Law Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Law
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 60 61
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 +23
Permanent jobs citing Law 43 53 89
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.38% 3.50% 4.58%
As % of the General category 4.17% 5.43% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 29 33 62
10th Percentile £22,500 £35,750 £29,788
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £58,438
90th Percentile £102,500 £67,125 £67,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% - -5.00%

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,031 976 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 57.15% 64.42% 69.86%
Number of salaries quoted 583 467 1,010
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,050 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,200 £85,000 £90,108
Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Law job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Law
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Law.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Law

Law
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Law in West Yorkshire

Law
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Leeds -22 41 £55,000 +4.76% 24
Huddersfield - 1 £37,500 -
Law
Yorkshire

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (2.33%) Anypoint
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (11.63%) SaaS
3 4 (9.30%) PaaS
4 3 (6.98%) IaaS
4 3 (6.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) AWS
5 2 (4.65%) Azure
5 2 (4.65%) OCI
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.33%) Datadog
6 1 (2.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub
6 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Internet
2 2 (4.65%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) MySQL
1 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
1 1 (2.33%) Postman
General
1 15 (34.88%) Legal
2 6 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Back Office
4 4 (9.30%) Local Government
4 4 (9.30%) Military
4 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Publishing
7 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) 1st Line Support
1 8 (18.60%) 1st Line Support Analyst
1 8 (18.60%) Analyst
1 8 (18.60%) IT Analyst
1 8 (18.60%) IT Support
1 8 (18.60%) IT Support Analyst
1 8 (18.60%) Support Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Project Manager
2 4 (9.30%) Service Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Service Desk Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Service Desk Support
2 4 (9.30%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 4 (9.30%) Traffic Manager
3 3 (6.98%) Administrator
3 3 (6.98%) Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Developer
3 3 (6.98%) Head of Technology
3 3 (6.98%) Salesforce Administrator
3 3 (6.98%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) CakePHP
1 2 (4.65%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (4.65%) CSS
1 2 (4.65%) HTML
1 2 (4.65%) Laravel
1 2 (4.65%) React
1 2 (4.65%) Spring
1 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
1 2 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (4.65%) Symfony
2 1 (2.33%) JWT
2 1 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.33%) RAML
2 1 (2.33%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) SAML
2 1 (2.33%) SOAP
2 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) AI Agents
2 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) iPad
3 1 (2.33%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Windows
1 8 (18.60%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.33%) Android
2 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Customer Service
2 8 (18.60%) ITSM
3 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
4 5 (11.63%) Agile
4 5 (11.63%) AI
5 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
5 4 (9.30%) Software Engineering
5 4 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (6.98%) Conversational UI
6 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (6.98%) Data Protection
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (6.98%) Software Licensing
6 3 (6.98%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (4.65%) Coaching
7 2 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.65%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.98%) PHP
3 2 (4.65%) Java
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.33%) C++
4 1 (2.33%) DataWeave
4 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) SLA
2 4 (9.30%) COSHH
3 3 (6.98%) EU AI Act
3 3 (6.98%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) PayPal
2 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.33%) UiPath