Legal Contracts in Cheshire

Legal
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 44 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Legal 21 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.52% 2.08% 1.98%
As % of the General category 5.07% 3.18% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 4
10th Percentile £322 £192 £478
25th Percentile £358 £256 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £613
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -51.02% +94.44%
75th Percentile £600 £388 £628
90th Percentile £678 £427 -
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 414 314 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 69.35% 65.42% 62.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 213 167
10th Percentile £313 £319 £250
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.86%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £668 £642
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.10% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 35
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.53 £14.55
25th Percentile £26.50 £17.72 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.60% +56.62%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £35.00
90th Percentile £62.00 - £35.75
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £27.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.50% +4.81% +13.04%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Legal in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legal in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Legal in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legal in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Legal in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Knutsford - 9 £363 - 2
Macclesfield +3 5 £550 -5.98%
Chester - 1 - - 2
Crewe - 1 £625 - 1
Legal
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (19.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) InVision
1 1 (4.76%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure AI
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
2 4 (19.05%) Google Gemini
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Axure RP
General
1 20 (95.24%) Finance
2 12 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (47.62%) Manufacturing
3 10 (47.62%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 6 (28.57%) Banking
6 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Data Migration Expert
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Architect
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Payments Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Business Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Implementation Coordinator
4 1 (4.76%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Programme Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) PyTorch
1 4 (19.05%) Streamlit
1 4 (19.05%) TensorFlow
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (52.38%) Project Management
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 9 (42.86%) Data Migration
3 9 (42.86%) Migration
4 8 (38.10%) Business Analysis
5 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 5 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (23.81%) Change Management
6 5 (23.81%) Data Design
6 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
6 5 (23.81%) ETL
6 5 (23.81%) Information Architecture
6 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
7 4 (19.05%) Computer Vision
7 4 (19.05%) Contract Management
7 4 (19.05%) Linear Algebra
7 4 (19.05%) Natural Language Processing
7 4 (19.05%) Pattern Recognition
7 4 (19.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Scala
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.76%) CBAP
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Ariba
2 1 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.76%) VMware