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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 72 122
Rank change year-on-year +8 +50 +29
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2,724 2,609 1,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.89% 4.22% 2.79%
As % of the General category 6.76% 6.09% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 834 906
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,325 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,154 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Legal 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 40,269 42,823 42,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.49% 69.30% 59.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,334 19,314 24,106
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,216
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 £82,500 £78,575
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +49 775 £65,000 +21.50% 64
North of England +60 636 £45,000 - 250
South East -30 546 £39,500 -24.76% 277
North West +91 363 £47,500 - 158
Midlands +6 326 £50,000 - 169
West Midlands +11 236 £52,325 +4.65% 103
South West -50 230 £42,500 -6.59% 174
Yorkshire +26 196 £34,000 -24.44% 71
East of England -49 151 £50,000 +4.71% 101
East Midlands +6 90 £45,000 +9.76% 66
North East +38 77 £52,500 -12.50% 26
Wales +22 34 £46,534 -23.35% 43
Northern Ireland +44 20 £30,000 -46.43% 13
Channel Islands - 6 £85,000 -
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
1 271 (9.95%) Apache Spark
2 148 (5.43%) SharePoint
3 101 (3.71%) Apache
4 65 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 61 (2.24%) SAS
6 45 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (1.65%) FileNet
7 20 (0.73%) Camunda
8 12 (0.44%) CMS
9 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (0.11%) Confluence
12 3 (0.11%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
13 2 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2013
14 1 (0.037%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.037%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 226 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 211 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (2.50%) AutoCAD
4 51 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.62%) Revit
7 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
8 14 (0.51%) Simulink
9 7 (0.26%) Stateflow
10 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.11%) ProjectWise
13 1 (0.037%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.037%) InDesign
13 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.037%) SPSS
13 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) iTrent
3 10 (0.37%) Infor SunSystems
4 9 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.26%) BPCS
6 7 (0.26%) SAP HR
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.18%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.18%) SAP HCM
8 5 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
9 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.073%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.073%) SAP CRM
11 2 (0.073%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 413 (15.16%) AWS
2 303 (11.12%) Azure
3 184 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
4 171 (6.28%) Power Platform
5 67 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
5 67 (2.46%) GCP
5 67 (2.46%) SaaS
6 61 (2.24%) Entra ID
7 54 (1.98%) Serverless
8 52 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
9 51 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
10 49 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 47 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
12 39 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
13 38 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 28 (1.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.20%) Firewall
2 28 (1.03%) Internet
3 27 (0.99%) LAN
3 27 (0.99%) WAN
4 26 (0.95%) Wireless
5 23 (0.84%) SAN
6 21 (0.77%) Intranet
7 19 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.59%) DHCP
9 16 (0.59%) VoIP
9 16 (0.59%) VPN
10 13 (0.48%) DNS
11 12 (0.44%) Broadband
12 11 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
12 11 (0.40%) SSL
13 10 (0.37%) VLAN
14 9 (0.33%) Network Security
14 9 (0.33%) SNMP
14 9 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (11.78%) NoSQL
2 239 (8.77%) Big Data
3 213 (7.82%) Hadoop
4 135 (4.96%) Power BI
5 99 (3.63%) Apache Hive
6 83 (3.05%) HBase
7 82 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 54 (1.98%) Data Lake
8 54 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
9 53 (1.95%) Relational Database
10 45 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
10 45 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
11 42 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (1.36%) Qlik Sense
13 30 (1.10%) Tableau
14 19 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
14 19 (0.70%) DB2
15 16 (0.59%) Impala
16 14 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (0.51%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 121 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 111 (4.07%) Git
3 71 (2.61%) JIRA
4 67 (2.46%) Bitbucket Server
5 65 (2.39%) JUnit
6 26 (0.95%) Mockito
7 25 (0.92%) Jasmine
8 20 (0.73%) CircleCI
8 20 (0.73%) Gradle
8 20 (0.73%) Maven
8 20 (0.73%) Travis CI
9 11 (0.40%) GitLab
9 11 (0.40%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.22%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.15%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.037%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.037%) QADirector
General
1 1,473 (54.07%) Finance
2 1,010 (37.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 973 (35.72%) Law
4 809 (29.70%) Social Skills
5 381 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (9.65%) Banking
7 157 (5.76%) Retail
8 141 (5.18%) Marketing
9 105 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 91 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 81 (2.97%) Local Government
12 74 (2.72%) Public Sector
13 68 (2.50%) Telecoms
14 53 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.73%) Publishing
16 42 (1.54%) Investment Banking
17 36 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 35 (1.28%) Automotive
19 25 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
20 24 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 695 (25.51%) Software Engineer
2 391 (14.35%) Analyst
3 260 (9.54%) Senior
4 259 (9.51%) Java Engineer
4 259 (9.51%) Java Software Engineer
5 227 (8.33%) Big Data Engineer
5 227 (8.33%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 206 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
6 206 (7.56%) AWS Software Engineer
7 192 (7.05%) Data Engineer
8 138 (5.07%) Lead
9 131 (4.81%) Full Stack Engineer
9 131 (4.81%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 129 (4.74%) Developer
11 122 (4.48%) Python Engineer
11 122 (4.48%) Python Software Engineer
12 103 (3.78%) Architect
13 101 (3.71%) Scala Engineer
13 101 (3.71%) Scala Software Engineer
14 92 (3.38%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (7.38%) Spring
2 139 (5.10%) React
3 130 (4.77%) Kafka
4 116 (4.26%) AngularJS
4 116 (4.26%) HTML
5 108 (3.96%) J2EE
6 91 (3.34%) .NET
7 83 (3.05%) CSS
7 83 (3.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 82 (3.01%) Node.js
9 78 (2.86%) JMS
10 76 (2.79%) Spring Boot
11 72 (2.64%) XML
12 71 (2.61%) JSON
13 66 (2.42%) PySpark
14 64 (2.35%) Hibernate
15 46 (1.69%) Web Services
16 45 (1.65%) GraphQL
16 45 (1.65%) Spring Integration
17 42 (1.54%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 521 (19.13%) Algorithms
2 214 (7.86%) Onboarding
3 202 (7.42%) Management Information System
4 120 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 92 (3.38%) Driving Licence
6 74 (2.72%) Credit Risk
7 64 (2.35%) Housing Association
8 52 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 51 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 47 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 45 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 43 (1.58%) Legacy Code
13 31 (1.14%) Data Centre
14 23 (0.84%) Robotics
15 21 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
15 21 (0.77%) Reinsurance
16 20 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
17 18 (0.66%) SCADA
18 17 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
18 17 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.25%) Windows
2 108 (3.96%) Unix
3 56 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 53 (1.95%) Linux
5 48 (1.76%) Windows 10
6 38 (1.40%) Apple iOS
7 37 (1.36%) Android
8 14 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.29%) VMS
10 8 (0.29%) Windows 8
11 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.037%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,101 (40.42%) Agile
2 941 (34.54%) Risk Management
3 733 (26.91%) Software Engineering
4 717 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 675 (24.78%) CI/CD
6 647 (23.75%) SDLC
7 519 (19.05%) Operational Stability
8 518 (19.02%) Visualisation
9 501 (18.39%) Artificial Intelligence
10 471 (17.29%) Machine Learning
11 445 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
12 399 (14.65%) Community of Practice
13 345 (12.67%) Decision-Making
14 245 (8.99%) Customer Service
15 223 (8.19%) Project Management
16 219 (8.04%) Microservices
17 211 (7.75%) Coaching
18 209 (7.67%) Data Protection
19 187 (6.86%) Data Management
20 182 (6.68%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 599 (21.99%) SQL
2 530 (19.46%) Java
3 407 (14.94%) Python
4 117 (4.30%) Scala
5 99 (3.63%) JavaScript
6 97 (3.56%) PL/SQL
7 89 (3.27%) C#
8 58 (2.13%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.95%) C
10 25 (0.92%) Ruby
11 21 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 19 (0.70%) C++
13 18 (0.66%) VB.NET
14 15 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 14 (0.51%) PHP
16 12 (0.44%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.40%) R
18 10 (0.37%) Embedded C
19 8 (0.29%) VB
20 7 (0.26%) RPG
Qualifications
1 461 (16.92%) Degree
2 91 (3.34%) HNC
3 71 (2.61%) HND
4 58 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 47 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (1.40%) Security Cleared
7 33 (1.21%) CISSP
8 31 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (0.81%) CISM
10 20 (0.73%) ACCA
11 19 (0.70%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 17 (0.62%) MBA
12 17 (0.62%) SC Cleared
13 12 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.44%) MCP
13 12 (0.44%) OSCP
13 12 (0.44%) PhD
14 8 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (7.27%) GDPR
2 158 (5.80%) QA
3 87 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 66 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.31%) SLA
6 43 (1.58%) IFRS
7 36 (1.32%) IFRS 9
8 30 (1.10%) ISO 9001
9 28 (1.03%) NIST
10 27 (0.99%) PMO
11 25 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 22 (0.81%) NEBOSH
14 21 (0.77%) GRC
15 17 (0.62%) Accessibility
15 17 (0.62%) ISO 22301
16 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
17 11 (0.40%) ISO 14001
18 10 (0.37%) SEPA
19 9 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 104 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 83 (3.05%) HDFS
3 43 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 37 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (0.92%) Docker
6 13 (0.48%) Firmware
7 12 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.29%) Terminal Services
8 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.15%) XenApp
10 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.073%) pfSense
11 2 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.073%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 128 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.83%) Terraform
3 25 (0.92%) SCCM
4 23 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.55%) Functional Safety
6 8 (0.29%) SCOM
7 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.18%) Ansible
8 5 (0.18%) Grafana
8 5 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.073%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.073%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.073%) Nessus
10 1 (0.037%) CASB
10 1 (0.037%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.037%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.037%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.037%) QRadar
10 1 (0.037%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 517 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 160 (5.87%) Databricks
3 159 (5.84%) Oracle
4 112 (4.11%) SAP
5 68 (2.50%) Informatica
6 61 (2.24%) VMware
7 53 (1.95%) Cloudera
8 50 (1.84%) Alteryx
9 45 (1.65%) Citrix
10 44 (1.62%) Google
10 44 (1.62%) iManage
11 35 (1.28%) IBM
12 27 (0.99%) Cisco
13 26 (0.95%) Pega
14 25 (0.92%) NCR
15 21 (0.77%) HP
16 13 (0.48%) CA
16 13 (0.48%) EMC
16 13 (0.48%) NEC
17 12 (0.44%) ServiceNow