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 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 54 30 108
Rank change year-on-year -24 +78 -1
Permanent jobs citing Law 1,847 4,543 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.69% 6.09% 3.20%
As % of the General category 6.93% 10.86% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 659 1,380 1,126
10th Percentile £26,200 £26,250 £29,375
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £75,000
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 26,671 41,817 39,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.73% 56.08% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,889 26,883 18,174
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 30 May 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 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
South East +125 614 £55,000 +4.76% 1,225
Midlands +39 477 £42,500 - 796
North of England -6 471 £50,000 - 896
North West -16 303 £62,500 +31.58% 407
West Midlands +45 267 £47,500 +5.56% 407
East Midlands +36 210 £40,000 - 337
Yorkshire +6 147 £42,500 -22.73% 374
Scotland -61 116 £65,000 +36.84% 185
East of England -6 97 £57,500 +80.63% 602
South West -64 62 £56,250 +25.00% 494
North East +9 21 £33,750 -32.50% 116
Northern Ireland +29 6 £78,750 +37.49% 63
Channel Islands +1 3 £78,750 - 3
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 59 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.49%) Confluence
3 31 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.19%) Apache
5 11 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.22%) Camunda
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.16%) GemFire
9 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.11%) SugarCRM
9 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.054%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.054%) CMS
10 1 (0.054%) Kentico
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
Applications
1 42 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.38%) Acrobat
5 7 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.87%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (0.87%) SAP FI
2 14 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.54%) TrackWise
4 7 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.11%) Primavera
7 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.054%) Endur
8 1 (0.054%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 312 (16.89%) Azure
2 154 (8.34%) AWS
3 100 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (4.66%) Power Platform
5 79 (4.28%) GCP
6 60 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
7 59 (3.19%) SaaS
8 49 (2.65%) Power Automate
9 44 (2.38%) PowerApps
10 34 (1.84%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (1.73%) Serverless
12 27 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (1.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 17 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (0.92%) Amazon S3
15 17 (0.92%) Vertex AI
16 16 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (0.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
2 12 (0.65%) Wireless
3 10 (0.54%) Firewall
3 10 (0.54%) Intranet
3 10 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.43%) DNS
4 8 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.38%) VLAN
6 5 (0.27%) DHCP
6 5 (0.27%) Network Security
6 5 (0.27%) WAN
7 4 (0.22%) LAN
7 4 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.16%) DAB
8 3 (0.16%) HTTP
8 3 (0.16%) Internet
8 3 (0.16%) SMTP
8 3 (0.16%) VPN
9 2 (0.11%) PBX
9 2 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (6.44%) Data Lake
2 72 (3.90%) Big Data
3 59 (3.19%) Power BI
4 51 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (2.44%) SQL Server
6 40 (2.17%) Metadata
7 36 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 35 (1.89%) Tableau
9 24 (1.30%) Data Mining
10 21 (1.14%) Hadoop
11 20 (1.08%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (0.92%) MySQL
13 17 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.76%) MongoDB
15 13 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (0.49%) Apache Hudi
17 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 77 (4.17%) JIRA
2 23 (1.25%) Git
2 23 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 18 (0.97%) Selenium
4 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
4 10 (0.54%) JUnit
5 9 (0.49%) webpack
6 7 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.32%) Maven
8 5 (0.27%) NUnit
8 5 (0.27%) Vite
9 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.16%) Appium
10 3 (0.16%) MSTest
10 3 (0.16%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.16%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.11%) GitLab
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) Mockito
General
1 479 (25.93%) Legal
2 439 (23.77%) Social Skills
3 429 (23.23%) Finance
4 401 (21.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 231 (12.51%) Analytical Skills
6 163 (8.83%) Marketing
7 83 (4.49%) Banking
8 67 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.98%) Retail
10 52 (2.82%) Telecoms
11 50 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 41 (2.22%) Public Sector
13 33 (1.79%) Military
14 32 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (1.62%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (1.35%) Advertising
18 23 (1.25%) Games
18 23 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
19 22 (1.19%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 358 (19.38%) Lead
2 262 (14.19%) Senior
3 178 (9.64%) Analyst
4 166 (8.99%) Principal Engineer
5 164 (8.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 134 (7.26%) Developer
7 121 (6.55%) Software Engineer
8 85 (4.60%) Support Analyst
9 76 (4.11%) IT Support
10 75 (4.06%) IT Analyst
11 60 (3.25%) Java Engineer
12 55 (2.98%) Java Software Engineer
12 55 (2.98%) Senior Manager
13 50 (2.71%) Consultant
13 50 (2.71%) IT Support Analyst
14 49 (2.65%) Project Manager
15 47 (2.54%) 2nd Line Support
16 44 (2.38%) Architect
17 39 (2.11%) Systems Engineer
18 37 (2.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (4.76%) React
2 67 (3.63%) Spring
3 62 (3.36%) .NET
4 60 (3.25%) Kafka
5 54 (2.92%) REST
6 46 (2.49%) RESTful
7 41 (2.22%) Spring Boot
8 35 (1.89%) Node.js
9 33 (1.79%) HTML
10 31 (1.68%) CSS
11 30 (1.62%) Middleware
12 28 (1.52%) SOAP
13 23 (1.25%) AngularJS
14 21 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
15 18 (0.97%) Web Services
16 17 (0.92%) OAuth
17 16 (0.87%) JWT
17 16 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
17 16 (0.87%) Playwright
18 14 (0.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 242 (13.10%) Cyberattack
2 84 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 67 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 41 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 34 (1.84%) FMCG
8 34 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.73%) Derivative
10 28 (1.52%) Public Cloud
11 22 (1.19%) Blockchain
11 22 (1.19%) Hedge funds
12 21 (1.14%) Driving Licence
13 20 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.03%) Onboarding
15 17 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (0.92%) PMI
16 16 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.17%) Windows
2 53 (2.87%) Linux
3 30 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.03%) Mac OS X
6 12 (0.65%) Unix
7 7 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.27%) Rocky
9 4 (0.22%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.054%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (23.50%) Agile
2 329 (17.81%) Analytics
3 317 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
4 305 (16.51%) Line Management
5 269 (14.56%) Cybersecurity
6 238 (12.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 238 (12.89%) Creative Thinking
7 215 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 212 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 210 (11.37%) Project Management
10 203 (10.99%) Roadmaps
11 199 (10.77%) Collaborative Working
12 190 (10.29%) Machine Learning
13 181 (9.80%) Mathematics
14 178 (9.64%) Logistics
14 178 (9.64%) Physics
15 171 (9.26%) Data Management
16 168 (9.10%) Chemistry
17 166 (8.99%) DevOps
18 164 (8.88%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 225 (12.18%) SQL
2 147 (7.96%) Python
3 129 (6.98%) Java
4 85 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 83 (4.49%) C#
6 40 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 21 (1.14%) Apex Code
8 19 (1.03%) Go
9 16 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 14 (0.76%) PHP
11 12 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.54%) X++
13 7 (0.38%) C++
13 7 (0.38%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.32%) C
14 6 (0.32%) Rust
14 6 (0.32%) Scala
15 4 (0.22%) Clojure
15 4 (0.22%) Elixir
16 3 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 526 (28.48%) Degree
2 163 (8.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 91 (4.93%) Master's Degree
4 74 (4.01%) Security Cleared
5 65 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (2.06%) PMI Certification
7 32 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.57%) SC Cleared
9 21 (1.14%) PMP
10 18 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 18 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.65%) DV Cleared
13 10 (0.54%) CCNP
13 10 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.54%) MCSA
14 7 (0.38%) CISSP
14 7 (0.38%) PhD
15 5 (0.27%) CCNA
15 5 (0.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (12.78%) NCSC
2 115 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 79 (4.28%) Accessibility
4 72 (3.90%) GDPR
5 68 (3.68%) QA
6 57 (3.09%) SLA
7 31 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 30 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 29 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 14 (0.76%) GMP
11 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.43%) PERC
13 7 (0.38%) NIST
13 7 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.27%) GRC
16 4 (0.22%) GxP
17 3 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.11%) COBIT
18 2 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 68 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.08%) Docker
3 11 (0.60%) HDFS
4 8 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.16%) vSphere
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.054%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.054%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 81 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.62%) Terraform
3 19 (1.03%) Grafana
4 17 (0.92%) Ansible
5 15 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.60%) SCCM
8 6 (0.32%) Puppet
9 4 (0.22%) SCOM
10 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.11%) CASB
11 2 (0.11%) EnCase
11 2 (0.11%) FTK
11 2 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.11%) RSA Security Analytics
11 2 (0.11%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.11%) SCSM
11 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 275 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.33%) SAP
3 69 (3.74%) Oracle
4 63 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 62 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.38%) Google
7 38 (2.06%) Cisco
8 32 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 29 (1.57%) Databricks
10 27 (1.46%) Workday
11 23 (1.25%) IBM
12 22 (1.19%) VMware
13 21 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 20 (1.08%) Concur
15 19 (1.03%) Informatica
16 17 (0.92%) Splunk
17 15 (0.81%) Red Hat
18 14 (0.76%) MuleSoft
19 12 (0.65%) Rockwell
19 12 (0.65%) Siemens