%) Kafka
9 21 (1.23%) Lightning Web Components
10 20 (1.17%) Redux
11 19 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
11 19 (1.12%) Spring
11 19 (1.12%) WPF
12 16 (0.94%) JWT
12 16 (0.94%) Web Services
13 15 (0.88%) OAuth
14 13 (0.76%) ASP.NET Web API
14 13 (0.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 240 (14.09%) Cyberattack
2 68 (3.99%) Product Ownership
3 49 (2.88%) Algorithms
4 48 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 46 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (2.06%) FMCG
7 26 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.29%) Security Posture
9 20 (1.17%) IoT
9 20 (1.17%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 20 (1.17%) SCADA
10 19 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
10 19 (1.12%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.00%) Legacy Code
12 17 (1.00%) PMI
13 16 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (5.52%) Windows
2 50 (2.94%) Linux
3 35 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.70%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.12%) Mac OS X
6 15 (0.88%) Unix
7 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.29%) Rocky
10 2 (0.12%) Android
10 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.059%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (17.26%) Agile
1 294 (17.26%) Line Management
2 266 (15.62%) Cybersecurity
3 263 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
4 246 (14.45%) Logistics
5 240 (14.09%) Analytics
6 239 (14.03%) Creative Thinking
7 212 (12.45%) Collaborative Working
8 206 (12.10%) Physics
9 194 (11.39%) Chemistry
10 193 (11.33%) Mathematics
11 190 (11.16%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 190 (11.16%) Project Management
11 190 (11.16%) Systems Engineering
12 180 (10.57%) Data Management
13 179 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 175 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 174 (10.22%) Roadmaps
16 162 (9.51%) DevOps
17 151 (8.87%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 177 (10.39%) SQL
2 129 (7.57%) Python
3 94 (5.52%) C#
4 70 (4.11%) JavaScript
5 64 (3.76%) Java
6 43 (2.52%) TypeScript
7 24 (1.41%) Apex Code
7 24 (1.41%) Go
8 19 (1.12%) X++
9 18 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 13 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.70%) PHP
12 10 (0.59%) C++
12 10 (0.59%) Rust
13 8 (0.47%) C
13 8 (0.47%) Clojure
13 8 (0.47%) Elixir
13 8 (0.47%) Scala
14 7 (0.41%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 549 (32.24%) Degree
2 154 (9.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 71 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 69 (4.05%) Master's Degree
5 48 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 32 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (1.35%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 19 (1.12%) PMP
10 17 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.70%) CCNP
11 12 (0.70%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.70%) SC Cleared
12 10 (0.59%) MCSA
13 8 (0.47%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.47%) MBA
14 7 (0.41%) CISSP
14 7 (0.41%) PhD
15 5 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (13.86%) NCSC
2 104 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 99 (5.81%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.05%) QA
5 41 (2.41%) SLA
6 31 (1.82%) GDPR
7 30 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.82%) GMP
10 10 (0.59%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.53%) PERC
12 5 (0.29%) GRC
12 5 (0.29%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.23%) PMO
14 3 (0.18%) GxP
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.12%) GLP
15 2 (0.12%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 74 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.76%) HDFS
3 11 (0.65%) Hyper-V
3 11 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.53%) DFS Replication
4 9 (0.53%) Docker
5 6 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.059%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.12%) Ansible
2 19 (1.12%) Terraform
3 11 (0.65%) SCCM
4 8 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.29%) Puppet
6 4 (0.23%) Grafana
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.23%) SCOM
7 2 (0.12%) CASB
7 2 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.12%) EnCase
7 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.12%) FTK
7 2 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.12%) RSA Security Analytics
7 2 (0.12%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.12%) SCSM
Vendors
1 292 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.40%) SAP
3 63 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 62 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 41 (2.41%) Oracle
6 40 (2.35%) Cisco
7 35 (2.06%) Google
8 34 (2.00%) VMware
9 25 (1.47%) Workday
10 21 (1.23%) Concur
10 21 (1.23%) IBM
10 21 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 20 (1.17%) Rockwell
11 20 (1.17%) Siemens
12 19 (1.12%) Informatica
12 19 (1.12%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.94%) Databricks
15 14 (0.82%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.53%) iManage