Law Job Trends in Yorkshire

Law
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Law over the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -77 +9 +63
Permanent jobs citing Law 84 128 246
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.57% 5.70% 4.49%
As % of the General category 2.92% 7.90% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 72 121 219
10th Percentile £26,625 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £29,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -18.18% +13.40%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

All General Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,878 1,620 3,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.91% 72.19% 59.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 918 2,550
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,313 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,250 £30,125 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.45%
75th Percentile £65,160 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.93%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Law job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Law
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Law.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Law

Law
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Law in Yorkshire

Law
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
South Yorkshire -24 34 £36,000 -46.67% 10
West Yorkshire -57 28 £55,000 +69.23% 20
East Yorkshire -34 10 £47,500 +5.56% 1
North Yorkshire -14 3 £35,000 +7.69% 2
Humberside - 1 £52,500 -
Law
England

Law
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.57%) Azure
2 17 (20.24%) SaaS
3 10 (11.90%) AWS
4 9 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (7.14%) GCP
5 6 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) GitHub
6 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (2.38%) IaaS
8 2 (2.38%) PaaS
9 1 (1.19%) OCI
9 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.48%) Firewall
2 6 (7.14%) SAN
2 6 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.76%) DNS
3 4 (4.76%) HTTP
4 3 (3.57%) Internet
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.19%) DMVPN
5 1 (1.19%) LAN
5 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.19%) VPN
5 1 (1.19%) WAN
5 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.86%) Legal
3 8 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 7 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.33%) Marketing
5 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.76%) Finance
7 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Military
8 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.19%) Automotive
9 1 (1.19%) Back Office
9 1 (1.19%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.19%) Electronics
9 1 (1.19%) Local Government
9 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (14.29%) Analyst
1 12 (14.29%) IT Support
2 11 (13.10%) Consultant
3 8 (9.52%) Recruitment Consultant
4 7 (8.33%) IT Consultant
4 7 (8.33%) IT Recruitment Consultant
5 6 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (7.14%) Graduate
6 5 (5.95%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (5.95%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.95%) Head of Engineering
6 5 (5.95%) Head of Software Engineering
6 5 (5.95%) Senior
7 4 (4.76%) Administrator
7 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Graduate Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Graduate Software Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Graduate Software Test Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Graduate Test Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) Node.js
1 5 (5.95%) React
2 4 (4.76%) Bootstrap
2 4 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.76%) Redux
3 2 (2.38%) CakePHP
3 2 (2.38%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (2.38%) CSS
3 2 (2.38%) HTML
3 2 (2.38%) Laravel
3 2 (2.38%) Symfony
4 1 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.76%) Life Science
2 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.71%) Windows
2 8 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.57%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.67%) AI
2 13 (15.48%) ERP
2 13 (15.48%) Roadmaps
3 10 (11.90%) Mentoring
4 7 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
4 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (8.33%) Conversational UI
4 7 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (8.33%) User Experience
5 6 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (7.14%) Coaching
5 6 (7.14%) Customer Experience
5 6 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 6 (7.14%) ITIL
5 6 (7.14%) Service Management
5 6 (7.14%) Software Testing
5 6 (7.14%) Task Automation
5 6 (7.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.33%) TypeScript
2 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 6 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.76%) Bash
3 4 (4.76%) Go
3 4 (4.76%) Python
4 2 (2.38%) PHP
5 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.19%) CCNA
2 1 (1.19%) CCNP
2 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) GDPR
1 4 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.19%) COSHH
3 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Ansible
1 4 (4.76%) Grafana
1 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
1 4 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 9 (10.71%) Salesforce
2 8 (9.52%) VMware
3 7 (8.33%) Cisco
4 6 (7.14%) Meraki
5 3 (3.57%) Oracle
5 3 (3.57%) PayPal
6 2 (2.38%) IFS
6 2 (2.38%) SAP
6 2 (2.38%) UiPath
7 1 (1.19%) BT
7 1 (1.19%) MikroTik