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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 106 155
Rank change year-on-year +71 +49 -23
Permanent jobs citing Law 5,796 3,303 4,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.88% 3.18% 2.67%
As % of the General category 9.82% 4.66% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,157 1,782 2,090
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 £70,000 £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 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £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 3 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 3 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 +67 4,591 £47,500 -5.00% 501
England +28 2,951 £54,000 +2.86% 968
Scotland +160 2,626 £47,500 -9.95% 43
London +59 1,076 £67,500 +3.85% 472
Work from Home +11 1,007 £55,000 - 613
North of England +52 597 £50,000 - 158
Midlands -34 418 £42,500 -10.53% 91
South West +58 390 £45,000 -10.00% 62
North West +30 298 £47,500 -5.00% 83
South East -61 286 £52,500 +10.53% 109
Yorkshire +70 237 £55,000 +15.79% 63
West Midlands -36 230 £47,500 - 46
East Midlands -29 162 £40,000 -11.11% 44
East of England +36 153 £45,000 -18.18% 40
Wales +79 102 £42,500 +46.55% 10
North East +28 61 £50,000 +5.26% 13
Northern Ireland +13 23 £57,276 +34.77% 4
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 (10.28%) Apache Spark
2 159 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 144 (2.48%) Apache
4 129 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 121 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
6 98 (1.69%) FileNet
7 86 (1.48%) Confluence
8 32 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
9 30 (0.52%) SAS
10 29 (0.50%) 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%) WordPress
17 8 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
18 7 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
19 6 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 250 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 169 (2.92%) 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 (0.086%) 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 56 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.35%) 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%) Carpe Diem
8 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 11 (0.19%) Endur
8 11 (0.19%) Relativity
9 8 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.14%) Visualfiles
10 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,373 (23.69%) AWS
2 685 (11.82%) Azure
3 386 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
4 245 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
5 239 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 167 (2.88%) SaaS
7 162 (2.80%) GCP
8 128 (2.21%) Amazon S3
8 128 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 124 (2.14%) Datadog
10 105 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (1.74%) Figma
12 99 (1.71%) Power Automate
13 89 (1.54%) PowerApps
14 87 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
15 83 (1.43%) Serverless
16 82 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
17 75 (1.29%) SurveyMonkey
18 73 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
19 68 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.67%) Firewall
2 86 (1.48%) LAN
3 82 (1.41%) Kerberos
4 74 (1.28%) WAN
5 53 (0.91%) DNS
5 53 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 52 (0.90%) SAN
7 51 (0.88%) VPN
8 47 (0.81%) Internet
9 36 (0.62%) Wireless
10 34 (0.59%) DHCP
10 34 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (0.52%) Network Security
12 29 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
12 29 (0.50%) Skype
13 26 (0.45%) OSPF
14 24 (0.41%) BGP
14 24 (0.41%) MPLS
14 24 (0.41%) SD-WAN
15 22 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 674 (11.63%) NoSQL
2 516 (8.90%) Big Data
3 238 (4.11%) Hadoop
4 187 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 166 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 156 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 152 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
8 140 (2.42%) Power BI
9 133 (2.29%) Apache Hive
10 126 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 102 (1.76%) HBase
12 90 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 78 (1.35%) Tableau
14 73 (1.26%) Metadata
15 54 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
16 53 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
17 46 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
18 44 (0.76%) CockroachDB
18 44 (0.76%) MySQL
19 32 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 335 (5.78%) Jenkins
2 249 (4.30%) Git
3 212 (3.66%) JUnit
4 161 (2.78%) JIRA
5 124 (2.14%) Jasmine
6 89 (1.54%) Cypress.io
7 86 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
8 82 (1.41%) Selenium
9 78 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 75 (1.29%) Karma Test Runner
11 65 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 64 (1.10%) 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 (0.53%) CircleCI
18 30 (0.52%) Gradle
18 30 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,530 (60.90%) Finance
2 3,227 (55.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,597 (27.55%) Marketing
4 1,312 (22.64%) Social Skills
5 1,308 (22.57%) Legal
6 825 (14.23%) Banking
7 600 (10.35%) Investment Banking
8 536 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
9 327 (5.64%) Influencing Skills
10 297 (5.12%) Financial Institution
11 281 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
12 171 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 103 (1.78%) Retail
14 97 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 92 (1.59%) Private Banking
16 76 (1.31%) Telecoms
17 60 (1.04%) Front Office
18 54 (0.93%) Games
19 47 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
20 43 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,038 (35.16%) Software Engineer
2 997 (17.20%) Lead
3 818 (14.11%) Java Engineer
4 809 (13.96%) Java Software Engineer
5 716 (12.35%) Senior
6 699 (12.06%) Lead Software Engineer
7 653 (11.27%) Analyst
8 496 (8.56%) Developer
9 390 (6.73%) Big Data Engineer
9 390 (6.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 351 (6.06%) Python Engineer
11 337 (5.81%) Full Stack Engineer
11 337 (5.81%) Python Software Engineer
12 323 (5.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 313 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
14 301 (5.19%) AWS Software Engineer
15 282 (4.87%) Lead Java Engineer
16 273 (4.71%) Data Engineer
17 228 (3.93%) Scala Engineer
17 228 (3.93%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 689 (11.89%) Spring
2 586 (10.11%) React
3 422 (7.28%) AngularJS
4 382 (6.59%) Kafka
5 358 (6.18%) Spring Boot
6 351 (6.06%) HTML
7 311 (5.37%) CSS
8 246 (4.24%) J2EE
9 245 (4.23%) JSON
10 220 (3.80%) RESTful
11 211 (3.64%) .NET
12 204 (3.52%) Node.js
13 194 (3.35%) Hibernate
14 181 (3.12%) PySpark
15 178 (3.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 172 (2.97%) JMS
17 169 (2.92%) jQuery
18 165 (2.85%) Web Services
19 156 (2.69%) REST
20 142 (2.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 974 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 825 (14.23%) Algorithms
3 302 (5.21%) Public Cloud
4 249 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 203 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 195 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 145 (2.50%) Market Risk
8 141 (2.43%) Reference Data
9 130 (2.24%) Data Structures
10 122 (2.10%) FMCG
11 110 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 72 (1.24%) Credit Risk
13 72 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
14 66 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 65 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
16 60 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
17 52 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
18 48 (0.83%) Data Centre
18 48 (0.83%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 371 (6.40%) Windows
2 182 (3.14%) Linux
3 161 (2.78%) Unix
4 155 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 109 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 65 (1.12%) Android
7 42 (0.72%) 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 4 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.052%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.017%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,776 (47.90%) Agile
2 2,514 (43.37%) Software Engineering
3 2,163 (37.32%) SDLC
4 2,094 (36.13%) CI/CD
5 1,906 (32.88%) Operational Stability
6 1,530 (26.40%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,509 (26.04%) Machine Learning
8 1,326 (22.88%) Community of Practice
9 1,135 (19.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,004 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
11 962 (16.60%) Visualisation
12 880 (15.18%) Risk Management
13 697 (12.03%) Decision-Making
14 543 (9.37%) Microservices
15 506 (8.73%) Continuous Delivery
16 487 (8.40%) Mentoring
17 452 (7.80%) Information Architecture
18 446 (7.69%) Computer Science
19 444 (7.66%) Analytics
20 422 (7.28%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 1,760 (30.37%) Java
2 1,485 (25.62%) SQL
3 1,141 (19.69%) Python
4 475 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 335 (5.78%) Scala
6 261 (4.50%) TypeScript
7 245 (4.23%) C#
8 154 (2.66%) PL/SQL
9 118 (2.04%) T-SQL
10 115 (1.98%) Go
11 92 (1.59%) PowerShell
12 67 (1.16%) SPARQL
13 65 (1.12%) Prolog
14 55 (0.95%) R
15 46 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 39 (0.67%) C
17 37 (0.64%) Groovy
18 33 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 27 (0.47%) C++
20 22 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 786 (13.56%) Degree
2 148 (2.55%) Master's Degree
3 115 (1.98%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 103 (1.78%) Security Cleared
5 95 (1.64%) CISSP
6 91 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (1.04%) PhD
8 52 (0.90%) SC Cleared
9 46 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 44 (0.76%) CISM
11 38 (0.66%) CISA
12 36 (0.62%) ACCA
13 32 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.48%) Azure Certification
15 25 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (0.40%) CIPD
16 23 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
17 21 (0.36%) SSCP
18 20 (0.35%) CEH
19 17 (0.29%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (4.21%) SLA
2 116 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 109 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 109 (1.88%) QA
4 90 (1.55%) GDPR
5 76 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 66 (1.14%) PMO
7 55 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 51 (0.88%) NIST
9 38 (0.66%) IFRS
10 32 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 30 (0.52%) GRC
12 23 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.28%) IFRS 9
15 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 15 (0.26%) WAI
16 14 (0.24%) IFRS 17
16 14 (0.24%) Solvency II
17 13 (0.22%) ITGC
System Software
1 364 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 102 (1.76%) Docker
2 102 (1.76%) HDFS
3 48 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.22%) Terminal Services
7 11 (0.19%) Firmware
7 11 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
8 8 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.086%) XenApp
11 2 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.035%) pfSense
11 2 (0.035%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.035%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 392 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 308 (5.31%) Terraform
3 186 (3.21%) Grafana
4 80 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 55 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (0.53%) 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
1 800 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 469 (8.09%) Oracle
3 279 (4.81%) Databricks
4 201 (3.47%) Splunk
5 162 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 161 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 118 (2.04%) Dell
8 108 (1.86%) Citrix
9 105 (1.81%) VMware
10 100 (1.73%) Google
11 97 (1.67%) Informatica
12 94 (1.62%) Alteryx
13 92 (1.59%) iManage
14 77 (1.33%) Cisco
15 72 (1.24%) Cloudera
16 70 (1.21%) Qualtrics
17 66 (1.14%) SAP
18 39 (0.67%) Intapp
19 37 (0.64%) Aderant
20 36 (0.62%) CA