Legal Jobs 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 133 85
Rank change year-on-year +77 -48 +71
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2,546 1,244 2,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.90% 2.58% 3.80%
As % of the General category 7.23% 3.93% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 783 785 1,020
10th Percentile £25,800 £28,700 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,875
90th Percentile £76,000 £77,715 £81,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,229 31,627 50,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.97% 65.69% 64.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20,712 17,348 26,425
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,557 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,720
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

Legal
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
North of England +90 622 £46,500 -2.11% 190
Scotland +135 577 £55,000 -3.51% 42
Midlands +51 455 £47,000 -10.48% 135
South East +18 421 £40,000 -23.08% 186
North West +86 378 £45,000 -5.26% 122
South West +43 280 £49,000 +3.16% 124
West Midlands +8 257 £47,000 -10.48% 83
East Midlands +108 198 £45,000 +38.46% 52
Yorkshire +57 179 £45,000 -5.26% 49
East of England +15 156 £50,000 -19.03% 63
North East +43 65 £52,500 -4.55% 24
Northern Ireland +32 17 £30,000 -47.37% 26
Wales +19 17 £54,000 +66.15% 21
Channel Islands - 5 - -
Legal
UK

Legal
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
1 165 (6.48%) Apache Spark
2 122 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 77 (3.02%) SAS
4 57 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 55 (2.16%) Apache
6 47 (1.85%) FileNet
7 15 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.20%) CMS
9 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.16%) Confluence
10 4 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
11 2 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.079%) IIS
Applications
1 327 (12.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 327 (12.84%) Microsoft Office
2 105 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 72 (2.83%) AutoCAD
4 17 (0.67%) Revit
5 15 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.51%) Simulink
7 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.24%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.20%) SketchUp
9 5 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.039%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 41 (1.61%) iTrent
2 22 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.55%) NEC Housing
4 13 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.43%) ResourceLink
6 10 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.31%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 7 (0.27%) BPCS
8 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.20%) SAP HR
11 4 (0.16%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
12 3 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
13 2 (0.079%) SAP CRM
13 2 (0.079%) SAP HCM
13 2 (0.079%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 308 (12.10%) AWS
2 233 (9.15%) Azure
3 154 (6.05%) Power Platform
4 141 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (3.73%) Entra ID
6 55 (2.16%) GCP
7 47 (1.85%) Amazon S3
8 41 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
9 39 (1.53%) GitHub
10 35 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
11 33 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (1.26%) Serverless
13 31 (1.22%) SaaS
14 30 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (1.14%) Amazon EMR
15 29 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.45%) Firewall
2 24 (0.94%) Wireless
3 20 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (0.75%) LAN
5 17 (0.67%) Internet
6 16 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.59%) SAN
8 14 (0.55%) WAN
9 13 (0.51%) Intranet
10 12 (0.47%) DHCP
11 11 (0.43%) Network Security
12 10 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (0.35%) 4G
13 9 (0.35%) DSL
13 9 (0.35%) LTE
13 9 (0.35%) VPN
14 8 (0.31%) IPsec
14 8 (0.31%) VoIP
15 7 (0.27%) DNS
15 7 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (9.58%) NoSQL
2 137 (5.38%) Big Data
3 135 (5.30%) Power BI
4 120 (4.71%) Hadoop
5 74 (2.91%) Apache Hive
6 63 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 60 (2.36%) HBase
8 48 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 47 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 43 (1.69%) Relational Database
11 40 (1.57%) Data Lake
12 35 (1.37%) Qlik Sense
13 32 (1.26%) Tableau
14 31 (1.22%) Electronic Patient Records
15 21 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
16 20 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
17 18 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (0.55%) Impala
18 14 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
18 14 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 92 (3.61%) Jenkins
2 87 (3.42%) Git
3 70 (2.75%) JIRA
4 66 (2.59%) JUnit
5 60 (2.36%) Bitbucket Server
6 26 (1.02%) Jasmine
6 26 (1.02%) Mockito
7 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.24%) GitLab
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.20%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.12%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.079%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.079%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.039%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.039%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.039%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,302 (51.14%) Finance
2 814 (31.97%) Social Skills
3 780 (30.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 698 (27.42%) Law
5 385 (15.12%) Retail
6 326 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
7 311 (12.22%) Banking
8 125 (4.91%) Marketing
9 102 (4.01%) Manufacturing
10 84 (3.30%) Local Government
11 74 (2.91%) Public Sector
12 51 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 48 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.57%) Automotive
15 40 (1.57%) Publishing
16 38 (1.49%) Investment Banking
17 36 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 499 (19.60%) Software Engineer
2 488 (19.17%) Analyst
3 331 (13.00%) Senior
4 166 (6.52%) Java Engineer
4 166 (6.52%) Java Software Engineer
4 166 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
5 156 (6.13%) Developer
6 144 (5.66%) Lead
7 142 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
7 142 (5.58%) AWS Software Engineer
8 135 (5.30%) Big Data Engineer
8 135 (5.30%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 131 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 120 (4.71%) Full Stack Engineer
10 120 (4.71%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 102 (4.01%) Development Manager
12 100 (3.93%) Project Manager
13 94 (3.69%) IT Manager
14 89 (3.50%) Business Analyst
14 89 (3.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (4.83%) HTML
2 120 (4.71%) React
3 119 (4.67%) Spring
4 113 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 98 (3.85%) J2EE
6 97 (3.81%) Kafka
7 94 (3.69%) CSS
8 77 (3.02%) .NET
9 74 (2.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 70 (2.75%) JMS
11 69 (2.71%) Node.js
12 66 (2.59%) Hibernate
13 61 (2.40%) JSON
14 51 (2.00%) PySpark
15 50 (1.96%) XML
16 47 (1.85%) GraphQL
16 47 (1.85%) Spring Integration
17 44 (1.73%) jQuery
18 38 (1.49%) Web Services
19 30 (1.18%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 386 (15.16%) Algorithms
2 198 (7.78%) Management Information System
3 158 (6.21%) Onboarding
4 94 (3.69%) Driving Licence
5 91 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 64 (2.51%) Housing Association
7 58 (2.28%) Credit Risk
8 46 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 31 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 26 (1.02%) Product Ownership
13 24 (0.94%) Derivative
14 21 (0.82%) Legacy Code
15 19 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
16 18 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.71%) Security Posture
16 18 (0.71%) Smartphone
17 17 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 118 (4.63%) Windows
2 87 (3.42%) Unix
3 51 (2.00%) Linux
3 51 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 40 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.45%) Android
6 31 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.27%) VMS
8 5 (0.20%) Windows 8
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.16%) Windows Vista
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (33.50%) Agile
2 697 (27.38%) Risk Management
3 662 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 537 (21.09%) SDLC
4 537 (21.09%) Software Engineering
5 475 (18.66%) CI/CD
6 404 (15.87%) Visualisation
7 400 (15.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 368 (14.45%) Machine Learning
9 357 (14.02%) Operational Stability
10 346 (13.59%) Logistics
11 336 (13.20%) Coaching
12 328 (12.88%) Decision-Making
13 326 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
14 311 (12.22%) Community of Practice
15 244 (9.58%) Process Improvement
16 233 (9.15%) Project Management
17 198 (7.78%) Data Protection
18 190 (7.46%) Data Analysis
18 190 (7.46%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 533 (20.93%) SQL
2 359 (14.10%) Java
3 320 (12.57%) Python
4 117 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 87 (3.42%) PL/SQL
6 73 (2.87%) C#
7 69 (2.71%) Scala
8 67 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 64 (2.51%) TypeScript
10 34 (1.34%) VBA
11 30 (1.18%) C++
12 23 (0.90%) C
13 21 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 12 (0.47%) Embedded C
15 11 (0.43%) PHP
16 10 (0.39%) R
16 10 (0.39%) VB.NET
17 9 (0.35%) Go
17 9 (0.35%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 486 (19.09%) Degree
2 92 (3.61%) HNC
3 71 (2.79%) HND
4 45 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.41%) CIPD
6 34 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 33 (1.30%) Security Cleared
8 27 (1.06%) CISSP
9 26 (1.02%) DBS Check
10 22 (0.86%) ACCA
11 20 (0.79%) CISM
12 19 (0.75%) CIMA
12 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (0.55%) MBA
13 14 (0.55%) SC Cleared
14 13 (0.51%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
16 11 (0.43%) CISA
17 10 (0.39%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (8.80%) GDPR
2 192 (7.54%) QA
3 89 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 62 (2.44%) SLA
5 59 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.69%) IFRS
7 36 (1.41%) IFRS 9
8 27 (1.06%) NIST
9 25 (0.98%) GRC
9 25 (0.98%) ISO 22301
9 25 (0.98%) ISO 9001
10 24 (0.94%) PMO
11 19 (0.75%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.67%) Accessibility
13 17 (0.67%) NEBOSH
14 15 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.51%) ISO 14001
16 7 (0.27%) ISO 14000
17 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 134 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 60 (2.36%) HDFS
3 44 (1.73%) RACF
4 39 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 32 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.24%) Docker
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.12%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) XenApp
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.039%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 100 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 69 (2.71%) Terraform
3 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.47%) SCCM
5 11 (0.43%) Functional Safety
6 9 (0.35%) SCOM
7 5 (0.20%) Grafana
7 5 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.16%) Ansible
9 2 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.039%) FTK
10 1 (0.039%) QRadar
10 1 (0.039%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 599 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 154 (6.05%) Oracle
3 143 (5.62%) SAP
4 109 (4.28%) Databricks
5 61 (2.40%) Informatica
6 49 (1.92%) VMware
7 48 (1.89%) Alteryx
8 44 (1.73%) CyberArk
9 37 (1.45%) Citrix
10 30 (1.18%) Cloudera
11 29 (1.14%) IBM
12 25 (0.98%) NCR
13 22 (0.86%) iManage
13 22 (0.86%) Planview
14 21 (0.82%) Google
15 19 (0.75%) ServiceNow
16 15 (0.59%) Cisco
16 15 (0.59%) NEC
17 14 (0.55%) Salesforce
18 12 (0.47%) HP