Legal Technology Job Trends

Legal Technology (Legal Tech)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal Technology in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal Technology over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 599 785
Rank change year-on-year +85 +186 +61
Permanent jobs citing Legal Technology 220 85 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the General category 0.50% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 172 62 84
10th Percentile £47,050 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% +7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £104,750 £94,875 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £53,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +69.81% +51.43% -36.36%

All General Skills
UK

Legal Technology falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 43,669 32,267 61,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.27% 72.98% 57.69%
Number of salaries quoted 26,648 15,616 40,734
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,170 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%

Legal Technology
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Legal Technology relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Legal Technology job vacancy trend in the UK

Legal Technology
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Legal Technology.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Legal Technology

Legal Technology
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal Technology over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Legal Technology in the UK

Legal Technology
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal Technology within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 2026. 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 +55 197 £80,000 +23.08% 70
London +65 124 £77,500 -6.06% 51
UK excluding London -12 73 £90,000 +69.81% 28
Work from Home +46 71 £73,750 +22.92% 35
North of England -27 22 £80,000 +23.08% 5
North West +17 19 £100,000 +81.82% 4
Midlands -6 18 £100,000 +185.71% 3
West Midlands -11 15 £100,000 +185.71% 2
South East -12 14 £67,500 +16.38% 13
South West - 12 £100,000 - 3
East of England -21 5 £65,000 +22.64% 3
East Midlands - 3 £48,000 - 1
Scotland +14 2 £46,750 -34.62%
Yorkshire -49 2 £56,250 -13.46% 1
North East - 1 £50,000 -

Legal Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 14 (6.36%) SAS
3 4 (1.82%) CMS
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (6.36%) SPSS
2 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (2.73%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.82%) Relativity
4 1 (0.45%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 82 (37.27%) SaaS
2 35 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (13.18%) Azure
4 27 (12.27%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.82%) AWS
6 13 (5.91%) Harvey AI
6 13 (5.91%) Microsoft Copilot
7 11 (5.00%) Dropbox
8 9 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.64%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.18%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (3.18%) Cloudflare
10 7 (3.18%) GCP
10 7 (3.18%) Vercel
11 6 (2.73%) Heroku
12 5 (2.27%) Smartsheet
13 4 (1.82%) Figma
14 3 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.36%) PowerApps
15 2 (0.91%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) Intranet
2 2 (0.91%) Extranet
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.45%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.36%) Big Data
1 14 (6.36%) EDRMS
2 8 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.64%) Power BI
3 2 (0.91%) Metadata
3 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.91%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 219 (99.55%) Legal
2 146 (66.36%) Law
3 60 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 33 (15.00%) Finance
5 21 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (7.27%) Marketing
8 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Billing
9 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (30.00%) Senior
2 45 (20.45%) Legal Technology Manager
3 39 (17.73%) Senior Manager
4 37 (16.82%) Account Manager
4 37 (16.82%) Senior Account Manager
5 29 (13.18%) Analyst
6 21 (9.55%) Developer
7 18 (8.18%) Lead
8 14 (6.36%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.91%) Engineering Manager
9 13 (5.91%) IT Support
9 13 (5.91%) Product Manager
10 11 (5.00%) Forensic Manager
10 11 (5.00%) Sales Executive
11 10 (4.55%) Architect
11 10 (4.55%) Support Analyst
12 9 (4.09%) IT Analyst
12 9 (4.09%) IT Support Analyst
12 9 (4.09%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.09%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.27%) React
2 11 (5.00%) .NET
3 8 (3.64%) CSS
3 8 (3.64%) HTML
3 8 (3.64%) REST
3 8 (3.64%) Ruby on Rails
4 7 (3.18%) Node.js
5 2 (0.91%) Next.js
6 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.45%) CSS3
6 1 (0.45%) HTML5
6 1 (0.45%) JSON
6 1 (0.45%) OAuth
6 1 (0.45%) OpenID
6 1 (0.45%) RESTful
6 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.36%) Cybercrime
2 14 (6.36%) Onboarding
2 14 (6.36%) Podcast
2 14 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.00%) Culture of Ownership
4 7 (3.18%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.36%) PropTech
7 2 (0.91%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.45%) FMCG
8 1 (0.45%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.45%) Replication
8 1 (0.45%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.45%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Android
2 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (35.91%) AI
2 35 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (14.55%) Roadmaps
4 29 (13.18%) Generative AI
5 26 (11.82%) Practice Management
6 25 (11.36%) Information Security
6 25 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (10.91%) Workflow
8 23 (10.45%) Agile
8 23 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (10.45%) Project Management
9 22 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 20 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
11 19 (8.64%) Collaborative Culture
11 19 (8.64%) Data Privacy
11 19 (8.64%) DevOps
12 17 (7.73%) Analytics
12 17 (7.73%) Business Analysis
12 17 (7.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.45%) JavaScript
2 11 (5.00%) SQL
3 9 (4.09%) C#
4 8 (3.64%) Ruby
5 6 (2.73%) Bicep
6 4 (1.82%) Python
6 4 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.45%) PHP
7 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (14.09%) Degree
2 4 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.55%) QA
2 8 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.18%) GRC
4 6 (2.73%) PMO
5 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (5.00%) EnCase
1 11 (5.00%) FTK
2 6 (2.73%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.64%) iManage
3 20 (9.09%) Intapp
4 16 (7.27%) HighQ
5 13 (5.91%) Aderant
6 11 (5.00%) Cellebrite
7 10 (4.55%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.18%) Litera
9 5 (2.27%) DocuSign
9 5 (2.27%) Legatics
9 5 (2.27%) Legora
10 4 (1.82%) LexisNexis
10 4 (1.82%) Nuix
10 4 (1.82%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.91%) SAP
12 1 (0.45%) Apple
12 1 (0.45%) Blue Prism
12 1 (0.45%) Cisco
12 1 (0.45%) Citrix