Legal Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Legal
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legal over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 26 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Legal 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 3.01% 1.89% 0.65%
As % of the General category 5.32% 2.86% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £462 £448 -
25th Percentile £488 £481 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £637 £550 £145
Median % change year-on-year +15.82% +279.31% -73.64%
75th Percentile £850 £606 £148
90th Percentile £865 £633 -
South London median daily rate £594 £550 £163
% change year-on-year +7.91% +238.46% -67.50%

All General Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 94 70 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 56.63% 66.04% 53.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 45
10th Percentile £447 £429 £178
25th Percentile £499 £490 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -17.39%
75th Percentile £533 - £588
90th Percentile £620 £670 £653
South London median daily rate £500 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £15.43
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £64.75 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +308.78% -32.60% -35.55%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Legal job vacancy trend in Croydon

Legal
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Legal

Legal
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legal in Croydon over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Legal in Croydon

Legal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Datadog
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) IPv4
1 2 (40.00%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Director
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) GitOps
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (20.00%) Burndown Charts
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft