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 16 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 42 40
Rank change year-on-year -62 -2 +65
Permanent jobs citing Law 74 130 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.86% 5.24% 4.99%
As % of the General category 3.21% 7.82% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 57 86 182
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,188 £63,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £74,375 £71,250
England median annual salary £56,875 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% -

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 2,307 1,663 2,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 57.98% 67.03% 62.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 731 2,200
10th Percentile £26,251 £25,750 £26,988
25th Percentile £29,250 £37,500 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £84,056
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 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 16 February 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 16 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
West Yorkshire -22 34 £55,000 +10.00% 8
South Yorkshire -20 24 £32,750 -49.62% 4
East Yorkshire -27 11 £45,000 - 4
North Yorkshire -12 4 £35,000 +22.81% 3
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 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.35%) CMS
2 1 (1.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) Azure
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (14.86%) SaaS
4 8 (10.81%) AWS
5 7 (9.46%) GCP
6 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.76%) GitHub
7 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.05%) IaaS
8 3 (4.05%) PaaS
8 3 (4.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.35%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (1.35%) OCI
9 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.22%) Firewall
2 6 (8.11%) DNS
2 6 (8.11%) SAN
3 4 (5.41%) HTTP
3 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.05%) Internet
5 2 (2.70%) LAN
5 2 (2.70%) VPN
5 2 (2.70%) WAN
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.35%) DHCP
6 1 (1.35%) DMVPN
6 1 (1.35%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.35%) SSL
6 1 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) MySQL
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 20 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Legal
3 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 7 (9.46%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.76%) Military
7 4 (5.41%) Back Office
7 4 (5.41%) Local Government
8 3 (4.05%) Marketing
8 3 (4.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.35%) Automotive
10 1 (1.35%) Electronics
10 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Analyst
2 11 (14.86%) Consultant
3 10 (13.51%) IT Support
4 9 (12.16%) Recruitment Consultant
5 8 (10.81%) IT Consultant
5 8 (10.81%) IT Recruitment Consultant
6 6 (8.11%) Graduate
6 6 (8.11%) IT Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (6.76%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (6.76%) Administrator
7 5 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Project Manager
7 5 (6.76%) Support Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Software Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Software Test Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.70%) CakePHP
2 2 (2.70%) CodeIgniter
2 2 (2.70%) CSS
2 2 (2.70%) HTML
2 2 (2.70%) Laravel
2 2 (2.70%) Symfony
3 1 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.35%) Node.js
3 1 (1.35%) React
3 1 (1.35%) REST
3 1 (1.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
2 2 (2.70%) Life Science
2 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.92%) Windows
2 8 (10.81%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.46%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.22%) ERP
2 11 (14.86%) Customer Service
3 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (10.81%) CI/CD
4 8 (10.81%) Roadmaps
5 7 (9.46%) User Experience
6 6 (8.11%) Containerisation
6 6 (8.11%) DevOps
6 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (8.11%) ITIL
6 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
6 6 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (8.11%) Software Testing
7 5 (6.76%) Agile
7 5 (6.76%) AI
7 5 (6.76%) CRM
7 5 (6.76%) DevSecOps
7 5 (6.76%) ITSM
7 5 (6.76%) Test Automation
8 4 (5.41%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.41%) Bash
1 4 (5.41%) Go
1 4 (5.41%) Python
2 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
3 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.70%) PHP
4 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) Degree
2 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.35%) CCNA
2 1 (1.35%) CCNP
2 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) GDPR
1 6 (8.11%) SLA
2 4 (5.41%) COSHH
2 4 (5.41%) QA
3 3 (4.05%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.35%) PMO
4 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Terraform
2 5 (6.76%) Ansible
3 4 (5.41%) Grafana
3 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) VMware
3 5 (6.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.05%) PayPal
5 2 (2.70%) UiPath
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco
6 1 (1.35%) Google
6 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Sitecore