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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 129 98
Rank change year-on-year +75 -31 +63
Permanent jobs citing Legal 3,678 2,153 6,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 2.67% 3.53%
As % of the General category 7.12% 4.03% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 1,396 2,172
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,911 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% +4.44%

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 51,660 53,362 118,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.16% 66.13% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 31,702 33,264 55,108
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%
75th Percentile £72,557 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.00% +5.26%

Legal
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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Legal in the UK

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Top 18 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 26 July 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
England +66 2,967 £50,000 -9.09% 882
UK excluding London +77 2,546 £47,500 -5.00% 745
London +58 1,010 £65,000 +1.56% 272
Work from Home +44 994 £55,000 -4.35% 327
North of England +90 622 £46,500 -2.11% 190
Scotland +135 577 £55,000 -3.51% 42
Midlands +51 455 £47,000 -10.48% 135
South East +18 421 £40,000 -23.08% 186
North West +86 378 £45,000 -5.26% 122
South West +43 280 £49,000 +3.16% 124
West Midlands +8 257 £47,000 -10.48% 83
East Midlands +108 198 £45,000 +38.46% 52
Yorkshire +57 179 £45,000 -5.26% 49
East of England +15 156 £50,000 -19.03% 63
North East +43 65 £52,500 -4.55% 24
Northern Ireland +32 17 £30,000 -47.37% 26
Wales +19 17 £54,000 +66.15% 21
Channel Islands - 5 - -

Legal
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
1 173 (4.70%) Apache Spark
1 173 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 94 (2.56%) SAS
3 85 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 59 (1.60%) Apache
5 47 (1.28%) FileNet
6 29 (0.79%) CMS
7 15 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.19%) IIS
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.14%) Confluence
10 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (0.082%) Drupal
12 3 (0.082%) nginx
12 3 (0.082%) WordPress
13 2 (0.054%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.054%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 471 (12.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 465 (12.64%) Microsoft Office
3 136 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 75 (2.04%) AutoCAD
5 19 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.49%) Revit
7 15 (0.41%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.35%) Simulink
9 8 (0.22%) SPSS
10 6 (0.16%) Stateflow
11 5 (0.14%) SketchUp
11 5 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
12 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.054%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.027%) Camtasia
15 1 (0.027%) InVision
15 1 (0.027%) Sketch
15 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 46 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (1.20%) Ripple
3 41 (1.11%) iTrent
4 36 (0.98%) Elite 3E
5 22 (0.60%) NEC Housing
6 17 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.30%) Relativity
8 11 (0.30%) ResourceLink
9 10 (0.27%) Infor SunSystems
9 10 (0.27%) SAP HR
9 10 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
10 8 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 8 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
11 7 (0.19%) BPCS
12 6 (0.16%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
13 5 (0.14%) Primavera
13 5 (0.14%) SAP ERP
14 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 402 (10.93%) AWS
2 384 (10.44%) Azure
3 223 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 210 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 121 (3.29%) GCP
6 118 (3.21%) Entra ID
7 84 (2.28%) SaaS
8 63 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
9 51 (1.39%) Amazon S3
10 50 (1.36%) GitHub
11 43 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
12 40 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 40 (1.09%) Serverless
13 38 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 37 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
15 34 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (0.92%) PaaS
16 30 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (0.79%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.12%) Firewall
2 48 (1.31%) Internet
3 34 (0.92%) LAN
3 34 (0.92%) WAN
4 32 (0.87%) Wireless
5 25 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (0.60%) Intranet
7 21 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
8 17 (0.46%) Network Security
9 15 (0.41%) SAN
9 15 (0.41%) VPN
10 14 (0.38%) DHCP
11 12 (0.33%) DNS
12 11 (0.30%) VoIP
13 9 (0.24%) 4G
13 9 (0.24%) DSL
13 9 (0.24%) LTE
13 9 (0.24%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (6.82%) NoSQL
2 179 (4.87%) Power BI
3 149 (4.05%) Big Data
4 124 (3.37%) Hadoop
5 94 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 77 (2.09%) Apache Hive
7 60 (1.63%) HBase
8 57 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.47%) Data Lake
10 49 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
11 47 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 45 (1.22%) Tableau
13 35 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
14 34 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
15 31 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
16 29 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 21 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
18 19 (0.52%) DynamoDB
18 19 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
19 18 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 99 (2.69%) Git
2 97 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 94 (2.56%) JIRA
4 68 (1.85%) JUnit
5 60 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 26 (0.71%) Jasmine
6 26 (0.71%) Mockito
7 13 (0.35%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.22%) GitLab
9 7 (0.19%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.14%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.14%) fastlane
11 5 (0.14%) Selenium
12 3 (0.082%) Axure RP
12 3 (0.082%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.082%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.082%) WebDriver
General
1 1,758 (47.80%) Finance
2 1,221 (33.20%) Social Skills
3 1,043 (28.36%) Law
4 899 (24.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 492 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
6 445 (12.10%) Retail
7 389 (10.58%) Banking
8 230 (6.25%) Marketing
9 109 (2.96%) Manufacturing
10 101 (2.75%) Public Sector
11 99 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 96 (2.61%) Local Government
13 80 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
14 79 (2.15%) Financial Institution
15 61 (1.66%) Publishing
16 60 (1.63%) Telecoms
17 49 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
18 44 (1.20%) Automotive
18 44 (1.20%) Investment Banking
19 31 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 764 (20.77%) Analyst
2 581 (15.80%) Software Engineer
3 563 (15.31%) Senior
4 232 (6.31%) Developer
5 231 (6.28%) Senior Analyst
6 229 (6.23%) Lead
7 189 (5.14%) Java Engineer
7 189 (5.14%) Java Software Engineer
8 151 (4.11%) Data Engineer
9 143 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
10 142 (3.86%) AWS Software Engineer
11 140 (3.81%) Project Manager
12 135 (3.67%) Big Data Engineer
12 135 (3.67%) Big Data Software Engineer
12 135 (3.67%) IT Manager
13 128 (3.48%) Full Stack Engineer
14 123 (3.34%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 114 (3.10%) Business Analyst
16 108 (2.94%) Development Manager
17 97 (2.64%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (4.76%) HTML
2 170 (4.62%) React
3 155 (4.21%) Spring
4 121 (3.29%) CSS
5 119 (3.24%) AngularJS
6 102 (2.77%) .NET
6 102 (2.77%) Kafka
7 98 (2.66%) J2EE
8 75 (2.04%) Node.js
9 74 (2.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 70 (1.90%) JMS
11 69 (1.88%) PySpark
12 68 (1.85%) JSON
13 66 (1.79%) Hibernate
14 54 (1.47%) XML
15 48 (1.31%) GraphQL
16 47 (1.28%) Spring Integration
17 46 (1.25%) Web Services
18 44 (1.20%) jQuery
19 31 (0.84%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 410 (11.15%) Algorithms
2 270 (7.34%) Management Information System
3 218 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 139 (3.78%) Cloud Native
5 121 (3.29%) Driving Licence
6 79 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 69 (1.88%) Housing Association
8 64 (1.74%) Credit Risk
9 62 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 61 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 52 (1.41%) Blockchain
12 50 (1.36%) Public Cloud
13 39 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.01%) Data Centre
15 30 (0.82%) NFT
16 29 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
16 29 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
17 28 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 28 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
18 27 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 195 (5.30%) Windows
2 88 (2.39%) Unix
3 82 (2.23%) Windows 10
4 59 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.58%) Linux
6 53 (1.44%) Android
7 43 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.19%) VMS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 8
9 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Vista
11 3 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.054%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,082 (29.42%) Agile
2 836 (22.73%) Risk Management
3 742 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 645 (17.54%) Software Engineering
5 572 (15.55%) SDLC
6 558 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
7 539 (14.65%) CI/CD
8 478 (13.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 449 (12.21%) Visualisation
10 431 (11.72%) Machine Learning
11 429 (11.66%) Decision-Making
12 407 (11.07%) Coaching
13 366 (9.95%) Operational Stability
14 354 (9.62%) Logistics
15 351 (9.54%) Project Management
16 322 (8.75%) Community of Practice
17 299 (8.13%) Process Improvement
18 280 (7.61%) Data Management
19 274 (7.45%) Information Security
20 273 (7.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 671 (18.24%) SQL
2 446 (12.13%) Java
3 426 (11.58%) Python
4 183 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 98 (2.66%) C#
6 95 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 90 (2.45%) PowerShell
8 88 (2.39%) Scala
9 87 (2.37%) PL/SQL
10 48 (1.31%) Go
11 38 (1.03%) C++
12 36 (0.98%) VBA
13 31 (0.84%) Rust
14 30 (0.82%) Solidity
15 29 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 28 (0.76%) C
17 23 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.57%) MATLAB
19 20 (0.54%) Ruby
20 13 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 758 (20.61%) Degree
2 114 (3.10%) HNC
3 79 (2.15%) Master's Degree
4 78 (2.12%) HND
5 70 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (1.88%) CISSP
7 55 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 50 (1.36%) Security Cleared
9 45 (1.22%) APMG
10 42 (1.14%) CISM
11 39 (1.06%) CIPD
11 39 (1.06%) CISA
12 37 (1.01%) ACCA
13 28 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.63%) SC Cleared
15 20 (0.54%) CIMA
15 20 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.49%) PhD
17 17 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (7.59%) GDPR
2 259 (7.04%) QA
3 131 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 125 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 71 (1.93%) SLA
6 58 (1.58%) NIST
7 56 (1.52%) IFRS
8 43 (1.17%) GRC
9 40 (1.09%) IFRS 9
10 36 (0.98%) Accessibility
11 35 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 28 (0.76%) ISO 9001
13 28 (0.76%) PMO
14 26 (0.71%) ISO 22301
14 26 (0.71%) PCI DSS
15 22 (0.60%) GAAP
16 21 (0.57%) NEBOSH
17 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 13 (0.35%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 181 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 60 (1.63%) HDFS
3 50 (1.36%) RACF
4 46 (1.25%) Docker
5 41 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 38 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (0.24%) Firmware
8 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.082%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.082%) XenApp
11 2 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.027%) vSphere
12 1 (0.027%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 165 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 80 (2.18%) Terraform
3 27 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (0.68%) SCCM
5 17 (0.46%) Ansible
6 13 (0.35%) SCOM
7 11 (0.30%) Functional Safety
8 7 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.14%) Grafana
9 5 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.082%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.082%) Istio
10 3 (0.082%) QRadar
11 2 (0.054%) Argo
11 2 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.054%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.054%) Puppet
12 1 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 868 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 170 (4.62%) Oracle
3 158 (4.30%) SAP
4 129 (3.51%) Databricks
5 75 (2.04%) iManage
6 61 (1.66%) Informatica
7 59 (1.60%) VMware
8 57 (1.55%) Alteryx
9 53 (1.44%) Citrix
10 50 (1.36%) CyberArk
11 46 (1.25%) Google
12 44 (1.20%) Intapp
13 39 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 37 (1.01%) Cisco
15 34 (0.92%) IBM
16 30 (0.82%) Cloudera
17 29 (0.79%) NEC
18 25 (0.68%) NCR
18 25 (0.68%) Salesforce
19 23 (0.63%) Aderant