Law Job Trends in the West Midlands

Law
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 49 54
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Law 125 217 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.14% 5.52% 4.03%
As % of the General category 3.82% 8.63% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 87 96 195
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,938 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £81,875 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £74,625 £85,800
England median annual salary £56,875 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -

All General Skills
West Midlands

Law falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,273 2,514 3,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.11% 63.97% 60.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,484 1,094 2,630
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,313 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £53,400 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +12.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,050 £63,088
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,050 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Law relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Law job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Law
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Law.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Law

Law
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Law in the West Midlands

Law
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Birmingham 0 72 £72,500 +45.00% 18
Worcestershire 0 15 £42,500 -15.00% 2
Warwickshire +26 12 £48,500 +38.57% 1
Solihull -2 8 - -
Staffordshire -33 6 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Coventry -8 1 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Law
England

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (9.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) Apache
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.40%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.80%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.80%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.80%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.80%) Azure
2 16 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.40%) SaaS
4 9 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.60%) AWS
6 2 (1.60%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.80%) GCP
7 1 (0.80%) GitHub
7 1 (0.80%) IaaS
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.80%) PaaS
7 1 (0.80%) Serverless
7 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) BGP
1 4 (3.20%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (3.20%) EIGRP
1 4 (3.20%) OSPF
1 4 (3.20%) VPN
1 4 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (3.20%) Wireless
1 4 (3.20%) Wireshark
2 3 (2.40%) LAN
2 3 (2.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.80%) Firewall
3 1 (0.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.60%) MS Access
4 2 (1.60%) Power BI
5 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (4.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.80%) MLflow
General
1 27 (21.60%) Legal
2 20 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.20%) Social Skills
4 17 (13.60%) Finance
5 11 (8.80%) Back Office
5 11 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.80%) Local Government
5 11 (8.80%) Military
6 5 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.20%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.20%) Marketing
8 1 (0.80%) Games
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.80%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (20.80%) Senior
2 18 (14.40%) Lead
3 15 (12.00%) IT Support
4 13 (10.40%) Analyst
4 13 (10.40%) Project Manager
5 12 (9.60%) IT Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) Support Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) Traffic Manager
7 10 (8.00%) Senior Manager
8 8 (6.40%) Account Manager
8 8 (6.40%) Developer
8 8 (6.40%) Junior
8 8 (6.40%) Project Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Senior Account Manager
9 7 (5.60%) Sales Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Support Analyst
10 6 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 5 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) .NET
2 2 (1.60%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.60%) ADO
2 2 (1.60%) Blazor
2 2 (1.60%) ODBC
2 2 (1.60%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (1.60%) WPF
3 1 (0.80%) Kafka
3 1 (0.80%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.80%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.80%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.80%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
1 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.40%) Life Science
3 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.80%) CMDB
3 1 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.80%) Legacy Code
3 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
3 1 (0.80%) PropTech
3 1 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Windows
2 6 (4.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (11.20%) Decision-Making
4 13 (10.40%) Project Management
5 11 (8.80%) ITIL
5 11 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (8.00%) Agile
6 10 (8.00%) CRM
6 10 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
7 9 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.20%) Process Improvement
8 8 (6.40%) Customer Service
9 7 (5.60%) DevOps
9 7 (5.60%) Incident Response
9 7 (5.60%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (4.80%) AI
10 6 (4.80%) Roadmaps
10 6 (4.80%) Service Management
10 6 (4.80%) System Testing
11 5 (4.00%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.60%) SQL
2 8 (6.40%) C#
2 8 (6.40%) JavaScript
3 7 (5.60%) Python
4 3 (2.40%) Java
5 2 (1.60%) Delphi
5 2 (1.60%) XAML
6 1 (0.80%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (8.00%) Degree
2 7 (5.60%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (3.20%) CCNP
4 4 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.20%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) COSHH
2 9 (7.20%) QA
3 3 (2.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.80%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Firmware
2 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.60%) SCCM
3 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.20%) SAP
3 7 (5.60%) Oracle
4 4 (3.20%) Cisco
4 4 (3.20%) Meraki
5 3 (2.40%) PayPal
6 2 (1.60%) Citrix
6 2 (1.60%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.80%) Apple
7 1 (0.80%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.80%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.80%) HP
7 1 (0.80%) Kronos
7 1 (0.80%) McAfee
7 1 (0.80%) MobileIron
7 1 (0.80%) Remedy
7 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.80%) Workday