What Middle Legal Jobs Ask For

Across 325 open Middle Legal postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are legal-research, ai, regulatory-compliance.

Updated November 3, 2026

848 open Middle Legal postings. The percentages below are measured over the 325 of them that list skills at all.

Skill	Mentioned in
legal-research	44%
ai	19%
regulatory-compliance	18%
risk-assessment	10%
gdpr	8%
business-development	7%
cybersecurity	7%
machine-learning	7%
lgpd	6%
saas	6%
analytics	5%
program-management	5%
data-governance	5%
contract-negotiation	5%
corrective-action	5%
lidar	5%
stakeholder-management	5%
hipaa	4%
automation	4%
ccpa	4%
cloud	4%
data-quality	3%
process-improvement	3%
contract-drafting	3%
fintech	3%
sharepoint	3%
data-analytics	3%
ecommerce	3%
generative-ai	2%
iso-27001	2%
powerbi	2%
chatgpt	2%
contract-lifecycle-management	2%
networking	2%
version-control	2%

"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.

Across all Legal levels

Most Legal postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.