Legal Contracts in the UK excluding London

Legal
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 140 159
Rank change year-on-year +40 +19 +24
Contract jobs citing Legal 436 421 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.13% 1.79% 1.68%
As % of the General category 3.92% 3.18% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 299 309
10th Percentile £200 £254 £210
25th Percentile £350 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £674
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 36 15
10th Percentile £11.50 £12.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.22 £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £22.16 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -19.42% +48.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.25 £42.02
90th Percentile £70.07 £71.89 £54.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £22.16 £32.19
% change year-on-year +18.82% -31.15% +57.01%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,128 13,244 16,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.33% 56.46% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,349 9,050 11,652
10th Percentile £206 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 767 1,021
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.00 £13.89
Median hourly rate £28.42 £28.16 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +50.59% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.59 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.69 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Legal in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Legal in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +41 145 £500 -9.09% 265
North of England +7 86 £513 - 281
South West +42 72 £500 +5.26% 185
North West +9 65 £575 +13.58% 177
Midlands +41 61 £400 -20.00% 177
West Midlands +25 43 £425 -14.14% 119
Scotland +20 38 £488 +6.44% 52
East of England +4 20 £350 -30.00% 117
East Midlands +27 18 £200 -65.46% 58
Yorkshire -1 14 £500 -6.98% 75
Northern Ireland +7 12 £248 -45.00% 11
North East +13 7 £425 -14.14% 33
Wales +13 6 £500 +57.48% 40
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.38%) IIS
3 5 (1.15%) Apache
3 5 (1.15%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.92%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.92%) nginx
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.98%) Simulink
4 13 (2.98%) Stateflow
5 7 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.92%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.23%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.23%) iTrent
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 37 (8.49%) Azure
2 29 (6.65%) SaaS
3 27 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 23 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (5.05%) Snowflake
6 18 (4.13%) AWS
7 12 (2.75%) IaaS
8 9 (2.06%) Google Workspace
8 9 (2.06%) PaaS
9 8 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.38%) Smartsheet
11 5 (1.15%) GCP
12 4 (0.92%) OCI
12 4 (0.92%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.92%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.69%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.50%) Firewall
2 12 (2.75%) VPN
3 10 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.06%) LAN
4 9 (2.06%) Wireless
5 7 (1.61%) Intranet
5 7 (1.61%) SAN
5 7 (1.61%) WAN
6 6 (1.38%) 5G
6 6 (1.38%) HTTP
6 6 (1.38%) Internet
7 5 (1.15%) H.323
7 5 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (0.92%) DNS
8 4 (0.92%) FTP
8 4 (0.92%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.92%) IPsec
8 4 (0.92%) Network Security
9 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.42%) Tableau
2 24 (5.50%) Power BI
3 5 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (0.92%) Couchbase
4 4 (0.92%) MS Access
4 4 (0.92%) MySQL
5 3 (0.69%) Metadata
5 3 (0.69%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.23%) GIS
7 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.23%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (2.29%) JIRA
2 6 (1.38%) Artifactory
2 6 (1.38%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.23%) Git
3 1 (0.23%) GitLab
3 1 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 128 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 116 (26.61%) Finance
3 85 (19.50%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.72%) Law
5 34 (7.80%) Telecoms
6 24 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (5.28%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.13%) Retail
9 17 (3.90%) Automotive
10 13 (2.98%) Marketing
11 12 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.38%) Local Government
14 6 (1.38%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.15%) Banking
15 5 (1.15%) Billing
15 5 (1.15%) German Language
16 3 (0.69%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 85 (19.50%) Analyst
2 44 (10.09%) Lead
3 30 (6.88%) Data Analyst
4 26 (5.96%) Project Manager
5 25 (5.73%) IT Manager
6 20 (4.59%) Architect
7 17 (3.90%) Senior
8 16 (3.67%) Network Engineer
9 14 (3.21%) Software Engineer
10 12 (2.75%) Lead Data Analyst
10 12 (2.75%) Support Engineer
10 12 (2.75%) Telecoms Manager
11 11 (2.52%) Administrator
11 11 (2.52%) Business Analyst
11 11 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (2.52%) Procurement Manager
11 11 (2.52%) Service Manager
12 10 (2.29%) Deployment Engineer
12 10 (2.29%) SOC Analyst
13 9 (2.06%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.29%) YAML
2 6 (1.38%) Node.js
3 5 (1.15%) JSON
4 4 (0.92%) .NET
4 4 (0.92%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.69%) REST
6 1 (0.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.23%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.23%) BAPI
6 1 (0.23%) Flash
6 1 (0.23%) Kafka
6 1 (0.23%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.23%) SAML
6 1 (0.23%) SAP ALE
6 1 (0.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.94%) Management Information System
2 22 (5.05%) Credit Risk
3 18 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.67%) Virtual Team
5 13 (2.98%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.52%) Freedom of Information
6 11 (2.52%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.83%) NHS
9 7 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.38%) CMDB
10 6 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.38%) Replication
11 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.15%) DTCC
11 5 (1.15%) IVR
11 5 (1.15%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.80%) Windows
2 28 (6.42%) Linux
3 15 (3.44%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.29%) Mac OS X
4 10 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.38%) Android
5 6 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.92%) AIX
6 4 (0.92%) CentOS
6 4 (0.92%) Unix
7 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (17.43%) Data Protection
3 64 (14.68%) Project Management
4 53 (12.16%) Agile
4 53 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 52 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (10.55%) Decision-Making
7 45 (10.32%) Risk Management
8 43 (9.86%) Migration
9 41 (9.40%) Information Security
10 36 (8.26%) Analytics
11 34 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (7.57%) Change Management
12 33 (7.57%) Roadmaps
13 27 (6.19%) Computer Science
14 26 (5.96%) Customer Service
14 26 (5.96%) Validation
15 25 (5.73%) Actionable Insight
16 24 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (5.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (3.90%) SQL
2 13 (2.98%) MATLAB
3 9 (2.06%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.06%) Python
4 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.83%) Swift
5 7 (1.61%) Bash
6 5 (1.15%) C++
7 4 (0.92%) PHP
8 3 (0.69%) C#
9 1 (0.23%) ABAP
9 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.23%) Java
9 1 (0.23%) Perl
9 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (18.12%) Degree
2 68 (15.60%) Security Cleared
3 46 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.44%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.44%) PMP
5 11 (2.52%) CISSP
6 9 (2.06%) APMP
7 8 (1.83%) CISM
7 8 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.61%) ISEB
9 6 (1.38%) HNC
9 6 (1.38%) NVQ Level 3
10 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.92%) CCIE
11 4 (0.92%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.92%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.16%) GDPR
2 23 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (5.28%) NIST
3 15 (3.44%) HIPAA
3 15 (3.44%) QA
4 14 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (2.29%) PMO
7 9 (2.06%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.61%) SLA
9 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.46%) COBIT
10 2 (0.46%) GRC
10 2 (0.46%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.46%) NCSC
11 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.06%) Docker
3 6 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) vSphere
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (2.75%) Terraform
2 11 (2.52%) Ansible
3 7 (1.61%) SCCM
4 6 (1.38%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.15%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.46%) CEMLI
6 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) Avamar
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.23%) SCOM
7 1 (0.23%) SELinux
7 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 77 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.72%) Oracle
3 26 (5.96%) Alteryx
4 20 (4.59%) Google
4 20 (4.59%) SAP
5 14 (3.21%) VMware
6 13 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.52%) Cisco
8 9 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.83%) Apple
9 8 (1.83%) Okta
10 7 (1.61%) HP
10 7 (1.61%) Splunk
11 6 (1.38%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.38%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.38%) Reuters
12 5 (1.15%) Avaya
12 5 (1.15%) Verint
12 5 (1.15%) Workday
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