Legal Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Legal
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 66 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +62
Permanent jobs citing Legal 1,893 1,346 2,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.43% 3.86% 4.06%
As % of the General category 5.50% 5.80% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 992 478 687
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,175 £26,150
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.83% -12.02%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,400 £88,100 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -9.09%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Legal falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 34,444 23,206 31,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.17% 66.52% 53.65%
Number of salaries quoted 21,251 11,384 17,863
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £27,117
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,076 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,675 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -8.33%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Legal relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Legal job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Legal
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Legal.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Legal

Legal
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
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 Legal within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
North of England -7 472 £55,000 +19.57% 156
Midlands +21 312 £50,000 +11.11% 106
South East -48 297 £57,500 +15.00% 237
North West -2 281 £60,000 +30.43% 88
Northern Ireland +17 269 £40,000 -53.02% 14
West Midlands +24 206 £53,750 +19.44% 72
South West +6 205 £44,000 +46.67% 78
East of England +21 186 £47,500 -10.38% 47
Yorkshire +1 120 £45,000 -8.16% 51
East Midlands +12 106 £50,000 +40.85% 34
Scotland +25 98 £31,500 -28.00% 28
North East -21 71 £57,500 +15.00% 17
Wales -21 60 £53,171 +1.76% 16
Isle of Man -2 2 £38,500 -57.69% 1
Legal
UK

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 98 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 55 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.22%) CMS
4 10 (0.53%) Apache
4 10 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.53%) Confluence
4 10 (0.53%) IIS
5 8 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.21%) WordPress
8 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 104 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
2 103 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.16%) Acrobat
5 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.63%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.42%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.11%) CapCut
10 2 (0.11%) InDesign
10 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.053%) CATIA
11 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.053%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 54 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.43%) Dynamics GP
3 16 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.69%) Visualfiles
5 12 (0.63%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.26%) Primavera
6 5 (0.26%) SAP EHS
7 4 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.16%) Aareon QL
8 3 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
8 3 (0.16%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.16%) OPENHousing
8 3 (0.16%) Orchard Housing
9 2 (0.11%) Sage 50
9 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.053%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.053%) SAP GTS
10 1 (0.053%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 242 (12.78%) Azure
2 230 (12.15%) SaaS
3 173 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
4 148 (7.82%) Entra ID
5 90 (4.75%) Power Platform
6 70 (3.70%) AWS
7 42 (2.22%) Power Automate
8 41 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
9 35 (1.85%) Mimecast
10 28 (1.48%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.43%) Stripe
12 25 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.00%) Figma
14 18 (0.95%) OneDrive
15 17 (0.90%) GitHub
16 16 (0.85%) Slack
17 15 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
18 14 (0.74%) PaaS
19 11 (0.58%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.48%) Broadband
2 13 (0.69%) Firewall
3 12 (0.63%) DNS
4 11 (0.58%) LAN
4 11 (0.58%) Wireless
5 10 (0.53%) SAN
5 10 (0.53%) WAN
6 9 (0.48%) DHCP
7 8 (0.42%) TETRA
7 8 (0.42%) VPN
8 7 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.32%) SMS
10 5 (0.26%) SNMP
11 4 (0.21%) VLAN
11 4 (0.21%) VoIP
12 3 (0.16%) HTTP
12 3 (0.16%) Internet
12 3 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.16%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.053%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (2.91%) Power BI
2 41 (2.17%) Tableau
3 37 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 27 (1.43%) Metabase
5 17 (0.90%) Metadata
6 13 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.58%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
9 8 (0.42%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.37%) SAP BW
11 6 (0.32%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.26%) Impala
12 5 (0.26%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.26%) Parquet
12 5 (0.26%) Spark SQL
12 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 41 (2.17%) JIRA
2 11 (0.58%) Git
3 5 (0.26%) GitLab
3 5 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.11%) MLflow
5 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.053%) Postman
6 1 (0.053%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.053%) Visual Studio
General
1 776 (40.99%) Social Skills
2 663 (35.02%) Finance
3 363 (19.18%) Law
4 229 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
5 193 (10.20%) Organisational Skills
6 154 (8.14%) Marketing
7 119 (6.29%) Public Sector
8 110 (5.81%) Manufacturing
9 107 (5.65%) Legal Technology
10 99 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 84 (4.44%) Retail
12 65 (3.43%) Banking
13 57 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (2.64%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.90%) Aerospace
17 35 (1.85%) Advertising
18 32 (1.69%) Electronics
19 28 (1.48%) German Language
20 25 (1.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 301 (15.90%) Senior
2 184 (9.72%) Analyst
3 122 (6.44%) Senior Manager
4 115 (6.08%) Developer
5 88 (4.65%) IT Support
6 83 (4.38%) Consultant
7 81 (4.28%) Lead
8 73 (3.86%) Development Manager
9 69 (3.65%) IT Engineer
10 67 (3.54%) Business Manager
10 67 (3.54%) Senior Developer
11 63 (3.33%) Support Engineer
12 55 (2.91%) Testing Manager
13 51 (2.69%) Marketing Manager
13 51 (2.69%) Recruitment Consultant
14 50 (2.64%) Support Analyst
15 48 (2.54%) IT Manager
16 47 (2.48%) IT Support Engineer
16 47 (2.48%) Technology Manager
17 46 (2.43%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (4.38%) .NET
2 21 (1.11%) REST
3 19 (1.00%) React
4 18 (0.95%) HTML
5 11 (0.58%) SOAP
6 10 (0.53%) CSS
6 10 (0.53%) Node.js
6 10 (0.53%) PySpark
6 10 (0.53%) Web Services
7 9 (0.48%) JDBC
7 9 (0.48%) OAuth
7 9 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
7 9 (0.48%) SAPUI5
8 6 (0.32%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.32%) JSON
9 5 (0.26%) Next.js
9 5 (0.26%) SAML
9 5 (0.26%) XML
10 4 (0.21%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.21%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 153 (8.08%) Virtual Team
2 138 (7.29%) Web Conferencing
3 136 (7.18%) Podcast
4 121 (6.39%) Onboarding
5 82 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 71 (3.75%) Blog
7 55 (2.91%) Management Information System
8 49 (2.59%) Driving Licence
9 47 (2.48%) Marketing Technology
10 34 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 29 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 28 (1.48%) Data Centre
13 21 (1.11%) Cloud Native
14 18 (0.95%) AI Agents
14 18 (0.95%) Social Media
15 16 (0.85%) Replication
16 14 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.74%) Clustering
16 14 (0.74%) CMDB
16 14 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 110 (5.81%) Windows
2 30 (1.58%) Linux
3 25 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.26%) Unix
7 4 (0.21%) Android
7 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Solaris
9 2 (0.11%) VMS
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (28.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 291 (15.37%) AI
3 277 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
4 259 (13.68%) Mentoring
5 202 (10.67%) Agile
6 196 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 194 (10.25%) Workflow
8 183 (9.67%) Strategic Planning
9 174 (9.19%) Customer Service
10 173 (9.14%) Information Security
11 172 (9.09%) Performance Management
12 167 (8.82%) Decision-Making
13 162 (8.56%) Analytics
14 160 (8.45%) CRM
15 151 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
16 138 (7.29%) Risk Management
17 131 (6.92%) Business Development
18 127 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
19 126 (6.66%) Software Engineering
20 125 (6.60%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 147 (7.77%) Python
2 137 (7.24%) C#
3 136 (7.18%) SQL
4 91 (4.81%) PowerShell
5 76 (4.01%) JavaScript
6 62 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 39 (2.06%) R
8 25 (1.32%) Java
9 16 (0.85%) ABAP
10 10 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.48%) Bash
12 8 (0.42%) Go
12 8 (0.42%) Ruby
13 6 (0.32%) C
14 5 (0.26%) Assembly Language
14 5 (0.26%) PHP
15 4 (0.21%) C++
15 4 (0.21%) Scala
16 3 (0.16%) Perl
16 3 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 154 (8.14%) Degree
2 136 (7.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 88 (4.65%) CISSP
4 75 (3.96%) Security Cleared
5 74 (3.91%) CISM
6 71 (3.75%) A+ Certification
6 71 (3.75%) Network+ Certification
7 70 (3.70%) SC Cleared
8 30 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 18 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 14 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.69%) Postgraduate
13 11 (0.58%) ACCA
13 11 (0.58%) CIMA
13 11 (0.58%) CIPD
13 11 (0.58%) HND
14 10 (0.53%) MCSE
14 10 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (11.83%) QA
2 132 (6.97%) GDPR
3 70 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 33 (1.74%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 23 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 19 (1.00%) NIST
11 18 (0.95%) Good Clinical Practice
11 18 (0.95%) ISO 9001
11 18 (0.95%) PMO
12 16 (0.85%) GMP
12 16 (0.85%) GRC
13 15 (0.79%) SLA
14 13 (0.69%) NEBOSH
15 12 (0.63%) NCSC
15 12 (0.63%) WCAG
16 9 (0.48%) HIPAA
System Software
1 149 (7.87%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.85%) Docker
3 12 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 128 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (0.90%) Terraform
3 11 (0.58%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.37%) Grafana
6 6 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.16%) Scalr
10 2 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 373 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.17%) CyberArk
3 46 (2.43%) SAP
4 44 (2.32%) iManage
5 39 (2.06%) Adobe
6 34 (1.80%) Aderant
6 34 (1.80%) HubSpot
7 29 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
7 29 (1.53%) Intapp
8 27 (1.43%) Oracle
9 26 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 23 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.00%) Sage
12 18 (0.95%) Google
13 14 (0.74%) Meraki
14 12 (0.63%) Cisco
15 11 (0.58%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.58%) Databricks
15 11 (0.58%) DocuSign
15 11 (0.58%) SolarWinds