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 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 39 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Legal 3 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.82% 1.46% 0.97%
As % of the General category 1.47% 2.65% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - £251 £181
25th Percentile - £257 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £430 £313
Median % change year-on-year -53.49% +37.60% +48.81%
75th Percentile - £600 £472
90th Percentile - - £579
East of England median daily rate £400 £400 £438
% change year-on-year - -8.57% -12.50%

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 204 226 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 55.43% 54.99% 68.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 61 114
10th Percentile £213 £225 £177
25th Percentile £379 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +7.82% -2.37%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £539
90th Percentile £700 £638 £621
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 89 183
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £16.85 £17.72
90th Percentile £31.00 £49.75 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £21.37 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.95% +20.60% -10.55%

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 16 October 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 - 3
Cambridge -6 1 - - 10
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 (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