Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 June 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 25 June 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Legal
UK
6 months to
25 Jun 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 147 170 214
Rank change year-on-year +23 +44 -41
Permanent jobs citing Legal 2,465 1,680 2,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.33% 2.10% 1.71%
As % of the General category 4.24% 3.89% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 1,140 1,810
10th Percentile £28,880 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,625 £50,000 £54,860
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -8.86% +4.49%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,325 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,371 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.42% -6.59% +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 58,201 43,227 81,460
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.12% 53.97% 56.47%
Number of salaries quoted 37,672 33,565 62,032
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,846 £28,252
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
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 25 June 2021.

Salary histogram for Legal in the UK

Legal
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 25 June 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 +20 2,180 £55,000 +6.80% 1,159
UK excluding London +42 1,270 £45,000 +1.42% 1,066
London -14 964 £60,000 +9.09% 223
North of England +33 413 £45,000 +1.42% 208
Work from Home -67 354 £55,000 -10.20% 94
South West +47 305 £40,000 -5.88% 226
South East +14 263 £47,000 -6.00% 239
North West +5 246 £45,000 +1.42% 118
Midlands -20 150 £51,500 +14.44% 153
Yorkshire +21 134 £45,000 +12.50% 74
West Midlands -43 99 £52,500 +16.67% 98
East of England -37 65 £58,750 +30.56% 113
Scotland -32 64 £42,750 -10.00% 65
East Midlands -23 51 £50,000 +12.69% 54
North East +10 33 £45,345 +0.77% 16
Wales +4 25 £58,750 +46.88% 56
Northern Ireland -47 2 £38,750 -3.13% 10
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

For the 6 months to 25 June 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.

1 711 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 657 (26.65%) Law
3 646 (26.21%) Agile Software Development
4 627 (25.44%) Finance
5 431 (17.48%) Microsoft
6 333 (13.51%) SQL
7 322 (13.06%) Azure
8 275 (11.16%) Analytics
9 268 (10.87%) Windows
10 264 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
10 264 (10.71%) Degree
11 262 (10.63%) Software Engineering
12 260 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
13 253 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
13 253 (10.26%) Coaching
14 252 (10.22%) Python
15 245 (9.94%) Project Management
16 243 (9.86%) Mentoring
17 242 (9.82%) JavaScript
18 240 (9.74%) Data Protection
19 233 (9.45%) Scrum
20 229 (9.29%) Information Security
21 224 (9.09%) Microservices
22 223 (9.05%) AWS
23 216 (8.76%) Marketing
24 214 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
25 213 (8.64%) ITIL
26 207 (8.40%) DevOps
27 200 (8.11%) Docker
28 198 (8.03%) Java

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 88 (3.57%) Confluence
2 75 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 63 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
4 52 (2.11%) CMS
5 51 (2.07%) MS Exchange
6 32 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 27 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2013
8 26 (1.05%) Tornado
9 15 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
10 11 (0.45%) EPiServer
11 10 (0.41%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.37%) Apache Spark
12 9 (0.37%) Documentum
12 9 (0.37%) IIS
13 8 (0.32%) NetWeaver
13 8 (0.32%) WordPress
14 7 (0.28%) Apache
14 7 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
14 7 (0.28%) Skype for Business
15 6 (0.24%) Kentico
Applications
1 163 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
2 98 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.22%) Photoshop
5 28 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 18 (0.73%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
8 16 (0.65%) GIMP
9 13 (0.53%) Sketch
9 13 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
10 10 (0.41%) InVision
11 9 (0.37%) Simulink
12 8 (0.32%) InDesign
13 7 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
14 6 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 6 (0.24%) Camtasia
14 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
14 6 (0.24%) Gephi
15 5 (0.20%) Figma
16 4 (0.16%) Marvel
Business Applications
1 27 (1.10%) Elite 3E
2 26 (1.05%) Visualfiles
3 25 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.65%) SAP BPC
5 16 (0.65%) SAP FSCM
6 13 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.49%) Sentinel
8 9 (0.37%) Salesforce.com CRM
8 9 (0.37%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.32%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
11 6 (0.24%) Magento
11 6 (0.24%) Relativity
12 5 (0.20%) SAP HR
13 3 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
13 3 (0.12%) Loan IQ
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
13 3 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
13 3 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 322 (13.06%) Azure
2 223 (9.05%) AWS
3 180 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
4 132 (5.35%) Serverless
5 127 (5.15%) SaaS
6 77 (3.12%) Power Platform
7 70 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (2.68%) Amazon S3
9 56 (2.27%) PaaS
10 53 (2.15%) IaaS
11 52 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
12 46 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
12 46 (1.87%) GitHub
13 43 (1.74%) Azure Active Directory
14 39 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 37 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (1.34%) Heroku
17 32 (1.30%) CloudFront
17 32 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 30 (1.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.29%) Firewall
2 68 (2.76%) DNS
3 59 (2.39%) DHCP
4 57 (2.31%) VPN
5 43 (1.74%) Network Security
6 31 (1.26%) Internet
7 26 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 22 (0.89%) Intranet
9 17 (0.69%) WAN
10 16 (0.65%) HTTP
10 16 (0.65%) LAN
10 16 (0.65%) VoIP
11 14 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
12 12 (0.49%) Wireless
13 11 (0.45%) MPLS
14 10 (0.41%) SMTP
14 10 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.37%) SAN
15 9 (0.37%) SSL
16 8 (0.32%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (4.83%) Big Data
2 105 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 77 (3.12%) Relational Database
4 68 (2.76%) Power BI
5 64 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.52%) MongoDB
7 57 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
8 55 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (2.07%) MySQL
10 50 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 45 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
12 42 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (0.97%) Apache Accumulo
14 22 (0.89%) Oracle Database
15 19 (0.77%) GIS
16 18 (0.73%) Redis
17 16 (0.65%) Hadoop
17 16 (0.65%) Tableau
18 13 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
19 11 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 145 (5.88%) JIRA
2 103 (4.18%) Git (software)
3 86 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.01%) Maven
4 25 (1.01%) Selenium
5 18 (0.73%) Cypress.io
6 15 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.53%) Ranorex
8 11 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.41%) JUnit
10 9 (0.37%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.28%) Storybook
12 6 (0.24%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.24%) git-flow
12 6 (0.24%) Jasmine
12 6 (0.24%) webpack
12 6 (0.24%) WinDbg
12 6 (0.24%) Xcode
General
1 711 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 657 (26.65%) Law
3 627 (25.44%) Finance
4 216 (8.76%) Marketing
5 214 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (4.71%) Games
7 111 (4.50%) Banking
8 110 (4.46%) Public Sector
9 109 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
10 99 (4.02%) Retail
11 79 (3.20%) Telecoms
12 77 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
13 72 (2.92%) Manufacturing
14 69 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
15 65 (2.64%) Local Government
16 59 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
17 52 (2.11%) Back Office
18 51 (2.07%) Financial Institution
19 43 (1.74%) Advertising
20 35 (1.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 346 (14.04%) Analyst
2 328 (13.31%) Developer
3 141 (5.72%) Software Engineer
4 135 (5.48%) Consultant
5 85 (3.45%) IT Manager
6 79 (3.20%) Project Manager
7 77 (3.12%) Business Analyst
8 70 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 68 (2.76%) Senior Developer
10 65 (2.64%) Architect
11 62 (2.52%) IT Analyst
12 55 (2.23%) Software Developer
13 53 (2.15%) Administrator
14 52 (2.11%) Product Manager
15 50 (2.03%) Full Stack Developer
15 50 (2.03%) Security Analyst
16 47 (1.91%) Lead Software Engineer
17 44 (1.78%) SAP Consultant
18 41 (1.66%) IT Support
19 40 (1.62%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (7.14%) .NET
2 140 (5.68%) CSS
3 138 (5.60%) REST
4 130 (5.27%) HTML
5 129 (5.23%) AngularJS
6 125 (5.07%) React
7 74 (3.00%) .NET Core
8 71 (2.88%) Node.js
9 70 (2.84%) Apache NiFi
10 66 (2.68%) Kafka
11 65 (2.64%) RESTful
12 61 (2.47%) SOAP
13 57 (2.31%) Web Services
14 53 (2.15%) XML
15 50 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
16 49 (1.99%) ASP.NET
16 49 (1.99%) Vue.js
17 48 (1.95%) Angular 2
17 48 (1.95%) Ruby on Rails
18 43 (1.74%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 195 (7.91%) User Experience
2 188 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 114 (4.62%) Driving Licence
4 97 (3.94%) Cyberattack
5 94 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 82 (3.33%) Blog
7 39 (1.58%) Social Media
8 35 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (1.42%) Hedge funds
9 34 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 33 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 33 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 31 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.01%) Life Science
13 22 (0.89%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.73%) Data Centre
15 17 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (0.61%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 268 (10.87%) Windows
2 181 (7.34%) Linux
3 107 (4.34%) Windows 10
4 72 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 61 (2.47%) Unix
6 48 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 43 (1.74%) CentOS
8 41 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 38 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 31 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.93%) Apple iOS
12 22 (0.89%) Ubuntu
13 17 (0.69%) Android
13 17 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
14 12 (0.49%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.37%) Mac OS X
16 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.20%) SUSE
17 5 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (26.21%) Agile Software Development
2 275 (11.16%) Analytics
3 264 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
4 262 (10.63%) Software Engineering
5 260 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
6 253 (10.26%) Coaching
6 253 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
7 245 (9.94%) Project Management
8 243 (9.86%) Mentoring
9 240 (9.74%) Data Protection
10 233 (9.45%) Scrum
11 229 (9.29%) Information Security
12 224 (9.09%) Microservices
13 213 (8.64%) ITIL
14 207 (8.40%) DevOps
15 184 (7.46%) Line Management
16 175 (7.10%) Test Automation
17 167 (6.77%) Artificial Intelligence
18 161 (6.53%) Machine Learning
19 159 (6.45%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 333 (13.51%) SQL
2 252 (10.22%) Python
3 242 (9.82%) JavaScript
4 198 (8.03%) Java
5 195 (7.91%) C#
6 122 (4.95%) C
7 87 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 74 (3.00%) C++
9 68 (2.76%) TypeScript
10 56 (2.27%) Ruby
11 49 (1.99%) ES6
11 49 (1.99%) R
12 39 (1.58%) Bash Shell
13 35 (1.42%) Java 8
14 28 (1.14%) ABAP
15 25 (1.01%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.85%) PHP
17 16 (0.65%) Perl
18 10 (0.41%) Apple Swift
18 10 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 264 (10.71%) Degree
2 131 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 101 (4.10%) DBS Check
4 76 (3.08%) CISSP
5 48 (1.95%) CISM
6 44 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (1.42%) SC Cleared
9 34 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (1.34%) CEH
11 31 (1.26%) DV Cleared
12 29 (1.18%) CCNA
12 29 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 24 (0.97%) CISA
14 22 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (0.73%) PhD
17 17 (0.69%) MCSE
18 16 (0.65%) GIAC
19 15 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (7.18%) GDPR
2 139 (5.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (3.77%) QA
4 61 (2.47%) PMO
5 51 (2.07%) SLA
6 45 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 45 (1.83%) NIST
7 44 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 30 (1.22%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.14%) GRC
11 15 (0.61%) COBIT
12 12 (0.49%) IEC 61131
12 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 11 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (0.45%) WCAG
14 9 (0.37%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.24%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 200 (8.11%) Docker
2 163 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 53 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.41%) ISA Server
6 9 (0.37%) XenApp
7 8 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.32%) vSphere
8 7 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.24%) Apache Flume
9 6 (0.24%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.20%) Firmware
10 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.081%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.081%) NFS
12 2 (0.081%) Samba
12 2 (0.081%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 127 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 94 (3.81%) Ansible
3 51 (2.07%) Terraform
4 46 (1.87%) SCCM
5 33 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.61%) Nessus
7 15 (0.61%) Puppet
8 10 (0.41%) Kibana
9 8 (0.32%) EnCase
9 8 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.24%) Oozie
11 5 (0.20%) Grafana
11 5 (0.20%) Opscode Chef
11 5 (0.20%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
12 4 (0.16%) Backup Exec
13 3 (0.12%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
13 3 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 431 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 94 (3.81%) SAP
3 89 (3.61%) Oracle
4 87 (3.53%) iManage
5 84 (3.41%) VMware
6 74 (3.00%) Lumesse
7 62 (2.52%) Intapp
8 56 (2.27%) Cisco
9 51 (2.07%) Citrix
10 43 (1.74%) Aderant
10 43 (1.74%) Red Hat
11 39 (1.58%) Google
12 35 (1.42%) Salesforce.com
13 32 (1.30%) Adobe
14 26 (1.05%) ServiceNow
15 24 (0.97%) Remedy
16 19 (0.77%) Apple
17 17 (0.69%) Facebook
18 15 (0.61%) Atlassian
18 15 (0.61%) Cloudera
1,308 Legal job vacancies Nationwide