Legal Contracts in the South East

Legal
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 102 113
Rank change year-on-year +26 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Legal 146 122 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.60% 2.06% 2.25%
As % of the General category 5.06% 3.51% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 67 79
10th Percentile £400 £241 £211
25th Percentile £448 £419 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £623 £712 £575
90th Percentile £750 £813 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 4
10th Percentile £19.89 £18.10 £22.05
25th Percentile £26.44 £22.16 £24.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +19.40% -51.80%
75th Percentile £66.00 £71.28 £42.75
90th Percentile £72.16 £75.00 £48.60
England median hourly rate £31.08 £22.16 £34.38
% change year-on-year +40.25% -35.53% +71.88%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,888 3,479 4,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.51% 58.74% 54.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,576 2,368 2,793
10th Percentile £205 £247 £213
25th Percentile £356 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £660
England median daily rate £538 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 169 216
10th Percentile £12.89 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.15 £14.88
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +125.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £33.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £48.75
England median hourly rate £28.71 £34.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year -15.56% +60.91% -6.09%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +41 97 £525 +5.00% 89
Berkshire +33 85 £475 -9.52% 44
West Sussex +19 26 £450 - 13
Surrey +6 8 £570 -5.00% 42
East Sussex +6 7 £800 +18.52% 8
Buckinghamshire +24 6 £560 +17.89% 25
Oxfordshire +2 6 £615 +26.80% 20
Hampshire -11 5 £675 +16.28% 36
Kent +4 1 £500 +110.53% 29
Middlesex - 1 £650 - 1
Sussex - 1 £425 -
Legal
England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (14.38%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (11.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Avolution ABACUS
1 2 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.64%) Snowflake
2 9 (6.16%) Azure
3 8 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.79%) SaaS
5 6 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.42%) Smartsheet
7 4 (2.74%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.74%) WhatsApp
8 3 (2.05%) AWS
8 3 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.37%) IaaS
9 2 (1.37%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.68%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.68%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.68%) OCI
10 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.68%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.11%) 5G
2 4 (2.74%) Internet
3 3 (2.05%) NAS
3 3 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (2.05%) SAN
4 2 (1.37%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.37%) Firewall
4 2 (1.37%) Network Security
4 2 (1.37%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.37%) VoIP
5 1 (0.68%) HTTP
5 1 (0.68%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.68%) VSAN
5 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.70%) Tableau
2 6 (4.11%) Power BI
3 4 (2.74%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (2.74%) MS Access
4 2 (1.37%) Metadata
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Git
1 1 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 60 (41.10%) Finance
2 47 (32.19%) Social Skills
3 36 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (16.44%) Telecoms
5 20 (13.70%) Law
6 14 (9.59%) Retail
7 9 (6.16%) Marketing
8 8 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.11%) Mandarin Language
9 6 (4.11%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.42%) Billing
11 4 (2.74%) Automotive
11 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.05%) General Ledger
12 3 (2.05%) German Language
12 3 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.37%) Local Government
13 2 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (23.29%) Analyst
2 16 (10.96%) Lead
3 13 (8.90%) Data Analyst
4 10 (6.85%) Project Manager
5 8 (5.48%) Architect
5 8 (5.48%) Telecoms Manager
6 7 (4.79%) HR Manager
6 7 (4.79%) Procurement Manager
7 6 (4.11%) Development Manager
7 6 (4.11%) Lead Data Analyst
7 6 (4.11%) Network Manager
7 6 (4.11%) Systems Development Manager
8 5 (3.42%) Operations Manager
8 5 (3.42%) Service Analyst
8 5 (3.42%) Service Management Analyst
8 5 (3.42%) Supplier Manager
9 4 (2.74%) IT Manager
9 4 (2.74%) Project Analyst
10 3 (2.05%) Risk Analyst
10 3 (2.05%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.37%) OLE
1 2 (1.37%) REST
2 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.68%) BAPI
2 1 (0.68%) Kafka
2 1 (0.68%) SAP ALE
2 1 (0.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.01%) Management Information System
2 16 (10.96%) Credit Risk
3 7 (4.79%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (4.79%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.42%) CMDB
6 4 (2.74%) e-Health
6 4 (2.74%) Life Science
6 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.68%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.11%) Windows
2 4 (2.74%) Unix
3 2 (1.37%) Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Solaris
4 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (17.81%) Data Protection
3 25 (17.12%) Decision-Making
3 25 (17.12%) Project Management
4 23 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (15.07%) Roadmaps
6 21 (14.38%) Analytics
7 19 (13.01%) Information Security
8 16 (10.96%) Actionable Insight
8 16 (10.96%) Dashboard Development
9 15 (10.27%) Agile
10 13 (8.90%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (8.90%) ITIL
10 13 (8.90%) Service Management
11 12 (8.22%) Computer Science
11 12 (8.22%) Supplier Management
12 11 (7.53%) Coaching
12 11 (7.53%) Contract Management
12 11 (7.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.11%) SQL
2 1 (0.68%) ABAP
2 1 (0.68%) Bash
2 1 (0.68%) C++
2 1 (0.68%) Java
2 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.68%) Perl
2 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.68%) Python
2 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (30.82%) Degree
2 6 (4.11%) ISEB
2 6 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.74%) CIPD
4 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.05%) A+ Certification
5 3 (2.05%) MCITP
5 3 (2.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.37%) ACCA
6 2 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.37%) CCIE
6 2 (1.37%) CIMA
6 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.90%) GDPR
2 7 (4.79%) SLA
3 6 (4.11%) PMO
4 5 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.37%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.37%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.37%) QA
7 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.37%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.37%) vSphere
3 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.68%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) Avamar
3 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (0.68%) SCCM
3 1 (0.68%) SELinux
3 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) Alteryx
1 21 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.90%) SAP
3 12 (8.22%) ServiceNow
4 11 (7.53%) Oracle
5 7 (4.79%) VMware
6 5 (3.42%) Reuters
7 4 (2.74%) Citrix
7 4 (2.74%) HP
7 4 (2.74%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.05%) Concur
8 3 (2.05%) Dell
8 3 (2.05%) Workday
9 2 (1.37%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.37%) Cisco
9 2 (1.37%) EMC
9 2 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.37%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.68%) Apple