Legal Contracts in England

Legal
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 156 159
Rank change year-on-year +43 +3 +47
Contract jobs citing Legal 742 906 1,284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.01% 1.79% 1.81%
As % of the General category 3.44% 3.03% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 629 787
10th Percentile £205 £227 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £634
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 39 17
10th Percentile £11.95 £13.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.93 £17.79 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.75 £22.16 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.35% -43.90% +105.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £64.63 £71.52 £53.50
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £22.16 £34.38
% change year-on-year +17.33% -35.53% +85.81%

All General Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in England

Legal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in England.

Daily rate trend for Legal in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in England.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +17 346 £518 +3.24% 615
South East +36 146 £500 -9.09% 275
North of England +9 89 £513 - 251
South West +47 70 £500 +5.26% 172
North West +8 66 £525 +1.20% 158
Midlands +31 61 £413 -17.50% 168
West Midlands +36 43 £425 -15.00% 103
East of England +15 21 £350 -30.00% 99
East Midlands +21 18 £200 -65.46% 65
Yorkshire 0 17 £523 -9.13% 71
North East +17 6 £400 -21.95% 27
Legal
UK

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.48%) IIS
4 10 (1.35%) Apache
4 10 (1.35%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.94%) CMS
5 7 (0.94%) Confluence
6 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.54%) nginx
6 4 (0.54%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.27%) Drupal
8 2 (0.27%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.13%) Liferay
Applications
1 75 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.56%) Simulink
4 19 (2.56%) Stateflow
5 8 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.40%) InDesign
8 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.27%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.40%) SAP GTS
4 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.27%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.27%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 80 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
2 69 (9.30%) Azure
3 37 (4.99%) Power Platform
4 35 (4.72%) SaaS
5 29 (3.91%) AWS
6 25 (3.37%) WhatsApp
7 18 (2.43%) IaaS
7 18 (2.43%) Snowflake
8 17 (2.29%) Google Workspace
9 14 (1.89%) OneDrive
10 13 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (1.75%) PaaS
11 12 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (1.21%) GCP
13 8 (1.08%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.08%) Power Automate
13 8 (1.08%) PowerApps
14 7 (0.94%) Figma
15 6 (0.81%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.04%) Firewall
2 19 (2.56%) VPN
3 16 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.75%) H.323
5 12 (1.62%) Internet
6 11 (1.48%) HTTP
6 11 (1.48%) LAN
7 10 (1.35%) Wireless
8 9 (1.21%) WAN
9 8 (1.08%) FTP
10 7 (0.94%) DNS
10 7 (0.94%) Intranet
10 7 (0.94%) SAN
11 6 (0.81%) 5G
11 6 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.67%) Network Security
12 5 (0.67%) Skype
13 4 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.54%) IPsec
13 4 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.37%) Tableau
2 23 (3.10%) Power BI
3 9 (1.21%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (0.94%) MySQL
4 7 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.81%) Metadata
5 6 (0.81%) MS Access
6 5 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.54%) Big Data
7 4 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.54%) Couchbase
7 4 (0.54%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.40%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.27%) Bigtable
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.27%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 20 (2.70%) JIRA
2 6 (0.81%) Artifactory
2 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
3 4 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.40%) LoadRunner
4 3 (0.40%) NeoLoad
4 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.27%) Git
5 2 (0.27%) GitLab
5 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 227 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 226 (30.46%) Finance
3 108 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (11.99%) Law
5 59 (7.95%) Telecoms
6 41 (5.53%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.39%) Marketing
8 32 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (3.91%) Banking
9 29 (3.91%) Retail
10 25 (3.37%) Automotive
11 24 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.35%) Billing
13 10 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.21%) Advertising
15 8 (1.08%) Local Government
16 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 118 (15.90%) Analyst
2 81 (10.92%) Project Manager
3 57 (7.68%) Lead
4 48 (6.47%) Senior
5 46 (6.20%) Architect
6 31 (4.18%) Data Analyst
7 27 (3.64%) IT Manager
7 27 (3.64%) Support Engineer
8 25 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
9 23 (3.10%) Consultant
10 22 (2.96%) Senior Manager
11 20 (2.70%) Business Analyst
11 20 (2.70%) Software Engineer
12 18 (2.43%) Programme Manager
13 17 (2.29%) Network Engineer
14 16 (2.16%) Administrator
14 16 (2.16%) Service Analyst
15 15 (2.02%) Procurement Manager
16 14 (1.89%) Service Manager
16 14 (1.89%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.35%) YAML
2 9 (1.21%) Node.js
3 5 (0.67%) .NET
3 5 (0.67%) JSON
4 4 (0.54%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.54%) REST
5 3 (0.40%) CSS
5 3 (0.40%) EDI
5 3 (0.40%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (0.40%) jQuery
5 3 (0.40%) Kafka
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.27%) OLE
6 2 (0.27%) RESTful
7 1 (0.13%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.57%) Management Information System
2 29 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
3 22 (2.96%) Virtual Team
4 21 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 16 (2.16%) Credit Risk
5 16 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.89%) Freedom of Information
7 12 (1.62%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.35%) IVR
10 9 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.94%) Blackberry
12 7 (0.94%) Cloud Native
12 7 (0.94%) Replication
12 7 (0.94%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.94%) Smartphone
12 7 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 73 (9.84%) Windows
2 35 (4.72%) Linux
3 21 (2.83%) Windows 10
4 19 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 18 (2.43%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.48%) Mac OS X
6 11 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.35%) Android
8 4 (0.54%) AIX
8 4 (0.54%) CentOS
8 4 (0.54%) Unix
9 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (18.19%) Project Management
2 116 (15.63%) Data Protection
3 111 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
4 102 (13.75%) Agile
5 88 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (10.24%) Change Management
7 63 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (8.22%) Migration
8 61 (8.22%) Risk Management
9 58 (7.82%) Analytics
10 55 (7.41%) Information Security
11 54 (7.28%) Roadmaps
12 52 (7.01%) Computer Science
12 52 (7.01%) Decision-Making
13 47 (6.33%) ITIL
14 45 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
15 44 (5.93%) Customer Service
16 41 (5.53%) DevOps
17 36 (4.85%) Project Delivery
18 34 (4.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (3.77%) SQL
2 25 (3.37%) PowerShell
3 19 (2.56%) MATLAB
4 18 (2.43%) Python
5 11 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.35%) C#
7 8 (1.08%) Bash
7 8 (1.08%) Swift
8 6 (0.81%) C++
8 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.54%) PHP
10 3 (0.40%) Java
10 3 (0.40%) R
11 2 (0.27%) U-SQL
12 1 (0.13%) ABAP
12 1 (0.13%) Perl
12 1 (0.13%) Ruby
12 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 126 (16.98%) Degree
2 82 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 60 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.43%) PMI Certification
6 17 (2.29%) PMP
7 15 (2.02%) CISSP
8 14 (1.89%) APMP
9 13 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (1.35%) CISM
11 8 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.08%) ISEB
12 7 (0.94%) CIPD
12 7 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.81%) CCIE
13 6 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.67%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.67%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (10.65%) GDPR
2 48 (6.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.23%) NIST
4 23 (3.10%) QA
5 20 (2.70%) Accessibility
6 19 (2.56%) SLA
7 17 (2.29%) Data Quality
8 15 (2.02%) HIPAA
8 15 (2.02%) PMO
9 13 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.40%) GRC
11 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.40%) NCSC
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.27%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 46 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.08%) Docker
3 6 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (2.16%) Terraform
2 15 (2.02%) Ansible
3 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.21%) SCCM
4 8 (1.08%) PingFederate
5 7 (0.94%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.67%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.27%) Ambari
7 2 (0.27%) CEMLI
7 2 (0.27%) Oozie
8 1 (0.13%) Avamar
8 1 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
8 1 (0.13%) SELinux
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 174 (23.45%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.12%) SAP
3 35 (4.72%) Oracle
4 31 (4.18%) Google
5 22 (2.96%) Alteryx
6 19 (2.56%) iManage
6 19 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.56%) VMware
7 16 (2.16%) Cisco
8 15 (2.02%) Citrix
9 14 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.35%) Avaya
11 10 (1.35%) Okta
11 10 (1.35%) Verint
12 9 (1.21%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.08%) Adobe
13 8 (1.08%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.08%) HP
13 8 (1.08%) Splunk