Legal Job Trends in Yorkshire

Legal
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 69 54
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 +30
Permanent jobs citing Legal 139 95 142
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.82% 2.82% 3.07%
As % of the General category 4.59% 4.39% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 92 66 39
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £70,300
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -13.04%

All General Skills
Yorkshire

Legal 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 3,026 2,163 2,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.52% 64.13% 59.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,962 973 1,065
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,250 £29,420
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,950 £79,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,793 £57,945
% change year-on-year +0.38% -5.44% -3.43%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Legal job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Legal
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legal.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Legal

Legal
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Legal in Yorkshire

Legal
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 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 -20 85 £45,000 -8.16% 136
North Yorkshire +24 21 £39,250 -1.34% 21
South Yorkshire -25 13 £90,000 - 34
East Yorkshire -2 4 £38,500 - 13
Legal
England

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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 12 (8.63%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.44%) Apache
3 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.16%) Aareon QL
2 3 (2.16%) MIS ActiveH
2 3 (2.16%) NEC Housing
2 3 (2.16%) OPENHousing
2 3 (2.16%) Orchard Housing
3 2 (1.44%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.90%) Azure
2 32 (23.02%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (20.86%) Entra ID
4 21 (15.11%) SaaS
5 18 (12.95%) Power Platform
6 17 (12.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 15 (10.79%) Power Automate
8 10 (7.19%) NetDocuments
8 10 (7.19%) OneDrive
9 8 (5.76%) Copilot Studio
10 7 (5.04%) Azure Databricks
10 7 (5.04%) PowerApps
11 6 (4.32%) AWS
11 6 (4.32%) Slack
12 4 (2.88%) GCP
13 3 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.16%) GitHub
13 3 (2.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (2.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.76%) LAN
1 8 (5.76%) WAN
2 3 (2.16%) HTTP
3 1 (0.72%) DHCP
3 1 (0.72%) DNS
3 1 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.72%) VLAN
3 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.63%) Power BI
2 7 (5.04%) Metadata
3 6 (4.32%) SAP BW
4 5 (3.60%) Metadata Repository
4 5 (3.60%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.60%) Star Schema
5 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.16%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.44%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.44%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.44%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.44%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.44%) Tableau
8 1 (0.72%) GIS
8 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.72%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Git
1 2 (1.44%) GitLab
1 2 (1.44%) MLflow
General
1 58 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 38 (27.34%) Finance
3 31 (22.30%) Law
4 16 (11.51%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.63%) Advertising
6 12 (8.63%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.63%) Retail
7 11 (7.91%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.04%) Local Government
9 6 (4.32%) Electronics
9 6 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.32%) Legal Technology
10 5 (3.60%) German Language
10 5 (3.60%) Marketing
10 5 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.88%) Billing
11 4 (2.88%) Games
12 3 (2.16%) Social Housing
13 2 (1.44%) French Language
Job Titles
1 21 (15.11%) Analyst
2 19 (13.67%) IT Manager
3 17 (12.23%) Senior
4 13 (9.35%) IT Operations Manager
4 13 (9.35%) Operations Manager
5 11 (7.91%) Data Analyst
6 9 (6.47%) HR Analyst
6 9 (6.47%) HR Data Analyst
7 8 (5.76%) IT Analyst
7 8 (5.76%) Technologist
8 7 (5.04%) Architect
8 7 (5.04%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 7 (5.04%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.32%) Consultant
9 6 (4.32%) IT Support
9 6 (4.32%) IT Support Analyst
9 6 (4.32%) Lead
9 6 (4.32%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (4.32%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.32%) .NET
2 5 (3.60%) React
3 4 (2.88%) CSS
3 4 (2.88%) Terraform
4 3 (2.16%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.16%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.44%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.44%) JSON
6 1 (0.72%) Celery
6 1 (0.72%) GeoPandas
6 1 (0.72%) HTML
6 1 (0.72%) Open3D
6 1 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.63%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.04%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.32%) Blog
4 6 (4.32%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.60%) CMDB
5 5 (3.60%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.60%) NHS
5 5 (3.60%) Podcast
5 5 (3.60%) Taxonomies
5 5 (3.60%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.60%) Web Conferencing
6 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.88%) Social Media
7 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.16%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.44%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.86%) Windows
2 7 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (2.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.30%) AI
2 26 (18.71%) ITSM
3 23 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (16.55%) Service Management
4 21 (15.11%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (12.23%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (10.79%) Analytics
7 15 (10.79%) Data Protection
8 14 (10.07%) Customer Service
8 14 (10.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (9.35%) Risk Management
10 12 (8.63%) Agile
10 12 (8.63%) Case Management
10 12 (8.63%) Mentoring
11 11 (7.91%) Information Security
11 11 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (7.19%) CI/CD
13 9 (6.47%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 9 (6.47%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.79%) SQL
2 6 (4.32%) ABAP
2 6 (4.32%) C#
2 6 (4.32%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.32%) Python
3 5 (3.60%) Assembly Language
4 4 (2.88%) XAML
5 3 (2.16%) Java
5 3 (2.16%) Perl
5 3 (2.16%) Ruby
6 2 (1.44%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (8.63%) SC Cleared
1 12 (8.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.04%) Degree
3 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (12.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 12 (8.63%) GDPR
4 11 (7.91%) Data Quality
5 7 (5.04%) PMO
6 6 (4.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (2.88%) QA
8 3 (2.16%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.72%) NIST
10 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (17.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (28.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.47%) Databricks
3 7 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.32%) OpenText
4 6 (4.32%) SAP
5 5 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.16%) Aareon
6 3 (2.16%) Capita
6 3 (2.16%) NEC
6 3 (2.16%) Orchard
7 2 (1.44%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.44%) Google
7 2 (1.44%) iManage
7 2 (1.44%) Samsung
7 2 (1.44%) TikTok
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco
8 1 (0.72%) Foundry
8 1 (0.72%) Meraki
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) TOWER Software