Legal Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Legal
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 29 41
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Legal 2 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.54% 2.57% 0.70%
As % of the General category 1.08% 4.73% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £252 £180
25th Percentile - £260 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £275
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +72.73% +19.57%
75th Percentile - £600 £356
90th Percentile - - £390
East of England median daily rate £525 £540 £350
% change year-on-year -2.78% +54.29% -30.00%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

Legal falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 185 169 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 50.27% 54.34% 66.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 83
10th Percentile £165 £292 £156
25th Percentile £208 £422 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £625 £586 £561
90th Percentile £684 £643 £633
East of England median daily rate £489 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.25% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 163
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £13.80 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £16.00 £16.85 -
90th Percentile £24.23 £26.30 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £19.14 £20.50 £17.75
% change year-on-year -6.66% +15.49% -15.48%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Legal relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Legal job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Legal.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Legal

Legal
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Legal.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Legal

Legal
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Peterborough 0 1 £500 - 10
Cambridge -12 1 - - 6
Legal
East of England

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) IFRS
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (50.00%) VMware