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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 41 45
Rank change year-on-year -70 +4 +67
Permanent jobs citing Law 83 138 236
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.34% 5.55% 4.19%
As % of the General category 2.71% 7.61% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 78 127 208
10th Percentile £26,588 £25,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,160 £29,750 £34,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £59,844 £60,250 £65,781
90th Percentile £77,425 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% 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 3,061 1,814 3,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 49.59% 72.91% 58.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,648 976 2,552
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £34,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,273 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.85% -12.50%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -33 29 £40,000 -38.46% 5
West Yorkshire -64 24 £53,750 +65.38% 18
East Yorkshire -34 15 £45,000 - 4
North Yorkshire -11 4 £38,750 +37.17%
Humberside - 1 £52,500 - 1
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 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.82%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.20%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.20%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.20%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.20%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.30%) Azure
2 13 (15.66%) SaaS
3 10 (12.05%) AWS
4 8 (9.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 6 (7.23%) GCP
5 6 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.20%) OCI
8 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.05%) Firewall
2 6 (7.23%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.82%) DNS
3 4 (4.82%) HTTP
4 3 (3.61%) SAN
5 2 (2.41%) Internet
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.20%) DMVPN
6 1 (1.20%) LAN
6 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.20%) VPN
6 1 (1.20%) WAN
6 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) MySQL
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.20%) GIS
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) JIRA
2 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Finance
3 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Legal
4 9 (10.84%) Marketing
5 5 (6.02%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Military
8 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.20%) Automotive
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) Billing
9 1 (1.20%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.20%) Electronics
9 1 (1.20%) Local Government
9 1 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Analyst
2 10 (12.05%) IT Support
3 7 (8.43%) Administrator
3 7 (8.43%) Business Analyst
4 6 (7.23%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (7.23%) Product Manager
5 5 (6.02%) Consultant
5 5 (6.02%) DBA
5 5 (6.02%) Graduate
5 5 (6.02%) Senior
5 5 (6.02%) Software Analyst
5 5 (6.02%) SQL DBA
6 4 (4.82%) Developer
6 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Head of Engineering
6 4 (4.82%) Head of Software Engineering
6 4 (4.82%) Network Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Recruitment Consultant
7 3 (3.61%) IT Consultant
7 3 (3.61%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) Node.js
1 7 (8.43%) React
2 4 (4.82%) Bootstrap
2 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.82%) Redux
3 1 (1.20%) CakePHP
3 1 (1.20%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (1.20%) CSS
3 1 (1.20%) HTML
3 1 (1.20%) Laravel
3 1 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.20%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.23%) Life Science
2 6 (7.23%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.02%) Replication
4 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.20%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Linux
2 6 (7.23%) Windows
3 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.30%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (16.87%) Mentoring
4 13 (15.66%) ERP
4 13 (15.66%) Roadmaps
4 13 (15.66%) User Stories
5 12 (14.46%) AI
5 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (10.84%) Analytics
6 9 (10.84%) High Availability
7 8 (9.64%) Acceptance Criteria
7 8 (9.64%) Client Onboarding
7 8 (9.64%) Customer Experience
7 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (9.64%) User Experience
8 7 (8.43%) Epics
8 7 (8.43%) Market Research
8 7 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (7.23%) Coaching
9 6 (7.23%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.64%) SQL
1 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
2 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.02%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.82%) Bash
4 4 (4.82%) Go
4 4 (4.82%) Python
5 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (7.23%) Degree
2 1 (1.20%) CCNA
2 1 (1.20%) CCNP
2 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) GDPR
1 3 (3.61%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.20%) COSHH
2 1 (1.20%) PMO
2 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Ansible
1 4 (4.82%) Grafana
1 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
1 4 (4.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) Salesforce
2 10 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.43%) Cisco
4 6 (7.23%) Meraki
5 5 (6.02%) VMware
6 4 (4.82%) Oracle
7 2 (2.41%) IFS
7 2 (2.41%) SAP
7 2 (2.41%) UiPath
8 1 (1.20%) Aareon
8 1 (1.20%) BT
8 1 (1.20%) Capita
8 1 (1.20%) Concur
8 1 (1.20%) MikroTik
8 1 (1.20%) NEC
8 1 (1.20%) Orchard