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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 44 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Legal 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.87% 0.46% 0.93%
As % of the General category 1.46% 0.85% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £313
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.81%
75th Percentile - - £472
90th Percentile - - £579
East of England median daily rate £375 £369 £461
% change year-on-year +1.69% -20.05% -7.75%

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 common skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 205 236 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 59.42% 54.76% 65.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 59 120
10th Percentile £213 £270 £205
25th Percentile £364 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £634 £585 £538
90th Percentile £688 £650 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 109 181
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £18.50 £16.85 £17.72
90th Percentile £31.00 £48.75 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year -21.30% +115.12% -10.55%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal 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 15 September 2025. 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 - 2 £200 - 4
Cambridge -1 1 - - 14
Legal
East of England

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) IFRS
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft