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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 79 126
Rank change year-on-year +15 +47 +23
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2,731 2,491 1,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.88% 4.05% 2.77%
As % of the General category 6.75% 5.89% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 833 906
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,375 £62,988 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £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 40,474 42,260 42,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.48% 68.75% 59.80%
Number of salaries quoted 26,416 19,179 24,262
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,366
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,418 £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 £81,251 £78,750
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 3 May 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 3 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 +51 780 £65,000 +18.18% 55
North of England +57 636 £45,000 - 261
South East -28 548 £39,500 -24.76% 273
North West +82 362 £47,500 - 168
Midlands +10 328 £50,000 - 184
West Midlands +4 235 £50,000 -4.76% 118
South West -43 227 £42,500 -5.56% 176
Yorkshire +27 197 £34,000 -24.44% 68
East of England -41 154 £50,000 +4.17% 113
East Midlands +19 93 £45,000 +20.00% 66
North East +39 77 £52,500 -12.50% 29
Wales +18 33 £50,000 -17.65% 40
Northern Ireland +41 19 £30,000 -46.43% 11
Channel Islands - 6 £85,000 - 1
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 (9.92%) Apache Spark
2 146 (5.35%) SharePoint
3 101 (3.70%) Apache
4 66 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 61 (2.23%) SAS
6 47 (1.72%) FileNet
7 45 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
8 20 (0.73%) Camunda
9 12 (0.44%) CMS
10 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.15%) Confluence
12 4 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
13 3 (0.11%) IBM Domino
14 2 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
14 2 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2013
15 1 (0.037%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.037%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 229 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 214 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (2.49%) AutoCAD
4 53 (1.94%) 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
3 10 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.26%) BPCS
4 7 (0.26%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.18%) SAP HCM
6 5 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.073%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.073%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.037%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 414 (15.16%) AWS
2 301 (11.02%) Azure
3 183 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
4 169 (6.19%) Power Platform
5 69 (2.53%) GCP
6 67 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (2.38%) SaaS
8 60 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 54 (1.98%) Serverless
10 52 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
11 51 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (1.79%) Amazon S3
12 49 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
13 47 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
14 38 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
14 38 (1.39%) PowerApps
15 29 (1.06%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.20%) Firewall
2 29 (1.06%) LAN
2 29 (1.06%) Wireless
3 28 (1.03%) WAN
4 27 (0.99%) Internet
5 23 (0.84%) SAN
6 20 (0.73%) Intranet
6 20 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.62%) DHCP
9 16 (0.59%) VoIP
10 15 (0.55%) VPN
11 14 (0.51%) DNS
12 11 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
12 11 (0.40%) SSL
13 10 (0.37%) Broadband
13 10 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
13 10 (0.37%) VLAN
14 9 (0.33%) Extranet
14 9 (0.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (11.83%) NoSQL
2 237 (8.68%) Big Data
3 213 (7.80%) Hadoop
4 135 (4.94%) Power BI
5 99 (3.63%) Apache Hive
6 84 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 83 (3.04%) HBase
8 56 (2.05%) Data Lake
9 54 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
10 53 (1.94%) Relational Database
11 47 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 47 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
13 39 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
14 31 (1.14%) Tableau
15 20 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
16 19 (0.70%) DB2
17 16 (0.59%) Impala
18 14 (0.51%) EDMS
18 14 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (4.47%) Jenkins
2 111 (4.06%) Git
3 72 (2.64%) JIRA
4 67 (2.45%) Bitbucket Server
4 67 (2.45%) JUnit
5 27 (0.99%) Mockito
6 26 (0.95%) Jasmine
7 20 (0.73%) CircleCI
7 20 (0.73%) Gradle
7 20 (0.73%) Maven
7 20 (0.73%) Travis CI
8 11 (0.40%) GitLab
8 11 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.18%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.15%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.037%) QADirector
12 1 (0.037%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,476 (54.05%) Finance
2 1,020 (37.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 976 (35.74%) Law
4 813 (29.77%) Social Skills
5 378 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
6 260 (9.52%) Banking
7 161 (5.90%) Retail
8 143 (5.24%) Marketing
9 106 (3.88%) Manufacturing
10 93 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
11 84 (3.08%) Local Government
12 77 (2.82%) Public Sector
13 67 (2.45%) Telecoms
14 58 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.72%) Publishing
16 43 (1.57%) Investment Banking
17 39 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
18 35 (1.28%) Automotive
19 26 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
20 25 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 700 (25.63%) Software Engineer
2 396 (14.50%) Analyst
3 261 (9.56%) Java Engineer
3 261 (9.56%) Java Software Engineer
4 258 (9.45%) Senior
5 227 (8.31%) Big Data Engineer
5 227 (8.31%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 206 (7.54%) AWS Engineer
6 206 (7.54%) AWS Software Engineer
7 194 (7.10%) Data Engineer
8 140 (5.13%) Lead
9 133 (4.87%) Full Stack Engineer
9 133 (4.87%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 129 (4.72%) Developer
11 123 (4.50%) Python Engineer
11 123 (4.50%) Python Software Engineer
12 101 (3.70%) Scala Engineer
12 101 (3.70%) Scala Software Engineer
13 97 (3.55%) Architect
13 97 (3.55%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (7.25%) Spring
2 141 (5.16%) React
3 127 (4.65%) Kafka
4 118 (4.32%) AngularJS
5 115 (4.21%) HTML
6 110 (4.03%) J2EE
7 89 (3.26%) .NET
8 84 (3.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 83 (3.04%) Node.js
10 82 (3.00%) CSS
11 79 (2.89%) JMS
12 72 (2.64%) JSON
12 72 (2.64%) XML
13 71 (2.60%) Spring Boot
14 68 (2.49%) PySpark
15 66 (2.42%) Hibernate
16 47 (1.72%) GraphQL
16 47 (1.72%) Spring Integration
17 46 (1.68%) Web Services
18 43 (1.57%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 525 (19.22%) Algorithms
2 217 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 205 (7.51%) Management Information System
4 121 (4.43%) Cloud Native
5 93 (3.41%) Driving Licence
6 74 (2.71%) Credit Risk
7 64 (2.34%) Housing Association
8 53 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 52 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 47 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 44 (1.61%) Product Ownership
12 43 (1.57%) Legacy Code
13 32 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 21 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (0.77%) Reinsurance
14 21 (0.77%) Robotics
15 20 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
16 18 (0.66%) SCADA
17 17 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 139 (5.09%) Windows
2 108 (3.95%) Unix
3 54 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.90%) Linux
5 49 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 38 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 37 (1.35%) 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 1,099 (40.24%) Agile
2 950 (34.79%) Risk Management
3 738 (27.02%) Software Engineering
4 723 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 679 (24.86%) CI/CD
6 646 (23.65%) SDLC
7 523 (19.15%) Operational Stability
8 522 (19.11%) Visualisation
9 504 (18.45%) Artificial Intelligence
10 476 (17.43%) Machine Learning
11 446 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 403 (14.76%) Community of Practice
13 348 (12.74%) Decision-Making
14 244 (8.93%) Customer Service
15 229 (8.39%) Project Management
16 216 (7.91%) Microservices
17 213 (7.80%) Coaching
18 209 (7.65%) Data Protection
19 187 (6.85%) Data Management
20 182 (6.66%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 599 (21.93%) SQL
2 529 (19.37%) Java
3 410 (15.01%) Python
4 117 (4.28%) Scala
5 98 (3.59%) JavaScript
6 97 (3.55%) PL/SQL
7 87 (3.19%) C#
8 59 (2.16%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.95%) C
10 23 (0.84%) 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 (16.88%) Degree
2 90 (3.30%) HNC
3 71 (2.60%) HND
4 58 (2.12%) Master's Degree
5 48 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (1.35%) Security Cleared
7 33 (1.21%) CISSP
8 31 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (0.81%) CISM
9 22 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 20 (0.73%) ACCA
11 17 (0.62%) MBA
12 16 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.59%) 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 9 (0.33%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (7.29%) GDPR
2 160 (5.86%) QA
3 87 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 66 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (2.31%) SLA
6 43 (1.57%) IFRS
7 36 (1.32%) IFRS 9
8 31 (1.14%) PMO
9 30 (1.10%) ISO 9001
10 28 (1.03%) NIST
11 24 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 22 (0.81%) NEBOSH
14 21 (0.77%) GRC
15 19 (0.70%) Accessibility
16 18 (0.66%) ISO 22301
17 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
18 11 (0.40%) ISO 14001
19 9 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
20 7 (0.26%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 102 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 83 (3.04%) HDFS
3 44 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 36 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.73%) 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
1 125 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.82%) Terraform
3 23 (0.84%) SCCM
4 21 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.55%) Functional Safety
6 12 (0.44%) 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%) Active Directory Federation Services
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
1 516 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 160 (5.86%) Databricks
2 160 (5.86%) Oracle
3 113 (4.14%) SAP
4 68 (2.49%) Informatica
5 60 (2.20%) VMware
6 53 (1.94%) Cloudera
7 52 (1.90%) Alteryx
8 46 (1.68%) Citrix
9 43 (1.57%) Google
10 40 (1.46%) iManage
11 35 (1.28%) IBM
12 26 (0.95%) Cisco
12 26 (0.95%) Pega
13 25 (0.92%) NCR
14 21 (0.77%) HP
15 14 (0.51%) NEC
15 14 (0.51%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.48%) CA
16 13 (0.48%) EMC