Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 28 September 2021

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 28 September 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Legal
UK
6 months to
28 Sep 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 148 220 215
Rank change year-on-year +72 -5 -11
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2,955 750 2,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.40% 1.56% 1.61%
As % of the General category 4.12% 3.03% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 559 1,626
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,380 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +8.76% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,345 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.77% +5.88% -5.56%

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 71,688 24,784 77,684
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.28% 51.57% 55.70%
Number of salaries quoted 44,148 19,792 59,174
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +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 28 September 2021.

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 28 September 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +54 2,478 £52,500 -1.87% 1,158
UK excluding London +57 1,406 £45,345 +0.77% 984
London +37 1,152 £60,000 - 279
Work from Home 0 503 £55,000 -18.52% 107
North of England +16 486 £45,000 +1.42% 195
South East +30 335 £47,500 -2.06% 215
North West -4 307 £45,000 +1.42% 111
South West -3 185 £42,500 -5.56% 204
Midlands -37 170 £50,000 +12.69% 150
Yorkshire +8 136 £45,000 -2.17% 60
East of England +13 127 £31,486 -1.41% 116
West Midlands -36 126 £52,500 +18.32% 84
Scotland -28 82 £42,750 -10.00% 55
East Midlands -57 44 £42,500 -4.22% 66
North East +3 43 £45,345 -30.24% 24
Wales -11 30 £52,500 - 41
Northern Ireland -46 8 £48,500 -19.17% 10

For the 6 months to 28 September 2021, 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.

1 871 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 802 (27.14%) Agile Software Development
3 760 (25.72%) Finance
4 641 (21.69%) Law
5 578 (19.56%) Microsoft
6 431 (14.59%) SQL
7 417 (14.11%) Project Management
8 412 (13.94%) Azure
9 389 (13.16%) Analytics
10 371 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
11 361 (12.22%) Degree
12 351 (11.88%) Coaching
13 349 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
14 330 (11.17%) Business Intelligence
15 318 (10.76%) Information Security
15 318 (10.76%) AWS
16 308 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
17 296 (10.02%) Mentoring
18 295 (9.98%) Risk Management
19 293 (9.92%) JavaScript
20 285 (9.64%) Windows
20 285 (9.64%) Software Engineering
21 281 (9.51%) Scrum
22 266 (9.00%) Python
23 265 (8.97%) Marketing
24 263 (8.90%) DevOps
25 262 (8.87%) Management Information System
26 261 (8.83%) Java
27 258 (8.73%) GDPR
28 250 (8.46%) Microservices

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 98 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 92 (3.11%) Confluence
3 78 (2.64%) CMS
4 71 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
5 62 (2.10%) MS Exchange
6 30 (1.02%) Tornado
7 29 (0.98%) Appian
8 28 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2013
9 26 (0.88%) Cloud Foundry
9 26 (0.88%) Documentum
10 19 (0.64%) NetWeaver
11 18 (0.61%) Apache Spark
12 13 (0.44%) EPiServer
13 12 (0.41%) SAS
13 12 (0.41%) Skype for Business
14 11 (0.37%) Apache
14 11 (0.37%) Umbraco
15 10 (0.34%) WordPress
16 9 (0.30%) Kentico
16 9 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 205 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 140 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
5 29 (0.98%) Photoshop
6 26 (0.88%) MS Visio
7 25 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
7 25 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
8 19 (0.64%) GIMP
9 16 (0.54%) Sketch
10 9 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
11 8 (0.27%) Figma
11 8 (0.27%) UserZoom
12 7 (0.24%) Simulink
13 6 (0.20%) InVision
13 6 (0.20%) Marvel
14 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
14 3 (0.10%) Camtasia
14 3 (0.10%) Inkscape
Business Applications
1 70 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.32%) SAP BPC
3 27 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.81%) SAP FSCM
5 19 (0.64%) SAP ERP
6 18 (0.61%) Visualfiles
7 16 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
8 15 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
9 14 (0.47%) Elite 3E
10 11 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
11 10 (0.34%) Sentinel
11 10 (0.34%) TrackWise
12 9 (0.30%) Relativity
13 6 (0.20%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.20%) Workday HCM
14 5 (0.17%) Magento
14 5 (0.17%) SAP Business ByDesign
14 5 (0.17%) SAP Business One
15 4 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
16 3 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 412 (13.94%) Azure
2 318 (10.76%) AWS
3 228 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
4 154 (5.21%) SaaS
5 141 (4.77%) Serverless
6 129 (4.37%) Power Platform
7 86 (2.91%) Amazon S3
8 75 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (2.34%) GitHub
10 60 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
11 53 (1.79%) PaaS
12 52 (1.76%) IaaS
13 42 (1.42%) GCP
14 36 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
14 36 (1.22%) Twilio
15 35 (1.18%) Power Automate
16 33 (1.12%) Azure Active Directory
17 30 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.02%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.61%) Firewall
2 74 (2.50%) VPN
3 73 (2.47%) DNS
4 69 (2.34%) DHCP
5 41 (1.39%) Internet
6 36 (1.22%) Network Security
7 35 (1.18%) WAN
8 34 (1.15%) LAN
8 34 (1.15%) TCP/IP
9 26 (0.88%) Intranet
10 21 (0.71%) Wireless
11 19 (0.64%) VoIP
12 17 (0.58%) SMTP
13 16 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.44%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.41%) Extranet
15 12 (0.41%) HTTP
16 10 (0.34%) SAN
17 9 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
18 8 (0.27%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 99 (3.35%) Big Data
3 94 (3.18%) Power BI
4 93 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 75 (2.54%) MongoDB
6 72 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 63 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 61 (2.06%) MySQL
9 60 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
9 60 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
10 50 (1.69%) Tableau
11 45 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 31 (1.05%) Redis
14 29 (0.98%) Oracle Database
15 24 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
16 23 (0.78%) Apache Accumulo
17 21 (0.71%) DataStage
17 21 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
18 20 (0.68%) GIS
Development Applications
1 152 (5.14%) JIRA
2 135 (4.57%) Git (software)
3 80 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.42%) Maven
5 25 (0.85%) Selenium
6 20 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 19 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 16 (0.54%) Ranorex
9 15 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.41%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.34%) JUnit
13 8 (0.27%) Axure RP
14 7 (0.24%) Postman
15 6 (0.20%) Android Studio
15 6 (0.20%) Jasmine
15 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.20%) Storybook
15 6 (0.20%) webpack
15 6 (0.20%) WinDbg
General
1 871 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 760 (25.72%) Finance
3 641 (21.69%) Law
4 349 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
5 265 (8.97%) Marketing
6 178 (6.02%) Retail
7 152 (5.14%) Banking
8 143 (4.84%) Games
9 133 (4.50%) Public Sector
10 124 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
11 114 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
12 102 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
13 99 (3.35%) Telecoms
14 84 (2.84%) Manufacturing
15 71 (2.40%) Back Office
16 69 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
17 57 (1.93%) Local Government
18 55 (1.86%) Financial Institution
19 51 (1.73%) Advertising
20 50 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 441 (14.92%) Analyst
2 379 (12.83%) Developer
3 210 (7.11%) Consultant
4 144 (4.87%) Software Engineer
5 115 (3.89%) Architect
6 110 (3.72%) Business Analyst
7 101 (3.42%) IT Manager
8 98 (3.32%) Project Manager
9 85 (2.88%) SAP Consultant
10 82 (2.77%) IT Analyst
11 80 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 72 (2.44%) IT Support
12 72 (2.44%) Support Analyst
13 65 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
13 65 (2.20%) Senior Developer
13 65 (2.20%) Software Developer
14 64 (2.17%) Product Manager
15 63 (2.13%) Full Stack Developer
16 61 (2.06%) Security Analyst
17 58 (1.96%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (7.28%) React
2 197 (6.67%) CSS
3 190 (6.43%) HTML
4 182 (6.16%) .NET
5 169 (5.72%) REST
6 152 (5.14%) AngularJS
7 113 (3.82%) Node.js
8 83 (2.81%) Vue.js
9 82 (2.77%) RESTful
10 80 (2.71%) .NET Core
11 71 (2.40%) Kafka
12 68 (2.30%) SOAP
13 66 (2.23%) XML
14 64 (2.17%) Spring
14 64 (2.17%) Web Services
15 62 (2.10%) Apache NiFi
16 56 (1.90%) Angular 2
16 56 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
17 55 (1.86%) ASP.NET
18 51 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 262 (8.87%) Management Information System
2 211 (7.14%) User Experience
3 157 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
4 87 (2.94%) Blog
4 87 (2.94%) Cyberattack
5 61 (2.06%) Data Structures
6 60 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 58 (1.96%) Social Media
8 57 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 44 (1.49%) Driving Licence
10 42 (1.42%) Life Science
10 42 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 40 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 38 (1.29%) Hedge funds
13 31 (1.05%) Data Centre
14 29 (0.98%) Robotics
15 28 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
16 27 (0.91%) Client/Server
17 26 (0.88%) Algorithms
18 24 (0.81%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 285 (9.64%) Windows
2 156 (5.28%) Linux
3 133 (4.50%) Windows 10
4 91 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 79 (2.67%) Unix
6 51 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 46 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 44 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 38 (1.29%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 36 (1.22%) Android
12 35 (1.18%) CentOS
13 27 (0.91%) Ubuntu
14 21 (0.71%) Windows 7
15 13 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.24%) Mac OS X
16 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.14%) VMS
19 3 (0.10%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (27.14%) Agile Software Development
2 417 (14.11%) Project Management
3 389 (13.16%) Analytics
4 371 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
5 351 (11.88%) Coaching
6 330 (11.17%) Business Intelligence
7 318 (10.76%) Information Security
8 308 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
9 296 (10.02%) Mentoring
10 295 (9.98%) Risk Management
11 285 (9.64%) Software Engineering
12 281 (9.51%) Scrum
13 263 (8.90%) DevOps
14 250 (8.46%) Microservices
15 234 (7.92%) Data Protection
16 217 (7.34%) Business Development
16 217 (7.34%) ITIL
17 211 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 207 (7.01%) Artificial Intelligence
19 206 (6.97%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 431 (14.59%) SQL
2 293 (9.92%) JavaScript
3 266 (9.00%) Python
4 261 (8.83%) Java
5 200 (6.77%) C#
6 110 (3.72%) C
6 110 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 98 (3.32%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.54%) C++
9 65 (2.20%) Ruby
10 63 (2.13%) R
11 61 (2.06%) ABAP
12 53 (1.79%) Java 8
13 50 (1.69%) ES6
14 28 (0.95%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.74%) PHP
16 18 (0.61%) Bash Shell
16 18 (0.61%) VBA
17 12 (0.41%) Go
18 10 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 361 (12.22%) Degree
2 136 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 85 (2.88%) CISSP
4 64 (2.17%) CISM
5 61 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (1.90%) SC Cleared
7 30 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 28 (0.95%) CISA
8 28 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (0.91%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 26 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 24 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (0.64%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 17 (0.58%) PhD
15 16 (0.54%) CCNA
16 15 (0.51%) DV Cleared
16 15 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
16 15 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (8.73%) GDPR
2 185 (6.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 145 (4.91%) QA
4 86 (2.91%) SLA
5 75 (2.54%) Accessibility
6 70 (2.37%) PMO
7 68 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 61 (2.06%) Data Quality
9 46 (1.56%) NIST
10 45 (1.52%) GRC
11 43 (1.46%) PCI DSS
12 22 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 22 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 16 (0.54%) WCAG
14 15 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.44%) COBIT
16 11 (0.37%) NEBOSH
17 10 (0.34%) IEC 61131
17 10 (0.34%) ISO 9001
18 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 211 (7.14%) Docker
2 187 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.54%) vSphere
6 12 (0.41%) ISA Server
6 12 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.30%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.27%) XenApp
9 7 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.17%) Firmware
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.068%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.034%) KVM
14 1 (0.034%) LXC
14 1 (0.034%) vCloud
14 1 (0.034%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 123 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 72 (2.44%) Ansible
3 68 (2.30%) Terraform
4 43 (1.46%) SCCM
5 34 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.34%) Nessus
8 7 (0.24%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 6 (0.20%) Kubeflow
9 6 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
9 6 (0.20%) NetBackup
9 6 (0.20%) SCOM
10 4 (0.14%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.14%) Grafana
10 4 (0.14%) OfficeScan
10 4 (0.14%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 4 (0.14%) WSUS
11 3 (0.10%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.068%) BMC PATROL
12 2 (0.068%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 578 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 171 (5.79%) SAP
3 138 (4.67%) Oracle
4 88 (2.98%) iManage
5 85 (2.88%) Salesforce.com
6 76 (2.57%) Google
7 75 (2.54%) Cisco
8 74 (2.50%) VMware
9 64 (2.17%) Citrix
10 43 (1.46%) Intapp
11 40 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 37 (1.25%) Aderant
12 37 (1.25%) ServiceNow
13 35 (1.18%) Adobe
14 32 (1.08%) Instagram
15 27 (0.91%) Automation Anywhere
15 27 (0.91%) Facebook
15 27 (0.91%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.81%) HP
17 21 (0.71%) Informatica
1,285 Legal job vacancies Nationwide