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 have cited Law over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 89 158
Rank change year-on-year +54 +69 -26
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,555 3,949 4,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.71% 3.69% 2.65%
As % of the General category 9.52% 5.36% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,150 1,867 2,050
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -

All General Skills
UK

Law is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,358 73,675 96,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 60.01% 68.90% 63.17%
Number of salaries quoted 39,572 39,430 51,210
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 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
UK excluding London +48 4,375 £47,500 -5.00% 560
England +3 2,803 £54,950 +4.67% 956
Scotland +147 2,532 £47,500 -9.52% 43
London +43 1,046 £65,000 - 418
Work from Home -11 1,007 £55,000 - 519
North of England +49 580 £50,000 - 160
Midlands -32 421 £42,500 -10.53% 105
South West -23 285 £47,500 -5.00% 81
South East -84 283 £50,000 +11.11% 110
North West +30 279 £48,500 -7.62% 106
Yorkshire +67 240 £55,000 +15.79% 47
West Midlands -30 233 £51,250 +2.50% 52
East Midlands -38 162 £40,000 -11.11% 52
East of England +33 155 £50,000 -9.09% 49
Wales +63 96 £42,500 +18.88% 22
North East +22 60 £50,000 -9.91% 7
Northern Ireland +9 24 £57,276 +34.77% 6
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -

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
1 580 (10.44%) Apache Spark
2 162 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 141 (2.54%) Apache
4 123 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 117 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
6 93 (1.67%) FileNet
7 75 (1.35%) Confluence
8 29 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
8 29 (0.52%) SAS
9 28 (0.50%) IIS
10 21 (0.38%) GemFire
11 20 (0.36%) Camunda
11 20 (0.36%) Skype for Business
12 16 (0.29%) CMS
13 11 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 10 (0.18%) CICS
15 9 (0.16%) WordPress
16 8 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
17 7 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
18 6 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 237 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 135 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 92 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.68%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 19 (0.34%) Sketch
7 11 (0.20%) SPSS
8 6 (0.11%) InVision
8 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.054%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.054%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.054%) Simulink
11 2 (0.036%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.036%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.036%) Gliffy
11 2 (0.036%) InDesign
11 2 (0.036%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 78 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.36%) Elite 3E
5 17 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
5 17 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 17 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 12 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
8 11 (0.20%) Endur
8 11 (0.20%) Relativity
9 9 (0.16%) Visualfiles
10 7 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.13%) SAP HCM
10 7 (0.13%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,332 (23.98%) AWS
2 705 (12.69%) Azure
3 396 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
4 242 (4.36%) Power Platform
5 230 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
6 160 (2.88%) SaaS
7 151 (2.72%) GCP
8 131 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 121 (2.18%) Amazon S3
10 114 (2.05%) Datadog
11 104 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
12 96 (1.73%) Figma
12 96 (1.73%) PowerApps
13 95 (1.71%) Power Automate
14 89 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
15 86 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
16 77 (1.39%) Serverless
17 75 (1.35%) SurveyMonkey
18 70 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
19 67 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 150 (2.70%) Firewall
2 83 (1.49%) LAN
3 81 (1.46%) Kerberos
4 70 (1.26%) WAN
5 56 (1.01%) DNS
6 52 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 49 (0.88%) VPN
8 48 (0.86%) SAN
9 46 (0.83%) Internet
10 36 (0.65%) DHCP
11 34 (0.61%) Wireless
12 31 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
14 25 (0.45%) Skype
15 24 (0.43%) OSPF
16 23 (0.41%) Network Security
17 22 (0.40%) BGP
17 22 (0.40%) MPLS
18 21 (0.38%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (11.85%) NoSQL
2 505 (9.09%) Big Data
3 233 (4.19%) Hadoop
4 196 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 165 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 153 (2.75%) Power BI
7 150 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 143 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
9 131 (2.36%) Apache Hive
10 121 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 100 (1.80%) HBase
12 92 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 74 (1.33%) Metadata
14 66 (1.19%) Tableau
15 55 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 52 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
17 43 (0.77%) CockroachDB
17 43 (0.77%) MySQL
18 36 (0.65%) Qlik Sense
19 35 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 329 (5.92%) Jenkins
2 245 (4.41%) Git
3 207 (3.73%) JUnit
4 157 (2.83%) JIRA
5 120 (2.16%) Jasmine
6 86 (1.55%) Cypress.io
7 84 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
8 78 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 78 (1.40%) Selenium
9 75 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
10 65 (1.17%) Artifactory
11 62 (1.12%) WebDriver
12 60 (1.08%) Protractor
13 58 (1.04%) Maven
14 47 (0.85%) GitLab
15 45 (0.81%) Mockito
16 40 (0.72%) Cucumber
17 31 (0.56%) CircleCI
18 29 (0.52%) Gradle
18 29 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,311 (59.60%) Finance
2 3,003 (54.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,522 (27.40%) Marketing
4 1,268 (22.83%) Legal
5 1,226 (22.07%) Social Skills
6 698 (12.57%) Banking
7 489 (8.80%) Investment Banking
8 440 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
9 316 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
10 278 (5.00%) Financial Institution
11 266 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
12 164 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 104 (1.87%) Retail
14 90 (1.62%) Private Banking
15 89 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 79 (1.42%) Telecoms
17 49 (0.88%) Games
18 46 (0.83%) Front Office
18 46 (0.83%) Public Sector
19 42 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,952 (35.14%) Software Engineer
2 946 (17.03%) Lead
3 781 (14.06%) Java Engineer
4 772 (13.90%) Java Software Engineer
5 693 (12.48%) Senior
6 668 (12.03%) Lead Software Engineer
7 594 (10.69%) Analyst
8 499 (8.98%) Developer
9 381 (6.86%) Big Data Engineer
9 381 (6.86%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 338 (6.08%) Python Engineer
11 324 (5.83%) Full Stack Engineer
11 324 (5.83%) Python Software Engineer
12 310 (5.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 302 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
14 290 (5.22%) AWS Software Engineer
15 268 (4.82%) Lead Java Engineer
16 261 (4.70%) Data Engineer
17 222 (4.00%) Scala Engineer
17 222 (4.00%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 663 (11.94%) Spring
2 556 (10.01%) React
3 414 (7.45%) AngularJS
4 361 (6.50%) Kafka
5 343 (6.17%) Spring Boot
6 339 (6.10%) HTML
7 298 (5.36%) CSS
8 250 (4.50%) JSON
9 240 (4.32%) J2EE
10 211 (3.80%) RESTful
11 209 (3.76%) .NET
12 198 (3.56%) Node.js
13 189 (3.40%) Hibernate
14 174 (3.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 172 (3.10%) PySpark
16 168 (3.02%) JMS
17 166 (2.99%) jQuery
18 164 (2.95%) Web Services
19 154 (2.77%) REST
20 148 (2.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 928 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 796 (14.33%) Algorithms
3 285 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 244 (4.39%) Management Information System
5 196 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 180 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 138 (2.48%) Market Risk
7 138 (2.48%) Reference Data
8 129 (2.32%) Data Structures
9 122 (2.20%) FMCG
10 88 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 72 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 66 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 65 (1.17%) Credit Risk
14 61 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
15 59 (1.06%) Mobile App
16 58 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
17 50 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
18 48 (0.86%) Data Centre
19 45 (0.81%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 370 (6.66%) Windows
2 183 (3.29%) Linux
3 159 (2.86%) Unix
3 159 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 110 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 64 (1.15%) Android
6 42 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.41%) VMS
8 13 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.13%) CentOS
10 7 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (0.11%) AIX
11 6 (0.11%) Windows 8
11 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.054%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.018%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,689 (48.41%) Agile
2 2,405 (43.29%) Software Engineering
3 2,083 (37.50%) SDLC
4 2,026 (36.47%) CI/CD
5 1,837 (33.07%) Operational Stability
6 1,460 (26.28%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,437 (25.87%) Machine Learning
8 1,281 (23.06%) Community of Practice
9 1,088 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 915 (16.47%) Visualisation
11 909 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
12 839 (15.10%) Risk Management
13 655 (11.79%) Decision-Making
14 514 (9.25%) Microservices
15 496 (8.93%) Continuous Delivery
16 481 (8.66%) Mentoring
17 435 (7.83%) Information Architecture
18 413 (7.43%) Architectural Design
19 411 (7.40%) Analytics
20 410 (7.38%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,688 (30.39%) Java
2 1,465 (26.37%) SQL
3 1,098 (19.77%) Python
4 459 (8.26%) JavaScript
5 321 (5.78%) Scala
6 251 (4.52%) TypeScript
7 241 (4.34%) C#
8 152 (2.74%) PL/SQL
9 117 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 112 (2.02%) Go
11 99 (1.78%) PowerShell
12 67 (1.21%) SPARQL
13 65 (1.17%) Prolog
14 48 (0.86%) R
15 37 (0.67%) Groovy
15 37 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 33 (0.59%) Shell Script
17 32 (0.58%) C
18 28 (0.50%) C++
18 28 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 721 (12.98%) Degree
2 146 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 115 (2.07%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 104 (1.87%) Security Cleared
5 85 (1.53%) CISSP
6 82 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (1.04%) PhD
7 58 (1.04%) SC Cleared
8 43 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 37 (0.67%) CISM
10 34 (0.61%) ACCA
11 33 (0.59%) CISA
12 32 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (0.47%) Azure Certification
14 25 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
15 23 (0.41%) CIPD
16 21 (0.38%) CEH
16 21 (0.38%) SSCP
17 20 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.31%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (4.25%) SLA
2 118 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 105 (1.89%) QA
4 100 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 88 (1.58%) GDPR
6 76 (1.37%) Data Quality
7 63 (1.13%) PMO
8 57 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
9 44 (0.79%) NIST
10 35 (0.63%) IFRS
11 32 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
12 27 (0.49%) GRC
13 25 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.27%) IFRS 9
15 15 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 15 (0.27%) WAI
16 13 (0.23%) CDISC
16 13 (0.23%) ITGC
16 13 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 364 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 100 (1.80%) HDFS
3 98 (1.76%) Docker
4 51 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 38 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.23%) Terminal Services
8 11 (0.20%) Firmware
9 10 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
10 9 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
12 7 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.090%) XenApp
14 2 (0.036%) pfSense
14 2 (0.036%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.036%) vSphere
15 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 374 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 301 (5.42%) Terraform
3 179 (3.22%) Grafana
4 73 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 56 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (0.58%) SCCM
7 26 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.38%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.38%) Kibana
8 21 (0.38%) Zipkin
9 20 (0.36%) Ansible
9 20 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (0.34%) vCenter Server
11 13 (0.23%) Graphite
12 8 (0.14%) logstash
12 8 (0.14%) vRealize
13 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (0.11%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.11%) QRadar
14 5 (0.090%) SCOM
Vendors
1 774 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 462 (8.32%) Oracle
3 270 (4.86%) Databricks
4 191 (3.44%) Splunk
5 161 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 158 (2.84%) Dynatrace
7 119 (2.14%) Dell
8 113 (2.03%) Citrix
9 109 (1.96%) VMware
10 100 (1.80%) Google
11 96 (1.73%) Informatica
12 94 (1.69%) iManage
13 80 (1.44%) Alteryx
14 75 (1.35%) Cisco
15 71 (1.28%) Cloudera
16 70 (1.26%) Qualtrics
17 65 (1.17%) SAP
18 40 (0.72%) Intapp
19 39 (0.70%) Aderant
20 34 (0.61%) CA