Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 January 2022

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 have cited Legal over the 6 months to 23 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Legal
UK
6 months to
23 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 139 192 189
Rank change year-on-year +53 -3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Legal 3,329 1,110 2,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.60% 1.75% 1.86%
As % of the General category 4.37% 3.42% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,731 671 1,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £39,625 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £71,625 £70,000 £69,825
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% +12.50% -11.11%

Legal 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.

All General Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 76,160 32,418 69,139
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.47% 51.23% 54.94%
Number of salaries quoted 46,218 25,510 53,267
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,500 £28,847
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the UK

Legal
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Legal in the UK

Legal
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal over the 6 months to 23 January 2022.

Salary histogram for Legal in the UK

Legal
Top 17 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 23 January 2022. 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 +47 2,741 £55,000 - 1,251
UK excluding London +63 1,649 £46,000 +2.22% 1,030
London +50 1,294 £65,000 +8.33% 321
Work from Home +61 550 £60,000 +2.13% 110
North of England +58 481 £47,500 +11.76% 201
South East -1 458 £50,000 - 215
North West +28 326 £47,500 +5.56% 109
Scotland +62 210 £45,000 +12.50% 55
Midlands +9 191 £47,500 -5.00% 145
East of England +43 161 £31,000 -33.92% 123
West Midlands +20 155 £47,500 -13.64% 85
Yorkshire +25 133 £47,500 +11.76% 76
South West -4 132 £50,000 +42.86% 245
East Midlands -55 34 £42,500 +1.19% 59
Wales -24 30 £45,250 +64.55% 43
Northern Ireland -7 28 £27,500 -26.67% 5
North East -14 22 £46,000 +14.33% 16

For the 6 months to 23 January 2022, IT jobs citing Legal also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Legal.

1 1,167 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 1,014 (30.46%) Finance
3 965 (28.99%) Agile Software Development
4 700 (21.03%) Law
5 622 (18.68%) Microsoft
5 622 (18.68%) Degree
6 549 (16.49%) Azure
7 438 (13.16%) Information Security
8 425 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
9 422 (12.68%) SQL
10 421 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
11 396 (11.90%) Project Management
12 378 (11.35%) Risk Management
13 367 (11.02%) Analytics
14 357 (10.72%) GDPR
15 340 (10.21%) Business Intelligence
16 334 (10.03%) AWS
17 312 (9.37%) Microsoft Office
17 312 (9.37%) Data Protection
18 307 (9.22%) Artificial Intelligence
19 303 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
20 298 (8.95%) Mentoring
20 298 (8.95%) Management Information System
21 296 (8.89%) Windows
22 282 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
23 281 (8.44%) Marketing
24 262 (7.87%) Python
25 256 (7.69%) Banking
26 254 (7.63%) Computer Science
27 252 (7.57%) DevOps

Legal
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 94 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 76 (2.28%) CMS
3 46 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 46 (1.38%) Confluence
4 42 (1.26%) MS Exchange
5 34 (1.02%) Appian
5 34 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (0.57%) Apache
7 16 (0.48%) Hyperledger
8 14 (0.42%) SAS
8 14 (0.42%) WordPress
9 12 (0.36%) Ethereum
10 8 (0.24%) NetWeaver
10 8 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 8 (0.24%) Tornado
11 7 (0.21%) NServiceBus
12 6 (0.18%) IIS
13 5 (0.15%) Documentum
13 5 (0.15%) Drupal
13 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 312 (9.37%) Microsoft Office
2 163 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 19 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.30%) Acrobat
7 10 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.15%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.15%) SPSS
9 4 (0.12%) Camtasia
9 4 (0.12%) InDesign
9 4 (0.12%) Sketch
10 3 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.060%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.060%) InVision
11 2 (0.060%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.030%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.030%) Snagit
Business Applications
1 38 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.72%) Elite 3E
4 19 (0.57%) Visualfiles
5 14 (0.42%) SAP BPC
6 12 (0.36%) SAP FSCM
7 9 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.24%) Salesforce.com CRM
9 6 (0.18%) Carpe Diem
9 6 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
10 4 (0.12%) Sentinel
10 4 (0.12%) TrackWise
10 4 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
11 3 (0.090%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 549 (16.49%) Azure
2 334 (10.03%) AWS
3 303 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
4 179 (5.38%) SaaS
5 158 (4.75%) Power Platform
6 110 (3.30%) Serverless
7 88 (2.64%) GitHub
8 71 (2.13%) GCP
9 64 (1.92%) IaaS
10 62 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 52 (1.56%) PaaS
12 49 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
13 47 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
14 36 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (1.08%) PowerApps
15 31 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (0.72%) Azure Active Directory
17 23 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
18 21 (0.63%) Slack
19 18 (0.54%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.43%) Firewall
2 69 (2.07%) DNS
3 59 (1.77%) DHCP
4 55 (1.65%) Internet
5 51 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 47 (1.41%) VPN
7 45 (1.35%) WAN
8 43 (1.29%) LAN
9 40 (1.20%) Network Security
10 39 (1.17%) Intranet
11 28 (0.84%) Wireless
12 22 (0.66%) WebEx
13 19 (0.57%) SAN
13 19 (0.57%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.54%) VLAN
15 14 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
15 14 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (0.36%) HTTP
16 12 (0.36%) SMS
17 11 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 109 (3.27%) Power BI
3 81 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (2.13%) Big Data
5 64 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 63 (1.89%) MySQL
7 55 (1.65%) MongoDB
8 54 (1.62%) Blockchain
9 53 (1.59%) Tableau
10 52 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 48 (1.44%) NoSQL
12 43 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
13 37 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 31 (0.93%) Data Lake
15 27 (0.81%) Metadata
16 25 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
17 24 (0.72%) Hadoop
18 20 (0.60%) Amazon DynamoDB
19 17 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 115 (3.45%) Git (software)
2 104 (3.12%) JIRA
3 78 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 33 (0.99%) Selenium
6 25 (0.75%) Ranorex
7 24 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 21 (0.63%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 16 (0.48%) JUnit
11 13 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.33%) GitLab
12 11 (0.33%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.30%) HP UFT
13 10 (0.30%) TestRail
14 9 (0.27%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.27%) Jasmine
14 9 (0.27%) JMeter
14 9 (0.27%) Subversion
15 8 (0.24%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,167 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 1,014 (30.46%) Finance
3 700 (21.03%) Law
4 425 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 281 (8.44%) Marketing
6 256 (7.69%) Banking
7 193 (5.80%) Retail
8 150 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
9 141 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
10 128 (3.84%) Manufacturing
11 114 (3.42%) Telecoms
12 108 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
13 94 (2.82%) Investment Banking
14 91 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 82 (2.46%) Games
15 82 (2.46%) Spanish Language
16 76 (2.28%) Public Sector
17 70 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
18 66 (1.98%) Advertising
19 59 (1.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 576 (17.30%) Analyst
2 263 (7.90%) Developer
3 191 (5.74%) Data Manager
4 177 (5.32%) Architect
5 156 (4.69%) Software Engineer
6 145 (4.36%) Project Manager
7 130 (3.91%) Business Analyst
8 106 (3.18%) IT Manager
9 105 (3.15%) Consultant
10 95 (2.85%) Support Analyst
11 91 (2.73%) IT Analyst
12 86 (2.58%) Senior Manager
13 83 (2.49%) Security Manager
14 74 (2.22%) Security Analyst
15 73 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
16 71 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
17 67 (2.01%) Data Analyst
18 62 (1.86%) Product Manager
19 60 (1.80%) IT Support
20 55 (1.65%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (6.07%) React
2 161 (4.84%) .NET
3 108 (3.24%) Kafka
4 103 (3.09%) HTML
5 98 (2.94%) CSS
6 75 (2.25%) Node.js
7 66 (1.98%) JSON
7 66 (1.98%) Redux
8 62 (1.86%) AngularJS
9 59 (1.77%) ASP.NET
10 58 (1.74%) .NET Framework
11 55 (1.65%) REST
12 40 (1.20%) RESTful
12 40 (1.20%) Spring
13 38 (1.14%) .NET Core
14 36 (1.08%) Vue.js
15 34 (1.02%) Web Services
16 33 (0.99%) Django
16 33 (0.99%) Spring Boot
17 32 (0.96%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 298 (8.95%) Management Information System
2 189 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
3 180 (5.41%) User Experience
4 96 (2.88%) Reference Data
5 69 (2.07%) Social Media
6 63 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 62 (1.86%) Blog
8 61 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 61 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 57 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 43 (1.29%) Blackberry
11 38 (1.14%) Cyberattack
11 38 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.14%) Public Cloud
12 35 (1.05%) Robotics
13 32 (0.96%) Cloud Native
14 31 (0.93%) Cyberthreat
15 30 (0.90%) Legacy Code
16 28 (0.84%) Freedom of Information
17 27 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 296 (8.89%) Windows
2 143 (4.30%) Windows 10
3 97 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 90 (2.70%) Linux
5 43 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 40 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 37 (1.11%) Android
8 27 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.51%) Windows 7
11 16 (0.48%) Unix
12 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 12 (0.36%) CentOS
13 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.24%) Solaris
15 4 (0.12%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.090%) Ubuntu
17 2 (0.060%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.060%) Windows XP
18 1 (0.030%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 965 (28.99%) Agile Software Development
2 438 (13.16%) Information Security
3 421 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
4 396 (11.90%) Project Management
5 378 (11.35%) Risk Management
6 367 (11.02%) Analytics
7 340 (10.21%) Business Intelligence
8 312 (9.37%) Data Protection
9 307 (9.22%) Artificial Intelligence
10 298 (8.95%) Mentoring
11 282 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
12 254 (7.63%) Computer Science
13 252 (7.57%) DevOps
14 250 (7.51%) Software Engineering
15 243 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 242 (7.27%) Scrum
17 239 (7.18%) ITIL
18 232 (6.97%) Project Delivery
19 228 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
20 221 (6.64%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 422 (12.68%) SQL
2 262 (7.87%) Python
3 182 (5.47%) C#
4 176 (5.29%) JavaScript
5 162 (4.87%) Java
6 101 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 91 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 69 (2.07%) C
9 67 (2.01%) R
10 38 (1.14%) C++
11 33 (0.99%) Go
11 33 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 28 (0.84%) PHP
12 28 (0.84%) VBA
13 23 (0.69%) Clojure
14 21 (0.63%) Bash
14 21 (0.63%) VB
15 20 (0.60%) ABAP
16 19 (0.57%) Ruby
17 18 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 622 (18.68%) Degree
2 142 (4.27%) CISSP
3 122 (3.66%) Security Cleared
4 120 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (2.79%) CISM
6 77 (2.31%) SC Cleared
7 54 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
9 39 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (1.02%) CISA
11 33 (0.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 32 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 30 (0.90%) CRISC
14 27 (0.81%) AAT
15 22 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 20 (0.60%) DBS Check
16 20 (0.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 20 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (0.60%) MCP
17 18 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (10.72%) GDPR
2 239 (7.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (5.05%) QA
4 85 (2.55%) SLA
5 80 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 77 (2.31%) NIST
7 63 (1.89%) Data Quality
8 61 (1.83%) Accessibility
9 58 (1.74%) GRC
10 57 (1.71%) PMO
11 50 (1.50%) PCI DSS
12 39 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 34 (1.02%) HIPAA
14 21 (0.63%) COBIT
15 18 (0.54%) IFRS
16 17 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 13 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
19 12 (0.36%) ISO 9001
19 12 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 172 (5.17%) Docker
2 171 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 55 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.42%) vSphere
7 11 (0.33%) XenApp
8 9 (0.27%) XenDesktop
9 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) VMware Server
11 5 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (0.090%) Firmware
13 3 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.060%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.030%) vCloud
15 1 (0.030%) Xen
Systems Management
1 149 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 106 (3.18%) Terraform
3 60 (1.80%) SCCM
4 39 (1.17%) Ansible
5 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.36%) SCOM
7 11 (0.33%) Grafana
8 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.21%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.18%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
10 6 (0.18%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.15%) Puppet
12 4 (0.12%) OfficeScan
12 4 (0.12%) Opscode Chef
12 4 (0.12%) SCOrch
12 4 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
12 4 (0.12%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (0.090%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 622 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.66%) iManage
3 103 (3.09%) SAP
4 98 (2.94%) Cisco
5 96 (2.88%) Citrix
6 94 (2.82%) Bloomberg
7 91 (2.73%) VMware
8 90 (2.70%) Refinitiv
9 88 (2.64%) Salesforce.com
10 80 (2.40%) Twitter
11 67 (2.01%) Oracle
12 62 (1.86%) Google
12 62 (1.86%) Intapp
13 53 (1.59%) HP
14 49 (1.47%) ServiceNow
15 48 (1.44%) Aderant
15 48 (1.44%) Facebook
16 41 (1.23%) Adobe
17 35 (1.05%) MuleSoft
18 33 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
1,387 Legal job vacancies Nationwide