The Datum Report

Occupation 2419 · Professional occupations

Legal professionals n.e.c.

Half of full-time legal professionals n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £35,507 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of other professional legal occupations not elsewhere classified in minor group 241: Legal professionals.

How people enter it

Entry to training usually requires a qualifying law degree or postgraduate diploma. Entrants then undertake a further year of academic training and then complete up to four years of assessed supervised experience in legal practice. Entrants may also require up to five years post qualifying experience in legal practice.

What the work involves

• co-ordinates the activities of magistrates courts and advises magistrates on law and legal procedure
• provides legal advice to individuals within Citizens Advice, Law Centres and other such establishments
• drafts and negotiates contracts on behalf of employers
• advises employers, local and national government and other organisations on aspects of law and legislative implications of decisions made
• advises on, drafts documents for and assists in all aspects of property conveyancing
• collates information, drafts briefs and other documents, interviews and advises clients and undertakes preparatory work for cases
• represents public and private organisations in court as necessary

Also called

Attorney · Conveyancer · Justice’s clerk · Legal adviser · Legal consultant · Legal counsel · Paralegal · Patent agent · Patent attorney · Solicitor’s clerk (articled)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for legal professionals n.e.c., full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 3 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Barristers and judges · Solicitors and lawyers