Legal
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 58 93
Rank change year-on-year -13 +35 +31
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2,053 4,188 3,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.66% 3.79% 3.51%
As % of the General category 5.21% 6.64% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 717 1,841 1,507
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% +5.26%

All General Skills
UK

Legal 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 39,419 63,039 61,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.35% 57.06% 67.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18,513 40,988 34,928
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Legal in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Legal in the UK

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Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the UK over the 6 months to 15 June 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 -4 1,878 £60,000 +20.00% 4,388
UK excluding London -22 1,305 £48,750 +8.33% 2,437
Work from Home +1 766 £60,000 +9.09% 1,903
London 0 650 £72,500 +11.54% 2,592
North of England -37 414 £46,000 +2.22% 463
South East +21 352 £50,000 +33.33% 1,044
North West -25 335 £44,000 -2.22% 254
Midlands -16 253 £36,500 -23.08% 323
West Midlands 0 166 £38,750 -22.50% 201
East of England -13 104 £53,000 +6.00% 221
East Midlands -15 87 £35,500 -21.11% 109
South West -3 75 £30,000 -36.84% 201
Scotland -68 70 £60,743 +15.70% 109
Yorkshire -45 63 £51,250 +48.55% 162
North East -12 16 £50,000 -6.98% 47
Northern Ireland +34 15 £85,151 +183.84% 43
Wales +29 15 £55,000 +6.80% 70
Channel Islands -2 4 £80,000 - 17
Isle of Man - 3 £91,000 - 1

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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 56 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
1 56 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.05%) CMS
3 8 (0.39%) WordPress
4 5 (0.24%) Confluence
4 5 (0.24%) SAS
5 4 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.19%) Drupal
6 1 (0.049%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.049%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.049%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.049%) IIS
6 1 (0.049%) Mule
6 1 (0.049%) nginx
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.049%) Strapi
Applications
1 235 (11.45%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.44%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
7 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.24%) Acrobat
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.24%) Revit
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.19%) InDesign
10 2 (0.097%) LaTeX
10 2 (0.097%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.049%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.049%) Stata
Business Applications
1 33 (1.61%) Elite 3E
2 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.29%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 5 (0.24%) Carpe Diem
5 5 (0.24%) Relativity
5 5 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.19%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.15%) Exchequer
7 3 (0.15%) Visualfiles
8 2 (0.097%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.097%) Primavera
8 2 (0.097%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.097%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.097%) SAP GTS
8 2 (0.097%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.049%) Magento
9 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.049%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 243 (11.84%) Azure
2 162 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 107 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 84 (4.09%) AWS
5 69 (3.36%) SaaS
6 58 (2.83%) GCP
7 45 (2.19%) Entra ID
8 37 (1.80%) PaaS
9 36 (1.75%) OneDrive
9 36 (1.75%) Power Automate
10 32 (1.56%) PowerApps
11 25 (1.22%) iPaaS
12 22 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (0.68%) Salsify
15 13 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (0.58%) Google Workspace
16 12 (0.58%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.53%) Firewall
2 30 (1.46%) Network Security
3 23 (1.12%) VLAN
4 22 (1.07%) DHCP
4 22 (1.07%) DNS
4 22 (1.07%) Intranet
5 18 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.88%) VoIP
5 18 (0.88%) VPN
6 17 (0.83%) SAN
7 15 (0.73%) WAN
8 14 (0.68%) MPLS
9 13 (0.63%) Broadband
10 12 (0.58%) LAN
10 12 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.39%) Wireless
12 6 (0.29%) Internet
12 6 (0.29%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.24%) RTP
14 4 (0.19%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (4.43%) Power BI
2 38 (1.85%) Metadata
3 31 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 26 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (0.88%) Tableau
7 11 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.49%) EDRMS
9 9 (0.44%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.39%) Power Query
11 5 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.24%) GIS
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.24%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.19%) Looker
12 4 (0.19%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.19%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 55 (2.68%) JIRA
2 26 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
3 22 (1.07%) Selenium
4 14 (0.68%) Git
5 5 (0.24%) Bazaar
5 5 (0.24%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.15%) AppScan
6 3 (0.15%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.15%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.097%) Appium
7 2 (0.097%) TestRail
7 2 (0.097%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.049%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.049%) GitLab
8 1 (0.049%) InstallShield
8 1 (0.049%) MLflow
8 1 (0.049%) MSI
8 1 (0.049%) Postman
8 1 (0.049%) Storybook
General
1 805 (39.21%) Law
2 781 (38.04%) Finance
3 763 (37.17%) Social Skills
4 433 (21.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 276 (13.44%) Marketing
6 274 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
7 123 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
8 117 (5.70%) Manufacturing
9 102 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
10 86 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
11 79 (3.85%) Retail
12 75 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
13 59 (2.87%) Banking
14 55 (2.68%) Financial Institution
15 54 (2.63%) Public Sector
16 48 (2.34%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.75%) Local Government
18 34 (1.66%) Billing
19 26 (1.27%) Front Office
20 25 (1.22%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 348 (16.95%) Senior
2 186 (9.06%) Analyst
3 145 (7.06%) Lead
4 127 (6.19%) Customer Executive
5 87 (4.24%) Senior Manager
6 74 (3.60%) IT Support
7 66 (3.21%) Software Engineer
8 64 (3.12%) Architect
9 62 (3.02%) Risk Manager
10 59 (2.87%) Project Manager
11 52 (2.53%) Consultant
12 49 (2.39%) Support Analyst
13 46 (2.24%) Developer
14 44 (2.14%) Operations Manager
15 37 (1.80%) IT Analyst
16 36 (1.75%) IT Manager
17 31 (1.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 30 (1.46%) Business Analyst
18 30 (1.46%) IT Support Analyst
19 27 (1.32%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.41%) .NET
1 29 (1.41%) CSS
2 27 (1.32%) HTML
3 26 (1.27%) React
4 20 (0.97%) LangChain
5 16 (0.78%) Spring
6 15 (0.73%) Hugging Face
6 15 (0.73%) PyTorch
6 15 (0.73%) RESTful
6 15 (0.73%) TensorFlow
7 12 (0.58%) AngularJS
7 12 (0.58%) REST
8 8 (0.39%) ASP.NET
8 8 (0.39%) Spring Boot
8 8 (0.39%) Web Services
9 7 (0.34%) Middleware
9 7 (0.34%) Node.js
10 6 (0.29%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.29%) Kafka
11 5 (0.24%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 286 (13.93%) Cyberattack
2 138 (6.72%) Management Information System
3 70 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (2.24%) Social Media
5 40 (1.95%) Cloud Native
6 39 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 36 (1.75%) Derivative
8 33 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 33 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 33 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
9 29 (1.41%) Hedge funds
10 28 (1.36%) Blockchain
10 28 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (1.36%) NHS
11 27 (1.32%) Algorithms
12 25 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (0.97%) e-Learning
15 20 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.38%) Windows
2 48 (2.34%) Windows Server
3 37 (1.80%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.22%) Mac OS
5 21 (1.02%) Linux
6 11 (0.54%) Windows Vista
7 7 (0.34%) Android
7 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Unix
11 3 (0.15%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.097%) VMS
13 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (19.53%) Cybersecurity
2 350 (17.05%) Creative Thinking
3 330 (16.07%) Line Management
4 311 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 285 (13.88%) Risk Management
6 274 (13.35%) Project Management
7 270 (13.15%) Agile
8 259 (12.62%) Decision-Making
9 228 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 187 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 185 (9.01%) Mentoring
12 182 (8.87%) Information Security
13 179 (8.72%) Business Development
13 179 (8.72%) Roadmaps
13 179 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 171 (8.33%) Contract Negotiation
15 158 (7.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 142 (6.92%) Analytics
17 140 (6.82%) Coaching
18 134 (6.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 124 (6.04%) SQL
2 92 (4.48%) Python
3 55 (2.68%) PowerShell
4 54 (2.63%) Java
5 39 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 32 (1.56%) C#
7 19 (0.93%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.78%) Kotlin
9 14 (0.68%) PHP
9 14 (0.68%) R
9 14 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.58%) Go
11 10 (0.49%) C++
12 9 (0.44%) Scala
13 7 (0.34%) C
13 7 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.19%) Groovy
14 4 (0.19%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 428 (20.85%) Degree
2 139 (6.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 91 (4.43%) Numerate Degree
4 70 (3.41%) Master's Degree
5 64 (3.12%) CISSP
6 61 (2.97%) DBS Check
7 47 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (2.19%) CISM
9 35 (1.70%) Security Cleared
10 33 (1.61%) CRISC
11 30 (1.46%) CISA
12 22 (1.07%) PhD
13 21 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.02%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.97%) MRICS
15 19 (0.93%) A+ Certification
15 19 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.88%) SC Cleared
17 17 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 17 (0.83%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (14.32%) NCSC
2 142 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 138 (6.72%) GDPR
4 77 (3.75%) QA
5 73 (3.56%) Accessibility
6 58 (2.83%) NIST
7 57 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 37 (1.80%) Data Quality
9 31 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (1.12%) SOC 2
11 22 (1.07%) SLA
12 21 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (0.93%) PCI DSS
14 18 (0.88%) GRC
15 16 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.54%) COBIT
17 9 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.39%) GAAP
19 7 (0.34%) ISO 9001
20 6 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 90 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.63%) Docker
4 10 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.049%) Firmware
8 1 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.049%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 52 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.93%) SCCM
4 14 (0.68%) Grafana
5 13 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.49%) Terraform
8 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.24%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.24%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.19%) CASB
9 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.15%) Nessus
11 2 (0.097%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.049%) Ansible
12 1 (0.049%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.049%) EnCase
12 1 (0.049%) FTK
12 1 (0.049%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.049%) Puppet
Vendors
1 287 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.84%) Salesforce
3 45 (2.19%) Google
4 44 (2.14%) VMware
5 43 (2.09%) Intapp
6 42 (2.05%) iManage
6 42 (2.05%) Oracle
7 33 (1.61%) Cisco
8 32 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.17%) Aderant
10 21 (1.02%) SAP
11 20 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.88%) Workday
13 15 (0.73%) Adobe
14 14 (0.68%) Informatica
15 12 (0.58%) Citrix
16 11 (0.54%) Veeam
17 9 (0.44%) Databricks
18 8 (0.39%) Facebook
19 7 (0.34%) Alteryx