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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 97 110
Rank change year-on-year +67 +13 -6
Permanent jobs citing Law 4,578 2,115 2,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.51% 3.43% 3.07%
As % of the General category 11.32% 4.98% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,372 1,150 1,207
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £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 40,455 42,454 42,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.51% 68.94% 59.79%
Number of salaries quoted 26,421 19,228 24,223
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,250
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 £81,500 £78,750
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +161 2,624 £47,500 -9.95% 52
North of England +56 591 £50,000 - 166
Midlands -36 413 £42,500 -10.53% 107
South West +59 394 £47,500 -5.00% 77
North West +34 296 £47,500 -6.86% 90
South East -66 284 £51,250 +7.89% 139
Yorkshire +71 234 £55,000 +15.79% 63
West Midlands -34 227 £47,500 -5.00% 57
East Midlands -34 160 £40,000 -11.11% 49
East of England +34 151 £47,500 -13.64% 57
Wales +77 102 £42,500 +18.88% 13
North East +28 60 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Northern Ireland +17 23 £57,276 +34.77% 9
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 (12.87%) Apache Spark
2 137 (2.99%) Apache
3 117 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 111 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 98 (2.14%) FileNet
6 83 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 77 (1.68%) Confluence
8 32 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
9 21 (0.46%) GemFire
10 20 (0.44%) Camunda
11 17 (0.37%) SAS
12 12 (0.26%) 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 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
17 7 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
18 6 (0.13%) CMS
18 6 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 178 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 117 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.83%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.42%) Sketch
7 17 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.066%) Simulink
11 2 (0.044%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
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 63 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
5 12 (0.26%) 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 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
10 3 (0.066%) Primavera
10 3 (0.066%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.044%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,264 (27.61%) AWS
2 476 (10.40%) Azure
3 248 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
4 181 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 161 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
6 117 (2.56%) Datadog
7 113 (2.47%) Amazon S3
8 105 (2.29%) GCP
9 98 (2.14%) Figma
10 85 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 80 (1.75%) PowerApps
12 79 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 77 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (1.64%) SurveyMonkey
15 73 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (1.31%) Serverless
17 57 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 55 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
20 52 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 83 (1.81%) Firewall
2 82 (1.79%) Kerberos
3 49 (1.07%) LAN
4 39 (0.85%) WAN
5 38 (0.83%) SAN
6 31 (0.68%) DNS
7 30 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 26 (0.57%) Internet
9 23 (0.50%) DHCP
10 21 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.42%) DSL
11 19 (0.42%) VPN
12 17 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
13 16 (0.35%) Wireless
14 15 (0.33%) BIG-IP
14 15 (0.33%) Network Security
15 14 (0.31%) Skype
16 13 (0.28%) VLAN
17 11 (0.24%) NAS
18 9 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (14.66%) NoSQL
2 505 (11.03%) Big Data
3 233 (5.09%) Hadoop
4 152 (3.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 151 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 140 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 139 (3.04%) Relational Database
8 131 (2.86%) Apache Hive
9 114 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 105 (2.29%) Power BI
11 102 (2.23%) HBase
12 90 (1.97%) Data Lake
13 71 (1.55%) Tableau
14 68 (1.49%) Metadata
15 53 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (1.00%) Qlik Sense
17 42 (0.92%) MySQL
18 38 (0.83%) CockroachDB
19 29 (0.63%) DB2
20 25 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 315 (6.88%) Jenkins
2 212 (4.63%) JUnit
3 206 (4.50%) Git
4 131 (2.86%) JIRA
5 124 (2.71%) Jasmine
6 89 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.88%) Bitbucket Server
8 78 (1.70%) Selenium
9 77 (1.68%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.42%) Artifactory
12 64 (1.40%) Maven
13 62 (1.35%) WebDriver
14 60 (1.31%) Protractor
15 47 (1.03%) Mockito
16 41 (0.90%) Cucumber
17 32 (0.70%) GitLab
18 31 (0.68%) CircleCI
19 30 (0.66%) Gradle
20 28 (0.61%) JMeter
General
1 3,109 (67.91%) Finance
2 2,949 (64.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,523 (33.27%) Marketing
4 978 (21.36%) Legal
5 902 (19.70%) Social Skills
6 727 (15.88%) Banking
7 592 (12.93%) Investment Banking
8 401 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
9 279 (6.09%) Financial Institution
10 271 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
11 192 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
12 114 (2.49%) Manufacturing
13 92 (2.01%) Private Banking
14 73 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
15 62 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.18%) Front Office
17 48 (1.05%) Games
18 39 (0.85%) Retail
19 32 (0.70%) Social Science
20 30 (0.66%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,003 (43.75%) Software Engineer
2 892 (19.48%) Lead
3 797 (17.41%) Java Engineer
4 795 (17.37%) Java Software Engineer
5 685 (14.96%) Lead Software Engineer
6 465 (10.16%) Senior
7 418 (9.13%) Analyst
8 390 (8.52%) Big Data Engineer
8 390 (8.52%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 390 (8.52%) Developer
9 339 (7.40%) Python Engineer
10 332 (7.25%) Python Software Engineer
11 328 (7.16%) Full Stack Engineer
12 323 (7.06%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 309 (6.75%) AWS Engineer
14 301 (6.57%) AWS Software Engineer
15 278 (6.07%) Lead Java Engineer
16 259 (5.66%) Data Engineer
17 228 (4.98%) Scala Engineer
17 228 (4.98%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 683 (14.92%) Spring
2 542 (11.84%) React
3 406 (8.87%) AngularJS
4 354 (7.73%) Kafka
5 347 (7.58%) Spring Boot
6 321 (7.01%) HTML
7 285 (6.23%) CSS
8 246 (5.37%) J2EE
9 224 (4.89%) JSON
10 203 (4.43%) Node.js
11 199 (4.35%) RESTful
12 194 (4.24%) Hibernate
13 174 (3.80%) PySpark
14 172 (3.76%) JMS
15 168 (3.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 166 (3.63%) .NET
17 159 (3.47%) jQuery
18 148 (3.23%) Web Services
19 128 (2.80%) REST
20 125 (2.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 938 (20.49%) Cloud Native
2 822 (17.96%) Algorithms
3 291 (6.36%) Public Cloud
4 196 (4.28%) Management Information System
5 190 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 186 (4.06%) Product Ownership
7 144 (3.15%) Market Risk
8 140 (3.06%) Reference Data
9 116 (2.53%) Data Structures
10 91 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 75 (1.64%) FMCG
11 75 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 72 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
13 71 (1.55%) Credit Risk
14 65 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
15 49 (1.07%) Mobile App
16 48 (1.05%) Legacy Code
17 38 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
17 38 (0.83%) Housing Association
18 34 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 248 (5.42%) Windows
2 152 (3.32%) Unix
3 142 (3.10%) Linux
4 106 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 66 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 46 (1.00%) Android
7 21 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.35%) VMS
9 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.17%) 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 2,611 (57.03%) Agile
2 2,439 (53.28%) Software Engineering
3 2,123 (46.37%) SDLC
4 2,005 (43.80%) CI/CD
5 1,893 (41.35%) Operational Stability
6 1,464 (31.98%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,461 (31.91%) Machine Learning
8 1,321 (28.86%) Community of Practice
9 1,037 (22.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 945 (20.64%) Visualisation
11 802 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
12 796 (17.39%) Risk Management
13 651 (14.22%) Decision-Making
14 489 (10.68%) Continuous Delivery
14 489 (10.68%) Microservices
15 450 (9.83%) Information Architecture
16 415 (9.07%) Architectural Design
17 412 (9.00%) Computer Science
18 385 (8.41%) Full Stack Development
19 331 (7.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,700 (37.13%) Java
2 1,342 (29.31%) SQL
3 1,038 (22.67%) Python
4 422 (9.22%) JavaScript
5 325 (7.10%) Scala
6 236 (5.16%) TypeScript
7 191 (4.17%) C#
8 152 (3.32%) PL/SQL
9 87 (1.90%) Go
10 86 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 67 (1.46%) SPARQL
12 65 (1.42%) Prolog
13 51 (1.11%) R
14 44 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 37 (0.81%) Groovy
16 32 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 28 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 23 (0.50%) C
19 22 (0.48%) C++
20 21 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 583 (12.73%) Degree
2 127 (2.77%) Master's Degree
3 69 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (1.49%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 54 (1.18%) PhD
6 48 (1.05%) Security Cleared
7 29 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 25 (0.55%) CISSP
9 23 (0.50%) SC Cleared
10 18 (0.39%) CISM
11 17 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.31%) HNC
12 14 (0.31%) HND
13 12 (0.26%) CIPD
13 12 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.24%) CISA
14 11 (0.24%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.20%) CRISC
15 9 (0.20%) ISEB
15 9 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (3.08%) SLA
2 105 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 62 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 58 (1.27%) QA
5 55 (1.20%) GDPR
6 39 (0.85%) PMO
7 32 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 31 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 30 (0.66%) NIST
10 29 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.33%) WAI
12 13 (0.28%) ITGC
13 12 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.24%) GRC
15 7 (0.15%) 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
1 261 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.23%) HDFS
3 74 (1.62%) Docker
4 35 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (0.66%) 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 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
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
Systems Management
1 344 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 269 (5.88%) Terraform
3 175 (3.82%) Grafana
4 79 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 29 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.46%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.46%) Kibana
7 21 (0.46%) Zipkin
8 13 (0.28%) SCCM
9 12 (0.26%) Graphite
9 12 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.17%) Ansible
11 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.13%) Nessus
12 5 (0.11%) SCOM
13 4 (0.087%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.044%) Backup Exec
14 2 (0.044%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 509 (11.12%) Microsoft
2 428 (9.35%) Oracle
3 267 (5.83%) Databricks
4 187 (4.08%) Splunk
5 162 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 97 (2.12%) Informatica
7 93 (2.03%) Alteryx
8 72 (1.57%) Cloudera
9 71 (1.55%) Google
10 70 (1.53%) Citrix
10 70 (1.53%) Qualtrics
10 70 (1.53%) VMware
11 48 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 44 (0.96%) SAP
13 36 (0.79%) Cisco
14 35 (0.76%) iManage
15 33 (0.72%) Dell
16 27 (0.59%) Pega
17 24 (0.52%) Veeam
18 23 (0.50%) Sybase