Law
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 35 100
Rank change year-on-year -14 +65 +57
Permanent jobs citing Law 2,576 5,687 3,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.99% 5.79% 3.37%
As % of the General category 7.42% 9.68% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 2,150 1,808
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,525 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

All General Skills
UK

Law 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,738 58,777 72,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.32% 59.87% 68.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,372 39,592 38,758
10th Percentile £28,013 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK

Law
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Law.

Salary trend for Law in the UK

Law
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Law in the UK

Law
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2025. 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
England +26 2,468 £55,000 - 3,263
UK excluding London -19 1,707 £50,000 +5.26% 1,092
Work from Home +56 850 £58,000 +5.45% 1,855
London +9 766 £65,000 -1.89% 2,417
South East +135 558 £56,250 +12.50% 380
Midlands +43 533 £45,000 +5.88% 154
North of England +8 471 £50,000 - 221
West Midlands +54 322 £45,000 -10.00% 92
North West +8 318 £60,000 +23.71% 134
East Midlands +41 211 £42,500 +6.25% 59
Yorkshire +2 125 £45,000 -18.18% 72
East of England +2 74 £57,500 +21.05% 73
Scotland -116 31 £62,500 +31.58% 102
North East +18 28 £45,000 -10.00% 17
South West -83 28 £57,500 +24.32% 97
Northern Ireland +23 8 £50,000 -12.70% 58
Channel Islands +2 3 £78,750 -7.35% 1
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 89 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 71 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 53 (2.06%) Confluence
4 30 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.62%) Apache
6 12 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.35%) OpenEdge
8 7 (0.27%) IIS
9 6 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.12%) GemFire
10 3 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.12%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.039%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.039%) WordPress
Applications
1 118 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.40%) Maya
5 21 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.58%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.47%) Acrobat
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.19%) Sketch
9 5 (0.19%) Trello
10 4 (0.16%) InVision
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.039%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.93%) Ripple
2 24 (0.93%) Ripple XRP
3 20 (0.78%) Elite 3E
4 19 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 18 (0.70%) SAP FI
6 16 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 16 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
7 15 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
7 15 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.39%) TrackWise
9 9 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.35%) SAP IBP
10 7 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
11 6 (0.23%) Endur
12 5 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
12 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
13 3 (0.12%) Relativity
13 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 439 (17.04%) Azure
2 209 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
3 196 (7.61%) Power Platform
4 191 (7.41%) AWS
5 127 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
6 105 (4.08%) GCP
6 105 (4.08%) SaaS
7 62 (2.41%) Entra ID
8 52 (2.02%) Power Automate
9 47 (1.82%) PowerApps
10 41 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 38 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
12 34 (1.32%) PaaS
12 34 (1.32%) Serverless
13 33 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
14 32 (1.24%) Snowflake
15 29 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 28 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (1.09%) OneDrive
17 27 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.68%) Firewall
2 49 (1.90%) DNS
3 32 (1.24%) DHCP
4 24 (0.93%) VPN
5 22 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.82%) Wireless
7 19 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
7 19 (0.74%) WebEx
8 15 (0.58%) Intranet
9 12 (0.47%) VLAN
9 12 (0.47%) WAN
9 12 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.43%) LAN
10 11 (0.43%) Network Security
11 10 (0.39%) SAN
12 9 (0.35%) HTTP
12 9 (0.35%) SMTP
13 7 (0.27%) Internet
13 7 (0.27%) VoIP
14 4 (0.16%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (4.50%) Power BI
2 99 (3.84%) Data Lake
3 80 (3.11%) Tableau
4 69 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 63 (2.45%) Big Data
6 61 (2.37%) SQL Server
7 51 (1.98%) Metadata
8 47 (1.82%) NoSQL
9 32 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 28 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 27 (1.05%) Data Mining
11 27 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 24 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 24 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 18 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.58%) Relational Database
16 13 (0.50%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 73 (2.83%) JIRA
2 33 (1.28%) Git
3 30 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.58%) Visual Studio
5 12 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 12 (0.47%) webpack
6 10 (0.39%) Selenium
7 8 (0.31%) GitLab
7 8 (0.31%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.27%) Babel
9 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.19%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.19%) NUnit
10 5 (0.19%) Vite
11 4 (0.16%) Ant
11 4 (0.16%) Appium
11 4 (0.16%) Storybook
11 4 (0.16%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.12%) MSTest
12 3 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 667 (25.89%) Legal
2 582 (22.59%) Social Skills
3 502 (19.49%) Finance
4 416 (16.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 415 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
6 162 (6.29%) Marketing
7 122 (4.74%) Manufacturing
8 96 (3.73%) Retail
9 84 (3.26%) Games
10 80 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 70 (2.72%) Banking
12 60 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 53 (2.06%) Financial Institution
13 53 (2.06%) Public Sector
14 52 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
17 24 (0.93%) Digital Economy
17 24 (0.93%) Electronics
18 22 (0.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 449 (17.43%) Lead
2 394 (15.30%) Senior
3 329 (12.77%) Analyst
4 219 (8.50%) Principal Engineer
5 190 (7.38%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 160 (6.21%) Developer
7 138 (5.36%) Support Analyst
8 135 (5.24%) IT Analyst
9 134 (5.20%) IT Support
10 131 (5.09%) Architect
11 107 (4.15%) Consultant
12 98 (3.80%) IT Support Analyst
13 79 (3.07%) Senior Manager
14 65 (2.52%) Project Engineer
15 60 (2.33%) Software Engineer
16 59 (2.29%) Logistics Engineer
17 57 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
18 54 (2.10%) IT Manager
19 52 (2.02%) Cloud Engineer
20 51 (1.98%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (3.18%) .NET
1 82 (3.18%) React
2 73 (2.83%) Node.js
3 50 (1.94%) REST
4 42 (1.63%) Middleware
5 41 (1.59%) RESTful
6 40 (1.55%) Spring
7 33 (1.28%) AngularJS
7 33 (1.28%) HTML
8 32 (1.24%) CSS
8 32 (1.24%) Kafka
8 32 (1.24%) Spring Boot
9 28 (1.09%) SOAP
10 25 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
11 23 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
12 22 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
13 20 (0.78%) Redux
14 19 (0.74%) WPF
15 17 (0.66%) JWT
15 17 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 289 (11.22%) Cyberattack
2 108 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 105 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 102 (3.96%) Algorithms
5 75 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 57 (2.21%) FMCG
7 52 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 46 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
10 36 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
11 35 (1.36%) Blockchain
11 35 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 32 (1.24%) Cloud Native
13 30 (1.16%) IoT
13 30 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 28 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 25 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 25 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
16 24 (0.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 210 (8.15%) Windows
2 83 (3.22%) Windows 10
3 67 (2.60%) Linux
4 56 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.74%) Mac OS X
6 15 (0.58%) Unix
6 15 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.50%) Android
8 13 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.19%) Rocky
11 2 (0.078%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.039%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
2 438 (17.00%) Agile
3 428 (16.61%) Analytics
4 405 (15.72%) Cybersecurity
5 351 (13.63%) Line Management
6 324 (12.58%) Project Management
7 316 (12.27%) Roadmaps
8 304 (11.80%) Artificial Intelligence
9 289 (11.22%) Creative Thinking
10 260 (10.09%) Computer Science
11 259 (10.05%) Logistics
12 258 (10.02%) Mathematics
13 257 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 248 (9.63%) Mentoring
15 232 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
16 231 (8.97%) DevOps
17 229 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
18 228 (8.85%) Business Strategy
19 219 (8.50%) Data Management
20 206 (8.00%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 263 (10.21%) SQL
2 230 (8.93%) Python
3 118 (4.58%) C#
4 108 (4.19%) Java
5 77 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 54 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 46 (1.79%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.36%) C++
9 25 (0.97%) Apex Code
9 25 (0.97%) Go
10 23 (0.89%) T-SQL
11 22 (0.85%) Scala
11 22 (0.85%) X++
12 13 (0.50%) PHP
13 12 (0.47%) C
14 10 (0.39%) Rust
15 8 (0.31%) Clojure
15 8 (0.31%) Elixir
16 7 (0.27%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 839 (32.57%) Degree
2 157 (6.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 147 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 143 (5.55%) Security Cleared
5 122 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (1.79%) PMI Certification
7 45 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.51%) SC Cleared
9 31 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 24 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.89%) PMP
13 19 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 19 (0.74%) PhD
14 17 (0.66%) A+ Certification
14 17 (0.66%) CISSP
15 13 (0.50%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.47%) CCNP
17 10 (0.39%) MBA
17 10 (0.39%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (11.10%) NCSC
2 135 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 121 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 70 (2.72%) GDPR
5 67 (2.60%) QA
6 51 (1.98%) SLA
7 42 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 40 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.62%) ISO 9001
10 15 (0.58%) GMP
11 14 (0.54%) NIST
12 13 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.47%) GRC
14 10 (0.39%) PCI DSS
15 9 (0.35%) PERC
16 8 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
17 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.23%) PMO
18 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 6 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 145 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 49 (1.90%) Docker
3 21 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.66%) HDFS
5 14 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.35%) DFS Replication
7 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.039%) Firmware
9 1 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.039%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 123 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 56 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 48 (1.86%) Terraform
4 44 (1.71%) SCCM
5 28 (1.09%) Ansible
6 10 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.39%) QRadar
7 8 (0.31%) Puppet
7 8 (0.31%) SCOM
8 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.23%) CASB
10 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.16%) Grafana
12 3 (0.12%) EnCase
12 3 (0.12%) FTK
13 2 (0.078%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.078%) RSA Security Analytics
13 2 (0.078%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.078%) SCSM
Vendors
1 543 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.17%) SAP
3 124 (4.81%) ServiceNow
4 100 (3.88%) Google
5 90 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 77 (2.99%) Oracle
7 65 (2.52%) iManage
8 53 (2.06%) Adobe
8 53 (2.06%) Cisco
9 47 (1.82%) Workday
10 45 (1.75%) VMware
11 36 (1.40%) Databricks
11 36 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 32 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 31 (1.20%) Aderant
14 30 (1.16%) IBM
14 30 (1.16%) Intapp
15 28 (1.09%) Citrix
15 28 (1.09%) Informatica
16 26 (1.01%) MuleSoft