Law
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Law in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Law over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 106 158
Rank change year-on-year +71 +52 -27
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,777 3,236 4,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.87% 3.19% 2.64%
As % of the General category 9.81% 4.67% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,141 1,747 2,076
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -

All General Skills
UK

Law is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,908 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.82% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,488 37,345 51,003
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Law
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Law as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Law in the UK

Law
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Law.

Salary trend for Law in the UK

Law
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Law over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Law in the UK

Law
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Law within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +66 4,575 £47,500 -5.00% 549
England +26 2,936 £52,500 - 1,085
Scotland +166 2,623 £46,250 -12.32% 44
London +62 1,075 £67,500 +3.85% 549
Work from Home +7 1,001 £55,000 - 595
North of England +54 590 £50,000 - 183
Midlands -37 420 £42,500 -10.53% 98
South West +56 390 £45,000 -10.00% 69
North West +32 295 £47,500 -5.00% 94
South East -62 276 £52,500 +5.00% 115
Yorkshire +70 233 £55,000 +19.50% 76
West Midlands -36 230 £47,500 - 58
East Midlands -32 164 £40,000 -11.11% 40
East of England +43 156 £38,417 -30.15% 36
Wales +82 102 £42,500 +46.55% 12
North East +27 61 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Northern Ireland +13 22 £57,276 +34.77% 8
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -

Law
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 596 (10.32%) Apache Spark
2 158 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 145 (2.51%) Apache
4 126 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 124 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
6 98 (1.70%) FileNet
7 86 (1.49%) Confluence
8 32 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
9 30 (0.52%) SAS
10 28 (0.48%) IIS
11 22 (0.38%) Skype for Business
12 21 (0.36%) GemFire
13 20 (0.35%) Camunda
14 17 (0.29%) CMS
15 11 (0.19%) CICS
15 11 (0.19%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
16 9 (0.16%) WordPress
17 7 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
18 6 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 248 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 168 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 125 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.66%) UserZoom
6 19 (0.33%) Sketch
7 18 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) SPSS
9 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.10%) InVision
11 5 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.052%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.052%) Simulink
13 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.035%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.035%) CANalyzer
13 2 (0.035%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.035%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.035%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 78 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.33%) Elite 3E
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 17 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 15 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 11 (0.19%) Endur
8 11 (0.19%) Relativity
9 10 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
10 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (0.14%) Visualfiles
11 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,379 (23.87%) AWS
2 676 (11.70%) Azure
3 382 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
4 241 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 233 (4.03%) Power Platform
6 168 (2.91%) SaaS
7 163 (2.82%) GCP
8 130 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 129 (2.23%) Entra ID
10 124 (2.15%) Datadog
11 105 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
12 101 (1.75%) Figma
13 99 (1.71%) Power Automate
14 91 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
15 88 (1.52%) PowerApps
16 84 (1.45%) Serverless
17 77 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
18 75 (1.30%) SurveyMonkey
19 74 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
20 69 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 151 (2.61%) Firewall
2 85 (1.47%) LAN
3 82 (1.42%) Kerberos
4 73 (1.26%) WAN
5 52 (0.90%) SAN
5 52 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 51 (0.88%) DNS
7 50 (0.87%) VPN
8 47 (0.81%) Internet
9 34 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (0.59%) Wireless
10 32 (0.55%) DHCP
11 29 (0.50%) Network Security
11 29 (0.50%) Skype
12 28 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
13 25 (0.43%) MPLS
13 25 (0.43%) OSPF
13 25 (0.43%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.40%) BGP
15 22 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 675 (11.68%) NoSQL
2 515 (8.91%) Big Data
3 238 (4.12%) Hadoop
4 184 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 167 (2.89%) Relational Database
6 156 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 152 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
8 134 (2.32%) Power BI
9 133 (2.30%) Apache Hive
10 126 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 102 (1.77%) HBase
12 88 (1.52%) Data Lake
13 77 (1.33%) Tableau
14 74 (1.28%) Metadata
15 53 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
15 53 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
16 46 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
17 44 (0.76%) CockroachDB
17 44 (0.76%) MySQL
18 31 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 334 (5.78%) Jenkins
2 250 (4.33%) Git
3 212 (3.67%) JUnit
4 159 (2.75%) JIRA
5 124 (2.15%) Jasmine
6 90 (1.56%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
8 82 (1.42%) Selenium
9 78 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.13%) Artifactory
12 64 (1.11%) Maven
13 62 (1.07%) WebDriver
14 60 (1.04%) Protractor
15 47 (0.81%) GitLab
15 47 (0.81%) Mockito
16 44 (0.76%) Cucumber
17 31 (0.54%) CircleCI
18 30 (0.52%) Gradle
19 29 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,517 (60.88%) Finance
2 3,228 (55.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,597 (27.64%) Marketing
4 1,309 (22.66%) Social Skills
5 1,298 (22.47%) Legal
6 824 (14.26%) Banking
7 599 (10.37%) Investment Banking
8 533 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
9 327 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
10 297 (5.14%) Financial Institution
11 282 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
12 172 (2.98%) Manufacturing
13 101 (1.75%) Retail
14 96 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
15 92 (1.59%) Private Banking
16 72 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 61 (1.06%) Front Office
18 54 (0.93%) Games
19 46 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
20 44 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,039 (35.30%) Software Engineer
2 996 (17.24%) Lead
3 819 (14.18%) Java Engineer
4 809 (14.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 717 (12.41%) Senior
6 700 (12.12%) Lead Software Engineer
7 645 (11.16%) Analyst
8 492 (8.52%) Developer
9 390 (6.75%) Big Data Engineer
9 390 (6.75%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 352 (6.09%) Python Engineer
11 337 (5.83%) Full Stack Engineer
11 337 (5.83%) Python Software Engineer
12 323 (5.59%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 313 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
14 301 (5.21%) AWS Software Engineer
15 282 (4.88%) Lead Java Engineer
16 275 (4.76%) Data Engineer
17 228 (3.95%) Scala Engineer
17 228 (3.95%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 689 (11.93%) Spring
2 587 (10.16%) React
3 422 (7.30%) AngularJS
4 382 (6.61%) Kafka
5 358 (6.20%) Spring Boot
6 349 (6.04%) HTML
7 311 (5.38%) CSS
8 246 (4.26%) J2EE
9 242 (4.19%) JSON
10 220 (3.81%) RESTful
11 211 (3.65%) .NET
12 207 (3.58%) Node.js
13 194 (3.36%) Hibernate
14 181 (3.13%) PySpark
15 178 (3.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 172 (2.98%) JMS
17 169 (2.93%) jQuery
18 163 (2.82%) Web Services
19 156 (2.70%) REST
20 139 (2.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 974 (16.86%) Cloud Native
2 825 (14.28%) Algorithms
3 302 (5.23%) Public Cloud
4 247 (4.28%) Management Information System
5 202 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 192 (3.32%) Product Ownership
7 145 (2.51%) Market Risk
8 141 (2.44%) Reference Data
9 129 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.11%) FMCG
11 110 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.25%) Credit Risk
13 72 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
14 66 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 65 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
16 60 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
17 53 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
18 50 (0.87%) Legacy Code
19 49 (0.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 369 (6.39%) Windows
2 181 (3.13%) Linux
3 162 (2.80%) Unix
4 155 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 109 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 65 (1.13%) Android
7 42 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.40%) VMS
9 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.12%) CentOS
11 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.10%) AIX
12 6 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.10%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.052%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.017%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.017%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,774 (48.02%) Agile
2 2,516 (43.55%) Software Engineering
3 2,162 (37.42%) SDLC
4 2,094 (36.25%) CI/CD
5 1,906 (32.99%) Operational Stability
6 1,533 (26.54%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,511 (26.16%) Machine Learning
8 1,326 (22.95%) Community of Practice
9 1,134 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,005 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
11 962 (16.65%) Visualisation
12 875 (15.15%) Risk Management
13 692 (11.98%) Decision-Making
14 546 (9.45%) Microservices
15 506 (8.76%) Continuous Delivery
16 486 (8.41%) Mentoring
17 452 (7.82%) Information Architecture
18 448 (7.75%) Computer Science
19 447 (7.74%) Analytics
20 424 (7.34%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,763 (30.52%) Java
2 1,483 (25.67%) SQL
3 1,146 (19.84%) Python
4 476 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 335 (5.80%) Scala
6 263 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 243 (4.21%) C#
8 154 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 117 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 115 (1.99%) Go
11 89 (1.54%) PowerShell
12 67 (1.16%) SPARQL
13 65 (1.13%) Prolog
14 56 (0.97%) R
15 46 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 39 (0.68%) C
17 37 (0.64%) Groovy
18 33 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 26 (0.45%) C++
20 21 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 784 (13.57%) Degree
2 151 (2.61%) Master's Degree
3 115 (1.99%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 103 (1.78%) Security Cleared
5 94 (1.63%) CISSP
6 93 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (1.06%) PhD
8 53 (0.92%) SC Cleared
9 46 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 44 (0.76%) CISM
11 37 (0.64%) CISA
12 36 (0.62%) ACCA
13 30 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.48%) Azure Certification
15 25 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (0.40%) CIPD
17 22 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
18 21 (0.36%) SSCP
19 19 (0.33%) CEH
20 17 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (4.21%) SLA
2 114 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 109 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 109 (1.89%) QA
4 89 (1.54%) GDPR
5 77 (1.33%) Data Quality
6 66 (1.14%) PMO
7 54 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 50 (0.87%) NIST
9 38 (0.66%) IFRS
10 32 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 30 (0.52%) GRC
12 22 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
15 15 (0.26%) WAI
16 14 (0.24%) IFRS 17
16 14 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 14 (0.24%) Solvency II
17 13 (0.23%) ITGC
System Software
1 362 (6.27%) Active Directory
2 103 (1.78%) Docker
3 102 (1.77%) HDFS
4 47 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 35 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 23 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.23%) Terminal Services
8 11 (0.19%) Firmware
8 11 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
9 8 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.087%) XenApp
12 2 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.035%) pfSense
12 2 (0.035%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.035%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 393 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 309 (5.35%) Terraform
3 186 (3.22%) Grafana
4 80 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 55 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (0.54%) SCCM
7 26 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
8 22 (0.38%) Ansible
9 21 (0.36%) HAProxy
9 21 (0.36%) Kibana
9 21 (0.36%) vCenter Server
9 21 (0.36%) Zipkin
10 17 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.24%) Graphite
12 8 (0.14%) logstash
12 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (0.14%) vRealize
13 7 (0.12%) Nessus
14 6 (0.10%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 794 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 468 (8.10%) Oracle
3 279 (4.83%) Databricks
4 201 (3.48%) Splunk
5 162 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 159 (2.75%) ServiceNow
7 118 (2.04%) Dell
8 106 (1.83%) Citrix
9 101 (1.75%) VMware
10 100 (1.73%) Google
11 96 (1.66%) Informatica
12 94 (1.63%) Alteryx
13 93 (1.61%) iManage
14 74 (1.28%) Cisco
15 72 (1.25%) Cloudera
16 70 (1.21%) Qualtrics
17 66 (1.14%) SAP
18 39 (0.68%) Intapp
19 37 (0.64%) Aderant
20 35 (0.61%) CA